For my birthday ten of us went to the Lord Nelson at Hoylandswaine for lunch. It was a good opportunity to catch up with people between christmas and new year. Needless to say we didn't need any tea! Yesterday we went to see the Longleys in Leeds. As always it was a pleasure to see them and catch up. Matt is starting a collection of guitars and played all of them for us! We did get tickets for Star Wars in concert so i'll see him again in March 2010. 2010 where does the time go.
The train set is still number one even with all the new toys at christmas. Thomas has worked out how to use the lift which adds another dimension to it all.
This christmas presents came from Tracy's dad and here she is modelling them for us all. Not sure if they'll make it to the sink.
The pirate ship is a success!
Father Christmas left Thomas 4 presents on his bed and he absolutely loved opening them. They were all books which he loved and probably would have been happy with just those.
The snow has come again and covered the world white. This morning we all went for a walk through the park, Thomas seemed to enjoy the walk and loved dragging the sledge behind him. We met the neighbours during the walk there and back and when we all got back we built a huge snowman go our back garden. The snow seems to be thawing out now so it might not be here much longer. Shame!
We have all been out in the snow this morning on the first day of our christmas holiday.
The planned trip to Masham for me was cancelled due to the forecast. The others have gone. Tracy not nearly 100% and it wont have been right to leave her today. The snow is coming down nicely and has been for 30mins. Could be fun later or might have to try the autosock!
The wardrobe finally got fitted on thursday last week. Thomas was so excited about the whole thing. He showed 'the man' were it should go and really conversed with him about it. It was lovely so see. Thomas thinks the wardrobe is beautiful. His speech is really coming on but he does tend to talk too quickly which makes it hard to understand. He seems much more confident around unfamiliar people as well as well the man or collette (Cet).
Managed to clean the car at the weekend (albeit a drive thru with the aerial up ouch!) and then waterless wash it. The beading in the morning following the rain was spectacular. At least it has a bit of protection on now.
The heavy rain has again highlighted the problems we have with the drainage around our house. Again on Saturday and Sunday the water was pouring back up the drain by the study and around the side of the house as well as around the front door. Tried ringing the water but only got a voice mail for advice.
Last weekend the new wheels took a bit of a bashing. I kerbed them badly and was very annoyed to say the least. unfortunately the wheels are diamond cut again so not straight forward to get sorted. As you can see I did a good job!
