We measured Jack and Ellie the other day – Jack has grown an inch and a half in just 12 weeks and is now 5 foot 3 and a half, Ellie is shooting up just as much and stands at five foot 2. Edward has also grown about an inch and a half in the same amount of time and is now the grand height of 2 foot 9. And don’t even get me started on the size of all of their feet!!

Edward is beginning to get his head around numbers – if you start to count he will join in and has got the sequence of 7, 8, 9, 10 down to a fine art along with 2 and 3.

He is also a boy who knows what he wants – he says, “Mum/Dad/Jack/Ellie c’m-here,” if he wants you to go to him and yesterday he was calling me from the lounge, “Mum, c’m-here!” I asked him what he wanted and he came into my office, “Finley…?” he said, whilst pointing to the TV.

“But Finley’s not on now Bear, it might be on later.”

“Finley!” he insisted pointing frantically at the TV, and then he disappeared back into the lounge. He returned moments later with a Wii controller, thrust it into my hand and went back to the lounge, “Mum, c’m-here, Finley,” he said pointing to the Wii. THat’s when it dawned on me that he wanted me to turn on the Wii, connect to the internet and BBC iPlayer so that he could watch Finley ‘on demand’!

He also knows what he likes and what he doesn’t like – whilst Meer-Meer (Thomas) is still a firm favourite along with Pocoyo, Bobber (Bob the Builder) and Pingu, he can’t stand this weirdo ‘In the Night Garden’ programme and isn’t overly interested in the Telletubbies either. So he’s not a boy that is content just to sit in front of the TV and watch anything that’s on; if he doesn’t like it, then he’s OFF preferring instead to play with his trains and tractors (the tractors have to go to bed with him now and be read Smoke and Fluff and Downy Duckling as many times as he can get out of us!)

The church website that I built is becoming a bit of a beast – I must say that it’s been a lot of fun doing it. There are all sorts of things going on and news to read about (and some GREAT pictures of the village *wink*) and the barn dance tickets are now available to buy online (I spent a lot of yesterday adding that facility to the site) so if you’re coming, go and buy your tickets because numbers are limited to 200! And if you’re not coming but haven’t seen the site lately go and have another look www.lowickchurch.com