Sick, Party and another Sunny Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The boys decided the computer was more fun than playing with girls!!!!!!

Lucy blowing out her 10 birthday candles!!!!

The girls ~ enjoying the party!!!!

As I have said many times before, I love my job and I truly love working with children.......however, there are days like today when it has it's down sides too!!!
The little boy that I care for decided to be sick all over the pushchair (and himself), all over the car seat (and the car.....and himself!!!), all over my livingroom carpet ( and me.......and himself!!!) and then all the way to the bathroom (and on me and on Laurens socks lol!!!!). Bless him, he is only 2 and has obviously caught one of the horrible little bugs that are going around at the moment!!!! I spent 2 hours after his mummy came and collected him, cleaning the car, the buggy and my house (all are now completely sick free zones!!!). You see ~ I told you it has down sides aswell!! (sick being one of them!!!).

Once I had jumped in the shower and lauren changed he sicky socks ~ we headed round to Janes house as it was her daughters 10th birthday and she was having a small party. We had lots of fun and the kids enjoyed playing out in the garden and eating cake and icecream and sweets (goodness ~ I hope they aren't sick too!!!!!).

Then we went for a walk in the evening sun and it was just perfect, not too hot and with a lovely breeze. The forecasters got it wrong today (thankfully!!!), but there is a definite hint of rain in the air tonight!!!!

RAIN!!!!

I just clicked on the weather page on the computer, to see what temperatures we can expect tomorrow ~ after another glorious sunny hot day, and here is what it said ~

"Mays record breaking temperatures will be a fading memory by the weekend ~ forecasters are predicting. Britain is heading for cooler, wetter weather, with more cloud and rain by Friday"

I am sobbing as I write this (well, almost!!!!). I suppose I had better put away the suncream and the shorts and get out the rain coats and the umbrellas. Here comes the rain ~ let the true British summer begin!!!

Little Danny Boy!!

At last I have got round to scanning the photos of my Danny when he was a little teeny weeny boy!! He was such a cute little lad (still is!!). He has been asking me when I was going to put the photos of him on the blog, so he will have a suprise in the morning when I show him!! Unfortunately the baby photos of when he was really small are all in photo albums, and I can't get them in the scanner (ha ha).....will try and find some that are not stuck in!!!

Lazy, Lazy, Lazy!!

I have been a very lazy 'blogging' person and haven't posted the photos of Dan when he was a baby or all the other exciting (well I think so.....), things that I wanted to write about.......Instead I have been sitting in the sun reading my book and being a right lazy woman!!!!

The weekend has been wonderful, wall to wall sunshine (I am starting to think that I keep waking up in the wrong country ~ this cannot be England in May!!! ~ ). Lauren is practising for a show at her tap and ballet classes, and it will be put on for paying customers (by the dance school), at the end of July. She is very excited and goes through the dances at every possible available moment (including yesterday in the supermarket!!!). Saturday afternoon we spent wandering around a shopping outlet village ~ and the children got to spend their hard earned pocket money (Lauren on a HSM wig!!?? and Dan on a water pistol!!).

Yesterday we went for yet another walk in the woods, so that Jane and I could do a bit more for our fitness regime. We walked the same route as last weekend, which is about 4 miles, only this weekend it was alot hotter and by the end we were almost falling over with exhaustion!!!
Luckily as we came to the end of the walk we spotted the ice cream van and that made us walk faster!!

We then went for a BBQ at Janes and the children had a water fight in the garden (somehow I managed to get wet too!!). Unfortunately we were having so much fun that we completely forgot about the sausages and they ended up very black!!!

All in all another great weekend! Back to the routine of the school runs this morning and my childminding children arrive at 10.30am today, so I have about half an hour of peace before the madness starts (I love it really!!!).

High School Musical

WOW!!!!!!! What a great night!!! I am now a true High School Musical fan (ha ha ~ never thought I would say that!!).
We saw the stage show of high school musical that is touring the country at the moment and it was absolutely fantastic ~ I loved every minute (but not as much as Lauren loved it!!).
I have seen bits and pieces of the 2 films, while lauren has been watching them for the 300000th time!! but have never really watched it all the way through ~ so last night was a nice suprise (I actually really really loved it!! ~ yes I am 37 but that makes no difference ~ ha ha!!).

The cast were fantastic and although I think that Zac Effron is a real cutie (Yes, I am old enough to be his mother ~ probably!!), the chap that played Troy was actually really good ~ although Lauren is still firmly a lover of zac and has a T Shirt that says so!!!!

We were not allowed to take any photos in the theatre, so I don't have any of the actual show, just a few of the children just before we were leaving.

Next we have a 'Ladies' night out planned ~ to see a show, have a meal and maybe a glass of wine or ten oops sorry I meant two!!! We haven't decided when or what we will see ~ but I am looking forward to it anyway!!!