Saturday 14th April 2012

dear daddy

i was very cleva and gud boy this morning becorse wen i got out of bed i asked mummy for a wee and poo on the toilet and i did do a wee and poo and that was even before my brekfast so what do you fink of that and becorse i chose aunty kath insted of ducks yesterday nanna had given mummy all the bred for that was for the ducks so mummy sed that wile it was sunny we wud go to the park and feed the ducks and i thought that was fair enuf becorse i bet they were hungree now and i had a nice time at the park and the ducks were veree hungree and followed me and mummy all around the pond and i can kick and throw my ball and i had lots of gose on the big slide and wen we got bak home traysi and faith was there and it was nice becorsse we all had dinna together but afta dinna i was really tired so i had a nap but mummy had to wake me up to go swimming and wen i went downsteers aunty kate and faith were there but not traysi peepel just come and go in our house anyway aunty kate and faith came swimming and wen i was in my swimming fings i saw lucinda so i ran to her and we had a big hug and kiss and i was brilliant at swimming and i kicked on my back all the way there and back and i catched the sleeping fish undawater and aunty kate and faith were very impressed wiv me and afta swimming oskabah had buyed me more happy burfday presents and i got a book wiv a train on and a book abowt rinos and pancakes and something to make monsters wich i fink aunty kate liked the look of and wen we got home i played wiv faith and then we all had tea togevva and then traysi came back becorse she had to take faith home and i started to do a wee and poo in my big boy pants but it was ok becorse i hold it hold it hold it and i finished it in my toilet so i was a cleva and gud boy agen

lots of love
jack xx

Friday 13th April 2012

dear daddy

well this morning i waked up at nanna and grandads house and gaga asked me if i wanted to feed the ducks or visit aunty kath and uncle duffield and i sed aunty kath and i fink aunty kath was probablee very pleased that she had beat the ducks and i fink i may hav sekured my future as her favorit grate nefew hee hee and wen i got back to nanna and gagas house for dinna mummy arrived and afta my dinna me and mummy and aunty kate went to a windmill and mummy carrid me all the way to the top of the windmill and she sed it wud probably hav been easyer to carry two sacks of weet and it was a shame they cudnt attach me to the pullee chains and oh well becorse once mummy carrid me to the top she had to carry me back down agen and there is a likkel museum there and i liked playing wiv the weelie magnet fing and then we went to play on the park and that was gud fun and there is a really big slide and it is really fast and i went on 3 times wiv mummy so that was even more steps to carry me up and i went on the see saw marjeree door wiv aunty kate and i liked our likkel trip to the windmill and wen we got back to nanna and gagas i had a nap becorse it weared me out and afta i plaid in the garden and we had running races reddy steddy go and i even counted 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 all by myself and everybody gave me a big clap and sed i was a cleva boy and wen we got home mummy had buyed me a new toy for my village and it is a police station and police car and police motabike and policeman and police lady so now all the peepel will be safe

lots of love
jack xx

Thursday 12th April 2012

dear daddy
i had a lovelee time at nurseree this morning i liked playing outside and playing boo wiv lisa and helping lynn to lay the label reddy for dinna time wiv the mats and i always chek that lynn is in the kitchin and hasnt run away anywhere and mummy picked me up from nurseree and i had a likkel drive in mummys car but i let mummy drive us home and wen we got home i plaid crawling under mummy wich is a veree gud game and then i saw you on the computa but sorree daddy i wasnt very talky today becorse i felt quite tired so i had a nice nap this aftanoon and wen i woke up aunty kate was here so i showed her how i can pack my gruffalow case becorse i was going to stay wiv nanna and grandad becorse mummy sed she was going to be a chikin tonight wich is a bit odd i just hope she is back to being mummy tomorrow

