application error

I have just tried to complete my timesheet for today (I do it as soon as I get home from work so that I dont forget to do it).

I put in the date as the week ending 5th May and I get an application error.

I am wondering if it is anything to do with the fact that my contract was due to end last week and no-one bothered telling them that it had been extended.

LOL I wasnt told that it hadnt renewed :)

dont sink

Today is the start of Evies swimming lessons...

...I am giving her the same piece of advice as last year :) ie dont sink :)

Her stuff is all by the front door and hopefully she will remember to take all of her stuff back to the classroom with her after Gym Trail :).

I had my haircut last week ad when I booked my next appointment the half term dates completely skipped my mind so I am going to change my appointment today :)

number problems and batteries

Just before the Christmas holidays Evie got given a box to put used batteries in...

...I found out after we had bought the batteries in after the Christmas holidays that batteries could be collected until Easter.

Yesterday after break time I was asked to count some of the batteries, there was a huge container of them.  I stopped counting after 500!

As well as filing away what the kids had done the day before, I had to help the kids make notes from facts on animals.

They had to work in pairs and either chose chickens, pigs sheep or cows.

Evie and L chose chickens :)

I was asked to help A & T.  A insisted on writing the sentences in full but T was making notes :)

Then after I had gotten fed up with counting batteries I then helped the kids with Number Problems, I was asked to help Evies table :)

They had 5 problems to chose between, the first one that Evie chose was "There are 7 pigs and each pig has 5 turnips,  How many turnips are there?" she had to write 5+5+5+5+5+ 5+5=35 and she got it right and then draw it as dots too.

She then had time to do a second one which was there are "5 kittens and each kitten has 2 ears,  How many ears are there?".

She got them both right :)

I then quickly helped A as he was still doing it as the lunchtime bell went.

Then it was time for me to go and I gave Evie a kiss goodbye and there were no tears :)

So that was really good :)

swimming costume socks leggings

Yesterday I had 3 things to buy in town...

a swimming costume (for her swimming lessons that start on Friday)

black socks for tap dancing

and black leggings for tap dancing

and surprisingly enough I managed to get all 3 in Primark :)

on with the summer duvets

As we have had lovely weather the last few days I have taken off the winter duvets and have put on the lighter summer ones...

...I have probably jinxed the weather now to go back to freezing :)

Evie is now wearing pajamas with t-shirt tops but not shorts...

...she refuses to wear them so I wont waste my money on buying any this year :)

signs of spring

Yesterday I was helping in Evies class again :)

As it was one of the houses fundraisers that day (they came in fancy dress and had a movie to watch in the afternoon), me and the substitute teacher went out with the kids that were having the fundraiser to find signs of spring for an art project that the rest of the class would be doing that afternoon.

J and L both wanted to bold my hands which was nice :)

J picked daisys that were photographed with her name next to them, and I helped L to pick some fresh sprouts growing on a tree :)

I also helped the teaching assistants to get the photos off of the camera and started filled in the list of parent helpers for swimming lessons (I havent volunteered for it :)).

And I helped S with her Maths it was working with groups of 2s 5s and 10s :)

I asked Evie later that afternoon when I picked her up what she picked as her sign of spring and she said daffodils :)

annoying the teacher

Yesterday when I picked Evie up from school I told her teacher that we had the appointment and she is being referred to see a pediatrician.

I told her that we went to the appointment with loads of evidence to disprove what she wrote, and I said you probably expected us to do that anyway, and she said that she didnt, and made out that by doing that we were standing in the way of her getting the help that she may need!

I said that if she needs help then I want her to have it, and told her how well Evie did on the last Wednesday I was in, and she then said that today (yesterday) she was having trouble counting in tens.  We went through them when we got home and she counted them fine.

I then said that I understood why she put what she put in the letter as something may be a "crucial key bit of information" but some of the stuff we didnt agree with and wanted to show the doctor what she can do.

We then said that she probably wont get her appointment until the summer break anyway but will have to see what they say.

real tears

Today it is back to school for Evie...

