Thank You Everyone

Hi all,

Just wanted to start off by thanking everyone very much for sponsoring Holly on her sponsored obsticle course last month. She raised an amazing £112 so big thanks to everyone who contributed (especially Granda who passed the form round the fitba club in Lossie!). Above is a photo of her tonight with her certificate!

Sorry there was no blog last Sunday. We had a really busy day so didn't get a chance. In the morning we had been at Dizzee Rascals for Holly's friend Sophie's 4th birthday party which was good fun. Here's a picture of the girls before we went out:

Nat in the ball pool having loads of fun!

Then after that we went to visit our friends Kathryn and Stephen. We hadn't seen them since their wedding last year and also hadn't been to their new house so it was great to see them and catch up. The girls again had a great time and were very well behaved!!!! Here's a photo of Kathryn with the girls:

So it was back to normality this week for the girls with a return to fishies, pebbles and school. Nat is not taking to fishies as well as we'd like but I'm sure in time she'll get better.

We've all had a cold this week ( Nat first of course) so it's not been a fun week but we are all getting over it now so we'll just be waiting for the next bug to come along!!! Nothing much else to report really. We had a flying visit from Grannie and Granda Toys on Tuesday which was nice and that's really it.

I'll sign off with a nice pic taken of me and Nat tonight - by Holly! She's becoming pretty good at this photography lark!

Bye

Ian

Blast from the past!

Hi Everyone, another blog for you as I actually have some photos to share!! As you know from my last post it is the school holidays so I am desperately trying to amuse the girls.

On Monday they went to Leaping Leopards creche where we haven't been for ages, due to Holly starting school. Holly and Matthew had a good time, but Natalie was quite upset whilst she was there, she missed her Mummy! We spent the rest of the day with Angela, Matthew and Daniel, so that was Monday.

Yesterday morning Holly found the Pumpkin outfit, remember it?? For those who never saw her in it, check out this post ! She insisted on wearing it, and I was amazed it still fitted, well just!

And of course Nat had to have a shot.....

Later on in the morning Marlene AKA Grannie Toys came through to visit for the day. She took Holly and Natalie out a walk and to the shop for a magazine. They had a great time with her. We were looking on the camera tonight and found this photo, Holly must have taken it of Marlene, it is pretty good!

Today we haven't done much, although Natalie had the Doctor. We have been worried about her breathing and bad snoring (she sounds worse than my Dad and that's saying something!!) so we wanted her checked out. The Doctor said it was more than likely something she will grow out of, but she is refering us to the hospital anyway just to be sure. Natalie was so good letting the Doctor check her over, I was amazed, she never co-operates that much for me!

After lunch the girls sat down to watch the TV and I found them cuddling and holding hands, very sweet. I couldn't get a photo of the cuddling, but here they are holding hands..

After Nat's sleep we made Rice Krispie cakes, here they are mixing...

Licking the bowl.....

and Nat eating the finished product....

So I hope you like the photos, I am sure we will be back at the weekend, well Ian will!
Hannah
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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

Blogging on the move

I've got a new geek toy(phone) and have discovered an app for it to let me blog from it. So here's a funny pic of nat wearing her bunny mask that angela got her from ikea.

Hospital Visit

Hi folks. Well another week has flown past, what have we been up to? Well just a normal week really. Holly was really good at going in to School Nursery this week and we have had no tears. She seems to be feeling better too after her chest infection.

The weather was really nice for February last week, so we got some time in the garden here are the girls playing, well Holly is eating a jaffa cake!!

We were just doing our usual stuff the rest of the week. On Friday I woke to find I had a stinking cold so have just been taking it easy since really. Holly had a party to go to on Saturday afternoon so Ian took her to that whilst me and Nat stayed at home. On Sunday Ian and Holly made a lovely Weight Watchers meal for dinner, here they are making the pud....

Today we were up and out early to take Holly back to the Children's hospital. Both the girls were really excited about going, I think they think hospitals are just big play rooms!! Holly saw the consultant who was incharge of her care whilst she was in and he had a good listen to her chest which was all-clear. He is happy she doesn't need to be seen again and she has a clean bill of health, which is fantastic. Here she is tonight, taking a photo of Daddy with her Dora camera:

We went to Asda after that then just had a quiet afternoon. Ian is back to work tomorrow but Holly has another day off school as it is 'in-service' for the teachers. I am starting to learn there are a lot of these random 'in-service' days!!

Anyway sorry it's not a very good blog this week!

Hannah

Busy Weekend!

Hi All,

We've had a busy time of it this weekend with visits from both sets of Grandparents! On Thursday Granny Doggie came to stay. She was through in Aberdeen for a meeting then was looking after the girls on Friday whilst Hannah got her hair cut. Grandpa and Rosie also came through on Friday to stay the night aswell so the girls were spoilt for company! Natalie was particularly chuft and was following Rosie about saying 'Hello Rosie' and giving her cuddles.

On Saturday I took the girls to Duthie park in the morning. Here's some pictures from there:







We then paid a quick visit to Sarah and Mike, again Nat very chuft with seeing more family members and had us all in stitches with her daftness!

Then today Grannie Toys and Granda came through for a visit. We went to Brewsters for lunch which was really nice. Here's a nice pic of Grannie and Holly:




After that we went outside for a bit as it was an OK day. Here's a couple of pics of the girls:



As for the rest of the week well Hannah had a tooth out on Wednesday which was not good!! I'm sure anyone who's had an extraction can symphathise with her :(

Holly's had a bit of a funny week aswell. It started on Tuesday when she got sent home from Nursery. She had been a bit upset when I dropped her off but I though nothing of it however the Nursery called about an hour or so later to say she hadn't really calmed down and was coughing a lot. Hannah picked her up then got her seen at the Doctors (nae messing about this time!). Turns out she had another chest infection!!! Only minor this time but she's back on antibiotics - poor Holly!!!!

So she then had a day off Nursery. She seemed fine on Thursday so I took her back. Unfortunately she got really upset once she got changed at Nursery and really didn't want to go in. However after about 20mins of me trying to get her calm (and failing!) the Nursery though it would be best of I just left her. It was quite hard to do as she was hysterical when I left but seemingly she calmed down fairly quickly and was OK after that. The Nursery thought that it was maybe because I was dropping her off and she was playing up so we decided that Hannah would drop her off on Friday. Unfortunately she did the same thing and again we had to leave her screaming :( She was OK after though.

So it must be a phase she's going through. Hopefully we will just battle through it and she'll be fine. She did say to us after her bath tonight "I'm feeling better to go the Teddy Bear School and
I won't cry". So here's hoping she keeps to her word!!!!!

Anyway that's enought for this mammoth blog (must be a record for us!)

Ciao

Ian

Nae much to say!!

Hi Folks

Great title I know! But it pretty much sums this post up!! As Ian said last week we have a deal to take it week about to do the blog so I can't let the side down so early on even if I have not much to report.

So this week has been pretty miserable, the girls have been full of the cold since Monday, so we have just been in the house mostly with the girls being very fed up. Holly missed Pebbles and School a couple of times, and when she went back to Pebbles on Friday Nat was sick all over the carpet when we dropped Holly off. So really it has just been one of those weeks! Nat has picked up now, Holly is still not great and I will be having her seen by the doctor tomorrow if she is no better.

Anyway some photos!!! Here is Holly looking poorly on the sofa tonight......

This photo is quite funny for anyone who has had the pleasure of putting Natalie to bed. If you don't know we (mostly Ian!) have to sit beside her until she goes to sleep and hold her hand (yes she is nearly 2!!). So yesterday the girls were playing in their room and we found Holly lying in Natalie's cot and Nat holding her hand obviously pretending to help Holly to sleep!!

Here is another cheeky photo of Nat, flopping on a duvet when we were cleaning out the spare room....

And finally a photo of Nat dressed as the nurse which we took last weekend but Ian forgot to put up.....

Well I really can't think of anything else to report, another busy week ahead, hopefully the girls will be feeling better.

Ian will be back next week,

Bye for now,

Hannah XX

p.s. I forgot to say you may notice Nat has 2 marks on her face in some of the photos. This is the result of her and Holly having a proper fight the other day over Daddie's Nintendo DS. Poor Nat came out worse. Needless to say they were both in trouble over that!!