What To Do Over the Summer Holidays

1. Let your imagination run wild. Play hide and seek with dinosaurs.

2. Smile. Be happy and make the most of the sunshine while it lasts.


3. Sit and contemplate the mysteries of life, love and happiness.

4. Spend some time in the outdoors. In the sun. In your favourite Lightning McQueen jacket.

5. Be brave. Adventurous. Do your best to enjoy it.

Oldest and Littlest

Aren't my boys lovely? For me, these two photos seem to capture Oldest's and Littlest's own personalities perfectly.

Nothing else to add today. My assignment is finished and has been sent off to my tutorial. Phew, that really is a load off my mind.

Lego Joshua

I can't bring myself to write anything interesting today, so I will leave you with these latest pictures of Joshua taken at Legoland over the weekend. Enjoy!

More of the boys..

I know it's been a bit heavy on the posts involving the boys lately, but you'll have to put up with one more today, especially as I have been doing zero reading lately. I did, however, go to the library today so things are looking up. But first, here are two photos that were taken at a birthday party last weekend.



It's not a great photo, but look at Littlest standing so confidently. He'll be walking soon. I've been saying that for about 4 weeks, but he will. It will be soon. I have mixed feelings about it all. Obviously, it's a good thing for him, it'll be a lot less strain on my back from not lugging him around anymore, but it's also his baby days gone. Oh I will miss the cuddly baby days.



Here's Oldest. I hate to see him like this. He's usually so sure of himself and not shy with strangers, but only with some preparation. He likes to be told things in advance so he knows what to expect. For some reason, that didn't happen this day. The birthday party was sort of sprung on him at the last minute and here's Oldest indulging in a little hiding-behind-Mama's-legs. He's never been what you'd call a Mama's Boy, but he's been turning into one lately. AND he's taken to actually calling me 'Mama' which makes my heart melt just a little bit each time I hear it.

Doing Something Different: Days 4, 5 and 6

Hopefully I'll never get this far behind again! I've been playing catch-up in so many areas of my life. This blog, the laundry and cleaning of the house, uploading photos for family members. Once I've caught up with my blog reading, all will be well. Maybe. Well, I hope so.

Day Three - N has been trying to sort out a dinner with some friends for ages. Let me give you some perspective here. One particular couple that came to the dinner was engaged the last time we met up with them. Now, they're married and have a 7 month old baby. That's how long it's been. We really needed a night out to catch up with friends and eat some good food. We left the boys with N's mother and went to a Thai place in Reading and it was wonderful. Good company, wonderful pad thai!

Day Four - This day was wonderful. We spent the morning doing some much needed gardening for our back yard. It's really coming together out there. I'm going to love it when it's all finished and child-friendly. Then we spent the afternoon at one of Oldest' closest friend's birthday party. Fun was had by all. But I don't count the gardening as something different as N and I started doing the garden up before April, and we always go to birthday parties. So I decided to have a movie night with N. It didn't exactly go as planned.

First, there was no popcorn. Second, N fell asleep and I watched the movie on my own. Be Kind Rewind with Jack Black. It was OK. Movie night did not go exactly how I pictured it in my head, but again, I tried. It'd be nice to make it a regular thing. When the kids go to sleep, we usually watch TV programmes - when I'm not reading, studying or using the computer to update my blog! And we have so many new movies that we haven't seen yet... we need to make more time for this.



Day Five - (finally something I can take a photo of!) We went to another local park, this time California Country Park. There's a large playground here as well as a lake to walk around. We stayed mostly in the playground on the slides with a picnic blanket. We were meant to be meeting up with a large group of people for the weekly NCT coffee afternoon, but it ended up being just us and one other woman and her two children. That was OK. Oldestjust wanted to run around somewhere new and occasionally kick his football around. We got quite a few photos of him being silly but they came out blurry :( When we left, Oldest said 'can we come back here tomorrow, I had lots of fun!' That, folks, is why I'm doing this project.



Oh, what will the rest of the month have in store for us...?

It's been a fun year. You went from this...


to this...


I've loved every minute of it. I love you. Happy 1st birthday Joshua!

I Feel Incredibly Lucky

..That they're both so happy and healthy. That's they're sweet boys, if a little mischievious. That they get on so well with each other. That they're so bloody GORGEOUS. That they're mine.