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So the blog has taken a back seat over the past few years due to a whole range of things, not least time constraints.  I finally got round to getting the last blog printed recently and its given us all so much pleasure that I'm inspired to start again.  So here it is: 'Abi & Izzy, the next 5 years'.  The thing I really noticed was how much we forget over time, so being able to go back and read what we were doing, however routine, has been lovely.

I'm writing this on a wet Sunday afternoon, sitting in the living room of our lovely new house. The fire is roaring, Abi is next to me on the sofa, Scoobs is sprawled on the floor and Izzy is dressed as a pirate cuddled up to Daddy while trying to avoid touching his shoulder.  The TV is tuned to 'World's Scariest Drivers' on request of the petrol heads in the family - that would be everyone but me. Situation normal Chez Drinkwater. The shoulder situation is the latest in a series of injuries for Glenn - this one falling off his bike.  We tried to get him to go to A&E this morning but instead he's self diagnosed a broken collarbone and is treating it through jellybeans and ignoring it.  Do boys ever grow up?!

We have settled into our new house amazingly quickly and the girls are loving the extra space, albeit is has pretty much rained non-stop since we moved in and I feel like we will never dry out.  The weekend we moved in there was a major storm which tested the trees if nothing else, and proved that the ones closest to the house appear to be robust.  Not so the ones in the wood which seem to fall down pretty regularly - hopefully there will be some left by the spring!

The girls are growing up so fast and love nothing more than to role play teachers, doctors, nursery and many other games. Abi is a board game fiend with the same sense of gamesmanship as her father (get in quick, take no prisoners, cheat if necessary).  Izzy has less patience and spends the first part of any board game very engaged, the middle part generally distracted doing headstands and the final part in tears on the floor as she realises she's losing again... She prefers to draw, dress up or play Subway Surfers (or some other junk game) on her iPad. 

The questions we get from both of them are brilliant.  Abi has taken to posing us with bedtime 'thunks' - something they do at school - basically questions designed to make you think and discuss.  The first one we got was 'if you take all of the books out of the library, is it still a library?'.  Deep for a bedtime question.  We had the choice of 'yes' or 'no' - a bit limited! Izzy is sucking up knowledge like a sponge and is currently the family expert on polar bears - ask her pretty much any question and she can answer it, including the top 5 foods of a polar bear, why they don't eat penguins and how big a baby polar bear is at birth.  Very useful if you are planning on being a pirate when you grow up!

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