Blogging Hiatus

I haven't blogged for ages, so I'm writing this little catch-up just to keep people posted as to where we're at.

Unlike our friends in the south, we have no new and exciting arrivals to blog about, we just have a life that is already revolving around the local school and school terms. Jacob spends five mornings a week at the nursery attached to the school, and I take Sam along to the toddler group there twice a week. After easter I'll be attending a family learning course at the school that teaches you how to develop number games for your kids to help them with learning to count etc; they're also running one later in the year that helps you to help your kids to read. Very useful stuff, free *and* it comes with a free creche place for Sam while I'm on the course; York Council +++.

Jacob is loving nursery, he has made lots of friends and we've already had two invites to birthday parties, the first of which is just after easter. This is the sort of thing that makes me realise that he's growing up; not going to a birthday party just because your parents know the parents of the person whose party it is, but going because you are actually friends with the birthday boy/girl and its a friend you've made all on your own without any help from mum or dad.

Sam still isn't speaking and just past his second birthday I took him to the health visitor. I have to admit that I was expecting her to tell me not to worry about it and to bring him back at age three, but instead she said that bearing in mind the extremely long waiting lists for speech therapy in Acomb, it was as well to refer him now. And as well she did - his initial appointment is on July 21st.

The only other thing of note on the horizon is the summer holidays; we're trying to plan it around my 40th birthday in July, where we're going to leave the kids with granny and grandad and then head off to London for a few days on our own. We were originally thinking of going to Centre Parks in Sherwood Forest as that would break up the journey to Reading nicely, but now that Julian and Cass are having their twins christened in Brighton at the very end of June, we're now thinking that we should go there and have a week on the south coast prior to London. We're just waiting till they confirm the date and then we'll book something.

So that's it; all very quiet, all very routine, all very middle class and, alas, middle-aged :)