Where do I start this week?!? Alicia decided to draw on her bed with blue biro – all over the covers and the paintwork. Next she drew over her china play tea set, then she bit her best friend’s finger (‘but she was about to kick me Mum!&rsquo and polished off the week nicely by spending most of her swimming lesson sat on the side because she didn’t want to do anything. I’ve also had problems keeping Gracie out of the fridge: snacking and playing with the contents. I caught her spreading soft cheese and butter all over her wooden play toast (it was quite cute though so I snuck up with the camera and caught her in action). Arghhh!

I have decided not to dwell on those incidents though, and instead share the wonderful times we have had. We were so excited to find that there was fruit on our strawberry plants! The girls were thrilled with the ‘fruits’ of their labour – I’ve attached a couple of pictures of the proud moment when two months of hard work were devoured in a few seconds!

We also finally got around to decorating the spare room for Alicia. We are switching everyone around – Sonny will go in the nursery, Gracie will move out of the nursery and into Alicia’s room, and Alicia will have a new room – confused?? It meant we only had to decorate one room. We didn’t let Alicia in to the room until it was finished. I was so excited; it is a perfect little girl’s room. I wish I was 4 again and it was my room! We captured the moment on camera Changing Rooms style.

Next week we are off on hols. We are going to the south of France with a quick stop at Disney on the way down. We haven’t told the girls about Disney so it should be a huge surprise when we pull up at the hotel!

Gracie and her kitchen antics

The green-fingered girls with their strawberries

 Our Changing Rooms moment