Eilidh's Birthday Party Photo's

The balls at Timetwisters. They got 30 minutes in there.




























Blowing out the candles

Star Chart

With Murray now needing to wear a patch, Elaine made him a star chart. Looks much better in real life, but he helped to decorate and it's lovely and bright. 2 Stickers already too. WHOOOOOOOO

The Second Cake

This is the cake for the actual day. The first cake went down very well at the childminder's house and all children (and adults) were satsified. Hope the same happens with this cake.

The First Cake

Mummy's made the first of Eilidh's birthday cakes. This cake is for Elaine's house. Doesn't it look scrummy? Eilidh and Murray will find out tomorrow at Elaine's house.

Murray's Eye Appointment

We've been to the hospital. I thought it would be a straight forward simple appointment but it's starting to look like his left eye is quite weak so we're onto patches. He's not very happy about it but it has to be done. We're going back in 8 weeks time too.

Cake

Do you think Mummy will be able to make this cake? We'll have to wait and see.

Blessed

I feel truly blessed to have 2 such wonderful children.

Update

I've just realised this hasn't been updated for a while.

We're all back to normal here. Elidh back to school. Murray back to nursery.

We have some really good news on Murray. He was measured on the 9th of October. He's grown 4cm's since then which for us is fantastic news. He's still smaller than the majority of his friends but to have grown so much in a short space of time is just great news. Only another 5cm's means he'll manage a lot of the rides in Florida. Lets see how he gets on at his sight test later this month.

11 days to Eilidh's birthday. She's so excited. Nearly 7. Means she's getting grown up too.

24 weeks and 4 days until our holiday too. Kids are so excited. And Murray is getting excited that he knows he'll go to school after that. I think he's more excited at getting a school lunch!!!!

Lewis Bouncing

Lewis Bouncing

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More Winter Wonderland Pictures

Eilidh's blocking Lewis in this picture.










Lewis preparing for his bungee jump















The front of the train showing Lewis and Eilidh with Logan peeking through behind.

Thank You

We're being a bit slow with Thank You letters for all our Christmas Presents. We will get round to them in the next few days.

So here's the list

Auntie Petra, Uncle Graeme, Lewis and Logan - Mr Monk Monk the monkey, books, clothes
Auntie Linda, Uncle David and Family - Pj's and space hoppa
Granny and Grandad Barnes - money
Granny and Grandad Carlisle - Gift voucher and SPD Command Centre
Grandma Watson - Money
Uncle Bobby - Money
Caroline and Alex - Clothes and Book
Aidan - Make Up and Lego
Stevie - DVD's and sweeties
Christie, Callum and Cole - Fashion wheel and stationary, Football game, pirate ship and book
Rachael and Ben - Tamagotchi, Power Ranger Game
Elaine - PJ's
Eilidh and Fraser - Cinderella Game and Omega Power Ranger
Sarah and Andrew - Books

Eilidh Bouncing

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Happy New Year

Eilidh's Finger

Eilidh moved her finger on Christmas Day and urgh it was minging. After a trip to the doctors we discovered she had a wart. We got what i thought was cream but is more like a nail varnish. We soak the hand for 5 minutes in warm water (doesn't help when you get home at 11pm at night and we are all tired!) Then you paint on the ointment, leave it to dry and paint it on again. It then turned it blue which freaked her out big style. This morning it was white which wasn't so bad, but oh dear she is not happy.

Anyway, we had a chill out day today. Hopefully tomorrow we will do something fun ;-)

Christmas Day

Christmas is over. We received lots of lovely gifts. Eilidh got a nintendo ds. She's got a new dog called lucky on there. Murray got a vsmile pocket and has a lot to learn. His idea is that he palm's it off on someone else to win it. Gran C had a go with a few wines and was getting all confused. We spent the morning at Granny and Grandad Barnes's and Mummy and Daddy had Grandad's fantastic stovies.

Then we came home and watched High School Musical while Mummy and daddy did all the food preps.

Gran and Grandad Carlisle arrived and we had a lovely dinner with only one accident. Mummy burnt her hand on a baking tray which should have been cold.

It was a great day and thank you for all our lovely presents.

Murray's GP appointment

I took Murray back to the GP over his eczema on Friday. He is back on the steroid cream, the bath ointment and aqueous. It's sad that we're back to this but he appears to be on the mend after 3 days on the creams which is really good news in my opinion. He's happier about being creamed by doing silly little dances and hopping etc. Here's hoping that we get it under control and no more creams.

We got an Email from Santa

Greetings From the North Pole!

The elves and reindeer are running around like crazy, making sure everything is ready for Christmas Eve!All the running around is helping to keep them warm because we have had some very cold Arctic air come through here lately!

My elves, Chuckles and Buckley, are hard at work again this year. They are watching over all the toy production, list preparations and the reindeer exercise program! The reindeer are also busy eating their Magical Corn! Do you remember what makes the corn magical?

I am pleased to see that you are on the NICE list again this year and we are so proud of you! Don?t forget to stay on the NICE list by being kind with your family, friends and teachers.

Have you guessed the secret ingredient in the reindeer?s magical corn? It is LOVE! The reindeer enjoy their magical corn, but it is the love that keeps them going!

Stay happy and safe and don?t forget to share the magical love that comes from the heart!

Love, Santa Claus

Santa Cruise

We went on the Santa Cruise at Ratho today. We went with Auntie Caca, Uncle Chris and Christie, Callum and Cole. We had a lovely time and got some great pressies. A nice way to start the Christmas Weekend.





Caca and the boys with Santa
















The girls. Not very lady like!!!












The gorgeous Cole. He's such a sweetie.















The boys










Santa came to visit.

In the Wars

Last week Eilidh slipped while climbing (the story keeps changing everytime she tells it) and bruised her chin/cheek. Then last night at a party got tripped up and got carpet burns on her leg and arm. Then tonight when we were out she banged her face above the current bruise and has a new mark. Social Services will probably be round in the morning ;-)

Murray has been trying his hardest to get himself a bruise but I think the severe eczema on the backs of his legs are bad enough. Off to the GP tomorrow to see about getting back on the steroid cream.