Bye bye nappies!

Emily has taken quite well to potty training. We started on tuesday and had a few mishaps but wednesday was a dream and she was dry all day. Thursday we ventured out to music group and she was fine until we went into the soft play room and she got so excited and told me she needed the toilet too late! But never one to be defeated she sucessfully asked to use the toilet again and we made it. The afternoon bought new issues.... Emily's friend Sophie came to play and again she got carried away playing playdoh and decorated the carpet! Today however we went to Swindon and I asked her to go before we left and she did, then she asked to use the toilet in Mothercare! We got home nice and dry with a new Peppa Pig toy as a reward. She even managed a trip over to nanna's house without any problems. Number 2's are an issue but the less said about that the better on the internet - I am sure not everyone needs to read about that! Had a lovely afternoon with just my little boy - who I am convinced is teething at 12 weeks! Can't believe he is only 12 weeks it doesn't sound very long at all but feels like he has been here forever, although I am reminded it was not long ago by my muscles growing back round my scar- ouch!!

Happy holiday

Just been to Cornwall for the weekend, we stayed with my Dad and Mary and had a brilliant time. Took Tom to meet his great-grandma, who loved him to bits and even managed to hold him despite being nearly 91 and having 3 strokes! We went to St Ives on the train and played on the beach, Emily loved making sandcastles and very carefully placed a stone on each one! We had a fish and chip supper at John Becks restaurant and Emily sat up to the table and ate sausage, chips and beans. On the saturday we went to Newquay to the Aquarium which Emily loved, she saw Rays, Sharks and loads of fish but her favourite were the seahorses or "lots and lots of seahorses" as she put it. Tom was quite taken with the bright fish in the tropical tanks. Wayne and I even managed a night out on the saturday having left the children in the capable hands of Nanna and Grandad! Emily had her first proper haircut from Nanna Mary, she sat quietly whilst Mary took a couple of inches off the length to tidy it up. We then went for a lovely sunday lunch before setting off home only to get stressed out completely on the M4 and M5!

Today we have ventured into potty training, we have tried it before but it is make or break now and one way or another Emily is not wearing nappies anymore. We had a productive afternoon with 7 sucessful attempts in the potty - one of which being a number 2! Only 4 little accidents on the carpet - how many times a day do children go to the loo! We have also welcomed Sarah-Jane and Justin to the family, a couple of goldfish happily settled in the kitchen - named by Emily of course.

Slave labour anyone?

A beautiful sunny day today so thought we would make the most of it. Went to music this morning and did a rather funny dance to Gina G "ooh aah just a little bit" then went to the bouncy castle and came home to get on with some serious work! I thought Emily needed educating in the art of washing the car which was fun, then we progressed to cleaning the windows (yes, I have a proper window cleaning kit!) Emily did not quite grasp the idea of it and proceeded to clean the car again with the dirty sponge we were using for the windows! Tom happily slept through it all!

Isn't it suposed to be summer!

Well, what a week we have had, we have all had terrible colds, I have a sinus infection and Emily has a bad case of miserable toddleritis! It is a long week when you have 2 children to look after! Thank goodness all the groups are back on this week, music started again last week, we have now been going for nearly 2 years, and toddler group started again monday. I find myself quite divided as there are the new mums with tiny babies who all sit on the floor chatting, who I feel I should be socialising with discussing Tom's sleeping and activities, then there are my friends with toddlers the same age as Emily who I want to socialise with but sit at a different end of the room to the new mothers! It is hard having a second baby when none of your friends have had one too, I can't help but worry that Tom will have no friends of his own but perhaps when Emily starts pre-school in April I can focus more on him.

We have booked a holiday for Feb 2008 at last! A week in Egypt at Sharm El Sheik's Hilton! All sounds great and the weather will be hot but not too hot for the children. Wayne and I have both been to Egypt before, he went to Aswan and I went to Cairo. We also picked up some brochures for Euro Disney at the same time and are seriously thinking of a pre-Christmas getaway for a few nights, Emily is already talking about "princess castles" so hopefully that will be sorted soon.

Going to be having our first night away since Tom's birth on saturday, going to the cinema and out for dinner which will be great, will be nice to get to know my husband again! Then going to take Tom swimming for the first time on Sunday (cold having left us by then hopefully!) Due to the nasty perverts ruining everything we will not be able to have photographic memories of this exciting event, unless we manage to sneak a camera in like we did with Emily!