Author: ianboichat

  • Teacher’s Pet

    Teacher’s Pet

    I’m not sure why it’s happened but all of a sudden Maddie is super keen to do additional project work on top of her normal homework. It seems the incentive of class/clan points has turned them all into super swots! Actually its nice to see Maddie get so interested in her school work so this…

  • …and the little one said roll over…

    …and the little one said roll over…

    For the last couple of months Maddie has been a frequent night time visitor to our bed, not something that I tend to worry about being a deep sleeper but it’s usually not very long before her wriggling and squirming around forces Mette to seek refuge in the guest bedroom! I have witnessed her arrival…

  • Facebook Comments

    Facebook Comments

    So this is my Facebook word cloud from a report by Wolfram Alpha. I guess the reason its ended up on the blog is that the largest (and therefore most used) word is “Maddie” which just goes to show I’m obviously completely obsessed! Not only that I thought it would be something different from a…

  • Nativity

    Nativity

    As Maddie is now in year 2 we got reserved seats at the front which was great.Unfortunately cameras were banned at Maddie’s nativity play (unless your the videographer selling dvd’s at £18 a pop) but I did get this sneaky one with my phone and you can see Maddie at the back in her role…

  • How cute!

    Maddie’s latest slippers are sooooo cute! Seen here standing on our new stair carpet.

  • Fireworks

    Another Maddie & Daddy outing to the fireworks at St Albans. (Not really Mette’s thing!) Managed to get a spot right at the front by the lake which gave us a great uninterrupted view of the fireworks. I would have taken more pictures but even though the lake is only about a foot deep Maddie…

  • Mermaid

    Maddie’s swimming has come on in leaps and bounds this year. (Currently in the green hat lesson at woodside). This now extends to swimming underwater which she was only too happy to show off for my new underwater camera! We had some great fun taking pictures and the one above is the pic of the…

  • Egypt

    It’s been the wettest year I can remember (particularly funny given the hosepipe ban) so when Mette suggested going somewhere warm in the Autumn half term we were all keen to go. We stayed at the Reef Oasis in Sharm and for the most part we crashed by one of the 3 pools. There’s more…

  • Daredevil

    We stayed in a great hotel in Egypt during half term, the highlight for Maddie was the family pool which had 3 great water flumes. This is her on the steepest of the three slides , a three storey vertical drop! Despite saying it looked too steep it took all of about 10 mins for…

  • Homework

    Now when I was a kid growing up I don’t think I got any homework until secondary school unlike Maddie who has had some form of homework pretty much from the moment she started school! Actually a really good idea as it won’t come as so much of a shock! Mostly just reading, spelling and…