Who Needs Birthdays?

So Lady B has just had her birthday only a week ago and as usual with our kids, was spoilt by everyone we know. She and Sunny D ran rampage round our house with a lawnmower, a shopping trolley, a tent, a makeup counter and all sorts of weird and wonderful things.
However, a week later, what do you think the kids are playing with the most?.....

So, what's going on these days....

So I have taken a quick break from Sage and my monthly bookkeeping to refresh myself on here and take stock of what I've been up to and where I left things. I've got my husband making me a brew in the kitchen and a massive Whoopie cake in front of me from the local deli. Feels like a good set-up for blog writing. So an update: we are now a 4 person family (plus bunny). Dylan is 3 1/2 and I ca'nt believe I haven't been back to write about him on here before. He is beautiful! He was born November 2009. As you know it took a long time for Dilb to make an appearance after years of trying and years of fertility tests and years of being told 'no'. A few hundred pounds of pregnancy tests later, I was armed with a bag of Clomid and told to wait 'til day 2 of my cycle to start taking it. When day 2 never arrived for weeks and weeks and I was done with convincing myself that I was just putting the pressure on myself, I did a final pregnancy test and there was the tiniest, greyest, faintest line that I thought I was imagining. I showed Al who said he thought he could possibly see a tiny little line too but not to get my hopes up. We ran to the chemist and bought a double pack of proper tests which were inconclusive. We then had a night out planned so we bought a digital test on the way, and it was in the grotty toilets of the Jacaranda on Slater Street in Liverpool at 8pm that I was told that I was 2 weeks pregnant!! After a text-book pregnancy, albeit with no symptoms at all,I went into labour with Dylan on his due date and he was born 4 days later. I was so exhausted after 15 hours of final stage labour that I had a ventouse delivery, and up til now, that's the most trouble he has been really! What an amazing baby. I just adored him from the off-set. Only two weeks ago, at the ripe old age of 3 1/2, did he stick a lego piece up his nose whilst I had the kids on my own for a weekend and I had to bundle him in the car and drive him to A&E, but other than that, he's a gem! Betty is a bit of another story. We started trying for Betty when Dyl was nine months old. We had one miscarriage New Years Eve 2010/11 and then fell pregnant September 2011, to give birth to Betty June 2012. She was thirteen days late and had to be induced. She was a bit of a shock as, from the offset, she bellowed for whatever she wanted!! We were always keen with Dyl to never take things from him but to persuade him to give things back to us. And it worked. But with Betty, if she gets hold of something, you literally have to prise each individual finger off until she lets go. She is a monkey!! On the whole, another fantastic baby and would smile for England and be held by anybody. She is beautiful. But she comes with an attitude. An attitude which, ideally, we would like to nip right in the bud as soon as possible! Little Sunny D and Lady B adore each other though and we just look forward to their lives so much, watching them grow up together. They already fight, as all good siblings should, but they have a fondness for each other which is just amazing to look at. So, as I was saying in my previous post - my life really does seem to be exactly what I want it to be right now and the future is looking pretty wonderful too. I am rejoicing every minute of it and hope to share a little teeny weeny bit of it on here!

It's Been Ages!!!

Oh my goodness, so several years later, here I am - a mother of two gorgeous gorgeous unbelievable little kids - Dylan and Betty; an Office Manager for my husbands' web design company Pixel Air, and quite a few wrinkles older!!! I have never felt so great!!! Life is amazing - I am so very lucky. I have all I have ever wanted. I can't believe how lucky I truly am and I going to dedicate this blog to that - an amazingly lucky and wonderful life. Watch this space for updates!!!!