'Gifts... but not from the pirates'

After receiving his birthday presents from Chris and Michelle early last weekend Seth decided that he wanted to write a post about them. I did write this on my phone during the week but have had so much going on that i haven't got round to writing it up until now. So here's the little fella...

"On saturday we was going to Blists hill with Chris and Michelle. When they got here i opened some of my birthday presents when it wasn't my birthday yet. Chris said i could open them early and i checked with Mommy, Pauly and Opeie to see if it was Ok. They said yes and i felt very excited.

There were two presents, I opened the first one and it was a book about Lego and how to build things. I shouted Pauly to tell him because we had been in Smyths and had been talking about. Were going to build some of the things out of it. I want to try and build some of the pirate things. I opened the second present and I LOVED IT! I wanted to play with it straight away but we had to go out, oh yeah it was a Batman utility belt i forgot to say.

When we got back from Blists Hill we got it straight out. It is so cool and i like it a lot. There's a mini case and you can put mini Batarangs in it. There is a torch and it shines a Bat symbol, luckily Michelle brought batteries so i could play with it straight away. It's got a grapple hook shooter, me and Chris were trying to shoot it into Pauly's apple pie and custard. Im really happy that Chris and Michelle are my friends and i love my presents. Thank you Chris and Michelle."

Well as you can probably tell weve had a pretty excited young super hero on our hands who loves strutting around with his gadgets close to hand. Thanks Chris and Michelle i think you may be invited into the league of heroes very soon.

Learning to read.....

We don't have any problems finding books to read to our 5 year old,he loves being read to and doesn't mind what it is. Now he's at school he's starting to read things for himself a lot more. We've been trying to find ways to incorporate things he enjoys into his learning to read.

These books are great for first words, sentences and letter sounds. They are made by phonics and are from the 'i can read!' series. We brought the spider-man and batman box sets. Our boy loves them but I'm sure he will love them a lot more when his reading gets better.

A few months back we had a really good find in a charity shop, I get most of the boys books from charity shops,our local charity shop does 'fill a plastic bag with books for £1' so you can imagine how many books the boys have in their room.

These board books are from the Spider-man and friends special helpers series, in each one Spider-man saves the day and captures the villains with the help of two children. Poor sandman gets sucked up a vacuum by the children (sucks being a super villain).

It wouldn't be right unless i also included our homes bible,a book that we read religiously throughout the week. it has brought us a lot of guidance and i feel without it we would fall into a life of chaos and confusion....

Obviously i was talking about 'The Marvel Encyclopedia' 70 years of Marvel comics between 2 hard covers. No comic book geeks home should be without it. I was over the moon when Mrs Mcfly brought it for me for being a good boy (ill just have to keep up my good behaviour and hope that secures me the DC Comics edition for Christmas). It's a great read but also has another great advantage. When purchasing large lots of action figures off eBay, sometimes you have no idea who some of the characters are but now me and the boys can refer to the oracle now to find out.