Quick Autumn Catch Up

Well the autumn seems to have just flown by and now we are at Christmas again-where do the years and time go?
Maisy has settled in really well to school and is really enjoying being in Mrs Proctors class. Check out her sports day video clips-how sweet is my girl?
Elizabeth has now got so good on her cornet that she has been able to join Mr Joys Ensemble group and plays in assemblies every Thursday. Now we have broken up for the Christmas holidays and are busy getting ready for the big day. I will add some pictures of the festive season as soon as-we have Eren and Aaron coming over and the girls are involved in the church nativity Christmas Eve which I am helping to jointly lead with the Vicar. We are off on a lovely Post Boxing day dog walk with our church friends weather permitting, which should be lovely and I'm looking forward to.

Elizabeth and Maisy's Bedroom

Have finished painting the girls bedroom. They each wanted a favourite book character. Elizabeths is Midred Hubble and Tabby from 'The Worst Witch' series and Maisy wanted Lola and Sizzles from'Charlie and Lola'. Denise and myself are very pleased with our art work and the girls are thrilled.

York Maze

A fab day out at the York Maze. Loads to do and the girls really enjoyed it.

Valley Gardens Harrogate:-)Wonderful

What a lovely day we've had today. Eren took us to Valley Gardens which is a beautiful park just down the road from their flat in Harrogate. The girls thoroughly enjoyed the pool and the adventure playground. There was something for everybody in fact. The park gardens were set out beautifully and their was a small water way running the lower length of the park with fish and ducks. There was loads of play equipment for all ages, trees to sit under for shade-which is what we needed today for our picnic with temperatures at 28 degrees. A really lovely day alround.
When we got home the girls were straight back in their paddling pool to enjoy the rest of the day.

An Easter ROLL

What a great walk we had over the Easter holiday. We went out with Freddie and our neighbour and work friends Sue and Tom plus Sue's dog Poppy. We went off to Cawood and had a lovely walk along the River Ouse. The dogs enjoyed chasing each other and a ball,while Denise and Tom enjoyed rolling down the bank inspired by Maisy and Elizabeths efforts. Needless to say Tom already hung over could barley stand afterwards closely followed by Denise - both were staggering around for a good five minutes which was very funny to watch. They'll both grow up one day!!!

Baptism, Confirmations, birthday parties and OFSTED

What a busy couple of weeks .
It all started with Denise being baptised and both of us being confirmed at our church by the Archbishop of York. Wow!! how nervous were we!
This was followed by a joint birthday party for Maisy and Elizabeth with 18 friends and two fab cakes created by Denise.
Then the news that I had OFSTED in school this Monday and Tuesday (7/8th March). So two days of intense stress and pressure. I got a good for my lesson observation but we found out they'd raised the bar so it's now more difficult for schools to pass their inspections ,so we await the results now. We think it went OK.

Birthday Girl

Happy 4th Birthday to Maisy. She had a lovely day on the 19th getting her big girls bike and Pepa Pig roller skates. She is now looking forward to her joint party with Elizabeth.
We didn't manage to make it down south this half term due to horrendous car trouble-and it is still in the garage going nowhere fast as they try to find out what is wrong with it. So its back to getting lifts to work tomorrow.

Freddie

New year and a new addition to the Robinson family with a little puppy. He is a Beagle X Jack Russle cross and is nine weeks old. He is very cute- luckily for him- as he is busy weeing ,pooing, chewing and biting anything and everything at the moment. Training has begun!!!