Long time

It has been a long time since I last posted on this blog. Very negligent of me. I have no excuse apart from not enough time. My angels are growing up too fast. Since my last post Jodi has turned 2 and his mommy didn't even post a birthday message for him. Sis on myself!!! He is such a loving, lively and happy little boy. Gets up to the funniest tricks and is talking so much. He is now 28 months old. Still refuses to go potty, but hopefully when the warm summer weather starts, I can complete his potty training. He tries, but it seems that he is busy concentrating on other things at the moment. Here is a picture of him on his birthday....

I must admit that he is a very independent little person. He wants to do everything himself. He has been eating on his own since very small. This picture was taken more recently....

As for his little sister, she is following very closely in his footsteps. They simply just love each other so so much. Jessi is 17 months old and seems to think that everything her brother can do, she can do better.

She also tries to eat by herself, she follows him around and copies what he does. If he climbs into the kitchen drawers to reach the countertops, she is right there next to him. We recently went to our favourite eat-out and they took over completely. Jessi also had her first taste of prawns and calamari heads and I thought she wouldn't enjoy it, but eventually she ate most of my prawns. She wasn't too keen on the calamari heads, but still ate them.

I'm 1 today!!!

Guess who turns 1 today?

The prettiest little girl in the world is 1 today. You have brought so much love and happiness to our lives. I will endeavour to keep you happy and safe for always. I can’t believe that I have had the priviledge of spending a whole year with you already. It still feels like yesterday when you were bouncing and kicking in my tummy. You are the sweetest, cutest, friendliest, happiest and most loving little girl ever.

Happy birthday my sweet!!!

Double trouble....

My little ones are fast approaching their bithdays. Jessi will be 1 on 17 March and Jodi will be 2 on 17 April. They are keeping me very busy. From the minute that Jessi opens her eyes in the morning, she is walking. She eats while walking and even tries to drink her bottle while walking. We spoilt them a bit the weekend. We bought Jessi a little "Care Beares" scooter that she is loving to bits. Jodi got a battery operated quad. I took pictures, but due to the fact that I still use the traditional old hand held camera, I will post some pics when I have developed the film.

Here is the latest with the two little ones and daddy. Can't help but love them.

Here is another one with Jodi up to his bathroom tricks. This is where I found him after I fetched a towel for him and his dad came running with the camera. Dental hygiene is very important to him and he has to brush his teeth after bathing. Obviously I was taking too long to get to his teeth.

And just to prove that the bathroom isn't the only place he performs in, here he is on mommy's bike. How's that for freedom?

And just incase you don't believe me about his sister getting up to mischief,

here's some proof..

All in all, they are developing into beautiful little people and I am loving every moment with them. Just wish I could sleep as nice as Jessi after a whole day of being so cute....

Those first steps....

Jessi started walking!! She has been walking against the furniture for a good couple of weeks. She climbs onto our bed, couches and into the walking ring without any assistance and has been doing that for a while also. Just so you know, she hates walking in the walking ring. She used it as a walker and pushes her brother around in it. He is 11 months older than her and just sits in the walking ring with his little legs pulled up and lets her push him all over the house. Two weeks ago, she gave her first tentative steps and after falling down, decided to wait before giving it another go. I coaxed her into walking inbetween myself and her dad for small distances and have increased it little by little every day. She has now realized that she doesn't need mommy or daddy to catch her to be able to walk. She is walking the whole length of our passage which is as long as our lounge and three bedrooms going down to the end of the passage. She thinks it is extremely funny and laughs her very corny little laugh when she gets to the end of the passage. I so wish to film it, but I don't have a camera to do it with. I think I am going out this afternoon to upgrade my cellphone to a camera phone. That would enable me to take some awesome shots and short videos. Then again the prospect of dealing with a service provider on a Friday afternoon is not a good prospect.

How they've grown

I have neglected this page. I have been so busy snapping away, that I haven't put anything on this page. I am glad to report that my angels are doing well and growing by the day. Ok, at least one of them is growing by the day. Jessi is now 7 and a half months old and she is growing at a rate of knots. She is still toothless, but has started crawling and is climbing up against all the furniture. If I put her on the floor in the lounge and leave the room, she will come searching for me wherever I might be in the house. She is a little daredevil and not scared to try things.

Look at me now:


She is crazy about water. She loves to play in the bath or pool and whenever I go for a swim she wants to be with me in the water. Here she is in the bath with her brother. He has just poured water over her head and she thought it was very funny and so did he.

This will have to do for now. We are experiencing technicult difficulties with Telkom and our Service Provider. Telkom seems to be choking all our connections and that is making life very slow in the cyber world. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

I started this on Friday and want to add a couple more if you will allow me the indulgence. I am just so proud of my little ones. Jodi has developed two very big loves, the one is bikes..

and more bikes...

But I don't think anything comes close to his love of water...

or the love between brother and sister. Isn't this just the most beautiful thing you have ever seen?

Flicker

I am having so much fun experimenting with this blog and all the things that you can add to it. I have recently opened a flickr account and this allows you to store your pictures on a blog which you can then either post to your blog site or just create a flash like I have done. I have friends all over South Africa and also many that have left here and are living in Ireland, England, New Zealand and even as far as Canada. It is such a wonderful way to share what is happening in your life and to show how the children have grown. I don't have a digital camera, I don't even have a cellphone with a camera in it therefore I am still relying on my trusted old camera and thank goodness for editing software and cd's. I will add some more pics as time goes by. Maybe you should go and check it out if you haven't yet.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.