Merry christmas

Merry Christmas everyone, James is off at the moment...

...so blogging will commence next year :).

happy birthday

Its Evies 5th birthday :)

happy birthday my darling little girl

I have to make up some jelly for one of her presents.

And we have her Christmas Extravaganze this afternoon - she is an angel :)

Toast to school

Yesterday Evie ate her toast on the way to school and it looks like we will be doing the same today.

I have even tried telling her that if she doesn't get dressed quick enough until school breaks up then Santa will take some of her  presents away, but that doesn't seem to be working either.

Cycling improficciency

I was walking Evie to school...

...on our way we use a shortcut that takes us past 2 children's play areas.

There are 2 prohibitive cycling road signs either end of the footpath.

Some of the cyclists ignore the signs.

I heard a woman say this morning that the sign means its a cycle path.

Perhaps they should bring back cycling profficency tests back in primary schools.

in our pjs

Tonight after school we have to go back in in our pjs for Christmas stories and songs :)

It should be great fun :)

lunches and stars that look like rockets

Yesterday while Evie was at school I got a message on parentmail that next years lunches can now be booked (and the new lunch menu would come home in Evies bookbag).

So I have booked her lunches until Easter, there are a couple of new dishes on there so I will have to ask her if they get a "tick" or a "cross" :)

Last Friday I put up our Christmas tree, when Evie came home I let her help decorate it and then she said that "there is something missing" and she said it was the Christmas star, remembering that we made one last year, I had a look for it but couldnt find it.

So I got a cereal box and a toilet roll tube and cut out a star "freehand" but it looks more like a rocket :)

the one that I decorated (Evie added the glasses so I can see)

the one that Evie decorated

As they look so good a christmas rocket may be our new "Christmas custom" :)

Santa and Panto

We have had a bit of a busy weekend :)

On Saturday we went to see the panto, we saw Jack and The beanstalk, this was the first time that Evie realy got into it...

...she looked scared at the right places and was cheering and booing when she was supposed to too.

Then yesterday we took her to see Santa (as her birthday treat) LOL she has been to two different Santas and has asked him for two different presents :)

and we had lunch in Wagamama which is Evies favourite restaurant :)

And I weighed myself on Saturday and have lost another four pounds so that is 25 in total or 1 stone and 11lbs.

And Evie was so late getting dressed that she ate her breakfast on the way to school!

seven fifty four

Yesterday Evie ended up coming down at 8.08 bearing in mind we go to the loo before we leave at 8.10.

She started screaming at me when I would let her have the tv on and I told her that she didnt even have time for a tantrum :)

This morning she finally came down at 7.54 a slight improvement on yesterday but nit as well as Wednesday.

So she is watching a little bit of tv and eating chocolate spread on toast :)

still not dressed

After yesterdays improvement Evie is still not dressed!

24 minute improvement

On Monday I finally cracked up (where it comes to Evie getting herself dressed) and told her (after finding her playing with our pillows on the floor) that In wasnt going to sit there and watch her get dressed.

On Monday she finally came down dressed at 8 am (we go up to the toilet before leaving at 8.10 am).

Yesterday she didnt come down until 8.05 (giving her 5 minutes to eat).

This morning (admittedly she was half dressed before I had even got downstairs) she came down at 7,43 am :)

So she actually has time to watch one of her programmes too :)

18 yesses

Out of 28 invites we have 18 yesses 9 nos and 1 couldnt be bothered to let me know!

I will contact the softplay place in the week to let them know the numbers :)

I cant believe its come around so quickly :)

flu for two

When I dropped Evie off at school yesterday I reminded her about the nasal flu spray - just hoping that she would let them give it to her :)

Yesterday I went into town while I was there James asked me to get his prescription...

...I decided to get it done in Tesco, while I was in there I saw a sign for flu jabs being done for £9.

As I dont want to be ill for Evies birthday party I decided to get it done, they gave me £1 off and I also got clubcard points on it too :).

When I picked Evie up I saw that she had a flu fighter sticker on her dress so I was pleased that she had let them do it :)

I also saw in her bag a party invite - so whilst rsvping I asked her Mum if she would like to come to Evies party :)  She has said that she thinks they are free but its dependent on when they are booked to see Santa :)

And we opened our chocolate advent calendars yesterday (I asked James to get himself one on the way home too to ensure that my one was safe :)), as I remembered that Evie would want to eat my chocolate too! :)

spraysers

Yesterday I picked Evie up from school and noticed that she was wearing different trousers.

So I asked her what happened and she told me that she was wearing boys trousers but had girls knickers on.

As yesterday was PE day she was wearing trousers (hence them putting her back in trousers rather than a dress and tights).

She told me that she didnt make it to the toilet in time.

Today at school she has her flu nasal spray - I have told her that it will be happening today so hopefully she will let them do it :).

A couple of weeks ago I got a letter from the doctors surgery telling me that Evie was eligible for the flu nasal spray and to let them know if we dont want her to have it.

It doesnt even give us the option to say that she is having it done at school, so Im waiting to make sure she gets it done at school before I let the surgery know that she doesnt need it done there.