My lovely boys!

Poor old Joe has the pox so had to stay at home with Daddy this morning while I took David to an eye appointment at the hospital.

I got David in the car and then got in myself. As we started to drive off a shout went up from the back seat...

"Stop! Mummy! Where my Joe?"

I explained that Joe was staying home with Daddy and David was coming out with Mummy. He calmed down and off we went.

Got to the hospital and as we were a bit early we went to the cafe for a biscuit break... David chose a choc chip cookie and then pointed to a smartie cookie and said "Dat one for my Joe" so we bought that too.

All the way home a little voice was heard saying "see my Joe now"

Got home and David comes tearing in to Daddy.... "Where my Joe? Where my Joe?"

Joe was in bed having a nap. So David runs to the bottom of the stairs and yells up... "Wake up Joe!"

A little voice over the monitor says back... "My David come home, yaaaay!"

Blimey, the hugs they've shared since then. Holding hands, sitting next to each other and kissing. You'd think they'd not seen each other for 2 years not 2 hours!

Oh and Joe loved his biscuit!

David wouldn't leave his side this afternoon... as you can see...

Mathematical Genius?

Oh there have been some very clever goings on today!

David has spent most of the day holding the telephone handset pointing at the numbers and telling me which ones they are... The ones he definitely knows are: 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8!

Later on we were singing "Zoom, zoom, zoom" and they have both got counting backwards from 5.

Then David asked me what the sticker on the back of his laptop was... it was the triangular ELC symbol, so I told him it was a triangle... over the course of the next couple of hours he then brought me several different triangles each time telling me they were a triangle.

David definitely knows what yellow is and Joe definitely knows red and I think he knows blue too.

Finally the best bit of today was that finally, finally, they both sat down and listened to a story properly... and what was that story? yup, The Gruffalo... which we were given 2 new copies of at today's grand opening of the new Children's Centre in Colnbrook.

A very good day.

x

We have had a FABULOUS day!

Oh what a day! A day of firsts and a day of fun!

Daddy went off on a booze cruise this morning, so we invited Yvonne over for the day.

Yvonne and I decided to take the boys on their first trip to the cinema to see Arthur Christmas.

The boys LOVED it! They weren't scared of the dark and they didn't find it too noisy (David had a little nap for half an hour)

They tried popcorn for the first time and liked that very much too.

The film was great, so funny and entertaining. All I could hear from Joe (who was sitting on Yvonne's knee) was "ooooh! Look at dat! What dat? OOOh! Wow!" everytime there was music they danced. They just loved it. And I will admit to a little tear of happiness as I watched them enjoying themselves so much.

Then we went off to The Ostrich for lunch. Where they sat very nicely and had their first go of dipping chips in ketchup... Joe is a tomato addict and had eaten all the tomatoes off my plate, so let him have some ketchup. Yup, he loved that too... David took a bit of convincing, but eventually he decided he loved it too! Then the chef brought them both out a bowl of ice-cream for sitting so nicely!

Fab day and so looking forward to going to the pictures with them again.... Happy Feet 2 anyone?

x

Whizz, Whoosh, Bang, Weeeeeee!

Yes, it was bonfire night last night. We had a wonderful time.

We spent the afternoon around at our friends Dawn and Ian's house so the boys could play with their little friend Milo.

Milo's lovely grandparents were also there and at about 5.30 we went to a lovely little Italian Restaurant in Datchet for an early dinner. The boys all sat on proper chairs and were so good. They demolished 2 and a half bread baskets and 2 glasses of apple juice before their pizza came. We were all very proud of our boys.

Next was time for the excitement of the evening. We went to the firework display and funfair at Upton Court Park. Milo's grandparents paid for them all to go on 3 rides, so they were very spoilt and had a fantastic time.

I wasn't sure how they were going to react to the fireworks, but I needn't have worried. They all absolutely loved them. Especially the really loud bangy ones. Those made them giggle hysterically. They were a bit sad when it was all over.

Then home to bed. By the time we were home, changed and ready for bed it was 10pm. The happy side effect of this late bedtime was a 9am start this morning... what's not to like?

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.