Day out with Dad

To give me a bit of a break Chris took the older kids out on Saturday. They went to Toys r us (always a hit) to get Abbs birthday present and then went to the Metro center to go shopping for my mothers day presies. As the were so good the stopped off at the Angel of the North on the way home. It was a lovely summers day and the kids have been asking to go for ages. As you can see they had a great time. They all came home in a good mood-including Chris!

Hollies first week

This is her first bath. I'm sure she'll thank me for this one in the future! She may not look that impressed in this picture but she loved being in the warm water. I think she'll be a water baby like her siblings.

Getting to hold Hollie is still a novelty. Aimee and Anna-Belle are more keen than the others, either way it's a help to me.

I think Anna-Belle thinks shes some kind of doll. She loves being a big sister and is always wanting to help. She gets her her dummy when she cries and strokes her head to calm her down and always has lots of cuddles for her. So the ost important thing is that she managed to survive her first week in the crazy Poulton family life. Shes been to her first stake activity, first walk around the lake, been into the town centre, spent time at Grandma & Grandads, met all of her siblings teachers and mums friends, first Asda shop, had her first night out with mummy, had her first sunday at church, and has been to her first fireside . No wonder I fell asleep on the sofa last night! It didn't seem that busy until I wrote it all down! Here's to a quiet week!

Welcome to the World Hollie

So at 3.30 am on Saturday 14th March Hollie Evelyn Poulton decided to join our family at last!!! Will put some more pics on later but we are all doing fine.

Anna-Belle totally loves her. She is so cute when she says Baby Hollie! The kids just fight over who gets a hold of her.

Mario Kart

Mario Kart is supposed to be fun but for Aimee nothing is fun unless she can do it and do it well. So much for a nice fun game that we can play together, it has caused world war III in the few days that we've had it.

As for Danny the first thing that he says to any new person he meets is I've got Mario Kart. You will see him doing his tigger impression bouncing around the room whenever he's either watching or playing on it.

playing on it.

Yummy Pizza

We only have one photo as we were too busy eating the best pizzas ever! On saturday evening we went to our friends house (Andrew and Helens) for pizza. Andrew has built his own pizza oven in the back garden so we had to go and try it out. We all made our own pizzas and they cooked soooo fast-this is Emmaleighs creation cooking away. Helen was saying that they put casseroles and rice puddings in to cook when they finish cooking pizzas as it stays hot for ages. The oven was still warm the next day. Needless to say I now want one as I think they are great.

World Book Day

The children celebrated world book day on friday. An event we look forward to each year as the whole school including teachers dress up as characters from books-or in most cases their fav TV character or just whatever costumes they have at home.

This was our best efforts this year. Danny actually wanted to be "Munch" again but we managed to persuade him the Robin Hood would be better. You have no idea how much we had beg him to wear the dog tags!!

The scary thing about this is that we think the Aimee actually looks like Stephanie even with the crazy wig that still didn't look any better despite me combing it for what felt like an hour.

Emmaleigh was adamant that she wanted to be a cheerleader even though most of the girls in her class were planning in being one too. I think she looked great. I really fun day however I am still trying to wipe the image of Aimees teacher dressed as Tinkerbell in a very short dress from my mind.