lots of love
jack xx

Wednesday 11th April 2012

dear daddy

well nanna and grandad are seeing a lot of me becorse we went to their house agen this morning becorse i had to hav my fotograff taken wiv my tree in the garden becorse even though i carnt remember i hav had my fotograff taken every year wiv my appel tree and i fink grandad wore his blue jumper espeshully and i stood really nicely wiv nanna grandad mummy and the tree for the pikture and afta grandad lit the chiminea and i helped him collect wood in my weelbarrow for the fire to eat and aunty kate wasnt there today but i felt very tired for sum reason so i was reddy for my nap this aftanoon and wen i got up mummy helped me wiv my train track she makes really good tracks for me and mummy has bin trying to teech me how to pedal my bike and i am nearly getting it right but i fink my legs need to be a tiny bit longer anyway not much else happend today

lots of love
jack xx

Tuesday 10th April 2012

dear daddy

ooh wow a new book to rite in becorse i filled the last one up and htis time i have lines agen wich makes it much easyer today i went to nanna and grandads house becorse i thort mummy was going to work but there lies a storee but anyway nanna and grandad tuk me to weelgate and i had a really fun time on the slides and the piret ship and the swings and the cars and it was very bizee but becorse nanna and grandad hav got speshul passes we cud go straight in but it was still bizee inside but it didnt stop me playing and having fun and before we went home we went to see the aminals in the hot house and wen we got back to nanna and grandads house i plaid outside in the garden and helped grandad move all the slate exsept grandad sed he didnt realise it was a quarry and i had my tea and i was just eating my carrot cake and mummy came back wiv aunty kate and it turns out mummy hadnt been to work aftaall but her and aunty kate had just been eating and drinking tea all day and i thort it was funny that mummy wasnt wearing her tinytalk tshirt so now i know

lots of love

jack xx

Jack - 2 years on

I've temporarily taken control of Jack's blog to share with you the following photographs, each taken exactly 1 year apart, on the 11 April each year.  The apple tree that the pictures are taken by was planted in the week Jack was born in his Nanna and Grandad's garden;

8 days old, 11/4/10

1yr 8 days, 11/4/10 with Nanna, Grandad and Aunty Melanie



2yrs, 8 days, 11/4/12



Tuesday 3rd April 2012

dear daddy

happy burfday you happy burfday you happy burfday jack happy burfday you today i am 5 well mummy sed i am 2 but i fink i like 5 better today and nanna and grandad came and i had loads of presents to open and i can open them really quicklee and wow i got a wat and sand pit and a boat and liked singing row row boat and a vakuum cleaner but mummy sed it is a golf caddy and a football and a new coat wich i wore all morning and sum skittel fings that you stand up and hav to nock them down wiv a ball and then we all had sumfing to eat and plaid wiv my new toys and then i saw you on the computa and wow i had sum more presents and i got a tool bench and i was gud at hammering and a train set and nanna helped me build the track and there is a bridge and then i had dinna and then lots of peepel came to say happy burfday to me and there was traysi and dave and faith and i plaid wiv faith and then aunty kath and unkel duffield came and wow agen i had even more presents like my nee nar police van and my cd boom box that i can sing along to and i fink nanna liked that to becorse later wen she was on her own in the front room me and gaga and mummy cud hear her singing along to the musik and then unkel frank came and franki and then we all went into the back roomand i sat on the big chair and everyone sang happy burfday and then mummy bought in a cake wiv 2 not 5 candels on and i blowed them both out in one big blow so all the practising wiv the lite was worth it and everyone clapped and shouted hip hip hooray and i had lots of cake and chokolate and hummus but not together and then i did lots more playing wiv everyone and had my pikture taken wiv everyone before they went home smile and unkel dave and lukas came and lukas like playing wiv my police van to and i really really like my burfday and all my presents and seeing all my family and eating cake and parties are lots of fun and it was a shame you wasnt there but i was so bizee i didnt really notice and becorse you wasnt there i am having another partee so in sum ways it was gud you wasnt there so i can hav 2 partees and mayb wen i am 5 i can have 5 partees

