Meet Maggie!!!

Hiya,

We have a kitten. Her name is Maggie. Though I just call her Baby Kitten and Harry just shouts CAT CAT CUDDLE everytime he sees her.

This is Maggie. She is 6 weeks old and tiny (about the size of Daddy's hand) she is very cute and playful.














Last week we went to see Milly, Charlie and Poppy again with Erin.































The rest of the week was the same as usual - school swimming, football, jj's, shopping, cleaning...

So some pics.

Lots of pictures

I think we've just done the same as usual, On Wednesday we went to see Milly and Charlie and Baby Poppy.

Fred amused me on the way as I said who we were going to see and his response?

"I like Milly and Charlie, but I dont like Poppy".
"Why she is only a baby?"
"No she is a tiny doggy and I DONT LIKE DOGGIES".
Bless him at the confusion!

Didn't do JJ's on Thursday due to it being half term so went to park instead.

Thursday night I was sick YUCK.. Friday steve was off which was nice, Saturday we had no swimming and football due to half term so had lunch with Steves parents and grandparents. Today we did nothing!! Well I did nothing, i am still not feeling right after Thursday night. Managing one meal a day and then feel ill again. :(

Poor me

So anyway lots of photos.



Washing Cars with Daddy
















Looking cute after FINALLY getting their fringes cut!




















Baby Poppy
















On a Cool Swing
















Scary Hair!!















I like this hat!!


















This last lot of random photos are from where Freddie got hold of the camera! :)

Notalot!!

Well obviously since last week the boys have been poorly.

Saturday Harry couldn't go swimming, we tried to take Fred to football but he wee'd (AGAIN!!!) but he did go swimming!! I am not sure if it is all too much for him in one day visiting Nanny and Grumps or Nonna and Grandad Football then swimming. It is a lot for a day so we will keep an eye on it and see.

Here is Fred on Thursday sparko in front of the telly. He had been moaning he was tired for about half an hour, I ginored it as it was already about 4pm, I went to get him a drink, came back and found this!! Ha ha :)
















Friday Fred had school (which he now loves - new friends Adam and Harvey :) ) and the afternoon was once again gorgeous! The boys played in the garden again for a bit!







































Sunday was nothingy! Mowed the lawn (steve not me!) tidied, ironed the usual stuff.

Monday was school again for Fred then nothing in afternoon besides garden playing.


















Sportafed Marching!



























CHEEEEEEESE!!!!

























Brotherly Love :)




Yesterday was school again and CAR PICKING UP for us. So we now have beeeeuuuuuuutiful new cars. We also had guys round extending the patio and fitting the outside light, so I think I spent most of the afternoon keeping the boys either away from the back door (HUGE patio slabs) or the front door (Drills, dust wires). Not much fun for me!

Today we were supposed to go see Milly and new baby Poppy but Harry is still snotty and gunky eyed so thought better of it.

Running Boys!











































I do have a couple of cute videos but as usual they are taking AGES to upload so will do when I have more time!

L xxxx

Poorly Boys :(

Sorry for the lack of posts (again!) but I have been working.

Yes thats right working, now I will expect you will either be thinking:

a) You work? you haven't worked in over a year, who are you kidding!
or
b) How can you work? you look after 2 kiddies all day (and night) long thats a full time job in itself!

But yes I have been doing some work. Well 22 hours in the last week or so in the evenings. Every penny helps!!

Since the last post we have had my Birthday (Happy Birthday me!!) Steve had to work so it was a bit of a manic day carting the kids to swimming (harry) Football (fred) and swimming (Fred again). We did manage to squeeze in lunch with Mum and Dad though. Fred was ill the week before my birthday - nothing serious but it seemed affect his weeing abilities, weeing in a potty or toilet that is. He spent the week weeing on the floor or the carseat. Lovely. I don't think I've washed the car seat covers so often or scrubbed the floor so much.

Fred recovered though, and the peeing incidents seemed to have dried up (ha ha).

We have only done the usual things, School, JJ's etc. Here is a photo of Harry sleeping on the sofa. A rarity as you all know!














We have both ordered new cars and cannot wait to pick them up. The Clio was getting Faaaar too small for all 4 of us and the Escort kept braking down leaving me and the boys stranded. The Heating also went, along with the clutch and exhaust so it would cost more to fix than the car is worth, but we have had a decent year out of it!

So this time next week we should have new cars (Megane for me, Laguna for Steve) YAY.

Right back to the updates.

Saturday was swimming football again, but Fred was difficult and refused to do either, sooooooooo not like him, He was tired and in a funny mood, lets hope next week is better...

We met up with Mel, Dave Connor and Kaitlin for Dinner in the afternoon though so Fred could give Connor his birthday present - 3 already!!!

Sunday we didn't do much.

Monday was obviously school again (I made Fred walk there and back too) its a good
mile and a half so he was knackared!!

Tuesday was school in the morning, then we had pancakes for lunch, neither of them were impressed though strange children.

Yesterday Fred was off colour again. By Lunchtime I had guessed he had an ear infection. He has had sooo many of them now I know the signs. Managed to get him to the docs in the afternoon who confirmed it and he is now on antibiotics. I did dose him up on Calbuprufen at lunchtime so he was happy for a few hours.

The sun was shining it was a lovely day so I shoved the boys in the garden to play.



























However last night Harry woke about 9 (early for him! - especially now I don't feed him before bed ). By the time I got up there he was struggling to breathe and coughing and screaming (when he could get a breath). So I took him up to A&E, where we spent most of the night.

