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

Easter Crafts

So its nearly Easter again and this year I thought it would be nice for mummy, James and Freddie to do some crafts together after school! Now that Freddie is that little bit older he has really started to get into his crafts especially at Sure Start!

Browsing Pintrest has to be one of my favourite things to do, mostly for recipes, but I do like to search out craft ideas for things the boys could possibly try!

These are my favourite ones that I am thinking about trying out!

Teach Me Mommy

This one looks like so much fun! Making a handprint into air dry clay and adding a photo of each of the boys into the palm once dry and then adding details to turn it into a chick! These would make lovely Easter presents for the boys to give to their Grandparents!

Our Crafts N Things

This wooly sheep looks like something both boys would love to make and getting the supplies to make the sheep aka cotton wool balls, paper plates and black paper can all be bought relatively cheaply from poundland!

The DIY Village

This looks like so much fun for the boys!! We did something like this before with their initials taped onto the canvas and then we let the boys loose with the paint! Again I think this would make a lovely Easter Present for the boys Grandparents!

The Resourceful Mama

This one again looks like so much fun! I think this would be easier for James than Freddie if I'm honest, but I look forward to hopefully trying it out!

So these are a few of my favourite Easter Crafts on Pintrest that I am hopefully going to try out with James and Freddie.

**All images taken from pinterest!**

Siblings 2018 March

Wow I'm so pleased I have got to March this year in the Siblings Project!
This month my boys have spent a lot of time together what with being ill the week before half term and then having the actual half term holiday itself! 

We had a brilliant time when we went down to Surrey to see the boys grandparents and of course our day out in London where most of our photographs were taken!

Once we got back from our trip to London, we went to spend a few days with Nana and Gaga as we had missed them! Before we went to their house Freddie decided he was going to use his brother as a climbing frame!