lots of love

jack xx

Monday 2nd April 2012

dear daddy

this morning i had a nice time at nursery playing wiv the bricks and outside and mummy picked me up and wen we got home nanna and gaga was there becorse they had been helping mummy at work and they had a tinytalk partee and mummy let me hav one of the chokolate eggs but i fink it was only so she cud have one of nannas cakes and mummy needs to realise that now i am nearlee 2 i am not so gullibel and i had a likkel nap and wen i got up nanna and gaga was still there and we all went to sainsberrys together and then nanna and gag went home and me and mummy did sum puzzels together an my favorit one was a nursery rime bus one and this aftanoon i was a likkel bit grumpee and i fink it is becorse i am exsited abowt it being my burfday tomorrow

lots of love

jack xx

Sunday 1st April 2012

dear daddy

the sun must hav liked its rest yesterday becorsse it was back out to play agen today so this morning afta brekfast i plaid nisely wiv my toys wile mummy got our dinna redy becorse she sed we wud hav it wen we got back from visiting unkel franks and she was making silly sossage casseroll and we walked all the way to unkel franks well mummy did i was in my pushchair and wen we got to unkel franks he had sum toys for me to play wiv and mummy and unkel frank talked wile i plaid and then it was time for us to go home and mummy had to carry a big bag wiv my presents in and wen we got home i wanted to open them but mummy sed they were for my burfday and that wasnt until tuesday and i wud have to wait until then so i practised singing happy burfday you happy burfday you happy burfday you and that made mummuy laff and she sed it was gud and everwon wud be singing it to me soon and i will be 2 and afta my yummy silly sossage casseroll i had a nice nap and then i had my tea in the garden and i saw sum bumbel bees and a balloon in the sky and then we went inside and i did sum drawing and i drew a car and a shower and the sun and mummy sed they were abstract whateva that means and then we had a walk to post sum letters for jill becorse she in on holliday and i tuk my dinosaw and mummy showed me 2 burds nests and i showed mummy a cat and i posted the letters in the post box

lots of love

jack xx 

Saturday 31st March 2012

dear daddy
well atleast we had a slowa start to the day today and i fink even the sun must have felt lazee becorse we didnt see much of it today this morning we went to the libree i like playing wiv the toys there and sitting in the book train and i had a chat wiv the libree laydee becorse she asked me if we was going to the park and i knew we wasnt so i told her jills house but i dont fink she new who jill was and i plaid wiv a girl in the kitchin but she had to go wiv her mummy and then annuva girl came in and i sed hello girl but she didnt ansa me so i sed hello girl lowder but she still didnt ansa me so i roked on the horse insted and i helped mummy choose sum gud books for my bedtime storys and my favorits are maisie mouse bed time and i sang twinkel twinkel like maisie dose to her teddy and i like dont put your finger in the jelly nelly and this aftanoon nanna came and piked me and mummy up and we went swimming and i had a really gud time even though marie didnt get in to the warter but i waved to her and my favorit things are monkee monkee and 123 woosh and laying on my back on the woggel and kicking and mummy sed i was brilliant and i fink she was rite

lots of love
jack xx

Friday 30th March 2012

dear daddy
oh my goodness me i dont know what mummy is trying to do to me but it has bin non stop today we went to the farm this morning but i dont fink it was old macdonalds farm eieio and all my nursery frends were there but it wasnt at nursery and mummy staid wiv me we all plaid on the park there for ages and i can clime up the steps to the slide all by myself now and i bownced on the seasaw wiv evie and then we all sat down and had appel and juisse and then we went to see the aminals and i fed the goats and the cows and the rabits and the cow had a really long tong and it cud put it up its nose and it gave me a big lik on the hand and i wasnt skared of the aminals like sum of my nursery frends were even though one time the goat got a bit xsited and i left my hand in his mowf for to long and he gave me a likkel bite and we all had a piknik at the farm and i really like pikniks and this piknik had sandwiches wiv jam and ham and fish payst and crisps and biskits and more juise and mummy sed i was lucky boy to hav so many treats and it was a gud job she had brought sum pear and blueberrys and razzberrys becorse a likkel boy carnt live on crisps alone although i wud giv it a gud try and afta we went to look at more aminals and then we had to go but we didnt go home we went to a playgroup and i helped mummy sing sum of her tinytalk songs but most of the time i pushed a vacuum cleaner around and a pushchair but then there was annuva lady and so i sat wiv mummy to sing sum songs and i had to be a sleeping easter bunny and i sed sssh and then i shouted wayk up to wayk everyone up and then we still didnt go home but we went to a shu shop and i liked the frog shus but they were to small but i like the piret shus so thats ok and mummy sed i still had to get sum propa shus but there wasnt any in my size and then finally we went home and i fink me and mummy were as tired as each other

