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 :)

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This n That

I'm rather serenely cooking the boys' tea - salmon hash* and mixed veg - while my two angels play nicely together in the living room. It's Sam's birthday party tomorrow and I'm sure that with an hour to go, I'll be getting cross at the boys for making a mess, with Doug for not doing what he should be doing and with myself for not doing as much of the preparation today instead of messing about for an hour on LOTRO.

But for now, the fairy cakes are iced and decorated, the rice crispy cakes are made, the jelly is setting and a selection of music from Lazytown and Cbeebies has been placed on the iPod shuffle to provide the music for pass the parcel. I still have Sam's presents to wrap and the aforementioned parcel to assemble, but at the moment I'm relishing a quiet evening with Doug, eating Chicken Madras and watching a film on Sky Movies and in bed at a reasonable hour for a change.

Jacob has been absolutely loving nursery school, but has been so tired from charging around relentlessly for 3 hours every day that he's started wetting himself at night; this has upset him quite a lot, so I bought some of those Dry Nites pants for older boys and sold them to him as "magic pants". I think he's so relieved not to be waking up in the middle of the night with soaking pants and bedding that he's overlooked the rather obvious fact; that they actually are large nappies. Still, anything for a quiet night. If Sam could sleep through the night, my cup would runneth over, but one thing at a time......

* should be fishcakes, but I seriously can't be arsed to add egg and make them into nicely floured rounds, so hash it is :)