Christa is 4; Philippa is now 5 1/2 and Philip will be 2 soon in a few months!!! Time is moving on !!! The family is growing up fast - it is hard to keep pace with the changes; never a dull moment
Philippa is very mature, but is hampered by Christa's immaturity and Christa tends to tear down Philippa as a form of defence. The funny thing is that they may play for an hour or more and all of a sudden breaks down in tears but once that is resolved often they start playing again.
Christa in her defence also is a very nice, peaceable, fun-loving girl and always wants the best for her and others. It is unfortunate to her that Philippa is dominant and restricts Christa's 'space' which means that Christa, for her own preservation's sake has developed a rather effective method of tearing into Philippa in time of conflict.
In general I have evolved a simple hierarchy to allow peace in the home; Philip the youngest has top priority in a conflict, then Christa then last Philippa. So if Philip wants on the computer let him, and if Christa is fighting with Philippa for a toy in general I just instruct Philippa to release it for Christa to give back once finished using it.
Also with regards to morning prayer; not very frequently but desire to be more - get up and pray with Zoe and together we both pray for the kids as they are sleeping!! Find it makes a real difference to the girls when we do this.
Sunday 20 May 2007
Posts up to January 1 2007 inclusive (moved from another blog!
New Year 2007 Update
We are all well here at our flat in Enfield and I worked during the non-bank holiday days over the festive period but other than that had an enjoyable
time. Philippa is now 5 and can add up 2 digit numbers (eg 34+16) vertically which I'm quite pleased about as I try and make them do little bits of numbers or reading/writing most mornings before the day begins. Philippa is a very smart and buoyant girl who attracts gifts from children at school -
she received a Pooh bear for a Christmas present and the girl who gave it to Philippa was not even one of the girls that Philippa had made close aquaintance with and so Philippa did not even know the girl's name! She has just also received a huge necklace from someone else!!! Christa is 3 (nearly 4, in April) and likewise is doing well although a little more sulky than
Philippa! They both play for hours and hours interspersed with crying at
each other for a perceived offence! Baby Philip is 1 and a half years old now and a livlier more humorous character I do not know - he can sit on the
floor when I tell him to do so but promptly gets up the moment my eyes turn away again! He also writes on the walls but other than that is brilliant just to be around and all the girls in our church adore him!
We have a beautiful Ford Mondeo 2 litre black automatic and someone ran into the back of it! The amazing thing was that the front of the offending car
was crushed quite badly but our car suffered literally only paintwork damage!!! Zoe was shaken but otherwise unhurt, as was the offending driver
who it turned out was uninsured and passed fake contact details etc on to Zoe in the street who was shaken badly enough to let him get away without
cottoning on to the fact that he was faking the fact that he was offering to call the police if Zoe wanted to. Zoe eventually said no, let's settle privately but of course the first thing I did was to check his mobile and it
was invalid; went to his address and someone else lived there as well! Our insurance told us that his registration was showing as uninsured. But at
least Zoe and the car were relatively unscathed during the incident, just our pockets were financially put out of sorts!
Friday, August 11, 2006
Joint Photo of Children August 2006
They look so happy together; Philip (right) is 1, Christa (middle) is 3 and
Philippa (left) is nearly 5.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
I passed MCSA !
Yes thank You Lord!
I got 775 from 1000 (pass 700)
Now can look forward to MCSE and finally Exchange exams!
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Passed CCNA Qualification Last Month!!!
90% achieved for CCNA which is supposed to be a hard exam!!! I studied long and hard for it, and it paid off! I am well pleased with this result and it means I can now focus upon the Microsoft exams - 70-292 MCSA, 70-296 MCSE as well as MS Exchange finally in a month or two depending on how I pass the first two.
Well pleased!
Philip
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