Jack's Party

We had Jack's birthday party with his friends today. We did a fireman theme. As the guest of honour, Jack went as a fireman. We invited his friends to come dressed up as something as well. We had firemen, nurses, fairies - to name a few. We played games, ate cake, sang songs. We had nine three-year-olds so needless to say we are pretty tired tonight. But all in all, it was a lot of fun.

Here are some pictures and videos.

The table and birthday boy


The cake


Jack and Benjy


Jack and Grace


Grace, Rebekah, and Moya


One of the games we played was duck duck goose.The kids love it even though they don't fully get it:

He is off....

As I type this, Charles is getting ready to leave to take his thesis to be bound. It is about 6:45 AM. He came to bed at 4 AM after putting some last minute touches on it. It has been such a long process, but he is nearly there, God-willing. The hope is that he will take it this morning to the Binding Company in Cambridge and then submit it to the University of Cambridge Graduate Studies on Monday. Then we will await the viva.

I am so proud of him and thankful to have him back as a socialable member of our family!

Here are a couple of pictures of him before leaving this morning -

Putting the last touches on:





Three copies of thesis ready to be hard bound:



Cleaning the car off (it's freezing for England!):

Ellie's Breakfast

Jack asked to read this book, Ellie's Breakfast, on the camera today. He really has just memorized the book, but he calls it reading. Enjoy!

Review of Theo Day

So Theo Day is over. We spent the morning reading lots of books and playing with friends. Then the afternoon was filled with a trip to the pottery painting place where we painted Theo's handprint. The day was capped off by a great bathtime. We hope Theo enjoyed his day. We sure did! Here are some pictures and video that I took along the way today. After breakfast Jack asked to hold Theo as part of Theo Day. Here is that picture:


Here is a picture of Theo with some of the books that we read (all selected by Jack):


Here are boys in the pushchair ready to head home after our painting adventure:


And here is a video of Theo laughing near the end of the day. We were reading a book to him and Theo really liked it when I said 'down the stairs' so I kept saying it (and Jack helped as well). That hopefully is some explanation of what Jack and I keep saying as Theo continues to laugh.

Having Fun

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Reintroducing....

Theo had a good night of sleep, woke up happy, so we said let's go for it....so Today has been rescheduled as Theo Day. We are particularly happy that Theo's skin looks a lot better. He has really been struggling with his eczema but the doctor has prescribed new lotion that seems to be doing a better job. We will update you at the end of the day with more news on how we celebrated. But until then you can enjoy this video taken at breakfast.

Happy Birthday Jack

Jack turned 3 today and we had a lot of fun celebrating.

Here is a brief interview with the birthday boy:


And here are some pictures of how we celebrated.

Here is the whole family plus Uncle Matt at Pizza Hut. We asked the server to take our picture and this is the best we got. Kind of pathetic. I guess our server was really busy that night.












Here is Jack enjoying his ice cream sundae at Pizza Hut:









Here is Jack blowing out the candles with friends and family.









And a family picture from today:










Here is Jack playing with some of his new toys. He has had such a great day.

Theo Day Postponed

We have postponed Theo Day due to a bad start of the day for the whole family! To be rescheduled soon!

Gearing Up For Theo Day

Theo has had a rough week which means I have had a rough week. He has struggled with his sleep, eating, and has been to the doctor more times than one would like during a given week. We had our third doctor's appointment of the day tonight at 6 pm (none of them too serious). This appointment was topped off by three immunization jabs. Poor Theo.

He is sleeping as I type which is a good thing. As a response to the last couple of days being hard on Theo, I have decided to designate tomorrow as Theo Day. I am not really sure what this means, but I will let you know as the day progresses and ideas come to me! This will be fun for me since Friday mornings are the day that Jack goes to his playgroup. It will be good for Theo to have some special attention as we gear up for Jack's birthday on Sunday. I will let you know how it goes (and how Jack responds when I tell him!) and post some pictures tomorrow.

Here are some pictures of Theo taken this week during some of the brighter moments: