Jacks First year at school. July 23, 2009
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Is now officially over! We’ve had screaming fits, crying when i left him, Funny stories that he’s told his teachers, major decisions about whether we are going to take monkey or racing ted with us to cuddle and Lots of other things inbetween! Jacks first sports day was last month, then we had a shorts and shades fun day last week to celebrate the end of the year.
Jack has made lots of new friends, three little girls in particular. He has become really close to them and unfortunately we had a few tears on Wednesday when he finally realised that his three bestest friends will be moving up to big girl/boy school in september.
However, He’s been consoled a little bit by the fact that major change number two will be happening too in september….
LUKE STARTS NURSERY!!!!
Wahoo! Five morning’s week to myself! I can go shopping without them whining constantly and arguing, I can clean the house without wasting my time because as soon as I clean something up they get it back out. I can have a HOT cup of coffee! lol.
Basically my time is my own!
So what do I do? Volunteer two mornings a week for sure start lol. I’m quite looking forward to it. I’m going to be going in to help with a group on a Tuesday morning. The other morning is going to be flexible as to what day I’m going to be working. Hopefully I’ll be going into various groups and talking to parents about whats going on in various centres. I’m quite looking forward to it. I’ve been kind of doing this for a while. I’m part of the Parents and Carers Committee already and have been handing out leaflets at school and talking to parents about whats going on, which groups there are etc etc. It’ll be something to get my teeth into, something a bit more challenging than taking orders from people and clearing plates away.
Luke’s really really looking forward to starting at school. He’s been ready for the next stage for months. We had his visit a couple of weeks ago and he loved it! I think its helped that he knows the teachers and room through us dropping Jack off. Its a familiar place and all that. The only sad thing about it is that we wont be going to as many groups at sure start. Virtually since Luke was old enough to crawl we’ve been going to groups up there. the last year or so we’ve been up there at least three times a week! We’ll still be going but only for messy play on a Thursday afternoon.
At least theres the holidays!
Anyway, Now I’ve finished waffling, here’s some of my fave pictures from the last year or so!
Quote of The Day June 18, 2009
Posted by Nemma in Day to day stuff, Family, children, kids.Tags: bugs, children, ill, kids, nemma, poorly, quote of the day, spiders, stomach, tummy
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Quote of the day from Jack:
“Mummy, I think this bug in my tummy is a spider because I can feel it running round and its making me feel sick!”
Everyone (except Karl who seems to have a stomach of steel) has got this stomach bug thats going round. I started with it tuesday evening and Jacks started this morning. Lukes had it over last weekend but seems to be ok (but a bit quiet) now.
We’re all having a duvet day now and have quarantined ourselves.
New pics and a quick update… March 10, 2009
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- Aunt Sally (Dont ask!)
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- Aunt sally, Worzel and Heidi
Heres some pics from the last few weeks/months so you get a vague idea as to whatwe’ve been up to.
Kids are growing up quickly. We’re rapidly realising that Luke has my temper and that Our two little toddlers are growing up quickly!!!!!!
Mollys still keeping us on our toes and Im busy at work. The window tinting is picking up again so fingers crossed this year will be better than last.
New words and expressions……. January 20, 2009
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Ive just taken Jack up to his bedroom for some “quiet time” upstairs and he’s stumbled as we were walking in. He stood straight up, and said ouch “My knackers hurt now!”
Dont you just love the phrases they pick up at nursery???????
Also Lukes toilet training at the minute. I was half paying attention to him earlier and half to what I was doing in the kitchen so when he announced he’d done a poo to me, I remined him not to “forget to wipe between your bum cheeks!”
Luckily I managed to stop him wiping his face at the last second! lol
Jack and Mummy’s Adventure! January 20, 2009
Posted by Nemma in Blogroll, Day to day stuff, Days out, Family, Kids having fun, children, fun, kids, weather.Tags: adventure, books, children, driving, farm, hardwick Hall, kids, library, toddlers
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On a Monday afternoon Luke goes to Pre school for a couple of hours. Normally a Jacks godfather Graham calls in on his dinner break from college for a coffee and a chance to see Jack. Today though he wasn’t coming so I decided to take Jack to the library, I’m ashamed to say that although Luke’s been a few times I haven’t taken Jack yet. They have so many books here that we’ve never really had the need to use the library, but I used to love going and he’s heard Luke talking about going and as been asking to go for ages.
After dropping Luke off i realised that our local library still lives in the dark ages and closes at dinner time for an hour so we had an hour to kill. I decided we’d have a quick drive up to Hardwick Hall and see what animals we could see. Normally there’s sheep and the odd cow wandering around as you approach the hall but today the farmer had obviously decided to bring them closer to the farm because of the bad weather.
