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.

What We've Been Up To Lately

We've had a lot of things going on the last couple of days so I thought I'd do one big blog update about it all.


Cerys is part of the school council. She gets to go into the younger half of the reception class when the teacher, Mrs White, needs to do something and Cerys will help the children to do things for about an hour each day. She starts her job next week.


Harvey found out he had also gotten a position on the school council on Thursday. He's not sure what his job is yet though.

We ventured into town today. We had no plans to do any Christmas shopping but ended up buying 5 advent calendars. Two Hello Kitty, two Toy Story and one Peppa Pig calendar. We also got a few stocking fillers for the children too. A mini dolls house and a new tooth brush for Jorja, nail varnish and a tooth brush for Cerys, bath ducks, toy phone and a tooth brush for Gwen and the boys both got a toothbrush.


Hubby got himself Gears of War 3 on the xbox, which he is on right now. I haven't heard a peep out of him for ages.

He was so immersed in the game he had no clue I took this photo of him lol

Archie had also given us a mission to buy him hair gel. He refuses to let us cut his hair so it's gotten quite long and he's wanting to style it a bit so we found him a huge tub of  it so he can go nuts with it.


Archie and Cerys also got some new school shoes. We decided to go for a shoe that has no straps or bits that could come off for Archie as his straps usually go funny and come away from the velcro or break off so he has slip on shoes which look smarter than his usual type of shoe.

For Cerys we decided we'd go for slightly more grown up looking shoes. She normally has shoes with a strap over the foot which is a bit baby-ish for a 10 year old so we got her some ballerina style pumps with a simple bow on the toe. She loved them.

We also had a look around at baby clothes and found some very cute Christmas outfits for Bubs in Boots. We couldn't buy anything yet as we aren't sure what size to buy as Bubs could be in 0-3 mths or 3-6 mths at Christmas so we'll have to wait and see nearer the time.


Canterbury had another bomb scare today, this is the 3rd in the last month. The police haven't arrested any one yet so it's very likey the  same person has staged all 3 hoaxes and wasted police time. Why they are doing this in Canterbury is any ones guess.


The children, the older 4, took part in a sponsored event today at school. They had to run laps around the playground including obstacles and tasks. Cerys managed to run ten laps, Harvey managed six laps, Archie managed to run five laps and Jorja managed four laps.  The money raised will go towards P.E and music equipment for the school.