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!!

New Year, more blogging!

Hello All,

Another blog I hear you cry? Well Hannah and I have pledged to do the blog every week and take turn about doing it so hopefully the regular blogging should continue!

So anyway it's been a busy week for us. Hannah's working lots to catch up with the work she couldn't do when she was ill and also I was in London one day so we don't know where the week has gone!

Holly is getting on well at the nursery and Natalie is getting more hyper by the day, see picture above!

We've had a good weekend as Grannie Toys and Granda were through. It's was Grannie's birthday today so they came through on Saturday to go and see Starlight Express at night and stay at a nearby hotel. Apparently the show was good but a bit different! Holly and Natalie are sporting their presents from the show below (there was a 3D bit apparently!):

Natalie had also chosen a Teletubbies cake for Grannie so here's a photo of the girls helping her blow out the candles:

After Grannie and Granda left the girls had a sleep then we went outside for a bit as it was a very nice day here. Here's Nat helping me wash the car:

That's about it really. The girls all seem to be coming down with a cold which is not too good, so we'll be keeping a close eye on Holly in particular.

Anyway till the next blog.....

Bye

Ian

Birthdays and Bikes!

Hi everyone, 3 blogs in a week are you impressed?! I am sure Mum will be!! Well another busy week for us, filled with norovirus (me!), school (Holly), work (Ian and me!) and Pebbles (Holly mostly but Me and Nat on Friday for duty!) The weekend has been just as busy too...

As most of you will know it was Ian's 29th birthday yesterday so we planned to have a quiet day all together, which has been very rare recently. It was a lovely winter's day so decided to take the girls down to Duthie Park so they could go their Bikes for the first time. They were both really excited and Natalie was saying 'Bike' all the way there. So here are some photos from that...

Holly on her bike with some help from Daddy

Both girls on bikes

Nat looking chuffed with her new head gear

Nat on a boingy thing in the park

After a stop off at Burger King (where Nat ate a WHOLE burger!) we came home and Mum came up with the tea which she had cooked for Ian's birthday meal (thanks Mum!). Whilst Mum was here we gave Ian his Football Cake, which Holly insisted I buy for him.

I went wedding dress shopping for a couple of hours then once the girls were sleeping we had our yummy tea and watched Ocean's 13, which was very good, I recommend it!

So today was another busy day, the girls had 2 birthday parties to go to for 2 of the wee boys from Pebbles. In the morning we went to Brewster's for William's party which was good fun, here is Nat with her balloon afterwards, she was well chuffed with it.

In the afternoon we went to Dizzee Rascal's in Laurencekirk for Sam's party. Natalie LOVED it, she kept wandering about saying 'More Play, More Play' and went mental when we had to leave. Holly had a good time too, but was tired out as she is still building her strength after being ill. We took Matthew as Angela and Martin had visitors, he had a great time playing with Inee (as he calls Ian!)

On the treadmill

Holly on the play stepper

So that was our weekend. Another busy week ahead, when will things ever calm down?

Hannah

It's off to school I go.....

Well after her terrible start to 2008, Holly headed off to school nursery today, where she will be going every afternoon until July then every morning until she starts Primary 1 (too scary to think about!!)

I have been hit by this horrible stomach bug that is doing the rounds, so have been bedded for the past 2 days. So Ian got to take Holly for her first session today, which was just for an hour which he stayed for. Holly has been looking forward to going for ages, as she knows that Matthew goes so was very excited that it was finally her turn to go too! Here she is in her smock that Matthew's Nanny very kindly made for her.....

During her visit Holly played with the water and did some sticking glitter with her new teacher, Mrs May. Ian spoke to Mrs May and had to go through her history to date. The class she is in is just small, only 16 kids at the moment, so Ian said is was lovely and peaceful, he couldn't believe how quiet it was.

She goes back tomorrow on her own for an hour and for the rest of the week, then starts properly next week if she settles in OK.

Well I just wanted to post this as it is such an important day for Holly, her first day of proper education. How did that happen?!

Hannah

I was ill, honest!

Hi all.

Well as everyone probably knows we've had a rubbish start to the year with Holly being hospitalised for 5 days with a severe respitory infection. However about 1 hour after getting home last Sunday Holly was high as a kite and has been ever since - must be the drugs! She's absolutely fine now, though does get tired quite easily, and in fact is generally in a better mood and better behaved then she's ever been. So I'm thinking she's either so glad not to be in the hospital or it's the antibiotics she's on. Here's hoping it's the former or we'll be in trouble come next weekend!

Speaking of the drugs, we promised Holly a dress up Stephanie ( from kids TV show Lazy Town, like I needed to tell you!) outfit if she would take her medicine and eat up etc in Hospital so once she was out we had to come up with the goods -see picture above!

That's it really. Holly is off to start nursery ( 1 week late due to her illness) on Tuesday at Charleston school so that's pretty exciting, more fun for Holly & more peace for Mummy - everyone's a winner!!!!!

I'll sign off with a 'covert' picture taken in the kids hospital (phone was on flightmode). It really wasn't that bad in there as you can see - for medicinal purposes only honest!

Ian

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone and a belated Merry Christmas. Another long time since a post, I have had some complaints so I am sorry!! November and December are just a blur we have been so busy. Holly had a 3rd Birthday Party with Liam on the 9th December, which was quite mad, there were 30+ children there, yikes!! Holly had heaps of Christmas things on in December so we were busy with that too. And of course it was her actual birthday on the 22nd which we spent in Lossiemouth. Anyway here are a few photos from that...

Holly on her new Barbie Scooter from Granny and Grandpa

Cheeky Natalie

Holly at her Birthday tea

Holly's 4th Birthday cake (not 4th birthday, 4th cake!)

Girls and Granny Doggie

We were back in Aberdeen from Sunday for Christmas but it really hasn't been a good time, Holly and Natalie have been very poorly, Nat is over it now, but Holly is still very ill, we are very worried about her, and are just hoping she will pick up tomorrow. If not we will be back on to NHS 24. Anyway this is the only 2 decent photos from Christmas of Natalie...

Nat opening one of her many presents.

More Cheeky Nat....this time on her Barbie Trike she got from Santa.

Finally this is a photo of Holly and Natalie I took before Christmas for putting in their Christmas Cards.

Sorry I don't have more to say than this, just I am sure you don't all want to hear our woes.

Bye for Now,

Hannah X

Wedding in Dunblane

Hello Everyone! This weekend has been very exciting, we have been at our friend's Kathryn and Steven's wedding down in Dunblane / Bridge of Allan. We set off yesterday morning first thing and got there about 11.30, hoping to get in to our room, but there was a bit of a delay. Once we got in, we got ready in record speed as we had to get to the church for 1pm!! Anyway we made it there just before the bride! Here are the girls before we left.....

The girls weren't too keen on being in the church, so we spent most of the time outside with them. Here is the new Mr and Mrs Johnstone leaving the church.....

After the service we went back to the hotel, here are the girls looking pretty in their gorgeous dresses....

We had a lovely meal and the girls had fun playing with the other boys and girls. Here is Holly with Kathryn...

And with Daddy....

And with her new found friend, Andrew, who she had great fun with (ssshhh don't tell Matthew she was with another man!!!)

The girls were shattered by 9 (and so were we after spending the day chasing after them) so we all crashed out. This morning we went for breakfast which the girls thought was great fun, then headed off home via a play centre in Perth to let the kids run off some steam, but they were both pretty tired after their busy day.

Well that's it for now

Hannah X