Cold enough for coats

When James left for work this morning he said that he could see his breath.

So i have Evies coat ready and because it's PE today evie is also wearing trousers.

Up and ready

Today is evies first day back at school and her first day in year 2!

I cant believe she is in year 2 already :)

I will do a photo of her in her school uniform later :)

I have booked her lunches and her bags are ready by the front door.

I just have to do her water bottle now.

No like panini

This morning (as with every morning) I tell evie (or she reads from the menu) what her lunch is that day.

Today it was pork meatballs in a rich tomato sauce served in a panini.  Evie immediately said that the didn't want the panini so i told her it was bread and she told me that she still didn't want it.

So i said that she could then just take the meatballs out of the bread and eat them on their own.  She was happy about that.

When I picked her up this afternoon I asked her how her lunch was and she said that the dinner lady took the meatballs out of the panini for her, but next time she would like vegetarian, so i explained that the vegetarian was just different meatballs (quorn balls) and that if she didn't like those then I could always do her a packed lunch those days.

So when we got home I put all of the meatballs dates into my phone so that she could then decide nearer the time.

I then saw there was an email from school saying that there was a change to tuesdays week 3, lunch is now going to be meatballs with spaghetti and garlic bread.

It seems that the panini didn't go down well.

Another thing to practice

Yesterday when i picked evie up from school, her teacher told me that evie was doing something on the computer and said that she was having trouble as she didnt know where the letters on the keys were.  We should practice at home, so i askes her if there were any websites she vould recommend and sge said that all of the websires were on the year 1 page on jer schools website.

So after we had done reading and writing we then switched on the laptop, there was only one non maths website on the page and it needed a newer version of adobe flash and james didnt want me downloading it.

So i did a search for year 1 wordgames and we found one game that evie enjoyed where you have to join words together.

Its funny about evie not knowimg where the letters are as she can send text mwssages on both mine and james phones and they both have qwerty keyboards.

Perhaps i should get her to practice sending text messages too.

So.that will be reading, writing, laptop and texting :)

Wobbly teeth

The other week.i noticed thst evie had adult teeth growing behind her baby teeth.

In the same place that her first teeth came through.

Now those 2 baby teeth are wobbly.

I have told evie tbat if they come out at school she should tell her teacher so that her tooth can be wrapped up and be left out for the tooth fairy that night.

A"s mum has aleeady set a precedent of 20p per tooth so thats good :)

Braver than mummy

Me & evie had our dentist appointnents this morning.

Since my wusdom tooth filling i have been really careful and try to clean that tooth also.

Evue had her turn first...

...our lovely dentist was telling the nurse which teeth she has and then said that she had a chipped tooth!

She then told me that she would have to put some plaster onto it, apparently its common with baby teeth.

I asked if evie would have to ve careful about eating but said that she would be ok.

Sge told evie thst she was braver than mummy :)

It was then my turn and luckily i didnt need anything doing apart from a clean and polish but she couldnt do.it because the cimpressor is broken.

I asked evie later if it was ok when the dentus put the plaster on and she said tgat it hurt a but but was ok now.

Student council

I asked evie who got voted into the student council, as I knew that the elections were today.

And evie told me that h and j got voted in and that she voted for h.

She then surprised me by telling me that she voted for h and he voted for her!

I asked her what she said in her speech and she said that "if you fall over i will help you up"...

...you can't say fairer than that :)

James thought that perhaps the whole class had to do it but she said that only a few people stood for election and reeled off some names.

Will.i pass

The other day I applied for a job with a value fashion retailer (part time Monday to Friday 3 pm to 7 pm).

I got an e-mail this morning asking me to complete an English assessment:).  I have a week to complete it.

I do hope I pass :)

Only James can...

...help evie get dressed after her bath and her knickers are still on skew wiff :)

Growth spurt plus

A few weeks ago when doing the washing I forgot to take evies swimming costume out before putting it in the tumble dryer...

..i couldn't immediately tell if it had shrunk and it is age 6 anyway so should be ok for the time being.

Yesterday at luck up time one of the mum's who help with swimming (they still haven't told me when they need me to help btw) asked if evie has another swimming costume as her one is a bit tight!

