The Eight Times Table

The Eight times table is proving difficult for Harry.  Hopefully after this weekend he is a lot closer to remembering it.  I can't believe he had arrays as maths homework.  As long as he never has to do metrices.  I never saw the point of them and have never used them.

Cadburys Instant Drinking Chocolate - A word of warning

Oh I laughed the other night when I got home from work.  Shelley (Harry, Charlie and Jasper's mum) had called up Cadburys to complain about their instant drinking chocolate.

Perhaps a little history first.  When we go to France in the summer we tend to buy the same drinking chocolate and the boys have hot chocolate before bed and with breakfast.  Over the cold winter months they have also been having hot chocolate with breakfast so it is pretty much norm now in the household.

Well we ran out of the French drinking chocolate and we had bought some Cadburys instant drinking chocolate.  Note the name has 'instant' in it.

Shelley had complained to Cadburys that it took her 100 stirs for each drink, so that is hardly instant.  Making three cups at breakfast and perhaps more during the day could add up to 1000's of stirs.

I just thought it was worth pointing out how complicated and different our life is  :)  I think I laughed the most imagining her counting the stirs :)


I suppose I should also point out that Cadburys believed our product to be faulty and sent a credit to us.  This post is in no way a criticism of Cadburys unless you have a dodgy batch of instant drinking chocolate and three children who you need to get to school in the morning.

Peter Pan Pantomime

Harry, Charlie and Jasper loved their outing to the theatre to see Peter Pan today.  Charlie really got into the 'It's behind you' and Jasper like the crocodile most.  Harry liked Tinker-bell the best.

Merry Christmas 2010

Me Got Chicken Pox

Poor Jasper, he has spent the week covered in spots and sleepless nights.  The worst is over now and he is almost his usual self.  However Charlie slept in late this morning and looked very tiered tonight - looks like he is coming down with something.

This time tomorrow Santa will be close and the boys very excited, well they are already.  Charlie has his Christmas story ready for bed time tomorrow.  Jasper just likes talking to pictures of diggers or tractors.  Harry will be reading a Beat Quest book.

Nana and pops arriving tomorrow lunch time for a few days.

Harry, Charlie and Jasper do Star Wars

Decorating Ginger Bread with Rachel and Ian

Decorating ginger bread last weekend with Rachel and Ian. Rachel and Ian brought some round and we ended up the weekend all playing on The Beatles Rock Band. Charlie on Drums and Harry singing. All very entertaining.

 

 

Harry's Birthday Party

Harry and about 24 other children spent an hour running round Laser Arena yesterday.  No injuries, lots of noise, and very low attrition rate due to exhaustion, being uncomfortable or scared..  Well done everyone

 

There were some amazing tactics being played for 7 year old children, although most of the time running around and shouting seemed to be the order of the day

Shreddies and Anchovies

The point of this blog was always to help keep a record of things that happen as the boys are growing up as well as write down the impact the boys clips have had.  Probably for the most part things were going to be insignificant but if I didn't write them down they would have been forgotten about it in a few weeks.

Tonight Jasper had a snack an hour before he went to bed.  His snack was a bowl of Shreddies and an anchovy.  I am not quite sure I have ever seen anything make me feel as uncomfortable as watching him spoon a mouth full of Shreddies into his mouth followed by an anchovy.

Harry and Charlie like anchovies as well.