Being Maddie's Dad

Being Maddie’s Dad

Highlights and musings of a Dad and his daughter growing up.

Girl posing with old fashion microphone in black & white
Girl with bucket and spade on empty beach

  • I’m not sure why it’s happened but all of a sudden Maddie is super keen to do additional project work on top of her normal homework. It seems the incentive of class/clan points has turned them all into super swots!…

  • For the last couple of months Maddie has been a frequent night time visitor to our bed, not something that I tend to worry about being a deep sleeper but it’s usually not very long before her wriggling and squirming…

  • So this is my Facebook word cloud from a report by Wolfram Alpha. I guess the reason its ended up on the blog is that the largest (and therefore most used) word is “Maddie” which just goes to show I’m…

  • As Maddie is now in year 2 we got reserved seats at the front which was great.Unfortunately cameras were banned at Maddie’s nativity play (unless your the videographer selling dvd’s at £18 a pop) but I did get this sneaky…

  • Maddie’s latest slippers are sooooo cute! Seen here standing on our new stair carpet.

  • Another Maddie & Daddy outing to the fireworks at St Albans. (Not really Mette’s thing!) Managed to get a spot right at the front by the lake which gave us a great uninterrupted view of the fireworks. I would have…

  • Maddie’s swimming has come on in leaps and bounds this year. (Currently in the green hat lesson at woodside). This now extends to swimming underwater which she was only too happy to show off for my new underwater camera! We…

  • It’s been the wettest year I can remember (particularly funny given the hosepipe ban) so when Mette suggested going somewhere warm in the Autumn half term we were all keen to go. We stayed at the Reef Oasis in Sharm…

  • We stayed in a great hotel in Egypt during half term, the highlight for Maddie was the family pool which had 3 great water flumes. This is her on the steepest of the three slides , a three storey vertical…

  • Now when I was a kid growing up I don’t think I got any homework until secondary school unlike Maddie who has had some form of homework pretty much from the moment she started school! Actually a really good idea…