Starting 'BIG' School

Today was a very strange day for me as Isabella started 'big' school. Last night she let me wash her hair and cut her nails, without putting up a fight, (which doesn't happen very often) and she even went to bed early. This morning she was so excited it was lovely to watch her putting on her uniform and getting ready. When Isabella left nursery, just before Easter, she was one of the big girls and today seeing her in the playground she just looked so little. I have to say that I did have a few tears in my eyes when she went into her classroom. For the first few days she will only be at school until lunchtime and then next week she will start doing full days. When I picked her up today I asked "Did you have fun? What did you do?" to which she replied "I can't remember" is this the sign of things to come?

Jason had his first Enduro motorbike race of the season last Sunday. I'm told that Enduro is a sort of off road motorbiking but much harder. Personally, I think its just big boys having fun in the mud. He had a good time but is now suffering from a few aches and pains, obviously I'm being the good wife and offering the odd sympathetic word.

Whilst Jason was out playing in the mud, Claudia went to a party and Isabella and I went to Amersham swimming pool where we had great fun whizzing down the waterslides. Isabella kept telling me that she could go down the slides on her own and she really didn't need Mummy's help, she didn't seem to realise that I wasn't helping her I really was having a good time. I was however, a bit of a baby going down the blue slide as it was very fast and very dark and I ended up telling Isabella that you had to be at least 7 years old to go down it which luckily seem to do the trick! Well, a little white lie every so often won't do her any harm.