Category: Jack

  • Guess Who

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    It’s a fire engine. Guess who’s driving.

  • Fancy Dress Party

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    Jack dressed as a wizard (or, as I said, a Human Warlock because I play too much World of Warcraft) for a fancy dress party this weekend. His minion was under his hat (his frog).

  • Beach in February

    No matter the weather, kids love the beach.

  • Caswell Sand

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    I’m a lazy blogger. Stu and Lisa came to visit in the first weekend of February and we popped down to a beach in the good weather. Jack’s firefighting imagination came with him and we built piles of sand (fires) which he put out with buckets of water. It all worked rather well, as the…

  • Colouring in

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    Here’s a funny thing. I’m working from home and sat at the kitchen table with Jack. Jack’s colouring in Fireman Sam pictures. I’m also colouring in. I’ve been drawing some heart development diagrams for the cardiovascular embryology podcast in Adobe Illustrator and I’m about to colour these in too. Hmmm.

  • Cake baking

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    Jack helped bake his birthday cake. I think “help” is the right word.

  • Birthday Party

    Jack had a huge birthday party today, with all his friends and classmates invited. Organised pandemonium. Weeks and weeks of planning, preparing, hunting, ordering, buying, cooking, baking, cutting and bagging culminating in 2 hours of party. Jack and all his mates had a great time making things (masks, frogs, crowns, mice, etc), playing traditional party…

  • Jack’s 4th Birthday

    Jack has been very excited with the build up to his birthday. He is very much into all things firefighter-related (thanks to Fireman Sam) so was very, very happy to be able to dress up like a firefighter, utility belt and all. He had a tea party with a few friends, and will have a…

  • Eat, eat, eat

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    The boy doesn’t stop eating at the moment. He’s in the middle of a growth spurt, and he’ll be 4 years old tomorrow!

  • Lampposts

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    At every single lamppost…