4.5 more sleeps

I am getting excited now - it seems like we have been waiting for ages but the time is now getting really close. On Friday night Andy and I fly out to Los Angeles for 2weeks all by ourselves! The boys are a bit bummed that they aren't coming too, but they are very excited about having Nana come to stay and look after them. I think Nana is a little apprehensive and quite excited too.

We are taking a laptop with us so we can keep in touch with everyone and hopefully I will even get keen about updating my blog a bit more regularly. Lots to do, because we have left most things till the last minute because it all seemed too far away before. My mind is working overtime and that is why I am up again in the middle of the night.

Birthday Boy

 My baby is 10!! Where on earth did all those years go? I am sure I can remember not so very long ago tearing my hair out with 3 young boys hooning round our house! Happy Birthday Tommy and sorry I am a week late posting this pic of you at your party.

Summer is on the way

 
Wow, I really think summer might be starting to make its presence felt. We woke up to a glorious day on Saturday and decided to make the run up the Lakes with the new caravan. I was having a major worry session about how we were going to get the van off the section and on to the road and also how we would park it on our site. All that worry was needless as it turned out, everything worked like clockwork and we pulled it all off without a hitch. One of the highlights for me of the weekend was watching Andy and Alistair working together to get the van level on the site. It was so cool to see Ali down doing all the bits that Andy normally does and Andy standing back and watching. I loved seeing the pride that Andy felt watching this boy of ours growing up.

Mother Guilt

Oh man Nick is laying this on me really thick at the moment! Thursday at school he was playing soccer and fell over, a whole bunch of guys landed on top of him. He was whinging about a sore arm and I told him to get hard!

This morning he was racing with Tommy to try and get to Andy's scorched almonds first and fell over landing on his arm again. He put on a huge hollywood which we figured was to distract Tommy.

After discussion with DH we decided that maybe he might be a bit sore and we better take him to the doctor. Turns out he has a fracture to his arm just above the wrist. Ooops! The doctor was most surprised that a boy of 12 could break his arm by falling on it and suggested we really up his calcium intake. Suits me because if Nick had his way all he would eat would be bread!

He now has a back slab plaster and we go back in 10days for a full cast. Oh dear, I am sure I get the worst mother award for today now.

I asked him a little later in the day whether he had forgiven me yet, and he gave me a huge grin and said yes, but I bet I will hear about this many times in the years to come. I know I would definitely be repeating it, if my mother did that to me!

More digi stuff from me

 Yeah these are really quite fun to do. The first layout was done earlier this week and again a very easy page with just adding pics to it. Jessica really has made the whole learning process very simple with layouts pretty much completed and just teaching bits at a time.

This second layout I have just finished now at midnight! Starting to dabble in brushes now and the learning curve goes up a bit more, or maybe it is just too late at night and my brain is going to sleep. I know that I am definitely going to sleep now.