A visit

Today Hannah and i have been to Leamington Spa to visit Hannah's grandad (my dad) and grandma Heather. Grandad and grandma Heather have recently moved to the town, and live in part of my step sisters property, so Hannah was able to see her cousins as well. The last time they saw each other they were 2 and 7  years old (they are 5 and 10 now) so they had a lot of catching up to do.

Hannah had a fantastic time with the twins, we all went into the shopping centre to visit Hawkins Bazaar and then went to see the huge Christmas tree which they loved. They posed for lots of pictures there before going back to the house for more playing. The twins' older sister had finished her homework when we got back so we had a few more photo's and lots more playing, and finally left to come home at teatime. 

They had all had such a good visit that there were many, many hugs before we finally got in the car, and lots of promises to visit again really soon.

Everyone say cheese :-)

Amber, Hannah and Fraser admiring the christmas tree
Amber, Hannah, Rachel and Fraser.
Group hug
and more hugging!!

Gardening

Yesterday we had a big winter tidy up in the garden. We weeded and cut back the shrubs, had a bonfire and planted lots of lovely spring bulbs. 

Hannah did lots of the weeding, planting and sweeping and loved every minute. Of course there was a lot of stopping to rescue snails, worms, caterpillars.....the list is endless, but it was all worth it and the garden looks much better now.

A Nature Walk

Today Hannah and i have been to Baffins Pond (again..yes i know!!). We were meeting friends this afternoon in the area, so we went early for a nature walk while the rain held off.

Hannah thought this Coot's feet were amazing!

It was lovely and peaceful under the Willow trees - the duck's thought so too.
A surprisingly friendly goose.
Looking for food.
Across the wetlands towards the woods.
We found Violets!!

It's been a busy week for Hannah with some late nights, so i left her to watch tv and relax while i made dinner............she was a little too relaxed when i came back and slept like this for nearly 2 hours - so who thinks we'll be awake all night then lol!!

Hannah's Thursday....

...started with her journal, she drew her favourite fish and wrote a sentence about him,

then she did some of her year 1 maths books - adding and subtracting.

After lunch we went out to the park for some ball play, swinging and (of course) leaf collecting!!

When we arrived home one of our neighbours came round with a leapad and books that her son had outgrown - Hannah was thrilled and wanted to read them straight away :-)

Finally, Hannah went to her dance class...............

and our day ended with a bonfire party at a friends house which was really, really good fun :-)

Grandma's Birthday

On Wednesday Hannah's grandma was 75 years old, Happy Birthday grammy xxx

Today Hannah has....

Built a scene from The Magic Faraway Tree with her wooden blocks and tree blocks.

The cottage, forest and fairyland.

The forest with Bessie in the Faraway Tree

Done some activities on Starfall.com, and some pages from her workbooks, and then played some guitar with one of my friends who taught her a few basic chords on a much too big for her guitar!!

She started on the acoustic guitar

But soon found the electric was small enough to actually reach the strings
Jammin' with Roger!!

Little Pumpkin

Hannah was supposed to go to two parties yesterday but unfortunately she picked up a vomiting bug and couldn't go. She was really disappointed, so after the sickness subsided her daddy bought her some halloween decorations and some trick or treat goodies, and Hannah dressed up and opened the door to all the trick or treaters that came round.

This is Hannah outside our house with her bucket of goodies.
Here's a happy little pumpkin.