spring time

Spring time half term time and there has been so much going on. Reuben and Alfie Booker have been very much entertaining and here we are setting of on an adventure.

Here is my two boys enjoying their bikes...!!!

Some crafts ...they do like to draw and paint and such.....

First time at the Sea Side....not sure what to think of it but eventually he took to it....

One of the things that I think has really been good for Zac and Reuben is that we now have granny as a permanent neighbour and so they can play and visit and granny has been especially helping with boys. I think both boys do have such more joy having granny around on a daily basis....and Zac is now able to say GRANNNY and recognises her and smile.

Lovely icecream....this boy does love icecream.....so summer should be fun!!

We are loving our two gardens...this one is amazingly sunny (a real suntrap) and its impossible to be out there around 10ish am as its burning the sun....so early morning and early evening best in this garden. As the back garden we love the sandpit and such so we spend a lot of time there.

Mornings are great...he is so chilled and happy with daddy while mummy has a lie in...then we are united and have fun down in the living room and say bye bye to daddy who goes to work.

I have to say Zac has undergone major changes. He is much more demanding but still very independent. He loves everything epsecially dogs and animals....children and although not so keen on adventuring in new things he is a real observer. He points at things when he wants them and depseratley chatters away....

MOst evenings he goes down very easily but some evenings he does get very giddy and happy and chatty....a bit like when one is drunk. He and Reuben share happily a room and makes me ever so proud to say that they are lovely together.

Zac has had a few firsts this spring such as first trip at sea and was intrigued....first swim in a leisure centre (he wasnt that impressed and can certainly see the difference between him and Reuben as R was always naturally drawn to water and pretty much a fish in the water... while Zac is rather shocked but no surprise really), first icream, coke, these are loved. First little trike and loves it too. MY biggest surprise with Zac is how having an older child makes things almost unbelievably different. I will never forget thinking Reuben will never get to be 3-4 years old...it seemed ages and with Zac I really don;t have a clue where 14 months have gone and been. Zac never seemed keen on baby food seems to like lumpy food and wants everything that Reuben has. He is currently teething has 4 teeth at bottom and 4-5 at top and some molars are showing so seems ok but he is on calpol a lot...and if needed we do use mediced and neurofen.

He has not got his MMR jab I think we forgot the appointment conveniently but he will have it...

Has finished with nursery has done a full term and seemed to love it but right now he wants mummy and understandably. I think he is anxious and slightly more comfortable at home and in his surroundings than his brother but that is indeed very difficult as R loves and thrives being out and about. He loves loves being at Alfie Booker;s house who has a tree house and Zac is facinated with it. Whenever we went there he was in heaven. I can talk for ages about Zac and how his arrival has changed family dynamics etc....how different is to manage two kids and just to even get invites to go places totally understandable but how strange....people seem to be happier to see me at playgrounds etc then in their homes...but having two makes things perhaps different. Still, we are happy as a four and really could not be asking for any more but some later wakes in the morning for J;s sake....(I would like to mention that both boys have always been looked after by daddy night time and morning wake til first nap....for which I will be eternally thankful to their daddy) and mine too....

When he will sleep longer I think we will all be slightly happier....but really not complaing at all.

For me having two boys with me in playground or out and about makes conversation with other adults difficult and very intrerupted so I prefer to see friends evenings or when Jonathan gives me an afternoon of and if not needing to do housework.

I would also like to mention that Zacky;s favourite people right now are: Mummy, Daddy, Reuben, Granny, KELLI (my beautiful supportive and amazing baby sitter and friend), Gweny (nursery nurse) and I know that because he gives them the biggest smile and seems so happy with them. Overall he is a sunshine and such a dear child....we love you Zacky and our world is blessed by you in more ways than we can describe.

SOME PROFESSIONAL LOOKS:)))

Courtesy of Cath Price (Love Photography) we had recently had some lovely family photos done...here is some of them. Meanwhile Zac is being an amazing 13 months old...very steady on his feet and always smiling except when his mind is not read and you are not doing what he expects you to do:)) little trantrums show up by him throwing himself backwards...:)) scary and painful..if cought unprepared. He loves his brother and enjoys singing and dancing. Stable on his feet loves walking and reaching places...very much of a climber. Food is widley explored loves pretty much everything....and Kelli who is the bestest baby sitter and friend that is allowed to look after him. but lets let the pictures speak for themsleves.

update:)

Mummy has fnally given in and decided it was perhaps time she introduces me to PLAYGROUP namely MESSY PLAY. We had a blast of a good time and no one could tear away Zac from the soil and messy things.

my brother has been amazing really...he is just the best bro in the world...here he is playing "can you see it.." its like a hiding things under cups and then moving them round fast....well sthing like that.

My brother;s best friend from nursery has given us this amazing gift a Thomas Table...we all love it tooo much. Its like wow...Christmas in my house. I am the right hight for it and love it so much.

My mummy likes to have me in big boys PJS and she wants to report I have a new tooth and now I am suffering again with Tonsilitis and she is well not happy....:)(: its third time round so hope my little body will fight it or else my mummy will really not be happy.

