Reason No. 347

I love Amélie and Seth more than I did yesterday because it's Easter and we all have lots to be thankful for - not least, chocolate and daffodils!

Reason No. 346

I love Seth and Amélie more than I did yesterday because they were very enthusiastic and helpful in making our Easter cake today - looking forward to eating it tomorrow!

Reason No. 345

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she ran wildly around the house and garden at Chatsworth looking for Easter eggs today, and found all 24 (with Seth's help!).

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because when Amélie asked whether they could play on their iPads after lunch, he said "no Daddy says we aren't allowed to play on our iPads until the end of the day and I don't think it's the end of the day yet is it?"

Reason No. 344

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because in making an Easter card/picture for Nanny Mabel, he told Amélie off for drawing 'a hen which is ginormous and chicks which are teensy weensy'.

I live Amélie more than I did yesterday because in making the same picture, she started with a far more rational question "now should we do this portrait or landscape?"

Reason No. 343

I love Amélie and Seth because they had another good day at home with TWBD but had a major, joint rebellion over food!  They didn't want cheeses toast, the definitely didn't want salmon, and the presented a united front in negotiating for either pasta or fish and chips. Successfully!

Reason No. 342

I love Seth and Amélie more than I did yesterday because they both behaved really well for TWBD who needed to do some work today, so they watched a film, played with their ipads and wrote new stories which they made into books.

Reason No. 341

I love Amélie and Seth more than I did yesterday because although I was in London all day, they clearly had a very productive day, including creating a new friend........

Reason No. 340

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he won at Monopoly against TWBD and Amélie and was very excited about it.

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she showed again that she has no fear - watching Dr Who with the weeping angels which scared the life out of Seth but Amélie found hilarious.

Reason No. 339

I love Amélie and Seth more than I did yesterday because we all had a fabulous day - over 6 inches of snow so we started the day with some sledging - pictures below - then they put on a puppet show (The Ugly Duckling), then we watched a Bond film (Spy Who Loved Me), then they had a drawing competition. A day very well spent!

Reason No. 338

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because when we were waiting to pick Amélie up from school he said "I hope Amélie won the Easter egg competition" which was great because he didn't win the competition at his school.

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she really stuck up for Seth when he was being told off for being naughty by TWBD - and although I told her that she shouldn't side with Seth against Daddy, the sibling bond was great to see.

Reason No. 337

I love Amélie and Seth more than I did yesterday because they are both getting very excited about Easter - Seth made an Easter chick at school and they both made secret Easter cards for me!

Reason No. 336

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because when I picked him up from school he was so focused on his drawing that he didn't want to leave and then spent all the walk to the car explaining exactly what the different bits of the picture were and what each bit did.

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because we decided that she was Seth's mini-Mummy on the way home by the way she was saying "Seth you are dropping a lot of crumbs on the seat you should be more careful!"

Reason No. 335

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because at bedtime when I was saying to her that Seth was being a bit of a sausage, she said "but I like Sethy just the way he is and don't want him to change at all".

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because I bought him a piggy bank from John Lewis as a 'prize' for his fantastic egg, but when we got it out of the packet it was split along the bottom. And although he was really upset, he took it very well. Needless to say, Mr John Lewis is getting another visit from me tomorrow!

Reason No. 334

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he didn't win the egg competition - we woz robbed! - and he was devastated but we had a good chat about life not always being fair and us knowing that Seth's egg was totally fab, so he was happier.

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because as I arrived back from London she handed me a picture she had done which said "Dear Mummy I hope you get an erley train home from Amélie".

Reason No. 333

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she was both incredibly brave - letting us manhandle her to finally get her very wonky tooth out which caused her great pain - and was extremely creative - making a white rabbit out of an egg for her school egg decorating competition.

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he had a fantastic time with TWBD making TWB decorated egg - a red dalek.

Reason No. 332

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because, as usual, he's had a creative start to the weekend - making Lego models and planning what he is going to do to decorate his hard boiled egg for school - hopefully more on that tomorrow.

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she was desperate to get out of the house, despite the poor weather, so went out into the garden on her own, ran around and played on the swing.  Ten came back after 20 mins, cold but happy.

Reason No. 331

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she looked totally fab in her 'Victorian Day' costume - 90% of the girls were dressed as maids so she was much more original.

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he had his sponsored sports event today - but typically for Seth, couldn't remember what sports he'd done or whether he had won anything.

