that time of year when you spend lots of your free time running up and down a school field cheering your kids on in a variety of weird activities. Really there was carrying a plate of jelly with a ball between your legs???…what happened to the good old sprint races and jumping in a sac, three legged? All retired no doubt for fear of children actually getting a bump or a bruise or the school being sued…..so anyway back to the jelly…..

no…really there was jelly…

although not there….Maisie's first time go at sports day….

 what i love so much about this shot is that Isaac was sitting at the end of race and in his own world …playing air guitar to Katrina and the Waves..walking on sunshine….and he just caught sight of me…..

🙂

and yep there was a jelly race….as you can see from Isaac's teacher's expression here…

ummm…nice 🙂

for the last two weeks of term anyhow…changing Poppy's time at pre school has resulted in her and I having some 'quality time'…..allegedly…..at times it has worked like a treat and at others she has moaned her arm off and driven me round the twist…….

 I am always amazed how different the kids are, even though they all started from the same place if you see what i mean. Poppy is just past four and a half now and we find ourselves having to adjust to the changing tides of her character and develop different strategies and methods to cope with the very individual person she is…not that im saying she is any harder or exceptional to the others. just that she presents challenges and obstacles that we havent maybe faced before….which is always a learning process…for all concerned. 

In a way i guess you can get a bit blase when you have a couple of kids and assume that they are going to throw nothing new at you….

*insert hysterical laughter here*

yeah..sometimes the auto.jpglot setting just doesn't work….

they are never that far behind….

but then of course you might not always want them 'right behind you'……

One hot hot day a few weeks back the girls convinced me to take a slow walk home through the local university… It has a little fountain. The kids love it… 

And on a hot day it is a refreshing sight! …… 

That was until a guy came over and said …
'you can't do that… There's chemicals in there…and they might get hurt. 

I said…'really? Harmful chemicals in a public fountain?' 

He just looked at me blankly and said 'my boss doesn't want the kids putting their feet in the water…' I said okay and the kids and i carried on home.

It got me thinking has the world of health and safety gone mad….. Or maybe someone just doesn't want to see little kids being little kids…… *sigh*

so yes i am still alive…..i know its been a while since i posted, i checked, over two weeks. Wish i could say i have been waaaaaay to busy to post because of an incredible whirlwind of social engagements and partying the night away….