Wednesday 27 July 2011

You must be so proud of your boys

You must be so proud of your boys a lovely lady said to me this afternoon. And yes, I am!

We've had a fabulous day today. The weather was rather gloomy this morning, so I decided to get the paints out for the boys. Normally Joe isn't bothered about painting, but this morning he really got stuck in! He had a hold of that paintbrush and off he went painting sheet after sheet of paper for about 20 minutes.


David decided the most fun to be had was to rub his hands in the paint on his paper plate, then rub them together and then do hand prints. They both had a lot of fun and I'm pleased I went to the effort of getting them out.



Here's David using the stamps, before he discovered the joy of hand printing! I don't have photos of that... I was too busy making sure the wetwipes were close to hand!

Straight after our art session the boys had a deep, bubbly bath. After that they ran around upstairs for a while. David was clutching his cuddly cow and shouting "Tiger! Tiger!" as he ran around. Meanwhile, Joe had hidden in my wardrobe and I could hear a voice inside it shouting "Horses! Horses!"

After lunch, I was getting the boys shoes together ready to go out and was counting out loud... one, two, three, four... a little voice behind me finished off with "five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten!" I didn't know David could count! Joe frequently says "two, two, two" for counting, but I've never heard all the other numbers from either boy!

This afternoon we went to Hitcham House Farm. It's just a little place which produces it's own ice-cream from their dairy herd. The boys shared a raspberry ice-cream and I indulged in a belgian chocolate one. Joe had my cornet and David the raspberry one. They looked so cute sitting on the picnic bench in the field while we ate them. Over the fence we could see the Ayrshire cows who provided the milk for our ice-cream and there were also sheep, ducks and chickens. We wandered around the field for a little while and had a chat to the ice-cream lady. The boys thought the ice-cream lady was lovely especially when she brought out her 12 week old granddaughter to show them. This was also the lovely lady who said I must be so proud of my boys. And I most certainly am!

A quick play in the garden when we got home and all in all, we've had a super day.

Tuesday 19 July 2011

Three years ago yesterday....

Three years ago yesterday was the day my boys were created. July 18th was the day I had my eggs collected.

It's amazing to think that this time three years ago I was nervously sitting by the phone waiting to hear how many of my eggs had fertilised and now I have two 28 month old boys quietly snoozing in their cots!

My life changed forever that day and it certainly changed for the better thanks to the miracles worked by Mr W and all his fabulous colleagues at the Lister Hospital.

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