Clever little boy...

I think David's got it all going on upstairs...

This afternoon he wanted a bus that Joe was playing with. He didn't snatch it. He waited very patiently for about half an hour. Then when Joe put it down, David quickly found a super dooper police car with flashing lights and everything. He ran over to Joe, gave him the police car and then picked up the bus!

He was happy, Joe was happy with the police car and I was happy that my boy is grown up enough to work out a way of getting something without upsetting himself or his brother!

Well done David!

The boys were 29 months old on Tuesday. I can't believe that next month they will be 2 and a half! Good grief, time is flying by.

They are coming out with new words all the time. Some good words this week have been "Harvester" (we were looking at a book with farm machines in it) and "Dinosaur" (yes, watching Peppa Pig)

We have a tablecloth on the table which had Noah's Ark and lots of animals on it. They boys like pointing to the animals and trying to say what they are. Rhino comes out as "nhino" which I think is very cute... Elephant is "Elephaphaphant" also very cute. Best of all though a deer is an "oh dear"

Don't grow up too quickly my darling boys.

x

David and Joe having a good old giggle on their 29 month birthday!

1st August - one of my favourite days of the year!

Yes, I love the 1st August.

On the 1st August 2008 my dreams finally started coming true. Because it was on that date that I had a blood test and discovered that after 3.5 years of trying, 1 miscarriage, 3 biochemical pregnancies, 3 months of clomid, 3 months of tamoxifen and 3 cycles of ICSI that I was PREGNANT!

So I'm always happy on the 1st August.

We're getting the paddling pool out for celebratory splashing later on! 

It would seem to me that 3 is the magic number!

x

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.

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.

x

First accident with blood for David

Oh my poor baby.

Running around in the garden and he tripped up and bit his lip... there was a lot of blood, but amazingly, not too many tears!

It'll be interesting to see what his lip looks like when he wakes up from his nap.

Not bad going to get to 24 months and 29 days without an accident involving blood!

They are doing that growing up thing again...

I'm not quite sure what happened over the weekend, but my boys seem to have grown up again.

Ok, so they had a haircut on Friday, which always makes them look older. We had Yvonne staying for the weekend which was lovely and of course was an extra adult to pay them attention.

Joe has started saying Thank You, when given something. For a week or two he has been saying "Da" when you give him something, but yesterday in the pub I think he realised what the meaning of Thank you is... As our food arrived, obviously Neil, Yvonne and I said thank you as it was put in front of us. Yvonne asked for some ketchup to go with her meal and when it arrived, Joe was the one who said "Thank you". Since then, he has said thank you at every opportunity, completely un-prompted.

Both boys have said "eye" for bye for a long time. Suddenly over the weekend, David developed it  into "bye bye" Beautifully pronounced.

This afternoon we went to the garden centre to buy a watering can for each of them. I decided to let them walk and hold my hand. They were so good. Didn't pull or try to run off and were so proud to carry their watering cans to the checkout. I asked David if he was going to water Mummy's flowers... he said "yes, pretty"... melted my heart.

We took them swimming yesterday morning. We haven't been going regularly up until the last month... Yesterday they had their armbands on. Unfortunately as we got in the pool the wave machine was going and so they were a little unsettled. Once the waves, and the stupid squirty octopus had done their thing, we got in the pool and had a good old splash around... three of the boys' friends were there... Harry, Emilio and Lukas. All of them had a great splash. I was really proud of the boys for floating on their own, kicking their legs and from going from floating on their tummies to floating on their backs, all by themselves. Clever, clever little boys. I'm so looking forward to our holidays and being able to take them swimming every day.

So, it looks like the babies are gone forever and for now, the toddlers are here.

Love my boys so much. xxx

My babies are 2 years old!

And so another year has passed, well whizzed by. Two years old already! Where does the time go?

They've had a great year, they've learned to crawl extremely well and, eventually, to walk! Now they run around everywhere. They talk and they know how to make their needs known. Most of all they are gorgeous and I love them more and more every day.

They've had a fantastic birthday week. It all started on Saturday 12th March when we put up their slide... Sunday we had a birthday tea party with Granny, Grandad, Uncle Carl, Auntie Kerstin, Emily, Tim, Karen, Toby and Lucy. Great fun was had by all and the boys became owners of ride on trains.

David's cake was eaten on Sunday and then on Monday, the Kleek toddlers came to help us eat Joe's birthday cake. More fun was had in the garden with the new slide, the trains, balls and general running around.

Tuesday saw us at Twintastic polishing off the cake with our twin friends...  and then in the afternoon I put their new trampoline together...

And on Wednesday, their actual birthday, we took a trip on a train with Grandad to the London Aquarium, which they loved. As we had Grandad with us, it meant that we could let them wander around as there were three grown ups... one for each boy and another for the pram!

After lunch we took them for a walk across Westminster Bridge so they could see the Houses of Parliament. Great excitement for the boys when the Police helicopter hovered overhead, police cars screeched to a halt near us and on the river the police boat and fire boat arrived... not sure what was going on, but it made two little boys very happy!

Back home on the train to finish off unwrapping birthday presents and to eat more cake for tea... what a great few days, and thanks to everyone for making the boys' second birthday a very special one.