Sick Children and Mud

The girls have been ill for a week. Last Monday Lucy developed tonsilitis, missed play school and was unwell for a few days. Then Amelia finished school early with an upset tummy and over the next few days developed a virus of high temps, sickness, tummy cramps and a rash. The last few days, she was fine, and only had symptoms of an evening. Just waiting for all evidence of it to disappear and then she can go back to school.
They have been enjoying the days off together though - but were going a bit stir crazy today. As it was the first day in over 2 weeks that it wasnt raining - we went out the back of the estate to find mud, puddles and some ponies. Well - we found them all. Enough mud to cover them, puddles deeper than Lucy's wellies and a field of ponies, with one that even came to say hello. They were (stupidly) wearing new dresses I had made them and I could see them getting them stained and ruined so made them tuck them in their knickers!!

 We also picked approx 50 dandelions for Fluffy and Strawberry and I have promised we can go back at the weekend in old clothes and get covered in mud - hope it doesnt all dry out!

Tonsilitus

Well its typical - Dunca goes away for two nights - so something happens! Lucy is ill. She was poorly Monday .. it was meant to have been her first playschool day - but by 11.30 she was asleep on the settee ... she was very hot and bothered when she woke up and so at bedtime we gave her some medicine - which prompted her to puke lasagne up all over our bed! The poor little thing was awake all through the night, feeling hot and ill and needing drinks. Poor Duncan and I couldnt sleep under our stinky sick duvet so i had lucys spare one over me and Duncan had to make do with a few fleece blankets!
Yesterday she perked up after some medicine but was soon ridiculously hot, red and rashy - she kept falling asleep and was completely lethargic so I ran her up the doctors to have tonsilitus diagnosed! Its viral so all we can do is keep her medicated to keep her temp down and keep an eye on her tonsils to make sure they dont get worse. She is a lot better today, thank goodness, and i hope the tonsils will go down soon.

Aside from that, Amelia brilliantly asked Dad why his trousers are pulled up so high!! love it! And just before Easter she was in Golden Book at school, for enthusiast writing about her senses. So very very proud.

Cheek Slapping

They love to slap Duncans cheeks to make a rude noise - but i think they mostly like it as they get to hit him as hard as they can! Little savages!

Update

Its been ages since I have posted! Lucy had a wonderful birthday - had a great time at her party and got spoilt rotten! She has had two trials at playschool, which i stayed at, and she really enjoyed it - now i just have to get my head around the fact that she will be going soon :( Its gonna be hard .. but at least I am confident she will really enjoy it.
Amelia is still going from strength to strength at school - her reading is just amazing and her writing is really coming along too. I cant believe there is only one more term left of this school year!

QUOTES OF THE PAST FEW MONTHS!
Just a few that I can remember

LUCY: 'It was Amelia - Look at the face on it!'
             'Strawberry needs a right old haircut'
             'A big salami - you know, a massive wave that washes everything away!'

AMELIA: 'Lucy, you look so stylish, with such flair!'
                 

Amelia's reading

I should have written about this earlier. When Amelia started school in September she could just about recognise the letters A m e l i a as she knew her name. She has since learnt the alphabet and ridiculously quickly learned to blend the sounds together. by Christmas she could read anything that sounded as it could be read phonetically, i.e hat, dad, car.
Now though she is learning to blend and recognize sounds together, like 'th', 'ch', 'st' etc. She can recognize several words and does not need to sound them out and tonight worked out the words 'morning' and 'market,.
I am so so proud. However, she likes to read wearing as little as possible, writhing all over the place with ants in her pants. She also likes to get her face incredibly close to the page, although she does not appear to have any eyesight problems, and starts every line with ... 'So....'

She clearly is not going to struggle in the reading department, I knwo she is bright but I did not think it would be this quick!!!

Christmas

Christmas was wonderful this year. The run up seemed so much shorter than usual, with Amelia being at school. The run up felt like one week only. Before Christmas we had a few parties with the girls friends, which was lovely as Amelia does not get to see her chums much out of school anymore. The day before Christmas Eve mum and dad took the girls to the panto to see Aladdin. Amelia LOVED it ... but Lucy. .... apparantly the first thing on stage was the scary baddy and Lucy immeadiately didnt like it and dad had to take her out of the theatre .. he pretty much spent the rest of the 2.5 hour show playing outside with her!!! What a terror - she says she had fun though!!

On Christmas eve Liz & Geoff took them to buy their Christmas presents, two guinea pigs - they ahd already bought the hutch and accessories which is in the back of the garage - so they came over and completely surprised the girls asking if they want to go pick a guinea pig each! They were over the moon, especially Amelia and went to the pet shop and came home with two girl piggies, both with mad curly hair! Lucy named hers Strawberry and Amelia named hers Fluffy - we cannot believe one is not named Rosie as they seem to have an obsession woth that name! THey are very cute, but very shy and need to be handled often to get used to us - which is not a problem .. especially for Amelia who would cuddle them all day!

After that we went to the cinema and saw Chipmunks; Chipwrecked! Both girls LOVED the film, which wasnt too loud and we had a great time. Then it was home for dinner and to put out Father Christmas mince pie, whisky and carrots for the reindeer and watching their video messages from the north pole itself! They watched them open mouthed and Lucy freely admitted she had not been the goodest girl - but they seemed pretty confident they were getting presents anyway!!

Christmas day was lovely, the girls opened their stockings and then their presents from Father Christmas. There wasnt actually time to give them all the gifts from us .. they finished their presents from us on Boxing Day! Both sets of Nannys and Grandads popped over with gifts and the girls were spoilt rotten! Christmas dinner was lovely and we had an all around great time!

Lucy streetdancer

Well Amelia isnt the only street dancer in the family - Lucy is pretty good too - and she got so hot she had to strip down to her vest ... very street! She loves being videoed and always asks to see it before its finished!!!