Auntie Joyce

Everyone loves Auntie Joyce, as do I, but unfortunately I keep letting her down - poor Auntie Joyce gets herself down to the local library every week to log in to the computers and surf the internet and one of her favourite things, I believe, is to check the blog. Imagine her disappointment when she sees that I haven't managed to get round to updating the blog. So, sorry to everyone for my tardiness but special apologies to Auntie joyce - noone goes through more to read the blog than she does.

So Auntie Joyce - hope you enjoy this weeks photos and words........

A whirlwhind start to the year sees the month draw to a close with a number of snowy days (as I write, the temperature is once again falling but no snow to speak of). The most frustrating thing about snowy days being a teacher is that you actually have to try and get to school if your school is open - it kind of spoils the magic of the snow when you have to spend two hours with your wheels spinning on the snow before you can actually get to work.

There are up sides of course to the snow and these are of course sledging and snowman building. Sledging looks great I have to say but the photos don't tell the full story to be fair - 20 minutes of protests to leave the house and then 10 minutes into sledging everyone is cold and wants to go home.

 Sophie and her next door neighbours built a contender for the tallest snowman in Scotland - Sophie loved hanging out with the girls.

 Meanwhile Saturday's at the moment are Daddy and Lauchlan days - Sophie and Mummy get to go to swimming and dancing but Lauchlan and Daddy went to the science centre - it was a great day out.

Sophie and Lauchlan are good friends - they annoy each other as most siblings do sometimes but they love to cuddle each other and are playing with each other more and more.

 We went to a really popular soft play in Glasgow recently and as you may expect the food isn't exactly the healthiest - the kids loved the hotdogs though. and yes, Lauchlan ate all of his - he has also tonight polished off a sunday roast.

Sophie has been gettig more and more into her drawing - this week she drew an aeroplane - I drew the rubbish wee car at the bottom.

 

And with a bit of assistance for the last two letters she was able to write her own name which was amazing.

 

Sophie and Lauchlan also loved to see their cousin Arthur this week - the wee fella has grown amazingly fast  - and he loved seeing his big cousins.

Sophie and Lauchlan had their friends Lucy and Matty round this week and they all had fun making "top-hats" from marshmallows, chocolate and smarties. they had even more fun eating them.

We saw Arthur again at Gran and Grandad's on Saturday (where I saw Auntie Joyce among other family members!) Here is Arthur with Auntie Karen.

Sophie's room has turned into a bit of a party room after bathtime these days - star lights on, bouncing on the bed and singing at the top of their voices. Good times.

before Christmas Sophie wasn't really enjoying her nursery - we were a bit worried about this and scoped out some other nurseries - as it happens we have gotten her into a nursery that she might enjoy twenty times as much and she will be making some new friends who may end up going to primary school with her. only problem now is going to be coordinating two different nurseries for a while!

In other news we have booked a holiday to a eurocamp in France - we haven't had a proper holiday for sometime - the kids will absolutely love it and so we will we. That post will be a belter Auntie Joyce!!!!!!