OMG!

Only another seven hours and i'll be leaving to pick Pete up from the airport. The house is upside down, i'm knacked and i've got so much to do in the few days that he's home that it isn't even worth thinking about. It's Natashas birthday tomorrow so i have to get some niblets in for a little family get together tomorrow night, I have to go and pick up her cake, i have four full bin liners of clothes to sort through and my bedroom looks worse than Freya's (and believe me that takes some doing!).


The girls were having their nursery photos done today.....or at least Emily was, i was just taking Natasha in so they could be done together. Cute little dresses (VERY unusual for my kids, it's lucky if they've got any clothes on at all half the time) hair all brushed, faces clean and i even put a bib on Natasha till we got there as give that girl 2 minutes by herself and she'll be black. Well when we got to nursery for some reason Natasha went mental. I've never seen a tantrum like it and i don't even know where it came from! Needless to say, i left Emily to say 'Twinkling Star (?)' to the photographer by herself whilst i slipped out with a screaming Natasha under my arm rugby ball stylie! Not pleasant!


Thing is we got home and she was fine, so i have no idea what the fuss was about. Emily has been prancing around in her dress all morning......maybe she is a girlie girl after all and it's just me trying to drum it out of her....if she tells me she wants a barbie and a skateboard, i'm more inclined to go for the skateboard every time! Wonder why that is?



So anyway, i have to share these pics with you. I am so loving these gorgeous puppets. I ordered them from Helen who not only sells the crotchet patterns but can also make them up for people who are useless like me at anything to do with needles, thread or wool!


It's such a shame that people don't think so much as puppets for toys anymore as i've seen the girls enjoy these sooooo much this afternoon.


Emily is an absolute animal nut and adores going to the zoo or aquarium. Last year we went to Knowsley Safari Park (excuse my geography but it's somewhere near Liverpool or St Helens?). She was so excited to see the Giraffes, especially as when we'd gone to Paignton zoo a few weeks earlier we hadn't heard of the fire that had killed the Giraffes there and when we got there and found out i couldn't tell Emily as they're one of her favourites (along with the Rhinos!).


So anyway, i digress. When the pair of them saw these puppets after nursery they squealed with delight (literally). Emily has already named the sheep 'Shaun', the pig 'Peppa' and the Giraffe is called something.....i don't know what because i can't understand what the hell she's saying!






It's so funny to watch Natasha putting the sheep on her hand and then cuddling it!. So i got these cute pics this afternoon, do you notice the matching split lips? NOthing to do with me i swear to social services! They both did them on Sunday. Firstly Natasha tried to open a plastic pen case with her mouth and scrapped all her bottom lip and there was blood everywhere. It still hasn't healed very well which i think is because it is fully on her lip.

Later then in the evening, Emily came running downstairs with a split lip after running into the bed post! Again blood everywhere.......and that's WITH her glasses on, can you imagine her without!

So we have a packed few days ahead, tomorrow is lots of shopping and the party, Saturday is Crealy, then Freya has a friends birthday sleepover, then she's going bowling with my mum on sunday, both pete and my teams are playing football on sunday, then pete has to work monday and tuesday before flying back on Tuesday afternoon. And in that time i have to squeeze in catching up another two weeks of OU gumf and taking a load of photos for the course. Wish me luck, i may not be around much this weekend!


One last photo of the birthday girl!