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That is Amie’s new request! She wants curly hair.

I’ve convinced her now to eat her crusts to make her hair go curly so I had to think of something else when, after a week, it failed to go curly!

So today, I plaited her hair and informed her that when I take the plaits out it will be curly. You should have seen the smile on her face when she saw it. So tonight, after her bath, I gave her 7 little plaits to sleep in. I do hope it’s lovely and curly tomorrow otherwise I’ll be in trouble!

***edit*** well the update is that a certain young lady had very pretty curly (well wavy) hair and she was chuffed to bits with it. Sadly she was very upset when I told her they wouldn’t stay in!

It’s too bad I’m going to have it cut a lot shorter tomorrow (unless the hairdresser talks me out of it!)

We received delivery of our long awaited swing for the garden last week.

We ordered it at the beginning of May and much to my disgust we received it at the beginning of June…be warned if you ever order anything from Mothercare online!

Anyway, it’s here now and thanks to Grandad Thomas (who gave up a whole day of his holiday to assemble it for us!) it is up and almost play worthy. It just needs anchoring down to stop the children from falling off it!

It is green and yellow and has two swings (one of which has been replaced with a baby seat for Bethany) and it also has a glider (see saw) anyone who pushes amie on that has to sing “see saw majory daw!

I’ll post a piccy of it later, in the meantime, thanks again to Dad. I know you wanted to go out and not spend the whole day assembling a swing!

Amie and Bethany were dancing to the BBC’s show Any Dream Will Do and daddy videod it.

Bethany made the odd Cameo appearance with her disappearing act. Who knows, maybe we’ll see them on the west end stage yet!!!

Well not quite, just lots of pots scattered over the window sill!

We have lots of tomato shoots and a couple of strawberry shoots!

Amie came home from nursery yesterday with a pot which she assures me is peas ??????

And we have bought some carrot seeds to grow!

Next on the list is mushrooms!

Well, it would seem the tomato seeds Amie planted on Friday are shooting already!

As you can imagine Amie is very chuffed with this, however I’m surprised they’ve grown that much in the space of 4 days! I didn’t think we’d fed them with some kind of super growing fertiliser!

I’ll try and get some photos on (for amie’s benefit) and we’ll keep you posted with the progress! I hope we get some fruit after all this!

No sign of the strawberries yet though which is what I was most looking forward to!

I’ve always wanted a herb and vegetable garden but sadly I don’t have the room for that in my garden. Maybe one day I’ll get round to putting something in pots!

So Amie and I have settled for trying to grow strawberries and tomatoes!!!!!! We’ve planted seeds which might be a complete disaster. I’m hoping Amie will have the patience to wait for them to grow otherwise I might have to sneak some strawberry plants in and pretend they’ve grown!!!

We’ll keep you posted and put any photos up (if they ever do grow!)

Today we went for the first of what I’m sure will be many trips to the opticians to get Amie’s glasses repaired! The poor little thing fell over and landed on them so they got rather bent and wouldn’t stay on!

They’re fixed for now so let’s see how long they last this time!

Well James has finally carried out his threat and has treated himself to a new tv!

It’s a Sony HD LCD tv (he’ll give you all the techie details!)

It’s certainately bigger than our old tv and the children love it because Dora and all their other programmes are much bigger!

Here’s a piccy of James’ new toy!

James has spent the beginning of our holiday painting our bedroom.

We went for a purple feature wall and taupe for the other walls and I think it looks quite striking!

It was a good way to spring clean, the room had a huge dust and de-cobweb! We also bought a new curtain pole and matching lamps…just need a lightshade!

Well done James!

Well today I decided to bite the bullet and had my hair cut short….very short!

Well it’s shoulder length but it’s short for me (and it’s also blonde again!)

I am very pleased with it and I am so glad I had it done, I just hope everyone else likes it as much as I do!