Brainy and Bucket

Huffle and I went off to the school assembly today. Smallest received an award for 'reading fluently and for providing detailed thoughtful answers in his written work' - WOW! Small received an award for 'excellence in all subjects'. WOW again. Well done boys. The first lot of awards were for team work which neither of them won so we now realise they are clever selfish boys (ummmm sounds familiar ha!).

Huffle left early and went to work before going to the airport. I came home briefly, picked up my wool and needles and went off to Knitting. It was a beautifully sunny day but crisply cold. It was only me and Donna today and it was very very quiet. I finished off a sleeve of my cardi and popped into the supermarket on the way home for some treats.

I just had time to get home and make a pot of tea before Huffle, Grandma and Grandad arrived back. Hugs, cups of tea and a lunch later and the cases were opened to reveal a lovely stash of goodies, Christmas presents, books, calendar and a mahoosive bag of Yorkshire tea bags.

Grandma had bought us a lovely bauble for Christmas in honour of the little mouse 'Diddle' that Huffle caught in our UK house and carried it across the village in a pink gift bag. On closer inspection the bauble said "baby's first Christmas 2013". We have decided to change the 'first' to 'tenth' and then it will apply to Small.

Silly Grandma

Ummmm lovely things to eat

We ate lunch, chatted and waited for the boys to come home. More hugs, lots of oohs and ahhhs over the stash and then they got ready for swimming after a few wine gums. Grandad and I took the boys swimming. Small did lots of swimming and smiling and Smallest did jumping, diving, swimming and crashing into Barry Beaver. Today was progress day so they finished five minutes early so the instructors could go over their prgress with us. Smallest's instructor said that even though Smallest was by far the youngest in his class, his endurance was 'unwavering'. All he needs to work on is keeping his tummy up whilst on his back and keeping his legs straight when kicking. Small has already succeeded in his flutter kick and distance swim and just needs to work on his other strokes to improve them. They are both doing excellently. We asked Smallest what one of the boys was called and he said his name was 'Brainy'. It was actually Brady. Last year he had a Boy in his class called 'Bucket' whose real name was 'Duncan'.

Smallest and his hat. This is used for when they do their stride jump to see if they can go in without knocking the hats off.

We came home and dinner was waiting for us courtesy of Grandma and Huffle. The boys did their maths, grandma fell asleep and woke up every now then to remember to tell us something.

 

 

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