Rock-a-bye Your Bear

Below is a video of Ben dancing to The Wiggles song “Rock-a-bye Your Bear”

Apologies

Sorry I haven’t uploaded any pictures in a while. Life is busy, and I have been slack :(

The boys have been very good lately. E has a little temp today, but apart from that they have not been sick since that awful illness in July. Both boys had their 18 month vaccination (chicken pox) and did extremely well. It was the best vaccination so far. Ben got a mini chicken pox rash for a few days, but it didn’t really bother him at all.

The boys have adjusted very well to the new house and we all love living here. They sleep 12 hours over night 7pm-7am and nap a couple of hours after lunch. They walk, run, climb and get into all sorts of mischief on a daily basis.

Ben is getting very chatty and says about 10-20 words. His favourite word is car and he says it the most. Ethan still doesn’t talk much and usually only says ‘mum’ but he can say about 5 words.

Both boys understand most of what we say and can follow 2 step directions very well. They love to help around the house and enjoy doing simple tasks when you ask. Ethan’s favourite chore is to clean up spills with a moist cloth.

They are also cheeky little toddlers who equally enjoy ignoring what we say, or doing the exact opposite of what is asked. This usually happens when we ask them to “come here please”. They often smile, laugh, shake their head and walk backwards, thinking it’s a great joke. Cheeky boys!

I could go on for ages telling stories of my little darlings, but I’ve wasted enough time on the computer today. Better go do some house work!!

Hope you enjoy the following pictures :)

Kitchen Antics

The boys are still learning the art of feeding them self with a spoon. It’s a tricky process that makes a lot of mess. Below are some pictures of the boys eating rice bubbles this morning.

Ethan

Ben

 

A little later in the day the boys sat at the table to do some drawing with their crayons. We’ve been a little slack in the art department lately. They boys will be getting some art supplies for Christmas, so we’ll be getting to art again next year.

Ben

Ben

Ethan

Ben

Ben’s drawing

Ben – lots of concentration

Ethan’s drawing

Ethan – concentrating hard on putting the crayons back in the box.

Boys’ room

As promised a while ago here are some pictures of the boys’ room.

Ben at the door. Both boys love the fire truck pictures on their door.

A closer look at the pictures on the door.

Ethan and his cot, as seen from the door.

Another view from the door.

Also standing in the door way, looking towards the balcony. Ben’s cot on the left, Ethan’s on the right.

Ethan, Ben and Ben’s cot. Also see the new air conditioner we bought for their room. The boys’ room faces west and gets VERY VERY hot in the mid-late afternoon. The new AC is great. Very efficient and very quiet. We can leave it on while they nap in the day, and set it to turn off a couple of hours after they are put to bed at night on hot days.

 

Ben’s cot

Book case

A closer look at some of the pics on the walls 

Pics over Ben’s cot.

Sleeping Boys

We don’t often get to see our boys asleep as one boys usually starts making some noise to let us know he’s awake, and rouses the other boy into a lighter sleep or wakes him up. Both boys are usually awake when we walk into the room.

Recently I’ve managed to get a few pictures of my little darlings fast asleep.

Ethan

Ben

Early Christmas with Grandma

Last weekend the boys’ Grandma came to our house for an early Christmas. She is going to America for 6 weeks this Friday to spend Christmas with her son (Uncle Graham who lives in Texas). We celebrated last Saturday.  On Friday evening after the boys went to bed, Tracie and her mum put up the tree and wrapped all the presents (Sal was at work). The boys came downstairs on Saturday morning to see a tree and lots of presents in their living room. They LOVED it!!

Ethan examining the tree, Ben examining the presents!

Ethan – LOVES the Christmas tree. A few days ago he rode up to the tree on his elmo plane, looked at one of the decorations, tried to pull it off and pulled the whole tree over. He broke a few decorations, but luckily it didn’t land on him.

Ethan opening his dump truck from Grandma  

Ben with his dump truck 

Ben and Ethan checking out their new musical chair from Grandma

Ben’s turn on the chair

Ethan playing peek-a-boo “Where’s Ethan??””Peek-a-boo”

We also had Tracie’s cousin Keli and her 4yr old son Bailey come for a BBQ lunch. We exchanged presents, played in the back yard, and the boys swam in their little paddling pool. We had a wonderful day. We were having so much fun I forgot to take pictures later in the day!!

Chipmunks Indoor Playland

 

Today we went to Chipmunks Indoor Playland with some friends. The boys had a great time and played happily for 3 hours! They were both very adventurous (a little too adventurous for mummy’s liking!). The played with balls, climbed up the maze and went down the big slides. Lots of fun!!!

Ben and Cead (friend)

Ben thinking about climbing up the big jumping castle/slide. He only got part way up before coming back down.

Ethan was surprisingly more adventurous and climbed up the big slide.

And then slid down, on his belly, feet first. He was so proud of him self when he got down. It really was a big slide.

Ethan in the toddler area. He’s standing on a keyboard that played different noted when you stand on different keys. Very cool :)

Ethan

Their favourite slide. Up and down so many times. . . . . Ben climbing up, Ethan is about to go down. 

Ethan about to go down the slide 

Ben

Ethan

Ben negotiating the maze.

Ethan in the ball pit 

Ethan  

Ben in the ball pit  

Ben 

Ben

The big kids maze – Ethan is climbing up near the top!

Ethan

Again, Ethan right up the top. He’s standing behind the gun.

Ben going down the slide

Ben

Ben and Cead in the car

Ben

Ethan in the ball room. He’s pointing at another machine that blows wind into the air and makes the balls hover mid air. He had just noticed the balls mid-air.