Foreign invasion

D-Day is almost here - my brother and his wife arrive for a visit tomorrow! Hoorah! I've actually never met Christine in person, for one reason and another, but we've talked of course - god bless email - but still, I'm really excited to meet face to face. And I haven't seen Steve in ages, so it will be nice to see him as well. She's been here before ("here" as in England, I mean) as her dad is English so she has relatives here and stuff. Steve's never been, though, so I'm sure it will be fun for him to have his first taste of Europe. Tonight's task is to clear off some space on surfaces in the girls' room/guest room so they have places to put their stuff. The girls are being temporarily moved to Alex's room, which they think is cool. They are arguing over who gets to sleep on the floor and who has to sleep in the top bunk (Alex sleeps in the bottom bunk). There's the different between kids and grownups right there - grownups would consider getting the floor to be losing the toss! (Our solution is to have them alternate - but then of course, they argue over who gets the floor first... If there was more floor space they could both sleep there, but, well, that's the way these things go.)

And that's that.

And Olivia's - she's big on writing at the moment. Partly because Sarah & Thalia spend a lot of time making lists of things (usually important, secret things, being 7 and 8...) and partly because it's something they are working on in school.

The houses in Bobville

Sarah's turn for glory here - this shows her picture and the original she copied it from. She's very fond of copying things - and quite good at it, too.

Cutting edge

Alex's "artwork" from nursery - he was practicing cutting with scissors. He's only 2, so it's not really that showy. But he had a great time with it...

where the time goes

Haven't posted in ages, I know. This is partly the usual, and partly that Olivia's asthma has been acting up a lot and we've had 4 doctor's appts and two trips to casualty in the past two weeks, so I'm feeling a bit inundated with that stuff at the moment. Poor chick. She hasn't had any proper asthma attacks, thank goodness, but her breathing is really tight and hasn't been responding well to the usual treatment. Hence the repeat visits. Of course, it never stops her bouncing around all over the place :)

Anyway, will try to do better in future - I've got some photos of a fox in our garden and the kids' artwork to upload over the next couple of days, so at least there will be something there to look at!

Today we're off to a fair at Morden Hall Park - crafts and entertainments. The weather is supposed to be very nice, so hopefully that will prove to be true.