All well again now!

Hi! I hope that this finds you well; we are thankfully all well again now and although the runny noses remain, they are getting better too! Silas was very clingy on Monday but he has been back to his normal self again yesterday and today. In fact he has been very cheeky and eating loads, which is a good sign!

I wish I could say the same for Esther who is going through a "I won't eat that" phase which is very tiresome! She will separate her sandwich only then to complain that there are bits on the filling and I cannot persuade her that it is only bread and to eat it! I don't know, she is being very fussy and not behaving well at the table at all, which I don't like! I keep hoping that she will grow out of it, but no sign yet of that happening!

The forecasted snow arrived a day late on Monday night and so we had a day at home, which was very good timing as it gave us all a chance to take it easy! The girls made some pretty cards and we made some chocolate brownies in the afternoon whilst Silas was asleep and we played restaurants in the morning!

The girls had raided my cupboards and drawers and were using real utensils for the cooking. When Silas joined in he too started using my big spoon to stir his little toy saucepan but when I said that I needed a spoon for my soup, he came toddling over with his big spoon and gave it to me to eat my soup with! He was very sweet and funny!

Yesterday though, the snow had gone and it was school in the morning as usual. In the afternoon the girls had their performances at their Ballet / Gym class that we had to watch and it was a long afternoon! We had to be there for over 2hrs 15mins to watch both of them and it was hard! The girls found it difficult to watch each other too, which surprised me but we got through it and I managed to see most of the girls performances. Esther was great at the ballet and on the beam in teh gym and Naomi was really concentrating when she was dancing and knew the steps very well.

Today we have had a problem with our new heating system - we didn't have any heat! And so this morning the man came to fix it. Well, he was here a while and thought he had fixed it but it was still playing up later on today. however it is working now and I hope that it is not going to stop working over night again. This meant though that Ulrike and I couldn't take our usual walk today and so she came here and we walked round here once the man had left.

This afternoon we had a very pleasant afternoon with a  friend at the KidsQuest museum, which was good! Her little boy is only 3 months older than Silas and they had a great time playing with the balls! I have found a super route to the museum which has helped me enjoy it more!

We are expecting some refugees to arrive tomorrow, although until they physically arrive through my front door, I am not confident that they are coming. The family are Burmese and small in number (only Mum, Dad and 2yr old boy) so that is good. Hopefully it will work out well and I don't expect them to be with us after Monday as their appartment is all ready.

That is it for now! Take care!