It seems every year around this time of year I realize I haven't posted since before Christmas. But I made a few minutes to give you all a photo catch-up. I will try to write a brief caption for each photo and let you all know what we are up to!!! This is Katya and one of her good friends from Reception Aliha and her little sister, Aliza. Their family moved here from Pakistan last May and were excited to spend their first christian Christmas in England, so we invited them to our house for Christmas Eve celebrations!
Many of you will understand the significance of this picture. Finally the Spiderman suit was acquired. There was much happiness that Christmas morn!!! Nice that the kids slept in until 8:00 am. We couldn't believe it!
Katya on her snazzy purple bike! Thanks Father Christmas! She has ridden it about 3 times. The weather has been too cold and snowy/rainy. Can't wait for some better weather!
Katya loved it but Ollie was really not sure! He just doesn't like being cold so it never lasted longer than 5 minutes for him. While Katya would go for hours!
Mush Mush Daddy!
Not too impressed. We have some video footage of Katya's wild rides! She loved it!
We were lucky enough to have Uncle Tommy come and stay with us shortly after the New Year! We all went to Warwick castle. It was fun for everyone! Despite being bitterly cold.
Sometimes I might really enjoy some of these in my own backyard, but alas I think social services would have something to say about it!
Ollie loved crazy Uncle Tommy! He talked about him for days after he left and still asks when he will come again!
The old sword in the stone!
Ollie's birthday was fun, but difficult to photograph. I find 3 year olds impossible to get to stand still for more than 3 seconds. We have an old digital camera that you have to hold the button down for like 5 seconds before it takes the picture so you can imagine the difficulty! The cake was not one of my finest, but I had limited supplies!
I'm pretty sure he was singing Happy Birthday to himself!
Opening presents with cousins and friends, oh and Katya too!
This picture is the epitome of Oliver Ward. Martin call him a Coo-coo!!
This was on his actual birthday morning with his hand me down plastic, sort of broken castle, but he LOVES it. Can't wait to Grandma brings him his real birthday castle when she comes in June!At least now you all know that we haven't forgotten to photograph our children and will try to be better about posting! I can't imagine it will be easier when number 3 comes along!
