santa knows...

Yesterday James sneezed and Evie got up and got him a tissue :)

I said to Evie after that it was lovely and kind of her to do that and then she said that she had done it so that she gets lots of presents from Santa! :)

I told her that Santa knows all year round if she has been good or not :)

I think that she must have been talking to her friends about Santa :)

reading and going to the airport but not on holiday

Yesterday I was helping in class...

...I spent the morning after they had their PE session listening to some of the children reading :)

Mrs R was saying that they are having parent helpers in every day now so its hard finding things for us Mums to do :)

When I picked Evie up yesterday afternoon she told me that there was a letter in her bag about a school trip.

So I had a quick read and its going to the airport :) I was making Evie laugh by saying that all of the kids will keep asking Mr J if they are going on holiday :)

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.

colour in

I was walking past The Works yesterday morning, and saw some interesting colouring books :)

I ended up getting this one and then James spotted this calendar so I bought that too :)

meet the teacher

Yesterday morning we had the meet the teacher session...

...it was run by teh two year 2 teachers Mr J and Mrs K.

This term they are doing wheels, wings and other things and are watching the film Cars.

Next term they are doing fire and ice...

...for fire they are going to do a history off the page day about the Great Fire of London.

and for ice Im not quite sure what they are doing...

And then the final term it is mini beasts and they have a tip to Hyde Hall.

with questions at the end it went on for 40 minutes and I got home just after 10 :)

The engineer turned up just after 1 pm, so our boiler is all fixed for the time being :)

cutting and sticking and fire drill

Yesterday while helping in class I was cutting out photos of the kids doing number place values :)

I had to glue a photo into every childs maths book and then cut out the remaining photos too to be put around the classroom :)

There was also a fire drill too and Evie held my hand when we were walking onto the school field :)

This morning I have meet the teacher at Evies school - tehy tell us what things they will be learning and stuff like that :)

Its at 9 this morning so I will rush back after for the engineer!

a boiler service too far

At teh end of last week we realised that our pump (in the airing cupboard) had a leak...

...so as we are part of Homecare we booked for an engineer to come and also to do our annual service.

The appointment was booked for between 10 am and 2 pm - he arrived at 10 am (so that was good.

He loked at the pump and told me it was going to be a big job (he wasnt kidding it took him an hour and a half).

He then did the boiler service and kept on saying about how old it was and that we were living on borrowed time etc... and there are only 2 parts that are still available for it.

he had to turn the power off and when he had finished he said he didnt want to do any extra fiddling as it was so old,

It passed all its tests :) but then when he turned it all back on one of the lights wasnt on...

...it now needs a new PCB and typically he didnt have the right one on his van.

So he is coming back tomorrow to fit the new part (I have meet the teacher first thing in the morning so will rush back once that has finished,