So I’m now 28, which means the blog turned 2 this week. I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since I took the plunge and started documenting our lives. There have obviously been a few changes in that time, one of them being how I actually write these posts- 2 years ago I would have put Polly down for a nap and planned what I was about to post while sipping a cup of tea, whereas right now I’m writing in between breaking up wrestling matches between the little monkeys, I’m ignoring the washing up in the kitchen and a cup of tea is proving a far off dream. So life is fairly full on, slightly crazy but oh so fun.

We celebrated my birthday by heading to the Eden project in the pouring rain during the school holidays, we won’t be doing that again! It was absolutely heaving, but this was the first time that Polly was properly into it and she loved running from plant to plant and puddle to puddle. We’ll also know for next time that if we get put in the furthest car park away then the bus down is actually free (we didn’t have change so wrongly assumed this and definitely made fools of ourselves with a mile long walk in the rain with only one single pushchair and only one umbrella), luckily the girl loves a puddle!

We get told a lot, and I mean a lot, how much both the kids look like Henry, so it was quite a relief this week to see some more of my genes creeping through with the help of food. Polly started the day living her best life with wellies off and a Philadelphia bagel in McDonald’s…

And Seb was living his best life later on in the day with 2 spoons, his hands and a chocolate brownie with ice cream…

Yup definitely my kids…

I also shock horror got dressed up in the evening and went for cocktails which was a lot of fun. There was a lot of laughing which was the perfect way to round off a birthday.

We are now saying that Seb is walking, I mean he pretends he isn’t but I now have too many sneaky videos of him strutting across the room behind my back that his trick of dropping back to crawling when he clocks me filming won’t wash anymore, I’m pretty sure he’s only doing it so he can get carried around now.

Summer is proving very hit and miss so we’ve just been taking any opportunities whenever we can to get outside and enjoy the sun in between showers. The kids had a blast in the river last week with their cousins with Polly using any excuse like this to just get naked and run in the water, obviously Henry’s genes creeping in there 😉.

Polly is definitely getting too smart for her own good and definitely too cheeky, maybe my genes on this instance. She had a great day last week when Henry took them over to the Wiscombe hill climb, she’s still carrying the racing programme round with her chatting about the fast cars that go ‘bang pop’.

And finally the boy, well he’s still doing ridiculous things like getting up at 4 to squeeze in the gym before either of us goes to work and is resorting to all sorts of methods to keep the kids busy while he studies- cars, books, colouring, food, Netflix, letting them chase the cat round the house. The truth is it has taken us a little bit longer to get him to the end but he’s definitely within touching distance of finishing his training which will hopefully see scenes like this…

Time to sign off now as the beach beckons before work later and that washing up sadly won’t do itself (maybe I’ve offended the washing up fairy) and the kids are quickly destroying the house! I’ll try and post again soon as tomorrow is the beginning of folk week which should produce many anecdotes as it has done in the past!