Grafitti

Amelia walks into our bedroom, full of indignation, 'Mummy, someone has written in crayon on the dressing up box, and it wasn't me!! Lucy is lying and says it wasn't her!!'
I walk into their room to see Lucy staring at me defiantly in complete denial. Amelia walks to the dressing up box and points to the grafitti. 'It says AMELIA mummy but i didn't write it, i can prove it'. Lucy is still looking all innocent so Amelia adds 'Its written BACKWARDS Mummy, i never write backwards, you know Lucy does!'
I look at Lucy, whose face is slowly going red. I should have told her off but it was so ridiculous to grafitti backwards..that we all burst into laughter. The little rat. She later confessed she had done it, but didn't write 'Amelia' to get her into trouble, she just wanted to write it!! Hmmmmmmm

Today was her 5th birthday, where have the years gone?? She has had a fabulous day and has been spoilt rotten, I asked them to sit on the settee so i could get a picture of all my beautiful children, and the cheeky wotsit answered, 'but what about George and Amelia??'

Amelia had a special 'gifted and able' lesson after school, problem solving. She loved it. So very proud of how hard she tries at school

The boy has been on fine form, he is loving Duplo at the moment, and is really good at building cars!! Though if it breaks, we have to 'fix it' for him. He is so cheeky and self aware, pulls faces to show off and gives kisses to get his own way. He is a nightmare in the kitchen though, tonight he carried half of lucys cake on its plate into the lounge. He takes random bites out of fruit and tries to sneakily eat it, he once nabbed a tin of sweetcorn from the fridge and sat silently on the settee eating it!! Monkey!!