Oliver & Charlie's Blog: 2012

Friday, October 5, 2012

Horrid Henry

A few weeks ago Oliver wrote to his favourite author, Francesca Simon, who writes the Horrid Henry books.

Today he received a letter back including a signed postcode:

Star of the Week

Today, Oliver was awarded Star of the Week in his class:

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Oliver's 300 Piece Jigsaw

Oliver finished the Horrible Science Smashing Solar System jigsaw that he got for his birthday...

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Back to School

It was back to school today. Oliver is now in Year 3 and Charlie is in Year 1.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Oliver's Photo Competition

Oliver entered the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Photographic Competition. These are his entries...

A Painted Lady Butterfly

A Snail On Grass

Anne Hathaway's Cottage

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Trip To London

Today we went to London. We went to Covent Garden for lunch and Charlie got pulled out of the crowd by a busker called Dave Chameleon...

...and then we went to see the Damien Hirst exhibition at the Tate Modern...

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Olympic Football

Today, we went to the Ladies Football Competition as part of the London 2012 Olympics. We saw Sweden v Japan...

Friday, July 27, 2012

The London 2012 Olympics are finally here.

Oliver and Charlie helped to welcome the Olympics this morning by ringing a bell at 8:12am...

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Lily's Naming Ceremony

Today we went to cousin Lily's naming ceremony...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Oliver's Swimming Certificate

This week, Oliver got his 25m swimming certificate!

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Aston Tower

Today we went to Aston Hall with Harvey...

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Oliver's 7th Birthday

Today was Oliver's 7th Birthday. He got lots of presents...

...including a Kindle...

...and we let Charlie's butterflies go that he had grown from caterpillars that he got for his birthday...

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Oliver's Birthday Party

Today was Oliver's Swimming Birthday Party at Cocksmoors Wood Leisure Centre...

Saturday, May 26, 2012

World BMX Championships

Today we went to the World BMX Championships at the NIA in Birmingham...

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

On Safari

Charlie spent some of his birthday money on a Playmobil Safari set...

Monday, April 30, 2012

Charlie's Costumes

Charlie has been doing a lot of dressing up lately...

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Flynn & Lawson Came To Stay

Our second cousins from Australia came to stay this weekend...

...and we went to Thinktank...

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Isla's Christening

Today we went to cousin Isla's Christening...

Monday, April 9, 2012

FAB1

Today we went to the Heritage Motor Museum. Here's us next to Lady Penelope's FAB1 car from Thunderbirds!

Friday, April 6, 2012

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

Today we went to see The Tiger Who Came To Tea at Birmingham Town Hall.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Oliver went to the hospital today because he couldn't walk when he woke up! He had some blood tests and it turned out to be a post-viral infection which had attached the muscles in his legs - he has to drink lots and lots over the next few days to flush it out!