Fizzy hands and feet!

Hello! Hope that this finds you well; we are fine here although my tinnitus is very bad this evening! Someone could well be blowing a loud whistle down my ear right now and it is not very pleasant! We think it might be due to the air pressure as we had a sudden storm earlier this evening. The storm was tremendous and our road turned into a river!

We are having a busy week this week and I am determined to be less busy next week! On Monday morning, I took the children to a park so that the girls could ride their bikes. I took Silas' trike and his ball and they all had a good time. Naomi enjoyed riding around on the path very much. Esther suddenly has become a bit nervous about cycling but had a short ride on the flat basketball court that was there.

I think Esther's nervousness stems from us seeing an older girl who had fallen off her bike a week or so ago. We had just come into our neighborhood and I saw the girl lying in the road with the bike on top of her. I stopped the car and got out to see if she was OK and she was a bit shaken and had cuts on her knees. My girls stayed in the car but Esther now seems a bit scared to ride in case she falls off like the girl did! Hopefully she will get over it soon and return to enjoying it as much as she did at first. Naomi loves it and so yesterday when we met the twins at the last minute at Central Park in the highlands, I took her bike but left Esther's at home.

Anyway, that was Monday morning and on Monday afternoon the girls both had a play date with a separate friend. This was lovely for them but not as nice as it sounds for Mummy as Silas and I spent most of it in the car! We dropped Naomi off at her friend Anna's home for about 2:30. They live close to us in Issaquah in a lovely neighborhood, that I didn't know existed! After we dropped Naomi off, Silas cried and cried all the way to Esther's friends house! He just kept on saying "Nay mee, Nay mee" and it didn't matter how many times Esther and I told him that it was OK, he cried and cried!

We got to Brooke's house and dropped Esther off there and by this time it was 3 pm. Silas and I then had time to go to Target to pick up a few bits before we then had to go back to Anna's house by about 4pm. Anna's Mum catches the bus from Seattle each day and Anna and her Dad go to collect her in the car, so I had to make sure that I had collected Naomi in plenty of time. Silas was delighted when I told him that we were collecting Naomi - it was smiles and cheers of "Nay mee, rayy (hooray!)" all the way there!!

Once we collected Naomi we went to get Esther who had had a marvellous time on Brooke's inflatable slide thing that gets water sprayed on it to make it wet! I watched them slide down it and they went so fast!! Naomi was cross that she hadn't had a go so we came home and they went out in our garden with the hose for a bit before tea.

Yesterday, Lisa phoned to ask us if we wanted to go to the park so we went there for a bit before going to see Fritzi at the park in the afternoon. Ulrike and the children are very excited because Ulrike's family arrive tomorrow! They are flying into Portland and Ulrike is hoping to surprise them by meeting them at the airport! They are going to the Coast for the weekend, which will be fun for them!

I went to my book club last night, which was good fun and then today we met up with some church friends at Alki Beach. This family only live about a mile from the beach and we were able to park in the children's school car park and walk down to the beach. The school is next to the park with the Whale Tail and Boat if any of you have been there, so we had fun at the park first and then went for lunch and then went to the beach!

The beach was great fun - it was quiet and the children had a wonderful time playing with the balls and making sandcastles! My children and I came home via the Farmer's market in Sammamish and we bought various fruits and vegetables there. I came home and put the children in the bath as they were filthy - Esther looked like she had been up a chimney and Naomi and Silas weren't much better! We then had tea and they are now asleep!

Silas has been coming out with a lot of new words this week - I think it is because the girls and I are around all the time. The new words have been "milk, car, more and baba (which means Balamory!)" He is very clever! Silas has been enjoying watching Balamory and this afternoon asked to watch BaBa which I put on for him. Next thing I know, he is sitting on the floor singing along, it was very sweet!

Naomi made me laugh this morning when she suddenly said that sometimes her body went all fizzy. I was trying to find our friends house at the time so it took me a few minutes to work out what she meant. She means that she gets pins and needles but wasn't that a lovely phrase! I liked that very much!

Esther has been looking at the Human Body book that they have and has discovered that the tongue has specific areas on it for tasting different foods. The one that she can remember is the sweet senses at the front of the tongue so now, whenever she eats anything sweets, she sticks out her tongue to show me where it is!

Well, that is it for now! We only have one more day this week before we have a long weekend, which is good for us!

Take care!