Banners, bats and bunting with some English thrown in

Yesterday was quite cold and miserable weather wise, so we all opted to stay inside, apart from M who had to not only go into work for a 12 hour shift, but also take a Maths and English exam!.  He is starting a Level 3 in City and Guilds Health and Social Care.  He thinks he did quite well, and is grateful for his involvement in the older childrens Maths and English revision.

Also we all felt a bit down yesterday because of the news about the Soldier who died in an attack by two terrorists in London on Wednesday.  Of course there are lots of awful things going on all over the world, but this particular incident was like something out of a horror movie, and very hard to take in.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Soldiers family and friends.

So we plodded on through the day, with B and D contining with their English revision, along with copy writing and reading.  B will read every night before she goes to bed, and sometimes as soon as she wakes up, but D takes a bit more persuading.  However, he is getting on extremely well with The Hobbit, and is half way through already since starting reading it on Monday, so am quite pleased with his progress.

Today I gave them both the day off (Biology normally).  B wanted to make J's birthday cake, along with his favourite kind of cupcake - chocolate with chocolate butter cream icing.

J decided that he didnt want us to put up the balloons and banners while he was in bed on the evening before his birthday, and that he would like to help. So we spent most of the morning decorating the Living Room, Kitchen and Hallway

Looking in through our front window, passers by may think we have gone mad and decorated the house early for Halloween, but as J's main present in an Imaginext Bat Cave, and at the moment Batman is his favourite Super Hero, we have a Batman theme going on, hence the black and yellow balloons.
We also have bats hanging from the ceiling.

Also one of his favourites is Spiderman

Basically he loves any Marvel or DC Super Hero.  So last night M and I cut out triangle shapes for bunting from one of his old Wolverine comics

And of course we didnt forget that he loves Doctor Who

(That thing on the end is really bloody scary)

Batman Cake

Along with some very choclatey cup cakes

Now my little five year old boy is fast alseep, he has been so excited all day.  Tomorrow we are planning to go out for something nice to eat with my parents, and take him to his favourite play centre. Then we are having a party tea in the afternoon and hiring a DVD of his choice in the eveining.


Now for a glass of the red stuff, and make a start on that ironing!