1!

Rowan was one yesterday which is insane as it has gone way to fast. He is so different from Albert he is already throwing spectacular tantrums if he doesn't get to do what he wants, he has no fear, he prefers cake to fruit and when he wakes up he is ready to go and generally very very happy. His eyes are going green and he has curly bits of hair behind his ears which are very cute and yesterday he got to open his own presents and keep them!!

Albert was very good and obviously a bit confused by Rowan getting all the presents so we did let him have one of his own, we are totally soft parents! Rowans presents were mostly presents they will both play with but he wasn't giving up the ambulance train bless him.
We decided to go to Paultons park and Peppa pig world for the day as a birthday treat for us all and it was brilliant. Albert is totally hardcore when it comes to rollarcoasters especially compared to his dad!

This one really tested Adams stomach though!

They also went on a few rides at peppa pig world, Daddy pigs car,

The scary dino ride (although Rowan was to short for that one)

And Mrs Rabbits helicopter ride.

This is the queue for the helicopters they are a pair of savages!

Albert also went on a mini no adults allowed log flume which was very very cute.

Also I won a massive George pig on the throwing balls into barrel game which I was very proud of especially as Adam had just told me I shouldn't have a go as it was wasting money! Ha!
We could tell it was a good day out about three seconds after getting in the car.

Happy birthday tiny one!

Party!

Today was Rowan and Phoebe's joint first birthday party which is crazy and it was great and hectic.
They had a sensory party which was brilliant lots of scarves and drums, glowsticks and balloons all the things children love.

This is birthday boy smacking me with a glow wand during musical statues in the dark, which went down a storm.

This is Adam helping with the rainbow song, luckily she asked the most uncoordinated man in the room to help release the balloons - he did a great job though.
This is the fantastic birthday cake neither me or Amy got round to making!

We also had mini bouncy castle and thousands of balls, which resulted in chaos and red faces from all the excitement.

We made some very cool sensory party bags with a musical instrument, light up balloon and popping candy ( which Albert is scared of).

All a bit to much though for our little birthday boy!

Soft play fun!

Today was freezing, yet again the snow missed us and it rained but we are getting used to seeing everyone else's snow pictures.
We went to Moby's as it was too cold to spend long outside and we went with Millie and Evie, as Evie is only tiny an inside kids can go crazy place seemed like a good idea. They also do good coffee (very important!).
Rowan is very much involved these days - he is such an accomplished butt shuffled it's impressive to watch.

They were very much in control of the little pit.

How guilty do they look, and how not bothered is Rowan that he is already cramping his big brothers style!

Albert is really good at jigsaws now and he loves them! So does Rowan and he is very patient with him destroying his work up to a point and then the ninja butt shuffler needs to be moved away. He is only trying to help though.

The end result, ten mins in the car with a coffee while they slept. Unfortunately the radio woke them - damn the high pitched tones of the Bee Gees.

We have tiles which is awesome!

I also went to meet the lovely Ali this week he is very cute.

Aye aye me heartys!

Also Page 45 deliver!

I must love him!

Eve

Congratulations lou and mike on the arrival of the stunning Eve, she is the only one worthy of a capital in this sentence - you make good girls!! I am looking forward to my boys butts being handed to them on all future holidays by your Campbell tag team.
Less importantly we have serious kitchen action this week.

We have had some help with the painting this week and a whole new floor!

This week we are starting with a room and adding a kitchen very very exciting!!
Albert also made a Mike the knight helmet this week.

We went to the aquarium too as it is freezing and as we are the only place in the uk not to have snow it's no fun outside!

Kitchen

This weekend we went up to reading for our first 40th party as 30 something's - a scary thing!! Then we went up to Notts as Adam and Frank ripped apart our kitchen.
Mum and Dad took good care of us, Grandad Pop took us for a walk in the woods with the famous Nigel Slater burger van at lunch time.
Here Rowan and Albert realise that their cheese sandwich was a total fob off as Pop comes back with our lunch!

It was also Adams birthday before we left and we cooked a big cake our last cake in the old kitchen which was a little sad, Albert helped with the testing.

We also found the elusive octonaut Peso in Arnold sainsburys which is a big result, i would like to pretend getting excited about rare action figures is new for me but I have a large collection of x- men figures which would say I'm lying. At least this time it's for someone else. I have also let Albert have a wolverine and iceman to play with the rest are more a five plus age bracket I feel if ever.
Anyway we got back to a bomb site of a kitchen,

Albert did say the next day, oh no, daddy has broken the kitchen - an understatement I feel!

First man in was Pete the electrician, he very quickly found a rotten floor which was brilliant, luckily he knew a man who could help so it should be ok.
Here are some new plugs and a rotten floor.

This week we have also had Jason the plumber come and make the washing machine work again yay, and Russell the plasterer so it is already starting to look like a room again.

Albert has even been helping filling in the holes, Adam has high hopes for a useful profession in the family.

We also managed to squeeze in some puddles at the farm and while Rowan has been quite poorly he is starting to really enjoy the popping elephant. He also got his first pair of shoes from clarks very exciting!

Sharing.

It amazes me how much Rowan loves Albert, well until I think about it and he is most definitely the most exciting person in the house. Now Rowan wants to walk he mostly wants to follow Albert around they can play this game were Albert stands in front of Rowan right in his face everytime he tries to get round him and they find it hilarious. It's also brilliant to see how much Albert loves Rowan and just wants him to be involved and how excited he gets when they are playing together.
Sharing is a difficult concept and it mostly involves Albert taking things off Rowan and giving him something slightly lame in return. But sometimes there is unprompted sharing and that's awesome.

Not only does he share his watermelon ice lolly but on the way home from nursery Albert had a cake he baked and I heard him telling me he was sharing with Baby which it turned out meant Rowan had the paper case, Rowan managed to eat a fair amount before we got off the motorway.