Mothers Day 2007

I had a lovely day today. Steve pulled out all the stops and made me feel very special. I had lovely presents; a chocolate heart, pink champagne and a Tiffany's necklace!!!!


Then we went to the South Lodge for lunch (one of my favourite restaurants).

Sadly Amy was feeling a little bit poorly today but she rallied her spirits and made it through the day.



I haven't really lifted a finger all day and it's been bliss.

Baby Ben is two weeks old...

...Not our Ben but Ben Stevens the third child to our friends Dave & Kellie. We went round to see them today and to meet Ben for the first time. He is such a little sweetie for a few minutes I actually felt broody!!

We took our camera with us but sadly completely forgot to take any photos of the little man.

The older kids had great fun playing outside the front of the house together and the time just flew by.

Today was really mild, although snow is predicted later on in the week, and the kids were still playing outside at 6.30pm. - here are the photos of it.

Lily's 5th Birthday

On Saturday Amy & Ben went to Lily 5th birthday party. We thought it was really nice of them to invite Ben as well and they both enjoyed it immensely.

Earlier in the day we had made a start of clearing out the garage so by the end of the day we were all pooped.


On Sunday we did some more garage clearing - what exciting lives we lead eh!



Then later we went t0 Granny's for tea. Her lounge is completely redecorated now and it looks really nice. I especially like her reclining leather sofa!

Introducing Mum-Fish & Ish....

We now have two new additions to our family...

Don't ask me where Amy got the name Mum-Fish from but our two new goldfish Mum-Fish & Ish (Ben can't quite manage the word Fish yet!) joined our family today.

They seem quite content in their little fish tank - complete with pink mermaid!

On a less positive note, Ben is poorly again. He got more and more listless as the day wore on so I took him down the Doctors about 5.30 tonight and he has a septic throat infection so it back on the good old Amoxicillin again - lets hope it clears it up soon.

Pirouettes & Parties

This morning Amy had her first ballet lesson. She no longer goes to Stagecoach (I think she may have been a bit too young - it does last quite a while for a 4 year old) and instead she goes to 30 minutes ballet at the gym.

It works quite well cos it means that Steve and I can take Ben swimming whilst she pirouettes in the dance studio above our heads.

Later today we went to the local Pet store to buy some fish. Ben has taken a real shine to our scaly friends and we thought it would make an easy pet. Fish are more complex creatures than I thought though as you have to let the tank settle for a minimum of 48 hours before you can move them in so we brought the tank today and will go back next week to pick up Snoopy & his as yet unnamed companion (I have no idea why Amy has chosen the name Snoopy!)

Then even later still today we headed off to Riverside for Evie's 6th birthday party. She was having a swim party and whilst Steve and Amy went to the Learner Pool for an hour of splashing about on an inflatable polar bear. Ben and I went to Kool Kids (the soft play area). It was very busy with another birthday party going on in there. After swimming they had a lovely tea and a bit of a run around. Sadly no pictures from Evie's party as we left the camera behind!

They were both completely popped tonight and went off to sleep without a murmur.