He was given steriods to clear his chest. And monitored for the next few hours, they did to get a nebulisor on him but he went Loopy whenever anyone came near him which just made his breathing worse. So they left him with me to calm down. In the end because he was getting so worked up when a doctor came near we came home. I was given a couple of syringes of steriods with strict instructions to give them straight to him and bring him back should he struggle again.

He had a nice little lie in this morning and a long sleep this morning but he seems ok just a little hoarse. Hes a bit rattly on his chest but much better. Hopefully we wont get a repeat.

So we are home today doing nothing! Well we have painted, sponge painted and twirly painted!! Oh and Fred got a baloon making kit from Father Christmas which we had forgotten about so here is our attempt at making an octopus!!














Oh and heres a lovely photo of the boys play fighting the other morning. Have I got about 18 years left of this!! :)













Lorraine xx

SportaFred!!!

Well one of my favourite programmes is Lazytown, and the Hero of Lazytown is Sportacus.

Mummy bought me this today.. HOW COOL AM I!!!!!!!!




















Freddie xx

Little update

Sorry its been a while.

So last week Freddie started school!! (well Pre-school) Bless him he is soo grown up. Though what is even scarier is that by the end of this year I need to have chosen which school I want him to go to, as he is a spring baby, he will be starting in 2009!!!

He now goes Monday, Tuesday and Friday Mornings. The school is fab and it took me ages to decide on it. I think their garden helped (huge enclosed garden), the fact it was a nice size not too many kids and wasn't run in a church hall. Whilst there is nothing wrong with Church halls of course, I personally prefer a school thats a school, not somewhere thats also a AA meeting room etc.

For anyone that wants a look their website is here:

http://www.thehatchlings.co.uk/our_nursery_schools_basingstoke_worting_road.php

He has taken to it well, though there have been tears some mornings, which is hard the first day no tears then its built up. I guess he is soo used to being at home with me thats its a bit of a shock. However when I pick him up he is full of school talk, what he did, what he drank, what he ate, reciting stories, doing dances. Its very cute.

So last week I will try and remember.

Tuesday school in morning, unfortunately for Harry he had to have his MMR and his HIB booster! Not such a nice morning for him!! We had ice tots again in the afternoon.
Wednesday - we had to wait in all day for our furniture, which of course didnt turn up till 4pm!
Thursdays was JJ's again with James and Angela.
Friday was school - then I think for once nothing in the afternoon.

Saturday was hectic, Steve dropped Fred and I at his mum and Dads then took Harry swimming, brought Harry back collected Fred and took Fred to his first football lesson!!!!!!!!!

Fred was a little shy at first but soon got into it, Steve seems to think he has a real knack for it (Come on earn Mummy and Daddy some money!!) and he is sooo good and quick on his feet.





















They then returned for lunch, then soon set off again to take Fred for his swimming lesson. (which due to a crash they missed - oh and the fact that Steve didn't know the shortcut! - my mum and dad went to watch - left the same time as steve, got there half an hour before he was even near, left when they realised he wasnt going to make it and got home about 20 minutes before he did!!!)

Harry was not having a great day, I have decided to stoped feeding him in the day (MY milk that is not all food!!!) and this was day one, so he wasnt happy, it probably didnt help that I forgot the bottle for him to drink from.

Here is Harry looking shocked that he had NO CHOCOLATE LEFT!!!




















We then drove home and minutes after we got back Mark and Chantal arrived.
I cooked for us all (well not they boys they went to bed!) and we had a great night.


Harry amazingly slept from 8.30 till 6am.. belive me I was shocked. Hasnt happened since but still its a start right! I didnt even mind that he wanted to start the day at 6 (they get up around 7.30-8 these days!).

Because he had gotten up so early he was tired mid morning, I usually take him for a drive or walk to get him to sleep, but didnt, and he fell asleep in Chantals arms.

SOOOOOOOO CUTE




























Sunday we popped over to Mum and Dads as it was my Nans birthday this week. Stupidly forgot the camera though so have no piccies!!

Stayed there till about 1.30/2 but at this point the boys were hungry so we took them to lunch at a pub just down the road from us and had a great time. Both behaved for once!!

Here are the boys playing scalextrix when we got home.




























Sunday Night Fred seemed to come down with Flu - though by monday morning he sounded awful. Coughing losing his breath, wheezing. I thought it was croup, rang NHS direct who listened to him on the phone - they thought it was croup. Took him to the doctor - "I can't hear a wheeze" just give him calpol. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. He was fine Monday night though and I (meanie) sent him to school Tuesday morning.


Here are my telly addicts in the afternoon. Have to say Harry really copies fred now, if Fred is lying down Harry soon comes over and joins him, if Fred is dancing Harry starts bouncing up and down, and if Fred is Jumping, you get this little "DUMP DUMP DUMP" echo and Harry trying his hardest to get both feet off the floor!

















OOh you can see our new furniture in this one (looks better in the flesh but you get an idea) oh and my new rug which I LOVE!! soo soft and will hopefully hide more stains than the last one!

Oh and some arty black and white shots as I was playing with the camera.























Ok so we are up to today at last. We did nothing really! Went to the post office then I took the boys to pizza hut for lunch! (Lazy me but who can resist and all you can eat for £2.99 for 2 boys!!) They love pizza. The real reason was I had forgotten to get anything out the freezer and by the time we had finished at the post office and other things Harry slept then it was 11.45 and I was like ARGHH Lunch!

Oh this morning. I went for a shower came downstairs to silence and no boys in front of the TV, walked round tot he kitchen and found 2 terrors playing with a box of rice , obviously most of the rice was on the floor at this point so I decided to let it go and join them and threw some pasta into the mix too. They loved it. Cheap fun I guess!
























Oh then Harry decided to climb under the table and get stuck but he liked it -strange strange child.




















Lorraine x