Mia turns four!

Mia turns four!

Favourite things to do... You love to be out and about exploring. You love going to the local cafes - especially Temple Donut (you're obsessed with their sprinkle donuts) and Clare often takes you to McDonalds on Tuesdays when it's a Mia and Clare day. You enjoy soft plays, scooting round Yeadon Tarn, going to the library to chose new books and going shopping. I get a glimpse into the future as you sashay round H&M or Primark selecting items to try on! You do love a little wardrobe refresh. You also love in when the online food shop arrives and know exactly where everything goes and love to help me unpack everything. You have serious FOMO and if I'm going anywhere - no matter how mundane - the tip, Ellis' karate class - you've got your shoes on and are joining us for it!

Interests... You're obsessed with anything girly and princessy. Your favourite princess is Rapunzel and you love watching Tangled. You like dressing up too. You like watching Creative Galaxy on amazon Prime and then completing the craft projects they suggest. You like painting, cutting and sticking and using mummy's craft supplies.

Friends... You started at Westfield Nursery with your bestie Carmen and enjoyed sliding into the class everyday and finding your picture and posting them into the postbox. After October half term you switched to Guiseley as we moved and you adapted really well. Your best pal is called Theo and we've had a play date with him - he loves dressing up too and you seem to enjoy laughing together and have a similar sense of humour! You also play with Chloe, Bethany, Penny and Tabitha. Some of them came to your princess party. Your pre-school teachers Mrs Hinchcliffe and Mrs Bradbury are very proud of you and say they'd like to keep you for another year!

A week after we moved we hosted your Princess Party at the house. You'd planned it all meticulously - pass the parcel, musical bumps, pin the crown on the princess and then when we got desperate wink murder (which was quite amusing when none of the kids could wink!) You got some lovely presents from all of your friends including a muscial box with a ballerina, wooden food, sticker books and a barbie car! 

Ellis turns six!

Nothing like quarantine to get jobs done...So Ellis you turned six (last July!) much like the day you arrived and mummy and daddy's wedding day (four years prior to this date) it was a sweltering heat wave. So we asked you what you wanted to do to celebrate the day and you chose Pizza Express and the indoor funfair in Harrogate. Pizza Express is a family favourite and you enjoyed dough balls and crudites to start with, chicken pizza for the main course and a lolly for dessert. They sung to you and you enjoyed completing the puzzle booklet.

Afterwards we had two hours in the indoor funfair. You're quite the dare devil and went on all the rollercoaster, the chair ride, the big inflatable slide and lastly the ghost train. This was quite funny as you both insisted on going on the ghost train, but I wasn't sure if it would be too scary for Mia and couldn't see how you were finding it as you were in the dark tunnel. I was feeling a bit anxious and as the doors burst open you were grinning from ear to ear , whereas Mia was screaming and crying. You did have a supportive arm around her as you're always the protective big brother.

We decided on a bowling party this year at Shipley Bowling Alley. You and the boys were very competative as you each took your turn and were always staring at the score board! You enjoyed the time in the arcades afterwards and the food. I made you Pokemon cupcakes and you had a big Pikachu balloon for the photo op. It was a fun afternoon with all your friends - in fact it was the day of two parties as you went to Pheobe's Frozen party in the moning! Mummy found this type of party a lot less stressful than the ones she organises normally!

Your favourite things to do...you love riding round on your fancy new bike from Oma - we have a cycle path near to our house with McDonalds at the end so on a nice evening we scoot, cycle and run over and get an ice-cream. You love to read especially David Walliams books and the Beano. You are still a telly addict and love cartoons particularly Pokemon at the moment, hence why this is your party theme this year. You love a family outing to the cinema and we have seen Angry Birds 2, Toy Story 4, Small Foot and Incredibles 2. You've started going to karate every week and love your teacher Andy - you have progressed to your orange stripe belt and we're always really proud of you at your gradings. You love to build tricky Lego sets and often gets lots from all of your relatives for birthdays and Christmas. You've also got into chess at Hopscotch and the guy who runs it says you can even beat him - and he's not letting you win!

School... you've been very lucky to have a fantastic teacher this year - Mrs Nolan. She's deputy head and has passed on a love for nature to you as she's fascinated by owls and birds and even has an owl live feed on her computer. You're always telling me fantastic facts about owls and birds when we're out and about. We were so proud as you were chosen for The Headteacher's Award from your class. You smiled your coy smile as you stood next to Mrs Lowry and listened to the speech all about how wonderfully you shone, how much progress you'd made and how you'd really improved the size of your handwriting! We then had cake in the sweaty staff room with all the other winners.

You bring so much joy to our lives, have a real love of learning and love a bit of praise! We love you lots! xxx