Under the sea

Little Z and the rest of the reception class hosted parents assembly on Tuesday which was all about creatures under the sea. Unfortunately, Mummy's camera decided to switch to power save just as little Z stepped up to the microphone but she was great and remembered all her words.

Onchan FC are the best

On Sunday AJ's football team - Onchan - were playing in Peel. They drew the first friendly nil-nil and won their league match 7-0 and AJ scored one of the goals! We were all there to support him and the team so we decided to go to Peel for ice-cream to celebrate their great win. It was a gorgeous day and ice-cream at 11.30a.m. was excellent!!

En guarde!

AJ took part in a team fencing tournament last weekend and Manx Fencing Club fenced really well on the day - unfortunately the other clubs were a bit more experienced and they came 3rd.

February half-term outings

Grandma came over to the Isle of Man at the request of Mrs H to spend a week doing activities and going on outings with AJ and little Z. The most enjoyable day was the visit to Peel Castle followed by ice-cream at Davison's. Some unusual combinations chosen including mint-choc chip with chocolate & cocount!!

Tattoos are us!

Uncle A had given Mrs H a temporary hand tattoo kit for Christmas and as it is half term week, it was decided this was the ideal time to try the kit out. Grandma is also over visiting for the week so everyone joined in. The tattoos were great however the removal of the afore-mentioned 'temporary' tattoos was a little more complicated and involved cooking oil (in lieu of skin oil as per the instructions - unsuccessful), sellotape (as per the instructions - honest! ineffective and painful) and eventually success via a mountain of baby wipes!!!!

The Aliens have landed....

Well actually little Z had been getting creative with one of AJ's odd socks at school. We were really impressed with the end result! Who knows - if there is life out there and it looks like this then maybe it wouldn't be scary after all?????

Badminton achievements

AJ took part in a primary school tournament yesterday and performed extremely well. He got to the singles semi-finals having won 6 matches. With his partner from school, they played fabulously and made it to the boys doubles finals where they did lose but had a great match. He received trophies for both singles and doubles and we are very proud of him.

Little Z was also very proud of her hard work trophy from badminton last week and am sure would have preferred not to have to hand it back today!

High School visitation

On Thursday we all went to have a look at the high school that AJ will be going to in September. There was so much to see and of particular interest to AJ was the computer facilities, the Science facilities and the Technology and Design area. Little Z was particularly impressed with the Dance Theatre and joined in with the pupils demonstration of You Can't Stop the Beat from Hairspray much to their amusement!!

Click - add to basket - now where's the credit card?

Even little princesses need to 'work' on the computer at times. I am sure that this princess will no doubt take after her mummy for her online shopping skills!!!

Cool as can be

Little Z decided to help herself to AJ's hat and glasses - an actress or model in the making?!!