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.

UPdate

HEllo!!! Its been a long time but we are here and report much has happened While mummy and daddy is wondering where nearly a year has gone Zac has perfected his crawling sills and getting up on the feet skills....as well as he is now saying MAMA(when needs something) but prefers to go on saying Da da da da da da da at most times. He still has 6 visible teeth but looks like the "eye" teeth are not that far in comig along.

Trying on anything that belongs to big brother Rooo Roooo is a very very important things to do....he watches then tries to copy that big brother.

Watching Praise Baby and standing up like this is one of the favourites....he can stand there for long times 20 mins and he is always grinnig when mummy isists "darling that is just tooo close NO NO NO"

And after all the colds, teething, skin problems came the conjunctivitis this week....poor Zac was so upset....:)but took it all in his strive.

A lovely moment captured on camera! These two can be so glad seeing each other. Reuben has a special way with Zac. Often I tell him off for being a bit too rough with his little brother then look around to notice Zac gives his brother the heads up with a grin like this. Reuben is very protective...I love that about him. HE loves taking Zac to his nursery...Zac squeeels and gets very excited....every time we go to nursery. He sees his big brother and his friends....scary but I have tow boys in nursery...life is good.

Yeah...Just have to say Zac has an amazingly good apetite...we love love the way he is so excited about food. I would have never thought such thing is possible. Those who have kids like Zac will never understand how hard it is for those who have hyeractive and "not so book like" babies. They should be really really thankful. I had two experiences ....and I would be lying to say I do not wish Reuben my first born shocker baby to have been like Zac...but off course the more I got challanged personally with Reuben the more I appreciate how difficult and complex motherhood and parenting really is. God know I love both of my kids so much....and its undecribable....however facts are....one is easy peasy while the other is hard work....I am sure somewhere during life there will be times roles will change....Still Am loving being mum for Zacky and Reuben and I am so privileged and happy to have this amazing experience. Zac is nearly 1 soon and I am so very very very very thankful that time does not stand still that we are developing and learning and enjoying and loving each other more ....LIFE IS TRULEY BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING:) thank you Zacky for making our lives so so wonderful.

Not so happy New Year but 5 teeth and some spots

Oh so poorley my little baby....and Reuben is Mr Empathy and Sympathy. This pic was taken early morning 7am down in the living room. I am loving how these two love each other and indeed love to spend time together...
Zac has currently Tonsilitis and we are undergoing investigation for his eczma/allergy kind thing that he has developped over the last two months.

Bath is still favourite time of the day. Enjoying so much time with water shame always seem so sad to get out of it. Zac has terrible rash on the body and feel so sorry for him. He is such a good and happy chappy always so willing to just take things in his strive thats why maybe I find it so sad even sadder that he has been so unwell now for a few weeks in a row.To top it up he is now teething. We have 5 teeth and 3 more nearly out.

Yeah, wasn;t enough that Zacky was poorley daddy too was admitted to urgent surgery on Thursday which was terrible really. He was in hospital for three days and mummy got very tired with the boys and the chores so we had brought MAMA over from Romania to help. THANKS TO HER WE ARE ALL ON THE MEND.

It seems the boys can;t really do things without each other. Zac not so interested in his toys but wants to do what his big brother does....painting and crafts and enjoying trains and pretty much all what Reuben is doing. I am enjoying so much the two boys together.

I have to note also that Zac had his first day at nursery. I was meant to only let him stay there for perhaps 2 hours but as I had to take daddy for his surgery etc I phoned up and they told me he was amazingly happy and calm and even slept two hours so he actually stayed from 11ish til 3pm all good. I also want to mention that my very good neighbour Tajana has had Zac Thursday afternoon while I was at hospital with Jonathan and she also reported that Zac was so good and happy. I am so thrilled as to be honest Reuben was never happy without me. Zac such a lovely independent happy chappy. He is my little angel...and so is Reuben both kids have done so good for each other....I think siblings are terribly good for each other. I wouldn;t have any more but I am truley happy and blessed with my two boys. God bless us and you all who read my notes.

For now we are topping up with sleep and getting better as well as enjoying daddy being home and MAMA cooking and helping but mainly giving us all the love and support a MAMA CAN DO.

10 months and a half

A teenager on my hand? Nope but it feels like these days as our little Zac gets very demanding...he needs constant entertainment and really started being rather messy. He now wants to explore food and eat on his own and such. Crawling ha scommenced too and shall I say he loves loves trying to do naughty things:))like get stuff in his mouth that its not supposed to be there anything but food cause food seems to be boring these days.

Granny has spent the holidays with us and is with us until 4th January so she has been very helful with entertaining Zac and also Reuben at times. This is at Kidz Zone with Daddy and Reuben although the two had gone for a play while Granny and Zac were having a moment to themlseves.

He did love the ball pool but really he loved more and does love being with his brother...I am told (as wasn;t there) he got rather upset when he was moved on to a baby area and was no longer with his monkey brother...

We had many play dates with the boys and some visits during these holidays...only a week and Zac is gona try enjoying nursery...with some other children. Also, we will be trying to attend a few more activities maybe even swimming? He has been suffering with a nasty cold which seemed to linger for a rather long time and finally started sleeping better it seems...(fingers crossed) He still wakes at least 1x a night or early morning for a feed but generally is very good. He has started crawiling and is enjoying it very much. MOre teeth are comming too it seems...but still 4 that we can clearly see. Next post should be sometime in the new year.

Happy Christmas...holiday time!

Zac has enjoyed so much having Reuben around even Reuben seemed to be ill for the first part of his holiday...still...here is us visiting Santa (with great difficulty mummy managed it although I am very ill) in Debenhams Chatham.

When we do activities the boys seem to interract a lot. Z needs to have his own pain and brush and everything the trouble is they normally end up eaten or chewed or well chocked on....:)) little monkey has a real personality he is lovely and so calm but if you get him worked up he gets particularly unhappy...

Grinning at the camera he thought we were playing a game....poor Reuben was so unwell. He was so sweet kept wanting his brother to play with except R was unable to give him his attention.

We have had a lot of snow....a lot!! Zac was facinated by it and kept watching it....our kitchen window looks out onto a walk and Zac loves when people go past and wave to him and us. Its truley special time the kitchen time.

Does Zac like toys his own age and developmental stage? NOPE. Here R has a playdate with Nicholas his best friend....and Zac decided it was time he helped toooo:))) The boys love him so much only ocasionally asked me to remove him...when he became destructive...:)) Zac loves spending time with children he really does.

Now where does this long bit go boys?:))playing with the bog boys a very happy Zac. It seems sometimes I only have one son...as in they are so good together but also can do a lot of headaches as they can really get on each other's nerves. What I have noticed is that Zac is trying to copy Reuben which off course R loves so he is teaching him everything he can....I am pretty pleased we are not crawling yet but he is certainly pushing himself forward and backwards and on his tummy...rolling over and over....funny little monkey nr 2. Well next post will be around Christmas for now let us all wish you a very blessed and happy Christmas.