a bit of a catch up

Where does the time go? I seem to spend all week in a race to catch up with myself and all weekend recovering. But we're all good and enjoying autumn. Last weekend we managed a whole weekend without any house tasks, it was bliss! We went to Legoland and had a ball. We were celebrating George's birthday a day early and had had friends around the night before, so the fresh air was the perfect way to blow away the cobwebs. Anyway, here are some pics:

We have no photos of the best rides as the camera would have been soaked, but it was a day of so much laughing. We came home exhausted and wet, but with annual passes so we will definitely be back - with spare clothes next time. This weekend is also busy, we are up to Glasgow tomorrow night - after Katy's first school disco. I'm worrying a bit about making the drive to the airport in time but it's important that she gets to go to this. She's excited to see her Gran and Pop, as are we, and also the friends she made in France this summer, who we are going to see on Sunday. Then next week is half term so we have a week off! Lots of fun planned for then too.

Monday funnies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT5NwQUtVM


Funny funny.

happier and healthier

Can you believe she's only worn these shoes for 11 days? But the good news is that she wore them to school today! After a week and a half of illness, she went back today and had a great day. Phew! She ate loads of her packed lunch and came out with a big smile.

And finally, some before and after pictures! Our bedroom as it was:

and as it is now

And the dark corner

which we have decided to stash all our books in. There are still a couple of bags to sort here and pictures to go up, but we love it.

And this is Katy's room

Needless to say, she loves it up here :)

So we're feeling well settled and very happy here. There is still a lot to do but it's a very enjoyable and rewarding journey.

poorly girl

I haven't posted recently as we have been so so busy with all the house related tasks. It's all coming along well, and I will be able to post some 'after' pictures soon. But at the moment our focus has been on our poor little sick girl. Katy has picked up a horrible bug and has been ill since Saturday. She's been pretty much laid flat by it poor thing. It's just a viral thing but it's taking longer than we'd like to pass through. Hopefully just another day or so. but it has meant that she's missed a bit of school. Luckily school was closed on Monday and Tuesday so today would have been her first day back, but I really doubt she'll be back tomorrow. Keeping fingers crosed that she makes her first full day in on Friday.

The photo is from Thomas' christening, I swiped the photo to scan from my Auntie Mary's album.

a determined little lady

Just updating with a few new pictures from the last week or so. On Saturday we went to Oriental City. Katy was determined to use chopsticks, and she did remarkably well, and showed a lot of perseverance! She managed a fair amount of pork and Phad Thai and was delighted with herself of course!

School is still going well. Tonight is our first parents evening, so we hope to get a bit more information about her curriculum, as after three years out of the game I'm a bit hazy on the details.

This photo was taken in our new park the evening before school started.

more photos

Here she is outside the classroom. Her new teacher is lovely and the school has already given us a long list of social things to look forward to, including a halloween disco for her and quiz night for us!

Outside the house on the first day! Below is the path we walk along to school once we have parked the car, it's such a nice way to get to school.

she's started

After ages of waiting Katy started school today. I'm going to add more pictures in another post, but as we haven't had broadband connected yet it is bit of a slow process. It went really well, she went in with barely a backward glance and came out talking about friends she had made. First day: great success!