It's been awhile....

Sorry folks! The last two weeks have been full of sickness and madness! We set off for Devon to celebrate the twins birthday party ( part 1) on a Thursday night, arriving at 1:30am to Tim's folks and spent Friday with our pals Matt and Rebecca. We met up at a country pub in Somerset county. I had called prior to our arrival to ensure that the place was " child friendly" and was told that the twins were welcome to have lunch there and that the only two highchairs would be reserved for us. Excellent.

So, we set off to find ourselves in a total baby-death-trap complete with not one, but three roaring fires and expensive looking china/bottle/antique thing lining all of the shelves, and on the floor. There was also a very menacing looking dog that I was told " did not like children" sitting in a hallway. Indigo loves all animals and decided to break out of her highchair with NO security straps at every possible moment to pursue her deep affection for all things furry. Cole had an equally secure highchair and had suddenly come down with " ants in pants" behavior and was terrorizing all of the old people attending a quiet lunch with a beautiful view by performing his many arias. Castrado perhaps? Who knows...

Needless to say, we had very little eye-contact with any of the employees and guests of this pub I ordered a glass of white wine and Matt and Rebecca had yet another dose of birth-control for the afternoon. Tim and I displayed our ability to multi-task while attempting to feed the children and ourselves, rattle-on in a very civilized manner with our friends while maintaining a calm and rational adult disciplinary tone with our gorgeously behaved children. I included a hearty chuckle occasionally just to keep up apperances..

Saturday was a bit less emotional! We had invited Tim's two best pals and their partners to a very nice new pub in Sidmouth for an afternoon party. So, Tim's folks, Uncle Will, Mark and Gemma with little 7 mth old Alice and Darren and Aneta joined us for a much more civilized birthday celebration!

Unfortunately, the twins came down with horrible chest infections and were not able to make the journey up to Oakham to check on our house so I stayed behind in Seaton with the folks and eventually made our way back up to Rhosneigr. We spent a few days of R and R to prepare for Linda's arrival which included the twins spending time at their day-care facility ( more on this later ).

Linda arrived on the Friday with zero snags on her travels! We had a great day with the kids until THEY CAME DOWN WITH THE ROTAVIRUS AND WERE SICK THE ENTIRE TIME SHE WAS OUT HERE!!! I am certain that they caught it from day-care and it was horrible. Puking and diarrhea for an entire week. Little Indigo didn't eat for days and was guzzling Dioralyte and looking rough. Poor babies. I was having conversations with God over how the twins could be ill again after the Thanksgiving nightmare... We had to cancel their birthday party for the neighborhood kids but still managed to put together the birthday cakes and hand out the party favors!!

So, Mom helped me out in yet another serious week of parenthood, she is always there to pick up the pieces it seems! Apart from the babies being ill, we had a great time! The twins were madly in love with Mom, Indigo became especially attached and didn't we just know all about it when she woke up the night after Mom left and cried for her all night! Her latest trick is to give kisses on demand, very cute, and to insist on having books read to her. Cole is still interested in things rather than people, but is always a good laugh when he is tearing around the house. He has started to walk around now, laughing the whole time! He is his own best friend!

Well, that's all from this end. It's mother's Day over here and I've slept in this morning until 8:00am. Pathetic. I am no longer young and cool. I will try harder next time! Lots of Love - Katie