...we were lying in bed waiting to get up and I saw that Evie was crying real tears, so I asked her why she was crying and she said that it was because she will miss me.

I told her that I will miss her too, but I will be there (with a chocolate pancake) to pick her up after school.

We looked at what todays lunch is too and its pepperoni pizza with ice cream for dessert.

All her bags are ready to take with us today and I have to hand her swimming form in and money too.

its not dark yet

On Friday night I told Evie that it was bedtime...

...and she looked out of the window and said " but its not dark yet" :)

She normally goes to bed at 8pm.

Im pleased that she is associating going to bed with how dark it is, and I pointed out to her that in June it doesnt get dark until almost 10pm and there is now way she is staying up that late!

She is coming out with answers to everything now which is quite funny :)

found them

On Tuesday I got an e-mail from Evies dance place with the newsletter for the next term, I couldnt see any other e-mails in reply to the one I sent last week, but nothing.

So I replied to their e-mail asking if htey had been left etc, ad I got a reply saying they hadnt seen any but would have a look that day...

...I got an e-mail last night saying that they had found them so thats good :)

size tens

On Friday I took Evie into town and we went to get her some new tap dancing shoes (after the others got left at the dance centre), incidentally we still avent heard anything from them as to whether they were left there or not!

I got Evie size ten shoes and when they were fitted on her they werent too big so it sounds like she would have needed new ones now anyway :)

We still have another week off of school...

On Saturday I heard that some special pokemon were in London and as Chelmsford isnt that far from London I decided (while James looked after Evie) to get the train.

I was sitting on the train and a whole group of glamorously dressed ladies got on and as one was sat next to me I asked her where they were going? She said they were doing a bottomless brunch, she said that I could join them if I liked :) I respectfully declined :)

I did really well and manged to get 27 of them :)

braver than Mummy

Yesterday me & Evie had our 6 monthly dental check...

...Evie was seen first and when the dentist checked her teeth she read out the adult teeth as numbers and the baby teeth as letters :)

Evie had a couple more holes in her baby teeth so had some plaster put on them.  I will have to try and do a better job of brushing her teeth.

Evie didnt like the air blower very much that they put in her mouth but other than that she was brave :)

I just needed a clean and polish and when the dental assistant put on a shield over her face Evie asked her why she was doing it and they told Evie that she could come and watch what they were doing if she liked!

She decided to stay where she was :)

But she has told me that she will watch next time!

The dentist even told her that she was braver than Mummy and Daddy :)

still no answer

On Wednesday I planned on checking to see if Evies tap dancing shoes still fitted her...

...when I couldnt find her tap shoes I e-mailed the dance place, and James also texted the mobile number for the place and has since left a voicemail too.

When I looked at their website I saw that they had a Easter workshop on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday so I would have expected the mobile number to be monitored (for absentees etc) and for someone to be there so that they could then check the waiting area and changing area in case they had been left and could have messaged us to say if they were there or not.

We havent heard a thing, so I will take Evie to the shop and will get her size 10 shoes anyway as when I got her feet measured in February they were between 9,5 and 10 and her tap shoes were still 9.5.

The communications for the dance place have never been really good so its no real surprise not to have heard anything...

tap dancing shoes

The other week was Evies last tap dancing lesson before the Easter holidays...

...todays plan was (or rather still is) to go into town and get Evies next passport photos done and to see if her tap dancing shoes need changing.

I looked in the bag and they werent in there so I texted James in case he remembered putting them anywhere else, and he cant so Im guessing that he must have left them in there after her lesson.

I have just e-mailed the dance company to see if they have been left there, ad if they have then I will get them checked after her next lesson at the weekend.

the doctors appointment

This morning we had Evies doctors appointment...

I gave her the letter from Evies teacher together with mine & James thoughts too...

...she is going to refer Evie to a Pediatrician and then they can decide if she is where she should be developmentalwise.

So we will have to wait for that appointment now...