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Sunday 13 February 2011

Lego Men

Lego has been causing some serious issues in our house recently. Its not actually the little blocks but the lego men in particular. You see, Gethin is completely and utterly obsessed with them! He doesn't put them in his mouth or ears or up his nose - he just spends ages playing with them!
Given that he is only two and a half years old he doesn't actually possess his own stash of lego men, wherein the problem lies. In order to get his lego fix he has to sneak into Ross' room and sift through the big box of lego for all the little men. Unfortunately this does not go down too well with the "big brother" of the house! And then we have much crying and fighting and gnashing of teeth!
Gethin does not understand the concept of age-appropriate toys! Why should he play with those big, clumsy duplo blocks when he can have little men who you can pull apart into a million little pieces and then put back together again. It really does test his patience as he struggles for ages trying to get the visor back onto the man's helmet. I'm sure he must have the mostly finely tuned fine motor skills ever!
Due to the increasing tension which has subsequently resulted between "big brother" and "little brother", we have now resorted to buying Gethin his own little stash of lego men!

Thursday 3 February 2011

Kindy Girl!!!

This day could not have come quick enough for Maddy!
She's been waiting ages to go to "Big School"!
There was great excitement in the Evans household this morning and for once it wasn't the usual morning madness.



It was all smiles as we ate, dressed AND she even sat perfectly still for the brushing, plaiting and clipping of the hair. Oh boy, I wish it was that easy every morning!



And so, off we all set for "BIG SCHOOL".



I think thats when the nerves set in and she crept a little closer to me and mentioned that her tummy was sore. Once we were in her classroom, she settled down and was quite happy for me to leave.



At hometime we were greeted by a very happy little girl! She'd had a ball and proudly presented us with her pasta necklace and regaled us with tales of her day.



I pray all her days of school are as joyful and happy as this one!