3!!

Well I have been busy with parties and presents and cake making the last couple of weeks. Albert turned 3, which meant i spent a few evenings crying at how fast it is all going and then really enjoying seeing how excited he was about everything.

Albert enjoyed everything about his birthday but it was the cake which really meant something, I'm assuming because every party we go to the cake is the main focus with the singing and the candle so he totally froze and started shaking when he saw his cake and couldn't believe it was for him. He was very very cute - and the cake it's kwazii. I checked it was his favourite octonaut but as soon as he saw it he told me he also wanted a Barnacles one.

I'm slightly crying in the last one. For his birthday we went to Marwell Zoo with Nana, Pop, Gemma, Grandma and Frank because adults love a good zoo. It was a lovely day out and I think everyone enjoyed it.

The weekend after his birthday he has his joint party with Dylan and Holly. They had a proper disco with lights and their favourite tunes.

This was before anyone arrived - setting up, we went balloon crazy!!

Here he is looking scared of his cake again, he totally refused to blow them out he was so shy. As soon as they had all blown their candles out though the cakes were snatched from the stands by various tiny hands!

There was carnage on the bouncy castle as normal - and on a side, albert chose his red trousers himself from the shop, he likes his bright colours.

Happy birthday little man!

Easter

This week has been Easter and it has been really really hot and really really wet all over seven days.
At the start of the week we went to the park, we spent a long time there and had a picnic and it was lovely they both really love the park at the moment although I think I was probably more tierd then Albert and Rowan.

Albert fell asleep on the sofa after we had been in a little while, Rowan fell asleep as soon as we got in the car and has developed a very cute car sleep pose.

We also had an Easter egg hunt which was very exciting especially when they realised there were chocolate eggs inside the big eggs - woo hooo!

Sharing!

Rowan also walked across the natural history museum this weekend which was very cool and then decided maybe he preferred his bum shuffling ways. We also tried extreme weather crabbing which didn't go to well - apparently crabs don't like bad weather and swans eat bacon. Two new facts.

Because of the extreme weather we did some crafting.



We also went to Bev and Andys woods which was a lot of fun, Albert and Rowan loved it, sticks, leaves and all sorts of outside fun. The rain held of and there were sausages cooked on fires and beans and lots and lots of swiss roll!

We had a very happy Easter.



Hot hot hot!

This week it has been hot!! Mid twenties and it's march so we went to the beach. Albert and Rowan love sand and shells we even dipped our feet in.

Sun hats and shorts!!

We also went to cambridge this weekend to see the lovely Campbells. They are lovely and we all fit into their house and were all as pathetic as each other at wanting to sleep.
We spent Saturday at Wicken Fen which was lovely, we did brass rubbing and board walking.

We had a brilliant picnic, thank you lou and a great BBQ check out Rowan chilling in his chair.

We also managed to practically injure every child we had at the park and in the house, Molly coming of worse with a (accidental) claw hammer to the head and a tumble on the roundabout. She was very brave though!
Pre injury park shots.

Park

This week is Millie's last week in the uk so we met her at the park for a play in the sun, we will miss all the prior's very much for the next few years and we we hope they end up coming back.

Rowan loved the park it is a good size for a bum shuffler this one, we did have some extreme paddies when I tried to move him out of other children's way though. He certainly knows exactly where he wants to be.

He stole a big kids ball and was so chuffed with himself the kid didn't no what to do, we gave it back in the end though. A tiny roaring bum shuffler is probably quite an intimidating thing!
My mum and dad came down last week and they are amazing at wallpapering. Our kitchen is 98% finished thanks to them!!

Here it is with our dresser and our cockatoos.

Also this week we made play doh men which is normal but we had to add tiny play doh willies which Albert made, I didn't think they would need to be anatomically correct yet but I guess I was wrong. They are also wearing bob the builder hats that's why the heads are massive!

And just because they are cute and look so very similar in this picture.

Teeth.

Albert has his first dentist appointment on Monday, we have bought a new spiderman toothbrush today that is electric as you are allowed them from 3 and it is very exciting.

What the photo doesn't show is he has just eaten a chicken satay while doing tree Fu with tree Fu Tom and it is all while sat on the potty - he is special.
We did some chalking this week on a big black piece of paper which was fun and way messier then I thought it would be - especially when the glitter turned up!

Check out those trousers, it is way more fun rubbing out your chalk with your knees, bum shuffler liked it too although he did spread it alot further.

And back again.

We also did some cake making today Rowan is getting as good as Albert at testing the mix now he is allowed raw eggs.

First mini vibration I think.

Rowan, Albert and Adam all spent the weekend with Nana and Pop as I was on my annual centre parcs weekend and it sounded like they had a great time, they even got taken for lunch in a polytunnel, wow!!

Daddy also bought the best present home for the boys spare hard hats, Albert spent this morning walking round in his pants, shades and hat we didn't manage to get a photo of him looking that cool so this cheesy pose will have to do.

Spring, almost.

That is my washing on the line this weekend, it must almost be spring!

Our kitchen is almost finished just decorating to be done and we all love it! Rowan is fond of the oven light so he can watch his dinner cooking. Albert likes he can get to the surfaces and into all the cupboards as it hasn't been childlocked yet. It is a fun place to hang out in.

Eating frozen peas is way more fun then waiting for them to be cooked, but not as much fun as
helping make cakes!

Albert hung out with his friend Millie this week, check out these moody teenager faces, don't
interrupt us mummy we are eating cake!

We also played outside a lot this weekend because of the sun, we planted our broad beans and peas at the vegetable garden with Aunty Gem Gem and went for a run in the woods. Rowan likes
the backpack carrier quite alot and nothing is more fun then hitting daddy with a stick.

Albert likes to watch me put my hair up and have his done like a rabbit. He is very funny.