Jack was a bit disappointed so I drove towards the Farm shop hoping to see some. We were rewarded with loads of sheep wandering round. They are free roaming up there so we had a few in the middle of the road. One sheep even stood staring at the car for about two minutes before he turned round and slowly wandered off. Jack was giggling his head off and shouting baaaat them and “move please sheepsys!”.
As we got to the farm shop to turn round we discovered where all the cows etc were hidden, the Barn!
So after a few minutes of looking at them and making all the farm noises and getting excited about the “massif Massif tactor” we decided it was time to have a slow drive back to the library. My car is disgusting! It looks like its been through a rally course, not a quick trip up to the local Country Park! Karl even noticed how bad it was in the dark last night when he got home from work.
I think we can safely say that Jack was impressed with the library, They are really child friendly in skegby, and Ive been in a few times with Luke for the rhyme rattle and roll session they hold on a Friday morning so I didn’t have to worry about him being quiet. He chose a book for himself (Monkey and Me) and one for Luke (Wizzil) and was even more impressed when they gave him his own library card! Of course he’s had to have the little snap off part for his keyring, and he gave Luke his too when we picked him up from Nursery.
We got back and he excitedly told Luke all about our “ventures” and has already asked to go back to the library to swap his book.
All in all it was a nice way to spend some time with just Jack, it was just a pity the weather was so bad or we’d have been able to go for a quick walk round Hardwick Hall.
We weren’t the only ones to have a nice day yesterday by the sounds of it either.
Richard sounds like he had fun http://onegeekspeaks.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/a-strange-school-day/
Well we went to see the ENT surgeon… November 16, 2008
Posted by Nemma in Family, Milestones.Tags: children, ear nose and throat, gromits, kings Mill Hospital, operation, toddlers
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And despite waiting an hour and a half AFTER our appointment time (AGAIN!) It all went well!
He went a week last tuesday ago and yesterday I got back home and there was a letter asking me to call and make his appointment to have his gromits put in…
He goes in on December 5th! So in less than 5 weeks we’ve had his hearing test and it will be done and dusted hopefully! I really hope it makes a difference for him. Just recently I’ve noticed he’s been asking us to repeat ourselves more and more often. (Although he does sound cute when he says “Sorry??” instead of pardon lol)
It will be nice for him to go to disco’s and what have you and not complain that its hurting his ears etc.
Im just not looking forward to the actual day!
Im having one of those wobbly lip moments…. September 3, 2008
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Its suddenly dawned on me that this time a week tomorrow my handsome gorgeous little man will be starting his first day at big boy school. Thanks to Richards post about his little girl starting school http://onegeekspeaks.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/entrusting-the-world-with-another-of-my-offspring/
I am now sat here with the sudden realisation that my little big man starts nursery a week tomorrow. He’s about to go into a whole new chapter of his life, one where he wont need Mummy as much and will have stories to tell me that didnt involve me being there! Ive got to admit, as excited as Ive been about him starting Im now starting to feel quite sad that my precious time being the centre of his world is over and done with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How will I cope? Im already in floods thinking about it, and I admit I used to be one of those people who laughed at parents gushing about how proud they were when thier children started school and how they cried when they left them at the door…. Now Im facing being one of them!
Robin Hood and the Pirates….. August 6, 2008
Posted by Nemma in Days out, Family, Imagination, Kids having fun, fun, kids, toddlers.Tags: children, day out, edwinstowe, festival, jack, kids, Luke, nemma, nottinghamshire, robin hood
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One of the boys favourite films at the minute is the Disney version of Robin Hood. Luckily we live near to Edwinstowe (Where the major Oak is, Robin Hoods “Home”) It takes us about 30 minutes or so from here to get there and this last week it was the annual robin hood festival.
If anyone lives near Nottinghamshire they should definitely try and get to this event with Kids. Its Brilliant!!!!
The boys absolutely loved it, we watched puppets, spent hours looking for Robin Hood (only to run away as soon as we saw him), bought the obligatory Robin Hood Hats, had a picnic in the restaurant at the visitors centre, watched musicians wandering round performing and Jack even had a run in with a dragon! (I think this was the highlight of the day!) We unfortunately missed the jousting display as were too busy trying to carry all the money Jack had pinched from the bank (Don’t think he quite got the whole idea as he even pretended to get it out the hole in the wall lol)
The boys went dressed up, Jack has a peter pan outfit that we adapted slightly and made him look like Robin Hood, and Luke went as Robin Hoods Pirate friend!
Pirate Luke
He was enjoying himself until Mummy got the camera out!
We had a brilliant day. Parking was a bit of a nightmare as the parking stewards didnt seem to know exactly what to do with such a huge amount of cars, but other than that we had a brilliant time. If anyone is considering going next year then I would recommend giving yourself the full day there and taking a picnic!
Heres the info for this years festival so you can see the sorts of things going on.
