The new year now is always a busy time of year, with the school term starting again, Kieran's birthday, party and then my Anniversary, the celebrations seem to be endless and with February bringing my birthday and Valentines Day it just seems to go on and on. Then it's my mother-in-laws birthday, nephews and nieces , Mother's day in March and then Easter, the year will be flying by again.
So if I take a minute to go back a bit, Kieran had a lovely birthday and was spoilt more than we intended but purely by chance events. He had a hectic but enjoyable party with about 13 boys attending but 13 4 year old was challenging. A few fights about not sharing etc but all was well in the end. He had a Lightning Mcqueen cake and lots of party games although many were too preoccupied to join in really. And he got some lovely little prezzies.
The new school term started an additional reading class for Dylan, he has been doing really well so the teachers offered him a place in an extra reading scheme to speed up his vocabulary and reading skills to bring him closer to a primary 2's reading level. So every day for the next 6 months we will have double to work load but Dylan is coping well and learning more every day.
January is also enrolment time for Kieran for Primary 1. I am really against allowing 4 year old to start primary school as they are so young unless they are really advanced/gifted little souls.
Coming from SA where the children start primary at 6 turning 7, this seems fairer to me and makes more sense. They have so much to deal with socially, emotionally and intellectually when they start school, they really need to be ready and I think at 4 mostly they are not ready. With Dylan starting primary 1 at 6, I can see how well he is coping with school and although he is actually a little too old for P1, he can cope with all that is thrown at him mostly.
I try to see Kieran at school now and I think he is not ready at all. So with enrolment coming next week, I am going to fill out the forms to ensure he gets into the same school as Dylan but I will have a clause to be allowed to pull him out and start him in Aug 2013 if there is no drastic improvement by June. Once they have all our details, hopefully enrolment next year should be straight forward.
Currently , we are all sick and have had a terrible kind of flu/cold. Even Ewan is off sick today and he is never sick. But unlike him lying in bed sleeping, I am up and have 2 kids to look after, 1 off school and 1 picked up from Nursery already. The nursery have celebrated Chinese New Year this week and are also celebrating Robert Burns on Wed, "Burns Night". I actually need to familiarise myself with Robert Burns as I can't remember too much about him. I think he is a very famous Scottish poet or writer.
This week-end is our anniversary, 7 years marriage and nearly 14 years Ewan and I have been together. When I was younger, I never thought life, relationships and marriage would be so tough. I knew there would be hardships sometimes but the things and situations life has thrown at us have been crazily hard. We have hung in there, just at times and hopefully we'll be rewarded at some point. We are here, still together and hope for another 40 to 50 years, hopefully easier years or better be easier years :-).
I'll post a few more photos soon , bye for now.
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