A few videos

This is the new thing in the house 'Say hello to my little friend'. No - they dont watch Scarface - a small prawn says it in Shark Tale!

And this was Amelia trying to do Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes - Lucy doesnt even bother - she has been taking Street Dancing tips from her Big Sister though!!!

School

School started last week. Mornings only. I had been dreading it for such a long time. I still feel cheated out of 6 months wit hher ... but started she did! She was really quite excited about it - they had been eased in with several open afternoons and meeting the teachers.

She was very quiet on the way though - posing for a few pics with Ciaran and JAck, but clingy otherwise. She wanted me to go into the classroom with her, but started crying when I said I had to leave. It was just horrible - telling her I had to leave when I just wanted to run out with her. Luckily, the teaching assistant came over and started talking to her - and she was all smiles, happy for the attention and happy for me to leave. And then she had a great time - it took us a long time to get bits of info from her - essentially all they do is play - but she had made a few new friends and is just loving it. Its her second week now and she is still happy to go - she even walks into the classroom from the playground with her teacher - I am so so proud. Next week they will attend for full days and it will be interesting to see how that goes!

Lucy got a bit jealous for the first few days - we spent the weekend making a real fuss of her too and she is back to normal. One of my worries about Amelia starting school would be that they would not play together as much .. but I need not have worried -they still play together all the time ..

Holiday!

We had our caravan holiday to Mersey - it was utterly briiliant! Girls had a great time, sleeping in the caravan with Mummy and Daddy.

We spent time around Mersey, in the swimming pool, at the beach finding crabs and oysters, and chilling out in the caravan...the girls made friends with the children next door and had a great time. On the third day, Amelia took a dive off some monkey bars and really hurt her face. It was just horrible, her mouth was swollen up like a monkey. She was so brave, but did ask to go to hospital!!

On the last night we went up to 'the disco' and there was a little kareoke night.. Lucy was straight off on the dance floor...on the stage!! Amelia had to dance with duncan or I though! They wanted to sing some kareoke, but they were full length songs. So we asked the DJ if they could just have a little turn on the mic - they turned off all the music and Ameli sang Twinkle little Star and Lucy belted out Frere Jacqe - Horrid Henry Style ... WHere are you? Bedtime is for babies... Get up now!! and they had the biggest cheer of the night!! Very Very Proud x