Well, despite my best intentions last autumn, when I hoped I wouldn't neglect this blog for so long, I've now gone nearly a few months without an update. I guess we've had a quiet couple of months at home doing nothing out of the ordinary. However, even when doing "nothing much", I still manage to take quite a few photos of daily life, ;-) and then when I think of my blog and where I left off with last time, I'm not sure where to start. So here's a random bunch of photos from the past couple of months - as usual for me! :-) I've also squeezed in a bit of time for sewing and crochet here and there recently, so I guess I've been doing that at times when I might have thought about blogging - another excuse for my silence.
But today I'm not doing much this afternoon - just cuddling little ones, as the children (minus Abigail so far) have a really nasty cold with barking cough - sounds painful and with 4 of them barking, it's awful noisy at times! Anyway, we still managed lessons this morning (at least it gave them something to do!) but a fairly quiet afternoon (kids having turns on the computer), so I thought I'd use the time to sit down and upate this blog.
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| Peter and the biggest 4, on New Year's day. It was very cold, but beautiful & sunny, so we took a walk nearby. |
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| Me and smallest 2 boys, also on New Year's Day (more photos further down this post from our walk that day). |
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| This was too cute not to capture - Elijah looked like he was trying to tidy himself away with the toys! :-D |
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| How I often find the smallest two when the house suddenly goes quiet! Yes, there ARE occasions when I find Elijah splashing in the toilet or creating a work of art on one of the walls! :-p But thankfully I think it's safe to say that about 80% of the time when it goes quiet and I think "Oh no, what are they doing?!" I find that Deborah has invited Elijah to "read" books with her. |
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| Elijah & Benjamin at the park last week, after one of our homeschool meet-ups. They're wearing hats that I crocheted recently. ;-) |
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| My lovely 3 year old Deborah who was asking for a job to do - she unloaded the whole dishwasher by herself and was *very* pleased with herself. :-D |
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| Elijah giving a dolly a ride on his bike. |
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| Elijah with another hat I made - he decided to call it a "turtle hat" - good thinking, as it looks rather turtle like! lol |
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| Elijah and his brick tower. I was quite impressed with his thinking, and how he built it on the stairs so he could go up a level to make it taller than he'd be able to reach if it was on the floor. |
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| Norman ships they made to go along with their history lesson about the Normans. |
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| Waffle bricks are something else Elijah *loves*. They were a great buy when I found them in a charity shop for £5 last year! But I didn't realise JUST how much the kids would actually use them - all the time! |
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| The sunny weather we had on New Year's Day. |
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| Walking in the sunshine |
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| Deborah, Clement, and Abigail |
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| Elijah |
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| It IS beautiful up here! :-) |
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| Clement throwing stones |
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| Everyone joining in. |
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| Elijah had the best place on the walk - snuggled next to mama! He DID ask to get down and walk quite a few times, but we walked a LONG way (and even the 3yo and 4.5yo were complaining of how long it was) and towards the end, Elijah had a lovely sleep. |
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| At the end of December I took the kids out for a walk to town and to the park. Again, on a day when we could enjoy the sunshine, even if it was rather low in the sky and a bit hidden at times. |
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| Deborah, Abigail & Benjamin |
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| My biggest 3 - growing up so fast! :-) |
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| My "baby" who is very much not a baby! Abigail tells me that once he turns 2 (in June) then I really can't call him baby anymore! :-P He's very cuddly, but also very grown up - he talks ALL day long and there's nothing he *can't* say. He's even mastered more complicated words like elephant and is always talking in sentences, and about everything around him. |
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| All five of them |
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| Watching the ducks |
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| Not much point in trying to take a photo of them with the sun in their face! Oops! |
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| One happy Benjamin to have the sun behind him now! ;-) |
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| I give up - a photo of them all looking nicely at me is rarely possible! |
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So, one blog update complete and now there's dinner to cook! Though I think the memory card in my camera is full of photos not included here, but I've posted enough already for one post! :-P I'll make no promises of when I'll blog again, but as always, I'll *try* to not take too long!
