my birthday…

hmmm..so it was a week ago but you know how it is…..

I had a pretty good day really. Woken up at 5am by Isaac wishing me happy birthday..bless him..after having been woken at 4.30am by Matilda with her own little birthday message! We did presents and then the kids had a little treasure hunt to find my present from Ben and my parents……which was CS4 and Lightroom…set me loose, im fully loaded 😉

School run where Isaac was trying to tell the lollipop man it was my birthday by shouting across at me 'Happy birthday Mummy!' love that kid.

The girls and I chilled at home for the morning, and then went to a friends house for some lunch and cake…of course…

Then after school we had football….in true dedication stylie….watched Isaac play two lots of football, one at school and the other at Liverpool football club Academy…

We had a picnic tea and then home for bed and chill….

Yeah doesnt sound like much but i hung out with some of my most favourite people on this fair earth and was blessed by the generosity of my family. 

You. all. Rock.

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my first attempt at a cake, used my birthday as an experiment…the kids loved it..

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just to emphasize…how much i like the sun..heh heh…as if i needed to right?

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first thing…at present opening time…i think i might have actually opened one card!! Ha!

Wouldn't have it any other way….
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summer do…

i did finally do the deed and take the girls for a hair cut. It must be about a year since Maisie last had her hair cut and Poppy had never had her hair cut….

i know…

im not a big 'trip to the hairdresser' type person myself..the decision of what to do, the possible implications just about halt me ever taking the plunge..

so..

i took the girls and it was fine, apart from the fact that not one of them muttered a sound whilst their hair was being cut and yet you will find me on any given morning at ten to leaving time, trying to deal with the crying and gnashing of teeth that ensues when i so much as try to brush their hair…..

yeah….im not bitter….;)

It was okay, Maisie has quite a bit cut off and Poppy got a trim. I had been advised against cutting in a fringe (bangs for those from the US) so kind of a tidy up really. But got a bit of a shock when she said 20 pounds for the two. Seriously that sort of money for about 15 minutes work…not bad…

think i might be trying it myself next time…pudding bowl anyone???

🙂

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Heh heh…

so funny that my last post got me so many comments, texts and messages…heh… the one thing i can see in the four pictures is the gradual improvement of photography hardware..HA..so easy to see that the pics of Poppy and Matilda were taken with decent cameras, in fact i didnt have the DSLR when Poppy was born but quite a high end digi camera. 

sigh…has it really been less than three years since the lovely Canon came into my life..i love my camera 😉

But still, regardless of that it is good to know that all my kids are fairly distinctive as most people have said that they didnt need the initial on the picture, they would have identified them without…so not some 'samey' after all. Which is cool, i like that but also like the family resemblence too…

A couple of people commented on how small Isaac was. I think at first he was younger in the picture, it was the best thing i could find and he, in fact, was the smallest baby and didnt really get the hang of gaining weight till he was on solids…he weighed in at just under 7lbs when he was born. 

Anyhow…..a sneaky picture of the boy himself reading just before bed…
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and …er….yes…he is reading about the skull…ahem 🙂
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so people are always saying my babies look alike….

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a bit of a rant..

yeah 'cos all sunshine and no rain is not good for anyone….

Today they had 'circus' day at our lovely little school. So the letter came home on friday to find out something to do with the circus and then 'dress up' in something to do with the circus….

which…is….great…

unless you have a child that hates dressing up! That would be easy i hear you cry, just tell him not to dress up. Well we did, but thing to remember is that we are talking about a 6 year old who is well aware that his classmates will be dressing up so want to fit in but actually wants to be himself to….

So i tried to pre-empt this, we have been here before, and i asked him last night what he wanted to do about it and he found every possible way to avoid listening/answering etc. So i left it and sure enough this morning he was sat in the middle of the kitchen floor stressing his little head what to do about it. 

and there is little Mummy can do about it half an hour before the school bell right?

Eventually i managed to convince him that by going in just his jeans and t shirt he would look like possibly a juggler who was practising and then by taking some circus poi loaned from our lodger he could use them in school as his trick. 

He grumbled, fretted and moaned all the way to school….

Now I understand that the teachers are trying to make it interesting for the kids and get them involved i get it. But the letter home made no mention of what to do if your child doesnt want to dress up….

Its not fair, forcing him into it felt wrong and stressed me out and him out and did neither of us any good…believe me. 

So I was mad…and i walked home from dropping the girls off at nursery ( who ironically had dressed up because i mentioned it!) formulating my letter to the headteacher describing how i think they are not considering a childs individuality and right to choose…

But for now im just voicing it here….

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