Holiday Shopping

This year is going to be our first family holiday abroad! As we are not going away till October but all the summer clothes will not be in the shops any more so I am starting now to get bits for the boys to wear!

Our first bits have come from Pep & Co and Tesco. 

From Pep & Co James got a vest top and a t-shirt and Freddie got two t-shirts. I chose to get James clothes in a size 6-7 and Freddie's 3-4. James will be six by then and Freddie almost three, but he is well into 2-3 tops now and has been for a good few months, so by getting age 3-4 I am guaranteed they will fit him and he will get get a lot of wear out of them!

                 

 

I love that Pep & Co have gone into our local Poundland shop, The only downside is they do not normally have much in stock so when I was in trying to get clothes for the boys I did struggle to find what I was looking for.

At Tesco we got the boys some shorts. I chose to get them both the same colours of light and dark grey as I thought most colours would go with them.

We do have quite a lot of shorts in the boys wardrobes from the last couple of years in size 2-3 as James is quite skinny and last summer still fit into age 2-3, so I will be trying them all on to him over the next few months so I can decide which still fit him and which ones can be packed for Freddie!

Stay tuned for more holiday clothing posts and other holiday bits in the next few months!

Birthday Wish List!

So it's the 1st of April and no this is not an April Fools joke! It's my birthday this month so I thought I would do a little wish list of things I would love to get!

Lamb and Bear sweatshirt £35 – I love the products by Lamb and Bear and Freddie looks adorable in the Leggings, The adult range has just launched a few weeks ago. I totally fell in love with this Tea and Triumph sweatshirt. There are a number of colour combinations and a few slogans (Coffee and Conquer, Tea and Triumph and Wine and Winning) to choose from! I adore my cups of tea so it has to be Tea and Triumph for my slogan but I still have no idea which colour combination! 

      

A Klean Kanteen – I’ve been looking at these for ages. I would love to have a bottle that could keep my drinks cold in the summer and warm in the winter, and with going abroad later in the year I am wanting to invest in a decent bottle to take with me. 

     I am also looking at the kid Kanteen for James for school as he has been complaining that his water has been getting too warm in his classroom and therefore he is hardly drinking anything when he is in school! I would be getting both James bottle and mine with a sports cap. The reason I like the Klean Kanteen is the fact you can purchase different caps for the bottles. You can even buy a sippy cup cap for the Kid Kanteen which would be ideal for Freddie. 

       Handbag– When I normally go out I just shove my keys in my pocket and my purse into the changing bag, but with having a holiday booked for later this year I am looking to get a handbag I can keep all the documents and passports in, but is also big enough to shove a couple of nappies and wipes in for when we are in resort and so I don’t have to drag the whole changing bag out if we are just going to go for a walk. I have seen these two on Amazon, But I have also seen something similar in a local bag shop in the Grainger Market in Newcastle.

     

Silver Earrings – I have been looking for some new earrings for a while and these from Argos look lovely. I don’t really like wearing drop earrings too much and I actually broke a set of my studs a couple of months ago, so these would be the ideal replacement. Freddie is always messing around with my earrings so this pair would be awesome as it does not have a butterfly back, it just has the stem which then clips over to stop the earring falling out.

     So these are just a few of the things that are on my birthday wishlist, I'm also looking for a few case for my phone and also a bigger memory card for my phone so I have more room for photographs when we are away! 

    **I wasn't asked to post any of the products in this wish list, These are just things I would quite like for my birthday!**

End of Spring Term

So it's the end of the spring term at school and it's so hard to believe that James only has one term left in year one before the summer holidays and he goes into year two! It really does not seem like five minutes since he started the school nursery and now he has almost finished year one!

This term he has gone up a level in his reading books, Started a group with two of his friends to help with speech and language and made a new friend when a new boy started in his class! He comes home full of beans and actually likes doing his reading and his homework! 

He has done another block of forest school which he absolutely adores! I really hope the school can keep up the forest school for when Freddie starts as I think he will love it just as much as James does! He loves being outdoors and Forest School gets him outside and learning lots of new skills! 

He has come on so much since he first started at his school in the nursery back in 2015 that in part to the wonderful staff and family atmosphere at his school!

Next term we have the year one national phonics test coming up eek! Fingers crossed for James passing it!

End of First Term at Playgroup

So Freddie has finished his first term at playgroup and over all I think it has been really good for him! His speech has come on so much and we are hearing new words virtually every day and he is even starting to form little sentences!

He is such a lovely little boy and if we see any of his Playgroup staff when we are out and about or at Sure Start he will yell hiya hiya and wave!

We still have tears when we drop him off, but he is such a happy little boy when he is collected! He is also starting to make little friends which is so cute. On one of the days he is in, the little brother of one of James classmates is in and they are so cute when they see each other other days at the school run! Freddie will babble his head off and his little friend nods along as if he understands everything he is saying!

We have put in his application for the nursery at James school starting in September 2019 when he will be three rising 4, so Freddie will be one of the older ones in his class rather than the actual youngest like James was!

He will also have the younger siblings of some of James classmates in his class which I think will be lovely for him.

On his second last day of term he went running in with no tears! Mummy was so proud of him!

Over all I think putting Freddie into playgroup has been the best decision we could have made and I'm so glad we did it!

Living Arrows 2018 13/53

Welcome to week 13 of Living Arrows 2018!

This week is the last week of term then the boys are off for two weeks Easter Holidays! 
James has been so exhausted lately so I am so glad this week is only a four day week!! 
The boys went to stay with Nana and Gaga on Friday night as mummy and daddy were having a night out to celebrate our wedding anniversary which was last week!

Freddie has been such a little monkey this week! He is definitely way more mischievous than James ever was at his age! But as soon as he sees the camera he stops doing whatever he is doing and shouts Cheese! He has also been playing with his Kevin Carrot from Aldi! Its stems from watching Rebecca Rabbit on Peppa saying Carrot Carrot on one episode!

Living Arrows 2018 12/53

Welcome to week 12 of Living Arrows and today is actually our 7th Wedding Anniversary!

So what have we been up to this last week? Well James had parents evening, so Mummy picked him up from school on Tuesday night and took him and Freddie home as we didn't need to be back at school for parents evening till 5pm so both boys had their tea before we headed back up to the school. James also had his rearranged World Book Day that got postponed due to Snowmageddon! He was really excited to go to school dressed as Spiderman!!

                 

Freddie had his normal two sessions of playgroup which he really enjoyed! We also had our normal group at sure start. It's hard to believe that Freddie has been going to this group since he was seven weeks old when all he did was lie there and sleep and now he's running around the room like a crazy boy chatting his head off at everyone! Freddie is still loving James old VTECH bus although he likes to try and ride it around the lounge! He is also such a poser when he sees the camera! Freddie also ended the week with a doctors appointment to finally get a dietitian referral as we have had concerns for a while that he has issues with dairy product.

            

 

Happy Wedding Anniversary Andy!

Seven years ago today we said "I Do" 

I really can't believe its been seven years since we got married! 

A lot has happened in that seven years!

Five house moves!

Two children!

and One house bought!

Seven years ago we were living in Woking in a one bedroomed flat with a Hamster!

Now we have a lovely three bedroomed house, in a lovely neighbourhood with a brilliant school which James is at and that Freddie will go to!

Andy you are not just my husband, you are my best friend and my partner in crime and I love you to the moon and back xx