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The Seaside!

A couple of weeks ago, Sam had kept on saying to me how he wanted to go to the seaside, followed by a very cute, please please! So despite the fact that its winter here we went to the very exotic location of Cleethorpes!!! The weather was actually very good for this time of year, nice and sunny and quite warm in the sun, but fairly nippy out of it! Which I realised when I had to breastfeed Oliver on a bench for 45 minutes. Here are a few photos of our trip.

Sam very happy with his ice cream!

Now with most of it polished off, he is looking intently to see if he really has nearly finished it!

And our gorgeous little Oliver, who is just soo cute and a real blessing. Especially as he is starting to sleep through some nights! Bring it on!

Feeling like a woman!

I must just share my joy at finally hawling my ass out of the house to go for a run!!! It felt great, cap on, ipod on with def leppard blaring, which I have to say is good motivational music to run to, especially when you haven't run for a year! All perfect, especially when you have been feeling like all you are is a milking machine! And to complete the evening of finally feeling more like me, I am dyeing my hair! Yes unfortunatley the grey is slowly creeping from the roots down!!! But all in all, it feels like that tonight taking care of me has started, instead of just caring for my beautiful boys. Hurrah! Hopefully there will be plenty more of this! I think next time going out with some girls for a good old chat and wine is on the menu!

A bit of a novice!

Its very frustrating as someone who is not very techinically minded and a complete novice at this blog thing! That when you try ( okay only the 2nd time i have done this!) and put photos up of your boys that you think are great, that you didn't realise how small the photos would look when you post them up! All i can say is very disappointing! For those who will be looking at them and are interested in actually seeing the photos properley!! Do double click on them! Next time i hope they will be better! But here is my favourite one of Oliver anyway!!

New Photos of the Boy!

Thought it was about time you saw some new photos of Oliver. He is growing up fast and now gives us some really lovely smiles and cute little noises. He is a gorgeous little man and we are very much in love with him.

Here he is looking admiringly at his brother, who he already thinks is fab!

He is a very happy chappy as you can see!

Sam too is doing really well, bless him he has chicken pox but not too badly thankfully. He is pretty much over it now. He has recently started pre school a couple of mornings a week. Its been a bit up and down crying when I leave him which is horrible as you wonder if your doing the right thing! But his crying has only lasted a couple of minutes so we are keeping going with it at the moment. And the last few times he has been fine and enjoyed himself. Hopefully when I take him tommorrow we won't be back to square one as he has had 2 weeks off what with half term and chicken pox! Here is a photo of him on his second day at pre school! Looking quite grown up I think!

Sam is a really lovely big brother to Oliver, and they are both pretty taken with each other as you can see. Most of the time Sam is very gentle and loving but as a boisterous boy, he can't be like that all the time!!

The snowman show-down!!!

Finally got a bit of snow here in Sheffield. Susie made a snowman with Sam (pictured below)...

...so obviously I had to get out there and demonstrate my superiority in the field of frozen character creation - not that I told Suse that was what I was doing!! As you can see, my snowman is far superior... I eagerly await your comments backing up my claim! (and none of this "oh but the little one is so cute!" - this is a serious contest that requires objectivity, not sentimentality!). Mine is here...

Look - its got hands and hair and everything! (I'd also like to point out that Sam gave it three arms, not me.)

It's true - its genetic!

Just to alay any fears that Oliver may have been the wrong baby brought back from the hospital. He is burping and farting away with the best of them! He's obviously got a strong Hewson gene in there somewhere!

He has been pretty windy for the past few days - its been a bit of a challenge to get him off to sleep after a feed. Susie is gutted having heard today that it can be made worse by chocolate - by her own confession she has been fairly well troughing - of course Christmas is to blame rather than lack of self-discipline, if there wasn't so much chocolate in the house she wouldn't be eating it! The theory goes that the quicker we get it all eaten the sooner it won't be an issue any more... I guess I'm gonig to have to help out a bit more!

Here is a piccy from today - he is getting much more alert now and is starting to smile when he sees us - all very cute!

Christmas...

Sam is know at the age that he can almost comprehend the idea of Christmas but has definitely grasped receiving and opening presents! Here he is in his fireman outfit - went down very well as Fireman Sam is his absolute favourite at the moment. He also got a doll's house which he is very impressed with (a nice plain wooden one so not too girly!!)

Oliver had absolutely no idea what was going on as you might imagine. That didn't stop us dressing him up in a 'little reindeer' sleep suit (thanks to the Ramsdens for that one!). Unfortunately he didn't get the Xbox 360 that I told everyone he wanted for Christmas. He was very disappointed at this so I popped out yesterday and bought him one!! He is particularly enjoying Ridge Racer 6. I bought him Gears of War as well but I'll have to save that one until he's older (obviously I'll have to play it thoroughly in the meantime so I know when it will be appropriate for him!)