Reason No. 330

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he lost his first tooth this evening. And he was very peturbed about it, because "I don't like the way I look any more". But I think he looks gorgeous!

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because on the way to school she said "if eggs have baby chickens in them, how do they also have the bits that we eat when we have boiled eggs, and how do they get it in without breaking the shells?"

Reason No. 329

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she sat down when she got home from school, following Seth's example, and drew a fantastically detailed picture of a made-up game involving several of her toys being shot by space aliens and blown up by TNT. But it's definitely not Angry Birds!

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he came home from school, having done a full storyboard of Angry Birds, and sat down to finish it off in full detail.

Reason No. 328

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he continues to be very excited about his Angry Birds game and tonight was very concerned at bedtime to check that I wasn't upset with him because he has got to the angry bird bat pigs in the Hoth section she I've only got to the Tattoine section!  Whatever that might mean!

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she ended up getting 10 out of 12 for the spelling test that she didn't study for last week - so she's definitely a spelling genius!

Reason No. 327

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because I took her to school this morning and on the way she told me that she liked getting merits for 3 10 out of 10 spelling tests but she liked even more getting a merit for getting 3 10 out of 10 for her weekly maths test which she did last week. Which is great because we'd been so focused on spelling and we didn't even know she had a weekly maths test!

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he suddenly burst into song this evening with a near word and note perfect rendition of 'Do You Hear the People Sing' from Les Mis and then sang along while I played it on the piano.

Reason No. 326

I love Seth and Amélie more than I did yesterday because I had the best Mother's Day ever. Not only did I get the handbag 'they' bought me yesterday but I also got a orchid, some chocolates and the piano score for Les Miserables. Heavenly!

Reason No. 325

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she was really keen to do her piano practice after a day out, then did her piano worksheet homework too - a budding composer perhaps?

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he was fantastic at the Manchester Museum on our day out today - Stan the T-Rex was "totally awesome".

Reason No. 324

I love Seth and Amélie more than I did yesterday because there were scenes of extreme excitement when they realised that TWBD had put Angry Birds Star Wars on their iPads. Seth "it's totally awesome and cool and look what happens when you do this....."  Amélie (rather drily) "I think Seth is quite excited about this game!"

Reason No. 323

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because I finally found a suitable 'Victorian' themed outfit for her to wear to school history day next week - a sailor-suit - and it looked really lovely on her. Picture to follow when the whole outfit is sorted.

I live Seth more than I did yesterday because we had his parents evening today and he got a glowing report from his teacher who was full of praise for his reading, writing, behaviour and general fab-ness.

Reason No. 322

I love Seth and Amélie more than I did yesterday because I got home to find them both busily and beautifully drawing dinosaurs. Seth then went further and wrote a description of his dinosaur copied out of the dinosaur book. Very proud pictures below.

Reason No. 321

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she was really excited about seeing TWBD who was away working yesterday. She had written him a note saying she was sorry he had to go to work and was really keen to give it to him this morning.

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he was also very excited to show TWBD the picture he drew of the Eiffel Tower after reading his homework book about Paris. He also took it to school to show his teacher and she thought it was great too.

Reason No. 320

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because when I picked him up from school, he double-checked with me that I had remembered his great idea for an Easter egg hunt!  Only a month away but never mind!

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because we had a great discussion when doing her reading homework about the one of succession "but who decides who should be king or queen, what if the little boy prince was a girl would she be queen etc?" - and very difficult to explain why, even though she's the older, if I were queen, Seth would be the next king under the current law!

Reason No. 319

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because she is very self-sufficient some time - while Seth was doing his homework she took it upon herself to tidy up all the toys in time for lunch, without being asked or prompted.

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because we had a hilarious time doing his reading homework. I was trying to get him to use more expression and to look at things like exclamation marks and question marks to show where the expression should go. But he went completely over the top and we both found it hilariously funny.

Reason No. 318

I love Seth and Amelie and TWBD more than I did yesterday because we had a really fantastic day out in the Peak District and around Peveril Castle.  Everyone had a whale of a time, running around the ruins in the sunshine, and learning things about Medieval life.

Reason No. 317

I love Amélie more than I did yesterday because Seth and TWBD were a bit late picking her up from ballet but she had got herself completely dressed and was ready for them - whilst other girls were still half way through being dressed by their parents.

I love Seth more than I did yesterday because he was singing along to the Les Mis songs and knows half of them now because they have sung some of them at school.