Reason No. 365

I love Amélie much much much more than I did 365 days ago because over the past year she has grown even more lovely, very thoughtful, incredibly bright particularly on spelling and writing, and she takes huge joy in even the smallest thing - as shown by her very excited reaction when she heard I was going to take her to school tomorrow.

I love Seth much much much more than I did 365 years ago because over the past year he has become an even more gorgeous boy, hugely creative, very focussed on things he's interested in and with a vivid imagination - demonstrated by discussion of our future holiday in Venice which seems to involved racing cars down the Grand Canal instead of boats!

And that's it - the last reason, although I'm sure I'll continue loving them more and more each day. But I've no idea what I'll blog about now!

Reason No. 364

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he was very excited about his piano lesson today where he played a piano-related game on his teacher's iPad and he got a gold, silver and bronze award.

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because when she was walking back from school today with TWBD, he asked her what the special name for the new grass they had laid was (artificial) and she said straight off "fake!"

Reason No. 363

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because during breakfast, when I was well on my way to London, some piano music came on the radio and she got very confused, looked upstairs and said "that sounds just like Mummy playing".

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he is getting really good with maths, particularly fractions, and regularly tells us that 2 halves makes 1 and 3 halves makes 1 and a half.

Reason No. 362

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because bounced in to and out of school on his first day back, clearly delighted to be there.

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she read so nicely to TWBD this evening that Seth stopped playing and went over to listen.

Reason No. 361

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because at bedtime she said that her best part of the day wasn't the snuggling up watching a film at lunchtime but was when she was writing up her holiday diary for school which took a lot of work and was fab.

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because at bath time he lay back in the bath and said "this is the life!"  I've no idea where he got that from!

Reason No. 360

I love Seth and Amélie more than I did yesterday because they were really good today playing really well together, making up games, and behaving well during a shopping trip with TWBD - all allowing me to get on with some work catch-up.

Reason No. 359

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she was so lovely to Seth at tea time when they shared a biscuit where she got the bigger half - and she voluntarily pulled a bit off hers to give it to him.

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he was really sweet to Amélie when she was very upset (mostly through tiredness) and he went and gave her a really big kiss and a cuddle.