I laughed with her about putting it in the tumble dryer :)

So after my interview today I will have a look for a suitable swimsuit in Primark otherwise I will checkout the supermarkets later in the week.

I will get an age 7 and will keep it out of the tumble dryer :)

Third to.last

No don't worry im not talking about blog posts :)

Yesterday while i was waiting to.pick evie up from school I saw that the kids were having an activity in the main playground.

I then watched the kids coming back to the classroom. 

Like I normally do.i was watching for evie (the last time I watched them doing something similar) she was the last child in but yesterday she was the third to last.

So that is a huge improvement:)

Election lunch box

Because of tomorrows local elections, the lunchhall.is being used as a poling station.

Evie had a choice of a packed lunch that the school provides (as all infant school children get free school.meals) or a packed lunch that we provide.

Evie wanted a packed lunch that we make for her :)

So we are popping to the supermarket tonight to get bits for evies lunch :)

The lunchbag is ready and I have already put in there a strawberry jelly and a strawberry fruit string.

I will do the rest of it tonight and put it in the fridge, and must remember to take her lunch with us tomorrow :)

Dreamhunting

I suppose it was going to happen soon but my job hunting is now effecting my dreams....

...last night I had a dream that I was at an interview with Fox network to do with a program (I can't remember which one) and one of the interviewers asked me what I thought of the show and I had to admit that I hadn't watched the show!

Someone told me (can't remember who) that I shouldn't have said that, I said that I thought that it was better to be honest than lie my way through.

I know that I would have prepared myself better for the interview in real life :)

I think I will have to check out the careers for fox network here in the UK as that could be what my sub conscious was telling me to do.

Yes that is what I'm taking from that dream :)

Interview #5 tomorrow

I got a text message this morning from a coffee chain saying that if I was still interested in a job then to call about attending an interview.

Their first suggested date was tomorrow and their other suggestions were at times that would conflict with collecting evie from school.

So as James is off tomorrow I opted for then and then we can do something after.

Interview tomorrow

I have another interview tomorrow.

It is just a contract until the end of May - and if I get it st least it will give us a taster of how evie will be going to the breskfast/after school club.

It is with one of the big insurance companies and is doing what I used to do in my job before last.

My plea worked

Last week I applied for a job with an investment company.

There was an "any other relevant information" type box so I said "please don't let my age put you off, I'm a great person".

And it seems to have worked, as I have been asked to go in for an interview on Friday.

No tokens

Every morning on our way to school me and evie have a competition to see who can see the people handing out the tokens first.

Evie always wins.

This morning we were turning the corner expecting to see the people giving out the tokens and no-one was there.

One of the mum's asked mr f and he said that he thinks that they will only be giving them out now every other Monday.

I did wonder how long that they would be doing it every day for, and we know now it was just a week.

Narrow door

Because our kitchen door isn't the normal width the Argos delivery guys couldn't get the old washing machine out.

I spoke to James while they were here and he says that the top.comes off  (via a screw) so he will take that off tonight and then I can call Argos and get them to arrange to come and collect the old one.

They even tried to fob me off saying that as they didn't collect it at the time of delivery that they won't be able to collect and recycle the old one now and that I would have to get the council to do it instead.

I told them that I didn't want to have to do that and I had already paid for them to do it.

They then said that they would do it for me.

So I now have to.arrange to get that done another day.

Purple glasses

Me & Evie wearing our purple glasses :)

Brave wisdom filling

Evie as Nd I had our dentist appointments today.

The other day while she was having some orange juice she told me that it was hurting her teeth, so I mentioned it to the dentist and she said that Evie's teeth had no holes in so all was ok.

Then it was my turn, she started counting my teeth and then when she was at the end of the bottom.row she was prodding with her prodder thing.

She said that I have a small hole in.my wisdom tooth - and that when I'm cleaning my teeth in future I will have to pull my cheek away as the tooth is tucked away and difficult to clean.

So I had a filling, I tried to be as brave as I could be, and they even stopped half way through to check that I was ok.

I now have to remember that today I have to chew on my right hand side.