My 30th Birthday Party

F is a gem. He organised a 30th birthday party for me - I know how can I be 30!. Obviously, my mum, his mum and some of my friends; Alison and Laura chipped in too. All I had to do was turn up. Most of the week was spent hitting the shops for something nice to wear. I feel a bit bad about it because Beth spent 2 days in a stroller whilst I tried on dresses. It got so bad that she burst into tears as soon as I closed the curtain on the dressing room. I was late for my own party but the girls hadn't slept well the night before and they went for a mammoth nap. I knew if I woke them up mid-nap I would be asking for trouble.


My mum and dad hired a magician - everyone thought it was a great idea to entertain the kids with but who are they kidding it was totally for me. We had one at our wedding too and I love them. I got him to make a special birthday hat and dad told him to make sure his wee girl was star of the show. F organised a buffet/BBQ to feed 300 people unfortuantly there wasn't as many people as that there. Everyone tried their best but there were loads of cakes and food left over.


I had a great day and poor Fraser had a very very very tiring day. But I really appreciate all his hard work and love him loads and loads. I'm very lucky to have him but Shhh don't tell him that.

Burnt Hand

So Neive burnt her hand on the stove. I can't quite beleive it myself as I always watch her around the stove and use the back rings. I had finished cooking the pasta and put the pan to the opposite back ring. I had my back to Neive chopping vegitables and Neive (who had brought a stool down from upstairs earlier in the day) put it next to the counter and pulled herself up and touched the hob. Luckily enough it was cool enough that the burn wasn't too bad but I was so upset. Then she was so upset seeing me upset. Then for the next two weeks people constantly kept asking her what had happned and then re-scolding her to not touch burny stoves and she constantly burst into tears. I'd like to say that I'm sure nothing like this will happen again but the truth is you turn your back for a second and anything could happen.

Scooter

Neive has been desperate to get a scooter (as all her friends have got one) does it really start this young? We told her that we weren't going to buy her one. So she would have to save up. So after dinner she brings her dishes to the kitchen, she picks up toys once she's finished playing with them and she gets pennies for a scooter. After weeks of saving she had enough for a visit to the Disney store. She is now the proud owner of a mini mouse scooter.

East links

As toddlers is off this week we arranged to go to East links family park for a day out. I was in two minds on whether to go. Neive has started playing up at bedtime and it's taking us till 9:30 nearly 10 o'clock to get her to sleep. Before Beth came along, if she was playing up we would leave her to play in her room or scream until she eventually decided to go to sleep. After a couple of nights she realised she wasn't going to get any attention and she may as well go straight to sleep after we read her some stories. Now Beth wakes up screaming, as she can hear Neive making a racket, and we have to go settle her back to sleep. Hence we are walking past Neive's room and she just keeps going all night. I eventually took pongo off of her and put him in the naughty cupboard for 5 days and she gave in. I hoped the next night she would have learned her lesson but when your favourite toy is already away she's thinking "what can they do now" So all this week I can't even start to clean up till 10 pm and Fraser and I have not even talked or seen each other. Put on top of that that Beth is wakening about 4 times a night (I'm hoping more teeth rather than she's just a bad sleeper) and you can tell I'm struggling.

I just didn't think I could cope with an exhausting day. I'm glad I did go though - it turned out to be a brilliant day. We hit the train first which circles the park so we could see what they had on offer.



Neive went on the big go carts and Beth on the baby ones. She is getting so big and is sturdy enough to sit on without help. She still falls off when it's moving though if you don't hold on.




Neive's favourite was the pony rides. Unbelievably it was Jays first pony ride. He lives on a farm so I thought he would have been on loads of them by now. He loved it.





We went on trampolines, loads of animals, a fortress with slides, tunnel and climbing ropes, ball blast, jelly bean jumper, family cycle carts, haystack barns (doesn't sound like much fun but is -Leah especially loved it)







Thank god Granny chickens came to help which makes lots of difference.

I'm a real winner

Toy story 3 comes out on general release on the 19th and Real radio was running a competition to get premiere tickets for the Sunday before it's released. Fraser asked me to call up to see if we could win them. When he came home on Saturday morning from B & Q I told him I won them. He wouldn't believe me and when I asked why he said I was the most unluckiest person her ever met. This is quite true I never win a competitions but I won this one. We decided to leave baby with Alison and take Isla instead. (Sorry honey it was 3d and your really on your feet!)





When we got there (ultra early) we needed to kill some time and decided that bowling with 2 year olds was a good idea. It's not. We had the sides up and the roller but after three shots they were bored. I think we'll go back when they're older -like 18! After some pizza and loads of toddler "I want the same as she's got" we got popcorn and headed to the cinema. Neive wore the 3d glasses all the way through and she loved it. Toy story was not a dvd we had watched a lot with her. She is mostly into 101 Dalmatians, aristocats and the fox and the hound. But she hasn't stopped talking about it since.

It's too dark in the cinema to take a good picture but here's one with the 3d glasses.

Rosa's 1st Birthday

Happy Birthday Rosa.

George invited us over for a birthday morning to celebrate Rosa's first birthday. I remember Neive's 1st birthday party - she was ill and spent most of it sleeping. Rosa was also having a nap for the first part and just looking bemused for the later part. They must really wonder what on earth is going on. Especially when a bunch of toddlers show up at their house and basically demolish it. Even blowing out the candles was different this time because you have loads of kids desperate to blow them out too. This is the best picture I could get and you can hardly see Rosa for other kids clambering over her.




