In together

After two weekends away with the boys sleeping in the same room together, I asked Leon if they he wanted to share with Reuben. He said yes!
Now Reuben's room is a play room and his room is their room. After a week, I'd say they are there to stay!

Jan and Maaike

Tob drove us down to Bristol last friday for the weekend. He was off for a Live Role Play Stag Weekend in Wales - yes these things do exist. We had a lovely laid back weekend with Jan and I and 3 children. I say laid back, it was but the days were long having to be up with the boys from 6 plus having Leon come into bed with me in the night. It was lovely to spend time with my Sister and Maaike is coming on a treat. She adores the boys and the feeling is mutual.
Tob came to pick us up and have Sunday lunch with us at Jan's around midday, with stories of gay hairdressing elves and dandy highway women. It was one hell of a weekend they had. Tob really needed something like this to unwind and actually see is friends. This was followed in a good way this last weekend when after Toby's Cousin Sue's 40th birthday party down in Bedford, we left the boys in their pjamas to come back with Ellen and Dan and we got to go to Martin and Soph's BBQ party down in London. We stayed over, had breakfast with Soph in a lovely cafe bistro on a beautiful summers day. The boys had a lovely time with their Nana so it was a good weekend for everyone.

Beach 2009

This Beach lived up to expectations, the weather was fantastic, the people lovely. Each year more and more kids appear and I can't wait for the stage where the sand castle competitions and frisbee games with the kids can start. This year was the one with the diggers :)

Grandma's

This was the beginning of August but I have taken a while to getting round to catching up with the blog. We drove up to Sam and Rowans for the weekend and visited Grandma on the Sunday afternoon, driving straight home from there. The weather wasn't great on the Saturday at Sam's but we had a fab time, the company made up for any short falls in the weather. We went to a Monkey Forest, which was interesting, then in the evening we had a lovely meal, only the best Indian in the area and then got introduced to the delights of their Wii. It was good to have a go, we will probably get one in a few years, I dare say the boys will demand it.
This was the first time for a while the boys and us had to all sleep in the same room. Leon had his pump up ready bed, Reuben, the travel cot and us, Sam's double bed. Surprisingly the boys settled to sleep really quickly and impressed apon me the idea that they might actually prefer sleeping in the same room...
Grandma looked really well despite denials from her :) It was really lovely to see her and introduce her to her new great grandson.

who does this remind you of?

This was taken summer 1973 when Toby was 3, even Leon thought it was him.