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Aaron has also joined the Tag Rugby club on a Wednesday after school, which did surprise us as he isn’t very sporty really. Several of his good friends are doing it and we did manage to convince him to try it, just so he did some exercise! He said it was ‘alright’ afterwards, but he said he didn’t get much of the ball. I think they were just teaching them the rules this week so hopefully he will be more involved next week! Well done Aaron for giving it a go though!

Aaron has joined the sign language club which runs after school on a Monday. Ben has also joined it and so has a few of his friends. He said he enjoyed the first lesson this week so hopefully he will enjoy each week and come back and show us some words in sign language!

During the Summer holidays, two more of Aaron’s front teeth fell out. That makes it 6 in total that have fallen out now. He got £1 from the tooth fairy for each one as well, so he was very pleased! Some of his adult teeth are coming through now as well, so his mouth looks a right state! 😉 In fact, he looked like a Pirate for ages as one of his front teeth was being pushed forward by a new one so it was sticking out in a funny way. Luckily, he doesn’t look quite that bad now as that was one of the teeth that came out. haha

Aaron has only been back to school for 3 weeks and he has already accumulated enough merits to get his Headteachers Award (I think for the 3rd of 4th time now)! So he was presented with it by the headmaster in assembly yesterday. He smiled and seemed pleased this time as the last time we went to see him get an award, he was very grumpy. He is doing so well that he is already a few merits in to getting his bronze award, so I expect it will only be a few weeks until we have to go in again! This is completely different to last year though, when he got hardly any merits. Last year, he had a new teacher at the school who seemed to want to do her own thing with rewards, so none of the children got very many merits. They are certainly making up for it this year! Well done, Aaron!

On the way back from our holiday in Scotland, our overnight stop was in Liverpool as we had booked a stadium tour of Goodison Park without Ben, Aaron or Coby knowing about it! 😉 We didn’t tell them until we were literally parked up in the car park next to the stadium when Ben said ‘are we able to go inside?’ so we said ‘yes, we are having a proper tour of the stadium’. At which point, they all got extremely excited!

The tour was brilliant though and I could easily have paid for another one straight after! Everyone thought it was really good and enjoyed it, even Kelly! Coby was a little bit naughty when we were in the lounge being told about the history of the trophies on show and didn’t like the brightness outside (it was clear blue sky, very sunny and really hot!) but overall they were very well behaved.

The tour started in reception before heading to the lounge where members pay £3000 per season to be allowed in. Here the guides explained the history of the lounge and the trophies that were in a large cabinet there. We then walked out into the main stand, in the area where all the directors sat and were told more information about the club and how it was the first club to do this and that. Then it was down to the dressing rooms where we had a good look around and I managed to find a programme from the friendly the previous day against Valencia, which was Marco Silva’s first home game in charge (lost 2-1 though) and had a good look at the players shirts that were all hung around the dressing room. We then walked out through the corridor and out on to the side of the pitch next to the dug outs to the Z Cars theme that is played when the team walks out onto the pitch. This was the favourite part for me, Ben and Aaron! The pitch looked in great condition and the boys sat in the dug out before we walked along the middle of the stand and into the media room, where the manager does his press conferences. We were allowed to sit on the chairs where the manager sat and had a photo with a life size cut out figure of Marco Silva.  Unfortunately, this was the end of the tour but it was very awesome. It lasted about an hour but it could have done with being a bit longer to be able to soak the atmosphere in of the different areas that we visited.

As part of the tour, we got 20% of in the Everton shop so after taking a full walk around the stadium, we went in the shop and spent too much money! I bought the new home shirt and a mug, Ben bout the new away shirt and a key ring, Aaron bout a training top and a key ring and Coby had a full training kit and a key ring. I/we could have spent much more in there though as there was loads of stuff that was awesome! 😉

We then went back to the car and started the drive home. The tour had been amazing and was one of the things that I wanted to do since I started to support Everton in 1988 so I was extremely glad that we did it and the boys really enjoyed it as well. Everton will be moving to a new stadium in a few years, so we will have to do it at the new stadium as well! 😉