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When Maxi was born my mother in law told me that he would bring me more joy then she could put into words. I laughed at her, thinking what did she know. Well it turns out for once she was actually right!
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Having lived and word just outside of Reading for 14 years. I have to say I love it and the fact that Maxi was born there will mean it is always close to my heart. Reading is often dismissed as merely a town on the commuter belt to London. It doesn’t feature on many tourist
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These are the clues we used, which I took from the Real Treasure Hunt website.
Refrigerator
A clue to find where you keep things cold
Where to go next is what you’ll be told.
Computer
Letters, a screen, and even a mouse,
look around, you’ll find it somewhere in the house.
Bed
When it gets late and you turn out the light
This is the place you’ll be found each night.
Socks
You’ll need to think hard to solve the next clue
Find a covering for your foot, but it’s not a shoe.
Oven
Turn up the heat it will help you bake
Cookies, casseroles, even a cake.
Shower
A place where water falls down like rain
after it falls on you it goes down the drain.
Microwave
A metal box with numbers is usually the norm
For this thing that helps us get our food warm.
What can I say, this has been a weekend of celebrating cake eating, family, friends fun, scoring his first two goals and lots of love.
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Eight things I love about you!
You adore being tickled and trying to pretend that you are not ticklish. You challenge me to make you laugh.
Oh and what a laugh. it is infectious, it fills my heart with such joy.
You are fearless. You are a mini thrill seeker, adrenalin junkie and embrace new things.
You are an early riser, but as soon as your head hits the pillow you are off in the land of nod.
You are a team player. You love football and being part of a team.
You do not mind being different. You embrace your curly hair, wear checked trousers and love being you.
You are kind and considerate. You help other people when you can.
You love with a passion.
How can you be eight already? We never really believed that we would have you. You were a challenge form the moment you came in to being and kept us on our toes. You are a joy, my eldest child, an integral part of our family and I love you more each passing day.
So seven facts about my seven year old………..
You love being different, having slightly longer hair, wearing checked trousers, the need to conform isn’t in your genes!
You are a wiz at maths and ask me to give you sums to do all the time, in fact you idea of “fun” is a list of sums to work on!
You are a very sore looser
We have been making the most of a week off school and have been busy here in The Mad House, far too busy to even blog about it until now. So I thought I would do a roundup of what we have been upto.
have never shied away from the fact that I am not a fan of homework for infant and primary children and told both the boys teachers when I met them and they understand that the boys only tend to do homework if it lights their fire or pushes their button, which isn’t very often. They are 4 and 6 and there are much better things they can spend their time doing other than homework.