lots of love
jack xx

Thursday 29th March 2012

dear daddy
well my days arent calming down any i am such a bizee bumbel bee bzz bzz bzz this morning mummy put lots of sun cream on me becorse it was veree sunny agen and mummy sed the cream wud mayke sure the sun wudnt hurt me wich is very cleva and mummy tuk me to nursery and i had lerzanya for dinna and i had a nice time and it was funny becorse nanna came to pick me up not mummy and i showed nanna where muy peg is wiv my bag on it and i was very tired but wen i got bak to nanna and grandads i wanted to play in the garden not sleep but i was tired and my legs were wobblee and i went bump on my bottom so then i thought i had betta hav a milk and sleep and that was betta so i cud play in the garden afta and i sed hello to jed and i ate my beans on toast outside and then mummy cane and she helped me to warter the flowers wiv my wartering can and gaga got the hose pipe out as well and me and mummy ran under the bridge of warter and then nanna and mummy gave me a leg and a wing to see the king bum bum and i showed nanna and gaga how to play simon says and then it was time to come home and i liked to see you on the computa and to show you how to play geetar and mayb i will see you tomorrow and i can tell you what i hav bin doing tomorrow

lots of love
jack xx

Wednesday 28th March 2012

dear daddy

well what a fun day in the sun i hav had today and i have been doing lots of walking and running around so i rekon i cud hav got to the moon and bak it all started at the park and mummy and me went to play wiv marina and george and do you know daddy that george was 2 on sunday and i am going to be 2 on tuesday so that means george is older than me but hes not bigga and i gave him a present wich was a card game and i fink he liked it becorse he gave a big cheer wen he opend it and we went down the big slide togevva and we plaid hide and seek and kep mayking our mummys jump boo hee hee and i plaid on the simon says game and followed all the things that simon says we had to do and we kicked and frowed our balls and then we had a lovely piknik and we shared all our food togevva and that was very nice and i even saved a bit of my ham sandwich for the duks quak quak but i dont fink the duks were hungree becorse they didnt come or mayb they are vegiterean and then it was time to go so i gave marina and george a big cuddel and kiss and on the way home we sed hello to jills fishes and then we stopped at annuva place and a layde cut my hair wich i wasnt expecting but i like my new hair cut and my hed doesnt feel so hot now and i was a gud boy and sat nice and still xcept for when the hair got up my nose and tikeled i didnt like that very much but the laydee wiped my face so that was betta and she sed i was really gud but i still had to give her sum money even though she tuk sumfing from me and i didnt by anyfing from her that seems a bit unfair but i gess thats just the way it works and we didnt stay home for long befor we were shooting off to nanna and grandads hourse and wen we got there i was shouting gaga gaga but he wasnt there strait away so i had a nice time at nanna and grandads and plaid outside until mummy came to get me so mummy sed wiv all my time outside today i shud have got my vitimin d i know i am very tired now

