Little Miss Gappy!

Hi

As you can tell from the title, Abi lost her first tooth this week. It had been wobbly for nearly a week and finally fell out at lunch time at school. I was in pre school so Abi could come across and tell me. I've included a photo of her looking very proud with the gap!

I've also put in 2 photos from a 7 aside football competition they were both in today. We were playing Stanley, their infant team was a bit better than us but the juniors were well matched. Jacob and Abi had fun and didn't even realise that they hadn't won!

They then went to a birthday party this afternoon so it's been a busy day. Allen and I are off to a ski party tonight. Cheese fondue and ski wear, let's hope that they have all the windows and doors open or else we could be turning a tad pink.

Hope all's well

Rachael.

Sledging

Hi

Jacob and Abi have had so much fun sledging, we even went out before school this morning and did a few runs! I've included a couple of photos of them whizzing away. So as you can tell we got some more snow, quite a bit really as it made the flight have to turn around and go back to Ascension. The sun is out though and it will soon be gone. Jacob now needs another winter coat as his is hopeless and this is only the start to the winter hence it will get even colder.

My butchered cow arrives at 3.30pm, have cleared the freezer in readiness. Lucky it's being delivered today as Allen has invited 9 people round for tea on Sunday. Still car less. Hoping to get it back on Saturday. Has been a great excuse not to go to the gym! Abi fell over at school and we had to go to the med centre with her due to all the grit involved. She's fine but her face is bruised and grazed. They washed it all out at the doctors and she was very brave. No black eye but a black chin instead. Allen's exercise finished at work so no more 14 hour days for a while. Inspection at pre school next week, had a mouse there yesterday. We managed to chase it out of the door much to the children's amusement! Off to set a trap up there now.

Hope all's well

Rachael.

Burtha's Beach

Hi

We were meant to be going into Stanley today to go swimming, out for lunch and go toy shopping plus get Jacob some trainers. The car however had other ideas as it wouldn't start. The day it snowed we had the same problems and the nice MT people came and fixed it. Now it needs to go to the garage in Stanley so we are carless at the moment. Luckily a couple of families were going down to Burtha's beach so we got a lift with them. It was sunny but the wind and water were freezing. The boys rushed straight in, got soaked straight away so ended up going in in just coats and pants. They loved it for about 20 minutes and then realised how cold it really was. The 3 girls that went were very sensible and had races up and down the sand and paddled in the water. The 5 boys all needed a change of clothes and had very cold feet! Ben had it the worst as he fell flat in the water after about a minute of playing. So we got back, after everyone had warmed up in the cars, and all of the children played very well while the mum's had coffee. We got home and had showers to try and get rid of some of the sand and then I had a phone call suggesting bike riding would be fun as the sun was out. So I decided to put their stabilisers back on due to riding on the road and I couldn't physically cope with 2 children needing a helping hold and run technique. We were out with 9 other children having a great time riding up and down the road - luckily not that busy. As the sun disappeared so did we as it was getting rather cold. I took 2 extra home with me and we did art activities while Jacqueline (my neighbour) cooked tea for the kids. So it was an easy evening. I've included a photo of Jacob and Thomas running merrily out of the sea and then one of Abi and Emma wearing most of the make up Abi owns!

Rachael.