Back on track.....

Well I've decided to get my bum into gear and get back on track with the blog thing. I've been using the excuse of needing to catch up as a reason not to blog. Ooh I can't write what mundane things I did today until I remember to note BB busting his lip and moving into his big boy bed, LL starting to cruise etc. But let's face it I will probably never get round to properly noting these occasions (does that have two s's?) so there's no point in forgetting the blog because of this!

So here we are - starting from scratch with Today, and tomorrow will be tomorrow. Every so often when I get the chance I may remember to let you know about the exciting stuff which has happened in between!

Today:

Was started in the company of friends. I invited a friend with her two girls to stop over as her husband too is away at work and one of us would have had to miss a social evening with other friends had one of us had to stop in with the kids. As it was I invited everyone round here and we had an evening full of belly laughs. It's a circle of friends I'm just growing into since our move. All mums, (yup we met at the local mums and toddler group) but we managed to fill an evening discussing things other than our children - which is always nice for a change!

I digress - that was yesterday!



The company was pretty short lived - as Big girl had to be at nursery for 9am! After that BB faced the discovery that the TV was 'broken' (cough) and decided to join Mum and LL outside for some play. I managed to amuse him for some time making HUGE bubbles with a special wand. He kept insisting on holding it himself - then waving it about and 'popping' the soapy mix. Not surprisingly he got bored after a bit. He had his own mini bottle of bubbles but tipped that over too - I got the feeling this wasn't going to be the best of days! It doesn't feel as though the sun has shone much this summer so when it appeared as though the rain would hold off we stomped over to the lawn armed with a picnic blanket and a couple of toys. I got the bright idea whilst sat on the blanket to make some holes in the corners and put in eyelets so that I could use tent pegs to keep it on the ground (clever huh? - see BFS I DO sometimes utilise the trash I buy in Lidl!!!!) but on my return from retrieving my hole and eyelet punch I was faced with BB with his pants and trousers round his ankles and his willy in his hand. He was trying to pee like a grown up, but hasn't yet learnt the art of not peeing straight down. Full clobber change for him!

LL had some fun on his swing, then it was time for milk and nap.

BB loves playing the doting big brother by giving his younger sibling his milk. It is a beautiful sight to behold.



I've taken to letting him do this more frequently as the affection is obvious. It causes an incy little (who am I kidding - a HUGE) tug on my heart strings as I watch him dotingly hold the bottle for his brother.

I then got BB excited about going in to weed Daddy's veggie patch (a right royal feat) by telling him he could don his wellies
'Oooh my thomas ones mummy?'
'yes'
'I get my bucket.......'

and that was him happy as Larry for all of oooh 3 minutes? Ach I exaggerate but once he'd picked all the flowers (wild poppies) that was the end of the enjoyment for him. Until that is I found a teeny tiny caterpillar on my glove (about 6mm long) I got a leaf from the cauliflower in the fridge and found a jar to put them into. I even pierced holes in the lid so that it could breathe. He watched it for about 30 secs then informed me he wanted it out. Not to look at, but to return to it's rightful home in the veggies patch. He happily chirped 'bye' and turned his back after I laid down the leaf! Why bother?

Onto the next distraction

'Special Juice'

The other day BFS and I pulled out a juicer which I've had at the back of the cupboard for 10 years - unused. I even had to put a socket on it! We got BB excited about making his own juice - which consisted of carrots, grapes, apples, strawberries and I think a nectarine!. It was lovely - and a great way of getting his 5 a day into him (not that he needs an excuse to eat fruit.....) This process was repeated today ( along with the tedious scrubbing of the juicer which followed!) Admittedly the juice IS lovely though....



After lunch they played a great game of sticking their tongues out at each other (with additional raspberry blowing by BB! and that was BEFORE getting wiped up BFS!) after which we got BB's pedal bike from the shed and headed to the road. He did great guns on his way down our usual path, but on the return leg he swerved off the road and skidded on some gravel, landed on his side with an impressive graze on his arm. I got him straight back on again and convinced him to cycle back up to LL who was watching in his pram. He wouldn't go any further though, so I swapped his bike for the pedaless one and we went the other was to watch them lay a new bit of road.

After all those adventures, we jumped in the car to take the weeds which were pulled out the other day to the tip and a quick visit to the shops to buy milk. I returned with one sleeping beauty (BB) and another who was shattered but refused to go for a nap! AMAZINGLY Mummy managed to fix the TV just in time for sleeping beauty to awaken (at his grumpiest) so he got some viewing before dinner.



After dinner we made an indian headband for him to wear when he plays in his wigwam, he was sooooo excited about making one - but thinks it should stay on the table and not on his head. During all this time LL has been cruising around - he's taking proper crawling steps on his knees now, until he need to get somewhere at breakneck speed, upon which he drops to his tummy and commando's it in a style the SAS would be proud of. Until bathtime that is when he turns into a kamikaze fiend slip sliding his way around the bath.

Much fun - phew, who said it wasn't hard work being a full time mum?