by Heather
Bundle of scrupmtiousness!
Today I had a lovely day with Nicholas. This morning we mucked around for ages and howled with laughter at each other. I took some mad photographs of us both with ?sticky? rollers in our hair hahaha! I plan to scrap those later so watch this space.
In that photograph he is wearing a Scotland T-shirt and tonight when the England match was on he was shouting ?Scotland? at the TV LOL! I told him it wasn?t Scotland (dream on) and that it was England, he duly change has SCREAM to England, his Dad would have been soooo proud!
I eventually got this blog back online at blogspot after failing miserably to transfer it to the new server. Don?t understand why it would not move like the test blog so for now I am sticking here. I did search download and install a stand alone blog from Wordpress but the errors its been throwing at me all day are just not on so I am about to delete the whole thing and try uploading a Moveable type pad and trial that.
It was sports day at the girls school today and the weather held out just fine.
It was a lovely afternoon for it.
Chelsea ran her races well but seemed still to be smarting for not getting into the relay team and was horrified when she saw her sister trot off to run in her house relay. Whitney can?t run to save herself! Not quite sure what the selection criteria was
As I say, Whitney (aged 9 going on 6) can?t really run at all and limped home last in her flat race heat. She crossed the line and burst into tears. I thought my heart would break. Her friends and I had been cheering like crazy but she was inconsolable for a time. Next up was the sack race for her and my heart dropped, I knew she would be last again and I just could not stand the thought of her tears.
As predicted she was struggling at the back long after the others had crossed the line. I could see her face as she realised no one was around her and I feared she would just give up where she was. She only had about 5-7 meters to go. I was standing at the side behind a row of the kids chairs so I legged it onto the field and stood at the head of her lane and caught her eye. I willed her with all of me to keep going and shouted and cheered her in. Everyone could see what I was doing, 100?s of them, and they helped by cheering her too.
I told her how proud I was of her not giving up, that was the easy road to take, she chose to carry on and that part of this beautiful child is what will get her through. With a little encouragement, lots of praise, she can achieve!
That’s my Girl!
Julie wrote,
Oh, bless her, what a lovely photo!
Link | June 16th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Julie wrote,
Nicholas is a poppet!!!
Link | June 16th, 2006 at 12:06 pm