THese days we read stories together...paint and sing and play. Although my brother is not always around I do like to use his books, his toys and really I am resisting any baby toys...after all I am going forward....I AM NOW officially a todler and I know it. I am crawling everywhere and my favourite is going up and down the stairs. Mum says I move a bit slower then Reuben but then again I AM ME....I am in no hurry to walk ....once you walk you kind a can;t crawl if you do they look funny at you so taking my time on that one.

When I am well I am told I eat like a horse just about anything and everything...love love food.

I am getting soooo much more independent...

Zac has been a very very interesting character latley....he has been busy busy bee sorting out cupboards and trying to do things on his own...

He even tried his brothers big boy table and chairs and managed some craft sessions:)) here he looks a bit drunk but happy...he was just shattered...

Hoovering is still one of the favourite things....I am loving how he enjoys the noises...:)

To mark 1year of age and also that he has gotten more boystrous I had cut his hair. The moisturisers and things that got in his hair did not make his hair any good so I thought it was time he had a cut. He loved the cutting and giggled a lot. HE was busy playing with the water in the bath which remains his favourite of all...bath time...water play and off course climbing the strairs up and down.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACARIAH

Happy Birthday to my ANGEL!!! You had been amazing and cant believe a year has passed already. You had brought me so much sunshine...you had tought me love on a different level....and I am loving having you added to my family. You are indeed God;s amazing gift to us. You smile and I feel the world is a different place and you smile and you make all of us love more.

You are so sweet and so gentle and so interested in everything. You love love love new things and are not afraid to venture and learn about things. Here you are experimenting with colourful gnocchi and you loving it. You love your brother Reuben and whenever he is in the room you are watching and copying him...he loves you too...we all do. You say DADADA and love your daddy so very much. You only say MAMA when you are in trouble or need me...

Here we are...sorry to excited...but posing with you for you....we love you

ON your bday in the afternoon we went to the park...you had descovered the joy of going in the slide and you love going down on your tummy....

Your brother loves entertaining you...and you love him playing with you. HE and you are so funny you make my life worth while....and we love you both very much.

Another one of your I LOVE MOMENTs:)) you like sitting in the linnen basket perhaps you imagine it to be your boat? You are lovely my lovely.

After your morning nap your friend Andrei has come to play he is a bit older and walks but you are eager to copy him. YOu both are addicted to these gates...we thought these pice were so funny of you two...:)
And here is us all trying to sing to you...you were a bit oblivious at first then got excited then thought perhpas better eat your gnocchi.....hope you had fun ....LOVE YOU LOADS your family.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACKY

A little video of my lovely son HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACKY you had been a bliss a joy and a fantastic really really good journey so far. You are a true Angel one that has given me such tremedous and lovely experiences along the 1 year Thank you that you are a happy and content baby and know always how to make us smile. We love you so very much. Your brother loves you and calls you ZACKY and brother and I love that relationship you two have. the way you interract and love each other. You love him so much...as soon as he comes down in the mornings you are as excited as ever...you give him big smiles and always crawl up to him. He greets you with "heeeeeellllllooooo and often kisses you or tenderly touches you...." you often want the same toys as he is playing with and generally you are a bit stubborn in letting go and he lets you have his toy then distracts you with something else so he can have his toy back...a trick mummy tought him to save you both the argument. Anway you had always been a joy and pleasure to have. You have 6 teeth and some two comming (4 top teeth and two bottom ones), you are a textbook kid who followed all developmental stages... you were weaned at 4 months after we had been at a Bluewater restaurant meal and you had eaten all the pizza breadsticks....on the table....you love food and are happy to experiment. You weigh approximatley 9kg and half (recently lost about half a kg due to two tonsilities and one ear infection) your favourite thing to do nowaways is climb the stairs and every oportunity to see if the stairgate has been left open is mostly disspointing for you...

Your first word was DADDY and you love your daddy a lot. Your daddy is a saint and he has been always looking after you on the morning shift which was very early at times 4-5am. You are very good generally sleep from about 7pm til 4ish then you have milk then you wake at 6ish. Daddy brings you down then we join you in the kitchen at 7-7:30 and then your day begins. You go to nursery on a Friday and love it. Just a few things about you...but the best thing is your smile and your amazing YOU!!:)) LOVE YOU

very nearly 1 year old...

Hi from a very very stressed mummy and a very poorley Zac!! He has tonsilitis and we are not happy....but a few shots of the happy moments to cheer us all up. I think we need to talk less about the bad to enjoy and appreciate the good. After taking the chair into the kitchen all on his own (That being Zac) he then decided to sit on it and Reuben was pushing it....:) Sweet brothers...however my eyes were in my heart and my heart in my mouth...:))

HE our little angel is a water baby loves anything to do with water. He was blowing bubbles with Reuben here.

A very messy afternoon meant paint was also experimented with....

Just like that he loved the messiness...:)) like his brother as well...:)

We also managed the swings on a beautiful springish sunny day...so all in all was good until the gorgeous angel got tonsilitis. I really hope he starts recovering soon. His little bday is comming up and I am dying to make it a memorable one and a very special one.