Friday 6 April 2012

Wow where do I begin?

So much has happened since I last blogged here. So here's a quick run through of what I've not blogged about.

Christmas was quiet but fab. We cut down on the amount each of the children got but they loved what they got so they didn't care. 



New Years we went to hubby's parents for a party and left around 1am. The kids had fun playing with their cousin and nibbling on the food laid out for everyone.

Harvey turned 9! It really doesn't seem like it was that long ago that he was this little toddler running around after Cerys. He had tons of Lego as his presents which he loved and I made him a Lego themed birthday cake too. The amount of time it took to make Lego blocks out of icing was ridiculous but they looked great.



I turned 30 and well I don't really see the big deal about it, it's just another year.


We had parent teacher consultations in early March. Cerys is doing ok, Harvey needs to put his hand up more often and is on target, Archie is above average for everything and Jorja is getting there slowly but surely :) All are well behaved, polite, helpful, popular with others and get on with their work


Cerys is going on a class trip for 5 days to a place called Swattenden at the end of May. She's dying to go bless her but it'll be so strange not having her here for so long.


Easter is this weekend and this year our usual egg hunt isn't taking place. The weather isn't the best and it seems everyone has gone nuts buying out anything to do with easter chocolate so we haven't gotten any small eggs to hide. Cerys went to easter egg bingo at the school last week and won one of the top prizes and came home with two carrier bags full of easter eggs!


The kids school held an enterprise week sale on the last day of term. We went around each of the kids class rooms and bought something from each to help their class win. We came home with quite a stash of goodies.


Kellan is now 5 months old. He's dribbling like mad but no sign of teeth yet, is practically there with sitting up and he's done that so fast, literally in a week or 2, he loves being up on his feet and is such a smiley happy little guy.

Cerys got into her second choice of school, Spires Academy. It's currently being rebuilt so when she goes there she'll be using the new building. We think she'll love it there although she's not so keen on wearing a tie and blazer. She has to get a coach from our village to the school and we no longer have to worry about her wandering off in to town as it's too far from town for her to do that which was a downside to her first choice school.

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We've also been doing a lot of baking recently. It's really not good as we seem to be ballooning in size but oh it's just yummy.

Double Chocolate Cupcakes

Chocolate Brownies

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Valentines Day Cake

Whoopie Pies

Chocolate Cake for the Kids

Ginger Cake

Fudge Cake

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I also won a few cloth nappies. We won a prize from Itti Bitti in a photo contest on Facebook. The prize was;
 a set of cloth wipes, 
1 all in one nappy, 
1 snap in one nappy, 
1 wet bag, 
2 tuttos,
1 change mat



Gwen won a nappy from The Nappy Lady on Facebook as her photo was chosen for their timeline cover photo. I chose a Tots Bots Bamboozle size 2 in Pumpkin.



I got an Ella's house Bum Slender to test from Nappy Go Lucky on Facebook. It's a hemp fitted nappy.



I won a nappy from The Clean Green Nappy Machine on Facebook. I chose a Tots Bots Easyfit V2 in Gingerbread.



I won a Ones & Two's nappy from their Facebook page. (pictured on the right)



I won a new Little Lamb one size fits most nappy from their Facebook page.


I won a Bumgenius Freetime from Babe Me's Facebook page after a image hunt on their website.


I won a custom wool soaker in a Facebook cloth nappy group party.



I also won a Gumigem teething necklace from one of the new ranges they've just released after they chose the name suggestion I put forward for one of the designs. The design is now called Zebula.


The Sloomb nappy, Jack, arrived.


I also won a Jane Shilton gift card on Twitter and have ordered myself some lovely boots.

 
 

We also have quite a few new nappies. Fuzzibunz Elite Diaper Talk, Wee Notions Frilly Bum, Blueberry Coverall, Upsy Daisy Camo and a Holden's Landing Medium AI2. I'll do seperate posts for these nappies as reviews.

I think thats about all that I needed to post about so I'm off for a cup of tea while my little man is fast asleep.