spring is here

Or at least it has been for the odd day, its lovely to see everything coming into to bloom, including my two sister in laws who are both pregnant, they both have 4 year old boys six weeks apart & again are expecting 6 weeks apart, although things this time are a little different... not so nice I guess, Zara who is due in September has been trying for two years to get pregnant & ending up having a op & the drug clomid to help her, they have had to pay for this (not sure how much) but Im sure it cant have been nice. Francesca due in October, this will be her 5th pregnancy sadly so far she only has one living child to show for all these pregnancies, she had two miscarraiges after having James & then went on to have Sara a healthy term baby sadly at 8 weeks old she got meningits it took just four hours for her to pass away, at 5am she woke with a rash by the time she got to hospital in the ambulance she was covered & by 9am she had passed away. so so heartbreaking. Keeley was born 2 days after James but she wasnt supposed to be born untill 10 weeks after that.

We went over to Ireland to see Gavins family this weekend, the children loved flying they were so excited espically Murphy who, normally a quiet child was shouting at the top of his voice everytime he saw an airplane take off, we thought this was very cute but Im sure others in the airport were not so keen but you know I didn't care my little boy was enjoying himself :) x

Spelling/Grammar

Note to one's self - check it!!!!

Peppa pig peppa pig.... we went to Buxton Opera house yesterday to see the show, a big hit as far as Keeley was concerned, she loved it & sat for the hour & 20mins taking it all in, hard work for a deaf child, Murphy did great until the last 10 minutes when he got a little bored but I was still pleased with them both, after we were forced to spend £4.50 on a peppa pig balloon which has not even been looked at since but never mind. It was a beatiful day in Buxton we walked round the park afterwards & Keeley had a go on the giant bouncey slide, the lady wasnt keen on letting her on as she was so small (4 was the age limit) I assured her she would be fine & she was. I also got chatting to another lady who's daughter came over & proudly annoucnced her name was Keeley & she was four!!! she also had red hair, funny how we got talking. We saw Murphys double as well this child looked so much like him, but we did laugh when we saw it was a little girl? maybe Murph does need a haircut?

funny faces..

Keeley has her new hearing aids!! We tried them for the first time at the weekend with a thomas bubble gun as a bribe, they lasted 10 minutes... Now I knew school would have slightly more luck than us at getting her to keep them it, but she only tried to take them out once & kept them in for a full 6 hours, Im slightly put out to be honest, my little bungle of joy will not do anything for me or her daddy she basically has us wrapped round her little finger, we only have ourselves to blame I guess. well we will keep trying.

She had her swimming lesson this evening & she was fantastic, not so much shouting or trying to climb out & she even got her tadpoles one badge which she was sooo proud of & so was I, it is currently displayed on her drawers for all to see & admire, in two weeks she starts her private swimming lessons which will hopefully help her a little more.

Murphy has pretty much been ill with one thing or another since New year, I took him to get weighed last week & he has lost 2lb, rather a lot when you only weigh 22lbs, he has been off his food for weeks, I really try not to stress about it, but its hard, keeley was so bad at eating that at his age she weighed 13lb a good 10lb less than she should, her eating only 'kicked' in when she was about 3.5, I dont want to spend the next two years worring about Murphy I really dont, but Im at a loss as what to do, he was born on the bottom centile (5lb 10oz) & was nearly up to the 9th centile now he is dropping back down, so please Murphy eat for mummy...

Mad March

as it commonly known as due to amount of birthdays!! we have birthday parties every weekend, tomorrow is a joint one, Freddies & Imogen who are both 'big' four, I can remember seeing Elsa (Freddies mum) in labour, we we in neonatal late one night & she was waiting in labour ward waiting room having contractions but still managed to hug me & ask how things were, one of my nicer memories of that time!! I dont really know Imogen mums that well but we exchange pleasantries if we see each other at school.

I help run a toddler group on a Monday morning, I have always enjoyed this group & have some excellent friends there, we all tend to muck in by putting away toys making toast etc but lately a lot of new people have started, sadly they are not willing to help out, a few of them have gone on the rota but more often than not they dont bother to turn up till everything is done. I dont mind doing my share but I wont molly coddel these people they leave their washing up, talk over of singing at the end & as we are trying to leave they stand around talking & we have to push them out, bearing in mind most of us 'oldies' have children to collect or take to pre-school & older toddlers who are crying for their naps. We dont run this group it isnt ours its the NCT but they act like spolit teenagers if they are asked to do anything. I went round asking who wanted to come on the easter egg hunt next week, you would have thought I was asking them to do something terrible by the looks on their faces, I always thought easter egg hunts were supposed to be fun? Moan over for now!!

Wow its been a busy weekend, but great fun, Thursday I was 35 years old!!! how did happen?? last time I looked I was 30 I really dont know where the last five years have gone. I got my birthday presents from my parents on Wednesday & put them on the table out of way, the next time I walked into the room Keeley had kindly opened them all for me :( I dont get many presents nowadays & I had even less to open this year!! still it made me laugh. Its Mothers day today so more presents again (its been a busy weekend) Keeley helped me open them this time & insisted I share my chocolates with her (so sweet). Back to normality tomorrow Im running toddlers (fun) I never get much time to chat to friends or play with Murphy when Im on the rota.