Every year the month of February always feels like it is full of illness in our house. This year for the four weeks before our February half term I had a child off ill at home with me. It started off with Ethan and what I can only think was sickness because of a migraine. Then Little E caught a viral infection from Darren and it knocked her for six for three weeks. She has had a total of five sick days in the end and still isn’t 100%. This also meant that I didn’t really take any photos of my children during this time. Or even get the time…

Last week wasn’t the week I had planned. This was because Ethan was poorly on Monday night. It meant that I had an extra two Ethan days. This unexpected time meant that last week both children had a week of firsts. Ethan has been asking me in the mornings why are people in McDonalds. I have told him they are having breakfast. Last week as we had some extra time together I took him for a McDonalds breakfast. I ordered him pancakes as I knew he would happily eat those. Ethan was very confused about the lack of happy meals but now he knows that happy meals are for lunch…

You know you’re a bloggers child when you ask to have your photo taken to document all the moments of the day! I haven’t been able to take individual photos of the children this week. We had the normal school routine in the week and the weekend was filled with birthday parties. But I thought I would share this photo I captured on my phone on our trip to Tesco. We had to run into our local Tesco at the weekend to stock up on some of Ethan’s favourite items. On our way in both children run over to the In The Night Garden ride. I must admit I have…