5 is the new 4

So my 4-year-old is 5 tomorrow!

He's already had a little party with some friends, 2 1/2 hours of little boys (& a couple of girls) charging round our house!

But they enjoyed themselves and I enjoyed the compulsory glass of wine that every parent needs following a kids party!

So as I did with my blog post after my daughters birthday, here's the baby versus the almost 5-year-old pics!

Pictured above with his big sister as it's one of the only decent and recent pictures I have of him!

I can't believe where the time has gone to be honest, or that he has finished 1 year of school, about to start the next and just as he reaches 5, some of his friends will start turning 6!

So happy end of the summer holidays to you all.  In 13 days they return to school and we can all start cursing the alarm clock again!!

xx 

Insanity and Instagram

So here we are, half way through the school holidays and are we all surviving?!! How are are you all doing?

From this end it's been an continuous stream of insanity and Instagram! Thanks to the gorgeous summer weather this year my Instagram feed is full of pictures of sunny days at the beach, playing in the fountain, ice creams etc.

Of course I can't miss out the insanity that is 2 children on school holiday for 6 weeks!  Walking round town with 2 kids, high on sugar from a sneaky McDonalds doughnut, and both waving McDonalds balloons bashing every passer by was one of the 'highlights!'

Getting a new laptop was also one of my personal highlights!  With a screen big enough that I can actually see it!  Decided at 6.30 am the other day (who knows why, I was wide awake and the sun was streaming in) to get it set up.  As it switched on, a voice started talking which I was convinced was my 4-year-old, I thought he'd heard me and got up, but it was actually the laptop talking to me!!  Decided to get caffeine at that point!

Also, to make this holiday top notch, those of you on Twitter may have seen that we have a new fridge freezer, oh I am so in love!  Being nearly 40 means that a new fridge freezer that matches the colour of the other appliances in the kitchen and is automatic defrost is the absolute height of happiness!

So that's my insanities and Instagram story.  I do hope everyone else's insanity levels are not rising too high!

xx

University Challenge

A few days ago, University Challenge comes on TV, 8-year-old is still up so we deicide to see what she thinks of the questions.

Well it's safe to say she wouldn't have won the show!  Sitting there shouting out one word answers such as 'FISH' to a question concerning Saturn and 'GOAT' to a question surrounding a painting I'm not sure it was her most intelligent half hour!

The 2 days ago, get in from work to an endless string of questions such as

'What's in that bag?'
'Are you going for a shower?'
'Where's my brother, I hope he's not in my room.'
'How many baking trays to you have?'
'How many shelves are there in the oven?'
'How do you play squash?'

I find that last one a bit testing and completely irrelevant to the previous questioning!

I don't know about University Challenge bit I'm finding her universally challenging!!

Happy days
Xx