lots of love

jack xx

Tuesday 27th March 2012

dear daddy
today has bin very sunny and hot so it was a gud job i rememberd to take my sun hat to nanna and grandads and i went to colick park wiv nanna and grandad and we fed the duks quak quak and afta we went to see aunty kath and unkle duff and i had a likkel bit of ice cream at aunty kaths and i asked aunty kath nicely for it and i sed ice cream aunty kath up and she got up and i fink that upset unkle duff becorse he sed aunty kath wudnt just get up for him but mayb thats becorse he doesnt ask nicely like me and i had a nap at nanna and grandads and nanna had to wayke me up and it was still very sunny wen i waked up so i plaid outside wiv nanna and grandad and wen mummy came i was playing rolling wiv the hoolar hoops and i showed mummy how to warter the garden and wen i had my tea and by the time we came home it was time for me to watch alphablocks and chuggington choo choo but i did wonder where you were and i know you are at work but i thought you mite be bak by now

lots of love
jack xx

Monday 26th March 2012

dear daddy

i hav had a veree bissee day today mummy tuk me to nurseree but lisa wasnt there but that was ok becorse there was other laydies there that plaid wiv me and the weavver was nice today so i plaid outside lots and weared my sun hat and i like to drive in the cars and i did lots of throwing and kicking balls and also there was sum hoolar hoops and it made me laff wen chantelle was pushing them along and i had my dinner at nurseree and it was yummy leek and ham pie and i asked for more please and i had pear for pudding and wen mummy came to pik me up i was having a nice read and lisa came in just before we went so i sed hello to lisa and i was pleased that i seed her on the way bak home mummy sed we had to pop to the shop and i sed sainsberry and mummy sed yes so i told her wich way she had to go this way this way that way and i got us there safe and sound and i had lots of fun trying to run away from mummy in sainsberry but i dont fink mummy liked the game as much as i did and wen we got home i was tired so i had my milk and sleep and wen i woke up lucinda and her mummy was here and she was playing wiv my toys but i dont mind sharing my toys wiv lucinda espechully becorse wen i came downsteers from my nap lucinda came and gave me a big cuddel and kiss hello and lucinda and sarah stayed for tea and it was nice becorse we all sat down and ate it togevva and i like it wen lucinda comes to play and lucinda had to go home becorse she had to hav a baff so i helped mummy put my toys away and i did a poo and wee on my toilet and then i watched alphablocks and chuggington and then i went upsteers and i had a very nice and warm baff after my baff i had two more wees on my toilet and i knew they were coming becorse a bit falled on the floor so i sed mummy wee wee toilet and i managed to hold the rest of the wee wee in until i got to the toilet and mummy sed i was very cleva anyway mummy sed you were at work so i will rite you lots of letters

lots of love

jack xx

Thursday 5th January 2012

dear daddy
this morning i wayked up very very earlee and i was very upset and mummy had to come and giv me big cuddels but even they didnt stop me cryin for a long long time but i dont really no what the matter was and even mummy sed i must hav it on me this morning becorse i even carrid on crying wen we came downsteers but i dont know what she means that i hav on becorse i was only wearing my peejamas but my day got much betta becorse i went to nanna and grandads house and nanna tuk me to notts tots and i went bownce on the castel and i did sum summersalts and i got the stamp on my hand and what wiv all the running abowt and my earlee start i was veree tired so afta my sossage and mash i had a nice nap and then in the aftanoon i plaid wiv my toys until mummy bringed me home

lots of love
jack xx

Wednesday 4th January 2012

dear daddy
i just realised that yesterday i was 21 monffs old anyway this morning we went in mummys car to see mummys frend nicola i had a nice time there and nicola has got 2 cats and i was hiding upsteers but mabel came and sed hello to me but then she had to go for a sleep upsteers to and i showed nicola my new teaset and i made her sum milk and tea and i fink she liked it very much and i like nicola becorse she is very smilee and she played peekaboo wiv me and i showed her how i can walk wiv my hands in my pocket and she showed me how she can do that to and i eat my dinna at nicolas and then we came home and on the way home we sang old macdonalds farm and i cud make the aminal noysese like moo moo quack quack woof woof i am getting very gud at making aminal noyses wen we got home i plaid in my bed but i fink mummy fort i was going to sleep but i had done a big poo so i didnt want to so i shouted mummy mummy mum and mummy came and got me and we plaid all aftanoon i had lots of poos today and wen we was at nicolas i told mummy i needed my nappy changing becorse i had pood so i am very cleva altho mummy sed it wud be even more cleva if i told her before i went but sumtimes i do i just need to work up to that but i hav been to bizzy doing fings like talking and riting these letters to you i know that you are on a plane eeeeeowng becorse mummy told me and i saw a plane today and i sed daddy plane and i waved to it becorse even though it was a long way a way perhaps you cud see me

