Ewan's a bit sicky poo

We came home from school on Wednesday, after Ewan had done his second three-quarter of an hour Kook Sool Won training and he promptly fell alseep on the upstairs landing carpet (it is lovely and soft, I don't blame him!).  Shame he has had a bit of a cough and slightly runny nose most of this week.

 Note Superman is also having a bit of a lie down. 

 Anyway, we decided to keep him at home today, as his cough was still quite bad and he has a temperature.  Of course, he doesn't appear to be in the least bit sick at the moment. I got him an Octonauts comic, complete with more sea creatures and he's currently playing on my bed with all his Octonaut family and making the relevant sound effects, singing the theme tune.

Faye and Ewan got some cute thingies yesterday from their Auntie Sharon, Uncle Dawie, Granny and Grandpa ... (the parcel was posted from within the UK, obviously by Oom Dawie ... :) ) 

You can see one of the sticker books in the left hand corner of the photo above.  So later on we will have to make a big pirate picture and put all his pirate stickers on it.   

I've had a couple of wobbly days with the transcript typing.  Well, let me rephrase that, I haven't had any transcript typing to do for two weeks now, which is the wobbly.  I spoke to them yesterday and today and it appears that this is traditionally a quiet month and we will only see things start to pick up early to mid October.   That's all well and good but I have to earn a regular income.  

Anyhoo, I contacted a couple of other transcript companies (God, there are HUNDREDS in the UK!!) and I've just been taken on by another company who are based in Kent.  I hope to start getting work from them soon.    

Anyhow, hope everyone has a lovely weekend, chat soon. 

xxx

Spider's Web ...

Aptly named housie is this one of ours!

From this morning, when the mist and dew was still about

Nana Smurf and Spinning Shoes

I had a rush of blood to the head this weekend whilst out shopping at Morrison's with Hayzel and was encouraged in the purchase of BLUE haircolour by a fellow shopper and her husband, who said if I liked it then I should do it!  So I did it ... I went and tinted the hair blue, well more like my scalp was a luminous neon blue and I had streaky bits of blue, green and silver in the rest of my hair.  I'm nothing, if not adventurous.

Foto doesn't really show up the blue much, trust me it was blue (mostly) ...

Anyway, after a night being a blue bottle, I decided to sort it out and put some brown on, to get it back to a degree of 'normal'  So the end result tonight is a rather dark brown with a slight halo of blue.

Back to kind of normal

Faye and Ewan's Granny and Granpa in SA sent them some money recently, so Hayzel took Faye out this weekend and the result are these stunning Bella Ballerina shoes that Faye chose herself.  She wore them to a birthday party that she went to at the Norwich Riverside Bowling Alley today.

I had to crop the picture of Faye (below) modelling her shoes, as a certain 4 year old boy was in the process of changing behind her in his room and er ... certain parts of anatomy were proudly on display!   

My boys ...

This was taken on Monday when Ewan started going to school for the first time for the whole day:

Some more photos of Daniel taken in the last week or so ... he's changing quite a lot and putting on weight nicely.  What a lovely little peanut he is! 

Stop sticking the camera so close Dad!

That was a good joke!

What you looking?  Turn the lights off it's not morning already is it?

Hu-ha!  Hulk crush puny humans ....  

Me just too cute.

L'il Dragons ... Kook Sool Won

Ewan had his first martial arts lesson yesterday afternoon. I was so proud of him.. The instructor, 5th Dan, Andy Gillingwater said he would have 'no problems, he's picked it up straight away'.  Ewan really concentrated hard and made sure he tried to do every move in the three-quarter of an hour class.  He's very excited about doing this regularly.      He goes to the L'il Dragons club which employs the Kuk Sool Won methodology - there are 1.3 million members in over 800 schools worldwide in 27 different countries. 

The days are starting to get colder here - it's been quite freezing actually in the early morning, so we all have to wrap up now like it's going to snow (but it won't just yet).  I don't mind the cold at all, providing I'm dressed for it.

Iron Man and Cinderella

A bit of a close shave ...

So last night, I was typing away on my laptop trying to finish some work and Hayzel suddenly burst into my room, with a bleeding Ewan.  His face, hands, vest and chest were smeared with quite a lot of blood .. he just stood there looking a bit bewildered at all the attention, he wasn't crying.
Turns out, while we were all busy sorting out our stuff last night, after the kids were IN BED SLEEPING, he sneaked into the bathroom.  He grabbed a handful of bubble foam that was left from when I had had my bath a few minutes earlier, put it on his face (as you do when you're going to shave) and then got hold of Mum's shaver and proceeded to give himself a nice Van Dyk.  Of course, he must have been pouting a lot because he actually shaved his top and bottom lip. 

He's fine, it's healed up fine.  I'm still smiling at how funny this is.