We had a great time and the only bit of quiet to be heard was when the kids we eating cake and chocolate.

Snakes!

Fraser has been told he is doing some serious DIY around the house. I bought paint for every room in the house and we are fitting a shower. SO I promised that on his day off on Friday I would take the girls out all day. We went to Strathclyde park to try out amazonia. It is quite small but perfect for a toddler. We signed up for a handling session and Neive was desperate to hold a snake. The handler then truned to me for a hold and I told her no way! She was in disbeleif that I was desperate to give my 2 year old a shot but then freaked out at the thought of it myself. But hello - it's snake! They also had gekos and trantualas. I did hold the trantula thought.






We fed the fishes and chased butterflies around for a bit.



After we headed for lunch where we met Aunty Ali. I promised Neive she could go on some of the rides but only when Ali got here. We went on the big wheel, dumbo and boats.



Neive was in brilliant fettle. Sometimes when I'm out I see a perfectly behaved child and think why is my daughter not more like that but today that was my child. I was very proud of her. We eventually got home after 6. Great day out.

Beth's First steps

We went over to Alisons for a well deserved catch up. Beth is totally on the go and narrowly escaped a fall down some stairs (they're only little ones). This week alone she has come on so quickly with the walking. At the weekend she was standing for about 5-10 of seconds and falling on her bum. Tuesday Morning she could stand for much longer until she fell. I think watching Leah on the go made her decide to take a half step whilst at Alisons. By the time we got home and took in the washing before dinner she took four steps?! We were in the garden and Neive was tipping the basket over whilst sitting inside. Beth stood up and realised she had to get to the basket before Neive tipped it again or fall down and she ran for it. Well done honey.

Wet weekends

Although it is the start of July the weather was awful. It was stormy rain on Saturday and the only time we ventured out of the house was to buy paint for the house (that's F's next ten weekends booked). Neive does not like being stuck in the house. She goes stir crazy which in turn make mum and dad stir crazy. On the bright side Neive and Beth are playing much better. Neive made a house by the corner of the couch and Beth was allowed in but not allowed to leave. They both played happily and 8 months in, I managed to get a good picture of both of them together. No tears from either of them. Bliss





Although the weather still wasn't brilliant on Sunday we were going out regardless. So we took a long walk through the wood to burn off some steam.



Neive looks like a crazy person as she was told she ad to wear wellies (for jumping in muddy puddles) and she wanted to wear a ballet tutu! Isn't it a shame that you can't get away with that when you are 29.



We headed to the play park to fly a kite and play on the swings. Now who does everyone agree with here - Neive is two and I personally think that F is pushing her just a little too high! Even if she does look like she's enjoying it?!

Culzean country park

Maya and Kylie head to Malta on Saturday so we made sure we caught up with them before they went. Ayr's a pretty long drive so to get the kids tired out for the journey home we went to Culzean country park. We didn't get round much of it in the time we had - it's so big. We walked through the walled gardens and bought some plants for Granpa.



Had a lovely picnic that Granny had made us all.




Walked to the adventure park where Neive showed off how well she can handle the park equipment. Beth was on the slide and she loves it. You could hear her screams from the other side of the park (I hope they were happy screams).



Even mummy and granny had a fun time in the play park.






We fed the ducks and had ice-cream and visited the toy shop. At that point we had to go. We didn't even make it to the beach. All the way to Ayr and didn't even see the sea.


The girls eventually got to see Baby Maya (she's 5 weeks old know) and she has changed a lot since she was born.



I think you can tell what Beth was thinking "What the **** is that!"



Mummy was so proud of Neive. She was so gentle and gave baby Maya lots of cuddles and helped granpa wind her.



Good luck in Malta and keep in touch.

Happy birthday Daniel & Aarons Head wettin'

3rd June

Happy Birtthday Daniel - 1 today!



Hard to beleive but Daniel turned 1 today. No idea how that has happened. It seems like yesyerday that he was born. Charlene and Allan hired a hall and the spell lady to put on a Mickey Mouse clubbouse themed show. It's one of our favourite sows so you can imagine how much fun we had.





They also had pass the parcel, musical chairs and bubbles plus loads to eat. Alan got really involved when the pom poms came out.



As you can see the birthday boy did brilliantly blowing out his candles.




In the afternoon Mum headed out to Aarons head wetting in Glasgow. We went to November in princess gardens.



The air coditioning was not on and it was roasting after buying a ridiculous amount of cocktails for 23 women and a hell of a lot of nagging - staff served us all lollies to cool us back down - yummy.




Then we eat at Barca the tapas bar. Obviously more drink was consumed and by the time we got the last train back everyone was very very very merry. The train was like a party in itself with the girls competing against 60 boys for best singer. Sorry girls -they so won. Here's a pic of the hilarity on the train - sorry all other have been removed due to explicit material.




On the taxi ride back a very drunk Lorna convinced a very drunk everyone else that a party at Avrils was a good idea - maybe if we were all 20 and had no kids! At about 2 o'clock we were all asleep in her conservatory and couldn't hear the taxi ringing the bell. Eventually got home at 3 and was up with kids from 9. F did give me a lie in but he was up with Beth 4 times during the night and did the morning shift. He just couldn't take it any longer.