Our School Holiday So Far...

Don't you just love school holidays?  For the working parent, the drive to work is quick and stress free and for the stay at home parent, the option to get up when you want and not have the usual morning rush is great.

I have had both of these so far during the holidays.  Last week I was working, so the boys went to the childminder or nursery and I managed to get into work early pretty much all week.  My eldest had gone on holiday to Butlins with Laura from Tired Mummy of Two as he is friends with Laura's brother, so I only had to worry about getting the two little ones ready for the day.  PJ had a great time from what he tells me.  Thank you Laura for taking him with you.

This week I am home with the boys.  We had planned to go out as a family to Legoland on Sunday, but as the boys weren't 100%, that had to be postponed until the next day.  I was a bit worried about taking them by myself on the Monday without hubby there to support me, but thankfully, the boys didn't play up too much.

We managed to check out some of the new attractions, such as the Hero Factory and we also watched our first 4D movie in The Legends of Chima.  Both of which were fantastic.  I can see that I am going to have to buy some of the Lego Hero models for Aled's upcoming birthday!  I was really impressed that the boys kept their 3D glasses on throughout the whole movie.  Both the boys were fasinated with the movie and I caught Noah reaching out to try to touch the characters when the appeared to be really close!  I was a little bit worried with how Aled would react to the 4D element of the movie, but when the 'rain' and 'snow' came down, he loved it.  In all the times we've been to Legoland, I can't believe this is the first time that I've taken the boys in to the Imagination Theatre!


We also discovered that Noah is now well over 1m tall, meaning that he can go on some of the bigger rides.  I couldn't wait to get the boys onto Pirate Falls.  I think the picture speaks for itself!

Enjoying a milkshake

Yesterday we had some medical appointments to go to, so not as much fun.  After a bit of rushing around first thing due to the boys letting us have a lie in, we head off to PJ's CAHMS appointment.  The sessions are going really well and I'm positive that at the end of his treatment PJ will be in a
much better place.  As PJ's sessions are 1-2-1 with the therapist, I took the little ones off for a donut and milkshake (well, mocha in my case).

As soon as PJ was out of his appointment, we then had to dash off to Windsor for Aled's check up at the eye hospital.  It wasn't all good news for Aled though as after 6 months of wearing his glasses, his weak eye hasn't improved as much as it should have.  Therefore, Aled now has to wear an eye patch for three hours a day.  Thankfully, he is at a great age where we can tell him that

'Pirate Aled'

he's like a pirate and he is happy with this.  I also know that there is a girl in his class who wears a patch, so it's not something that is strange to him.  The box of patches that we have been given is great and there are 5 different fun designs on them, so he has a choice of which one to wear every day.  Yesterday he wore the blue with aeroplanes and today a red one with dragons.

For the rest of the week, we have a trip to the airport to pick up my mum tomorrow and then a playdate with a friend at the new soft play centre that has opened up in my town.  I'm also looking forward to our predicted warm day on Sunday and will hopefully manage to get out again then.

I hope you are having just as much fun as we are this Easter holiday!

Jackie. x

Last week of term...

Can you believe that this is the last week of term!  How quickly has the year gone since my Aled started nursery!

He has grown so much in this last year and has come so far.  Back in September last year he had very little social skills and his speech was not quite there either.  Now, even though he is still slightly behind the others in his class, his speech is so much better.  You can understand most of what he says and his social skills have come along loads as well, although he does still prefer to play by himself to playing with other children.

There are still some areas for concern and I am awaiting an appointment from the child development centre for his follow on appointment, but he is a totally different boy from this time last year.

Last Wednesday was his graduation ceremony at Nursery.  It was the cutest thing ever and I managed not to cry through it! lol.  The different groups all took it in turns to come up and sing a song and then they were presented with their graduation certificates.  At the beginning while the Head of Early Years was making her speech Aled spotted me in the crowd, pointed at me and shouted on the top of his voice 'THAT'S MY MUMMY!'.  I think the whole crowd turned and looked at me. lol.

I think Aled is looking forward to going up to Reception in September and I am looking forward to him going full time, but I'm not sure quite how he is going to take to the change of teacher and classroom.  I hope he takes to it smoothly, but he is quite attached to his current teacher.  

September also sees Noah starting nursery, so I will have all 5 mornings with myself.  I won't know what to do with myself having all that time child free!  Noah is a much more confident child to what Aled was last year and from his time in crèche I know that he will take to nursery like a duck to water.  I really hope he gets as much out of nursery as Aled does.

But before all of that, we still have the 6 weeks holidays to go.  I do hope that the sun does remember that it is supposed to be a SUMMER holiday and we get some nice weather so that we can take advantage of our Merlin Passes during the holidays. 

Jackie. x