Pirate children

They may be dressed up as pirates but Jemma in particular is acting like a pirate- holding her parents to ransom! Not often, but every now and then Jemma wakes up in the middle of the night. She wants to come to our bed or Mum to sleep with her. If we say no, she screams and carries on to wake Riley... a loud voice for a wee miss!! So we are changing her name to 'terrorist'. Mum is her favourite at the moment. When Dad goes in to get her out of bed in the morning, she says 'no, Mummy get me' so Daddy leaves her there until she changes her mind....same with dressing her, brushing her teeth, drying her... the list goes on. She played on a trampoline for an hour the other day and when I said they had to go, I was told by her "no, I just want one more minute".. you see where we are confused between pirate and terrorist..............


We have met the challenging times with our beautifully independent and strong willed child? :-) We certainly value her strength of character but man, it is hard work training her!!

Swimming lessons have finished for the winter and both children are at the same stage. They have done well and Riley is slowly building confidence. Jemma is capable of doing it on her own... she just can't touch the bottom so we are praying she will have a growth spurt before October. They will probably be in a class together then..saves us time at the pool. Riley is wearing the cap he wanted as a reward for floating with the noodle and kickboard but noone touching him.

We are excitedly counting down to our Australia trip, though Dad goes off to England and Europe first so we will meet him in ChCh - busy times ahead especially for Mum.