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Noemie Turns 5, Easter Break and the Plague

N turned 5 this past week yet I swear it feels like I was just uploading the photo of her turning 4 a few months ago. No party yet as it's the first weekend when the kids go back after Easter break. Nana flew in on her birthday though so there was great excitement all around. 

N has been on break for the past nearly 3 weeks. She spent the first few days in bed with a high temperature which made her do nothing but sleep. Then when she was just about over it, C came down with it for a few days and had a bad cough to go with it. Before he was even over it, I came down with it. And had it really bad. Near 40 degree temps for 3 days, medicine didn't really do much for me and I slept so much it was unreal. I can't remember the last time I was so sick and I hope it's not again for a very long time.

I think we're all just about better now though C and I have a residual cough. N had 4 days of swimming lessons this past week and managed to swim 20m on her own in back stroke. She's getting so much better at it so I'm glad we stuck with the lessons. 

Other than that we've done a lot of lazing about. I've cast on a few more projects, 4 socks at the same time to be precise. I had a lot of gorgeous yarns arrive with Nana and I can't seem to stop casting on everything. 

N goes back to school this week as does C. Have a few final touches to do for N's birthday party and then a cake to bake and perhaps some cookies. Got most of the other stuff done weeks ago so I wouldn't have to stress about it all at the last minute. It should be fun with about 28 kids I think. Glad we rent halls and stuff here as there is no way I'd have that many kids in my house! 

April Fools Day

It has to be for me to be blogging! I figured it was time once again, before my Dad (hi Dad!) starts nagging at me. 

Kirk got this cute photo of C while he was eating dinner tonight. His hair is getting long and he is such a goofball. He has to be THE happiest kid ever though, not to mention a non stop chatterbox. He's always on the go, always smiling, chats a mile a minute and is just always so upbeat. He's great fun to be around and has been my little fella that does everything with me. Lately we've been playing hours of Lego StarWars on the Xbox. Being bad parents, he played for probably 10 hours today. N was under the weather and slept most of the day so we all had a chilled day. Just so you know we're not all bad, when I came downstairs this morning C was sitting on the kitchen floor reading his phonics book and sound out letters. On his own. No joke. He tells me letters that he recognizes while we're out and about. And numbers.. oh boy, the numbers! He reads just about every single number he sees, on doors, license plates, anything. Either he's a genius or a freak. 

The kids have been having lots of sleepovers in each others rooms. Mainly in C's as his bed has sides so no one falls out of bed. C has a hard time getting up on N's bed as it's a trundle bed and then the other night he fell out before they even fell asleep. Some nights they fall asleep quickly, other nights it's really late and we sometimes have to send N back to her room so they both go to sleep. It's great they are so close though and love being with each other. Now we know why we had two kids: built in play friends!

N is having her break in between terms. Three whole weeks! C only gets 3 days but we'll give him more as it's only nursery and not like he's going to miss much by not going. The kids are both booked into craft club at N's school which they are both really excited about. Then N has some swimming the week after not to mention the excitement of her upcoming 5th birthday. 

I've been busy as usual with my knitting, yarn purchasing (was very naughty this month so am back to being good again for a while) and then with meeting up with friends, planning playdates for the kids and general house stuff. Started training again at the gym after taking a few months off and deciding I feel far better when I do train. Hopeful also to have my clothes fit better again!