The creative juices are flowing in the Hammond house!

The girls have been drawing like their lives depend upon it this week. Lucy is loving school and is coming home drawing, reading and generally just wanting to learn. All this educational behaviour is clearly rubbing off onto her little sister, whose life mission is now to emulate her big sister. They will sit quietly and create an assembly line of imaginative creations, although Anna is not quite as skilled yet in explaining what she is drawing. You find yourself in that parental place that is a bit of a blur by simply saying 'That's nice Anna, very good!' - the reality being that you have no idea what you are looking at! Lucy treats Anna's pictures like the 'magic eye' ones in the eighties and spontaneously shouts out things like 'Well done Anna, it's a princess castle!' She obviously sees things that I don't!

Creative happenings are not just restricted to pictures, Lucy has developed a talent for elaborate story telling and her tale of 'Olivia the rainbow sheep' will go down in literary history forever as a classic. This week she came home from school having received a sticker for the best singing in the class, her teacher must be deaf, because in nearly five years of her life, this is not a talent I have heard any evidence of! Anna's powers of observation have expanded - she is now obsessed with my hairy arms and ran into the bathroom a couple of days ago whilst I was in the shower, pointed at my genitals and simply said 'What's that?'....