Chickens in a box

She's here! Only 8 weeks old and already out for the count after running after the boys. I suspect the tables will be turned very shortly once she's a bit bigger...

We were woken up this morning by William crying, 'I'm going to be si-," just before projectile vomiting water across the bedroom. He went on to bring up nothing but clear fluid for most of the morning, unable to keep anything down. I have no idea what it was, maybe a bug from yesterday's party? Fortunately by 11.00 when Auntie Sue and Uncle Jim dropped in to say Happy Birthday, he had rallied and was back on form. Funny how children can go from fast asleep in bed, sick as parrots and then suddenly 'ping' they're back. So while Eddie looked after William, James and I went back to see a litter of puppies we'd originally looked at before Christmas. At 7 weeks old now it was time to choose and after so much arguing and soul-searching, I had decided to bite the bullet and go for it. Not a difficult decision as there was only one black bitch left in the litter. And so Bella is ours and coming home next Sunday!!!

Our baby is now 5. I cannot believe it. I really hope he's had a wonderful day, it's certainly been busy. A party at Eddie Catz with his friends from school as well as Jasper from Sunflowers and Joel from nursery days in Hungerford. They all played beautifully together, albeit separately - the boys playing football and girls swinging from various artificial swings, giggling. Never the twain met, until lunch; chicken nuggets and chips (what else?). Party bag pressure on, everyone peered inside theirs and seemed happy with a parachuting soldier, stretchy man, marble, box of mini-smarties and slice of cake. Phew. Tick. Back home for a break in front of 'How to Train your Dragon' (which we now watch on a daily basis) and then the Greens came round for tea, Scalextrics, Lego and Star Wars. William was thrilled, he loves to see Mattie in particular, and ended the day crashed out with James, absolutely exhausted. I am about to do the same....