Thursday 24 November 2011

Mathematical Genius?

Oh there have been some very clever goings on today!

David has spent most of the day holding the telephone handset pointing at the numbers and telling me which ones they are... The ones he definitely knows are: 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8!

Later on we were singing "Zoom, zoom, zoom" and they have both got counting backwards from 5.

Then David asked me what the sticker on the back of his laptop was... it was the triangular ELC symbol, so I told him it was a triangle... over the course of the next couple of hours he then brought me several different triangles each time telling me they were a triangle.

David definitely knows what yellow is and Joe definitely knows red and I think he knows blue too.

Finally the best bit of today was that finally, finally, they both sat down and listened to a story properly... and what was that story? yup, The Gruffalo... which we were given 2 new copies of at today's grand opening of the new Children's Centre in Colnbrook.

A very good day.

x

Saturday 19 November 2011

We have had a FABULOUS day!

Oh what a day! A day of firsts and a day of fun!

Daddy went off on a booze cruise this morning, so we invited Yvonne over for the day.

Yvonne and I decided to take the boys on their first trip to the cinema to see Arthur Christmas.

The boys LOVED it! They weren't scared of the dark and they didn't find it too noisy (David had a little nap for half an hour)

They tried popcorn for the first time and liked that very much too.

The film was great, so funny and entertaining. All I could hear from Joe (who was sitting on Yvonne's knee) was "ooooh! Look at dat! What dat? OOOh! Wow!" everytime there was music they danced. They just loved it. And I will admit to a little tear of happiness as I watched them enjoying themselves so much.

Then we went off to The Ostrich for lunch. Where they sat very nicely and had their first go of dipping chips in ketchup... Joe is a tomato addict and had eaten all the tomatoes off my plate, so let him have some ketchup. Yup, he loved that too... David took a bit of convincing, but eventually he decided he loved it too! Then the chef brought them both out a bowl of ice-cream for sitting so nicely!

Fab day and so looking forward to going to the pictures with them again.... Happy Feet 2 anyone?

x

Sunday 6 November 2011

Whizz, Whoosh, Bang, Weeeeeee!

Yes, it was bonfire night last night. We had a wonderful time.

We spent the afternoon around at our friends Dawn and Ian's house so the boys could play with their little friend Milo.

Milo's lovely grandparents were also there and at about 5.30 we went to a lovely little Italian Restaurant in Datchet for an early dinner. The boys all sat on proper chairs and were so good. They demolished 2 and a half bread baskets and 2 glasses of apple juice before their pizza came. We were all very proud of our boys.

Next was time for the excitement of the evening. We went to the firework display and funfair at Upton Court Park. Milo's grandparents paid for them all to go on 3 rides, so they were very spoilt and had a fantastic time.





I wasn't sure how they were going to react to the fireworks, but I needn't have worried. They all absolutely loved them. Especially the really loud bangy ones. Those made them giggle hysterically. They were a bit sad when it was all over.



Then home to bed. By the time we were home, changed and ready for bed it was 10pm. The happy side effect of this late bedtime was a 9am start this morning... what's not to like?