Wow moments and happy children

Well since my last post I have had a couple of great moments with the kids. Now all my time with them is fantastic but these are particularly notable. 

My eldest daughter now 6 before bed the other night said she would like to read us a story and she did , she also read very well and this is the girl that when she came out of school declared she hated reading. But time patience and not pushing it have paid off and she is now reading for pleasure yay. 

My younger daughter now 4, has also decided she wants to learn to read and comes and asks all sorts of questions about letters and words and goes through words with me trying to see how many she can read! Exciting times

I have also finally sorted the kids a desk for the computer they were given so now they have free access to the computer (minus the internet) and lots of lovely games I was given to play on it with so I foresee many hours of quiet in our house as they try and work out the games!

Grandma visits....

Well we have been very busy since my last post both of my girls birthdays are in February so on Saturday we had a joint birthday party with a lovely castle cake and some themed piñatas which we made ourselves

Other things we have been up to over the last couple of weeks include a visit to RSPB old moor where we followed a nature trail and played in the park 

Paid a visit to Weston park museum

I started teaching my eldest daughter to play chess 

Went to friends birthday party and constructed a mini fort

And decorated biscuits 

And to finish it off now grandma is here we went to Clifton park museum today :-) 

We really never do stop and are always very busy :-)