lots of love
jack

Thursday 8th December 2011

dear daddy
mummy had to wake me up this morning and do you know she didnt eve give me a wash or brush my teef becorse she sed i cud do that at nanna house it was still dark outside wen we got in the car and it was very windy and i nearly got blowen over wen i got to nanna and grandads house nanna was still in her dressing gown so it is a gud job i showed up or maybe she wud hav stayed in bed all day i went to a garden center wiv nanna and grandad and i saw sum raindeer and i liked the sheds and wendy houses there and i liked going in and out of all of them and sum had stairs that i cud clime up and we had a sit down in the caff and nanna let me hav a skown and afta we went to see aunty kath and unkle duffield and i showed grandad where the washing machine was but i dont fink grandad really knows what it is and next time mayb i will show nanna insted and wen i had my dinna i fink unkle duffield was upset wiv aunty kath becorse she didnt tell me off for smaking my lips and he sed that if it was him he wud get told off i dont know what the fuss is becorse i eat my dinna very nicely i didnt have my aftanoon nap agen today so i was very tired wen i got home wiv mummy but i still had just enuf wakeyness to watch choo choo chuggington

lots of love
jack xx

Friday 2nd December 2011

dear daddy
today was gud fun becorse oskabah and his mum came to our house to play so i cud get all my toys out to show oskabah mummy and oskabahs mummy just talked and talked but me and oskabah played and talked i sat on my train and oskabah sat on it behind me and that was funny but then we both fell off and i bumped my hed on my briks and that wasnt funny but it only needed one magic kiss and oskabah liked my saxafone and is showed him how to play it but i dont fink i needed to becorse oskabah is very clever and we tuk it in turns to play and that was gud and i showed oskabah my kitchin and we made tea for our mummys we all had lunch togevver and i really like my food but oskabah didnt eat much of his becorse i fink he just wanted to play but i fink there is a time for play and a time for eating hee hee they staid a long time so i didnt hav my afternoon nap but i didnt mind becorse i liked playing and i wud like oskabah to come and play agen

lots of love
jack xx

Tuesday 1st December 2011

dear daddy
this morning mummy sed you was going to a place called wales i fink that is where wales live so it must be very wet so i hope you remember to take your welly boots and your swimming fings today mummy had to go to work to so i thought i had better go to stay wiv nanna and grandad and i had a nice time there in the morning we went to hifields but silly nanna and grandad forgot to take the bred for the ducks so wen i asked for it they tole me they had forgot it poor ducks they must be very hungree becorse it has bin a long time since i went and fed them last time i had my appel in the caff so atleast nanna and grandad hadnt forgot that and in the caff they have sum books to read so i red sum to grandad and i played on the park we went home for dinna and i didnt want to sleep so nanna and me went swimming and i had a really gud time and i cud swim holding onto nanna and fall in from the side and i forgot to tell you that at nannas and grandads house they was lots of traktors and diggas becorse they are giving nanna and grandad a new road
lots of love
jack xx

Friday 4th November 2011

dear daddy
i havent got much to say becorse today i havent felt very well and we went to wheelgate and i tride to be brave but i didnt even really want to play there i just wanted mummy cuddels so i was glad wen we went home even though i really like wheelgate and mummy gave me sum medicin and i slept for a long time and wen i woke up i managed to eat sum food and then i had mummy cuddels all aftanoon
lots of love
jack xx