With love, from the Tooth Fairy

So, now it was bedtime and Jasmine has been asking me all day when she's allowed to put her tooth under her pillow. And finally the time arrived.  As I was really tired, I went to bed at the same time as the kids and we all piled into my King-sized bed.  We therefore decided that we would put the tooth under the pillow I was sharing with Jasmine.  I duly set my mobile phone alarm so that I'd remember to get up and exchange the tooth for some money, and then we all settled in for a story.  I told them a story (I made up) about a young tooth fairy in training called Tatiana.  She was on her very first mission to collect a tooth from a little girl called Isabella.  The Queen of the Tooth Fairies gave her special instructions, as this tooth was one of the most valuable of all as it was the first tooth that had fallen out and they were extra special.  Tatiana was very excited to be on her first ever assignment and she was very careful to put the tooth in her pouch and leave a shiny gold coin.  She then hurried back to the Land of the Tooth Fairies, eager to show the Queen how well she'd done.  But, to her horror, when she got back and opened her pouch, the tooth was gone!  She then noticed a small hole in the bottom of the pouch......Anyway, to cut a longish story short, whilst flying over the Valley she decided to take a rest under  daisy, and lo and behold, she spotted the missing tooth.... (ok, so I'm not the world's best storyteller, but I did try!) They kept asking me if it was true, but I just said that no-one really knows.

We all then fell asleep, and I was woken a few hours later to carry out my Tooth Fairy duties.  I put the tooth in a special little box I have, just for first teeth, then found a scrap of white paper that I sometimes use in Cardmaking which looks like it is woven out of silky cobwebs.  I wrote a little note to Jasmine in tiny fairy-like handwriting thanking her for her special tooth and signing it off 'with love, Tatiana x'

I put the note under Jasmine's pillow this time, along with a pound coin, and moved the kids to their own beds.

And in the morning........The first thing she did was to look under her pillow.  And the look of utter awe was sooo cute.  Ben read her the letter and then ran off into our room shouting to Nick "It's true, it's really true!"

Memory Lane

I was going through some old pictures today so I could send some to someone who asked for some particular ones (vague I know, but there is a good reason for that!), and came across this one of Jasmine.  It was taken at a her Godmother's (and one of my very best friends) 40th birthday a few years back.  It brought back memories of that night with Ben and Jas performing for all the delighted guests. I didn't seem to take one of Ben singing, but found this one of Jasmine.....

Then I came across pictures of Ben's first haircut.  Prior to this momentous occasion, his hair was long enough to do lovely styles like this:

but, as he was due to start school part-time after the summer, I decided it was time to make it easier to maintain.  So off we went to my aunts salon......

He looked so small in that big chair.....

but was obviously very comfortable because before long, he fell fast asleep!

*yes, rubbish quality photos...I apologise for my old cheap, freebie camera!

Happy Easter!

Easter was a busy one for us....with so many family to see in various cities, and all in the space of one bank holiday weekend....

First off was Leicester, where we got to meet my cousin's baby for the first time......

a newly shaved Ben

Then it was on to Nottingham, where the next morning, Easter Sunday, the kids got to do an egg hunt courtesy of Pippi......

First she hid the eggs in the front garden (the back was still too soggy)

The off the kids went

 

As a child, we never did egg hunts, in fact, the first and only time I did one was on my first visit to Germany aged 18.  The family I stayed with had two girls and they hid little eggs and sweets around my room, then stood by excitedly as I hunted for them.  It was lovely and a wonderful surprise.

After a couple nights in Nottingham, where we sadly had to leave the kids, we drove on to Birmingham to visit Nick's grandmother.  Cue, lots of food....yum!

And at every stop we got to share the good news.