Sarah has pulled herself up by the bottom step
What more can I say but Here we go again and Where did I put that stair gate?

Sarah has just moved to a front facing Car seat. She lookes so small (if my children can ever look small)but not like a baby anymore. Can't believe she is now crawling in the traditional sense rather than pulling herself along on her tummy. She is also able to sit herself up from crawling and is trying to pull herself up from anything she can grab on too. She now has 8 teeth and 4 more coming through. the other 2 did not have their 1st teeth till about now.

I hate dummies

All three of my children have had, and Sarah still has a dummy in some ways they have been wonderful They calm an upset child they calmed all the babies when they were changing to bottles and they helped all of them go to sleep but........

When you cannot find them at all goes wrong. This sums me up to T

Monday morning took Sarah out of her cot and sat her down in the living room. She smiled at me and I went to get her breakfast. She ate her breakfast all 1 1/2 weatabix and cried for more so I gave her, her dummy while i got her drink, The other two are now up and this is where things get hectic. So while getting 3 kids washed and dressed and to the back door I have lost her Dummy. This would not normally be a problem but this was her spare one. She threw the other out sometime on the way home from school the other day. So i checked the cot the floor blamed the kids for hiding/throwing it usual stuff. but nothing was said or found. No worries i thought We are going to parent club after the school run so that should keep her occupied, so she moved around their and plenty of people were picking her up and hugging her, but near the end she was getting grumpy so we headed back home, she nearly drifted of but when we got home she woke up. so i put her in her cot and she screamed i had another look round but could not find it got Sarah up and decided i would have to go to the shop and get some more. as I was getting Harry ready Sarah was sick so I started to get her changed and guess what....

Yes it was in the leg of her Dungarees... Poor girl had that in there all morning no wonder she was getting grumpy...

Sarahs first hair cutSarah and our hairdresser
8 1/2 months old and already had a hair cut. She is such a happy baby but we were not sure how to go about cutting her hair
We settled on Sarah sitting sideways on my lap and me holing her bottle for her(she can only feed herself laying down at the moment) Our hairdresser is amazing all the children love her she is so quick.

So a quick whip round and all is done just in time because the bottle is just about to run out. but as you can tell a good result and everyone is Happy.

1st School year....

Well Charlotte is just about to finish her 1st year at school. Does not seem 2 min since she started.

My little girl has gone from a sweet child who's clothes drown her to
A diva with attitude

I am so proud of her though she has done really well. Her school report was amazing not a bad or negative thing said about her. Talk about teachers pet.

Teachers favourite moment: When the teacher was feeling a little unwell and was struggling to sing Charlotte stood up and said Don't worry Mrs Houlden you sit down and have a rest I will take over the class!!!

And she probably would. this shows how forward and confident she can be but this also shows her caring side, She is like the mother of the class and is always looking out for her class mates.

She had her award ceremony at school to receive her medal for the fun run she did, decided not to add pic, she looked so miserable she does not like things like that she hates anything where she has to sit still and quiet. she says the worst part of school is registration for this reason.

In some ways she has grown up so much, she can read and write quite well just needs some help with spellings and the English language if full of words that are said different to how they are written which of course confuses them.

but in others she is quite babyish, whining ,winging and is quick to lash out at Harry but will soon cry if he hits back but i put this down to arrival of Sarah She came along at a hectic time, Charlotte started school and we moved house. she has always been older than she should be and i think when they are like that you get used to it, so when they act there age you think it is a bad thing.

Well Here is to her 1st year and now we have the 6 weeks holiday to look forward to, oh how i am looking forward to this, Harry and Charlotte have way too much energy that is good for them and now Sarah is mobile( She pulls herself along on her tummy ) I spend most of my time moving her away from thing she should not have or be near. She loves going in to the kitchen but if i shut the door or put up the gate she cries and head butts it in the hope i will move it.

Well here goes....

If you are going to be an embarrasing parent you might as well start young!!!!

Both Charlotte and Harry have been through this now it is my time!!!

What a Weekend!!!

TWICKENHAM STADIUM
Bon Jovi - The Lost Highway Leads to London Tour

Mark and I went to this on Saturday with two of our friends It was amazing The stadium is Massive and can hold up to 82 thousand There was not that many there but it was not far off being full I'm sure. They were everything I expected, Loved singing along to the old stuff and listening to the new ones. At one point Mark and I stood by the bar watching the aircraft fly in to Heathrow and looking around at the scenery it was cool.

They were supported by The Feeling. They were also amazing, it is one of these bands I have heard of but could not tell you what they have sung, but once they started i was sinning along to all of them, I knew all of there songs without realising it, really must get there album I really enjoyed them

CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE

Lazy Town

For Harry's 3rd Birthday we took him to see the stage show of Lazy Town, Now this was a good show, It was all actors and no puppets and they were sooo funny, They were so over the top Mark and I were laughing more than the kids. I did surprise me though that the kids sat still and watched it, Harry's eyes never left the stage he was even shacking a little with excitement but this meant when Sporticus asked all the kids to get up and help practise exercising and his moves with him they did not move. They were in ore of it i think. but it has nearly been a week now and Harry has not stopped talking about it and Charlotte and Harry both want to go again next time it is on.

ON A SAD NOTE THOUGH

On Sunday morning it was my friends leaving party, After 3 years of being in England Her family has been posted to Armenia, Her actual leaving Party was a nice affair but We were only there a while because we had lazy town to go to but Monday was a different story. We attend a toddler group at our local church although we got through it there was tears at the end when it really hit home that I would not see her for a very long time once she had left the church.

All I can say is thanks to the makers of the things like face book and the Internet in general that help people stay in touch. :o(