One week down!

Hi Everyone. Well as the title suggests we have survived week 1 of the school holidays, so only 1 week to go!! It's funny, Holly has only been at nursery for 2 months and Natalie at Fishies for 2 weeks, but we are all really use to them being out and about, it gives us a routine if nothing else!!

Anyway back to the beginning of the week and Ian reported on the snow etc. On Tuesday morning Angela, Matthew and Daniel came over, here is a photo of Ian being beseiged by the kids!!

In the afternoon we went and did some shopping and that was the end of Ian's holidays. So it was just us girls for the rest of the week, we were in the house most of the time I think! On Friday Holly had Matthew and Sophie (her new friend from school) over to play whilst us Mummies sat and drank tea (well that's what Ian reckons we do!) Sophie has a baby sister the same age as Daniel so there was 2 babies to coo over! Here is a lovely photo of Holly sitting with Daniel, don't ask why he has a pink jumper draped over him though!

We have had a busy weekend, I was working as usual on Saturday so Ian and the girls went to do some shopping, then we had Kory and Krystal's joint birthday party in the afternoon. Ian forgot to take the camera so we have no photos, but I am sure Julie will have some soon, so you can look here .

This morning Holly and I went to the cinema with Angela and Matthew to see 'Horton Hears a Who', it was really good and Holly enjoyed it more than the last time she went to the cinema where she slept the whole time on Ian's knee. She wasn't that keen when we got there and I thought we would have to leave, but soon came round and watched the film whilst eating a whole bag of popcorn!

Whilst we were at the cinema, Ian and Nat went to the park. Natalie did really well and walked most of the way there and back. She was so tired afterwards though she fell asleep on the sofa before lunch! Here she is walking up the back path.

This afternoon we went in to town as I had an optician appointment and Ian and the girls went to the Early Learning Centre. So really it has been non-stop!

Not a lot else to report, I'm not sure if we said but both girls had Conjunctivitis last week, Holly wasn't too bad but poor Nat wasn't so lucky and it took a long time to clear up. It is pretty much gone now. EDIT - Ian has just reminded me that he has had it too, apparently worse than the girls, although I am not so sure!! His eye did look very red though. END EDIT So another ailment to add to their long list, it really is true that children pick up every bug going. They have done SO SO well giving up the dummies, Holly hasn't complained once, Nat only a couple of times, but she is younger so is to be expected. Here is Nat playing with Holly's fairy wings that the Dummy Fairy left for her (Nat got a Barney toy which she picked from the Argos book!)

Well that's all for now, I am off for a bath.

Bye
Hannah

Happy Xmas, sorry no Easter!!!!!!

As the title suggests the weather here has been more akin to xmas than easter but hey ho I'm just glad I was off today so I could shoe in a snowman build before it all melted!!!

Sorry (to Auntie Trish in particular) it's been a while since the last blog. We have been busy but that's a rubbish excuse so I'll just get on with it!!

Loads been going on with easter, a visit to Lossie, the snow and the girls giving up their dummies!!!!!!!! So rather than fill 10 pages of text I'll try to tell all in pictures!!

Frank came to stay whilst S&M were in Rome - the girls loved having him!

Holly and Nat paiting Easter eggs at Grannie Toys'

Holly and Granny cooking some yummie apple cake for pudding!

Lucky Girls got to roll eggs twice!!! Shame it was freezing though!!!

Holly and Nat got to choose some new fish for Grandpa's fish tank. They're called Sunshine and Frog!

Granny and Holly dressing up as a Cat and 'Posh Lady'. Hmmmmmm.....

As I said the girls have also just given up their dummies. Quite a landmark really! We just told them that we had left them at Grannie Doggie's. That coupled with a promised present from the 'Dummie Fairy' seemed to do the trick and they have been amazingly good in giving them up!!!!!!

I'll sign off with another pic of the snow :)

Bye

Ian

Daddy's Girl

Hi All. I just thought I would share this photo with you of Holly and Ian. This is them after tea tonight and Holly said she wanted me to take a photo, which is most unlike her as she hates having her photo taken. Anyway, they are sitting next to each other eating their ice-cream as they do every night. Holly always moves my chair round so Ian can sit RIGHT next to her and they eat their pudding and tell each other how much they love each other and have lots of kisses. Dad's and their daughter's eh?!

Thank goodness Natalie still quite likes her Mummy or I would be feeling very left out. Maybe I need to have a wee boy coz they always stick with their Mummy ;-)

Hannah XX

One Week late!

Sorry folks, I was called into work last Sunday night so didn't get the blog done. :(

We then had a very busy week with Friday being the only night Hannah and I were were both in the house all night, so blogging has been difficult!

Anyway what have we been up to? Just the usual stuff really. Holly still getting on well at school and Nat's speech coming on amazingly. She's really stringing sentences together now and is getting very good at communicating what she wants! 'No Thanks' is her favourite phrase just now!

Hannah and I got a rare night out on Monday just passed. We went to Rustico for a belated valentines meal and then onto see Amy Macdonald at the Music Hall. The meal was superb and the gig was excellent. Don't want to get too deep and meaningful but it seems daft that an extremely talented and genuinely down to earth girl like Amy doesn't get the same attention and awards as other female pop stars who are less 'together'.

Anyhow last Sunday I was out washing the windows and the girls thought that they would 'help', though as they couldn't reach up to the windows they decided to wash their play house instead - it was very cute!

Obviously today is Mothering Sunday. We've had a pretty lazy day which culminated in a nice roast lamb for tea - Nat wasn't too keen on it though so she ended up with cheesy pasta! Here's some pictures from today:

Nat looking forward to her tea - before she knew what it was!

The Girls!

Anyway that's all for now.

Bye

Ian

PS. I'm now uploading random videos taken with my phone to youtube. If anyone wants to check them out you have to sign up to youtube and add me in as a contact. My address is http://www.youtube.com/thestewartstube