All about Samuel

Sam was born 8 days late on November 3rd. He is beautiful. He looks a little like Lucy, but is mostly himself! He looks very different at times, its his eyes! He is 8 weeks old now, really smiling and talking in coos. He is still sleeping an awful lot during the day but is also doing well at night. He is a bit miserable of an evening, but its wind and dentinox is helping...he just likes to be walked around!
He slept through a lot of his first Christmas though!
His sisters adore him. I have to tell them to give him a breather! They live to make him smile, and to hold him and don't mind when he is sick!
George has been fabulous too. When we got home from hospital with Sam, George cried as soon as he saw him..but soon calmed down and now is fabulous with him and very caring. He doesn't like it if Sam cries and tries to hold his hand and calm him. He gives him lots of kisses and dog sniffs too!

Sam is the final part of the family and makes us complete xxxxxx

The things they say...

I have been given some maternity belts to help with the strain that this pregnancy is putting on my pelvis. Duncan had one look at it poking out the top of my trousers and remarked that it looked like a nappy. Kerry pops round to drop off her guineas and George informs her.. 'Mummy got a nappy on!' Little terror!!!
He also says 'mine' instead of 'my', giving him a little German sound. Ted climbed up him the other day, while George shouted 'mine arm, mine arm!!' Its so so funny.

At dinner, Lucy was pleading her case to stay up as late as Amelia, so Amelia cries indignantly 'She's trying every trick in the book!' Lucy looked at her witheringly and said 'I havn't got a book!' and neither of them could understand why Duncan and I creased up!!!!

Bedtime threats

We obviously use bedtimes as a source of discipline a lot during the day. Amelia was just mean to Lucy and was sent out of the room, George followed and told her 'Bedtime 7 o'clock for you Me-La!!' We have all collapsed laughing, the little monkey!!

breakfast

Crumpets for breakfast, conversation as follows..
Amelia ' thanks for the thin lacking of jam mummy'.
Me 'what do you mean'
Amelia 'it means you can put on lots more next time!'
The cheek!!!

Grafitti

Amelia walks into our bedroom, full of indignation, 'Mummy, someone has written in crayon on the dressing up box, and it wasn't me!! Lucy is lying and says it wasn't her!!'
I walk into their room to see Lucy staring at me defiantly in complete denial. Amelia walks to the dressing up box and points to the grafitti. 'It says AMELIA mummy but i didn't write it, i can prove it'. Lucy is still looking all innocent so Amelia adds 'Its written BACKWARDS Mummy, i never write backwards, you know Lucy does!'
I look at Lucy, whose face is slowly going red. I should have told her off but it was so ridiculous to grafitti backwards..that we all burst into laughter. The little rat. She later confessed she had done it, but didn't write 'Amelia' to get her into trouble, she just wanted to write it!! Hmmmmmmm

Today was her 5th birthday, where have the years gone?? She has had a fabulous day and has been spoilt rotten, I asked them to sit on the settee so i could get a picture of all my beautiful children, and the cheeky wotsit answered, 'but what about George and Amelia??'

Amelia had a special 'gifted and able' lesson after school, problem solving. She loved it. So very proud of how hard she tries at school

The boy has been on fine form, he is loving Duplo at the moment, and is really good at building cars!! Though if it breaks, we have to 'fix it' for him. He is so cheeky and self aware, pulls faces to show off and gives kisses to get his own way. He is a nightmare in the kitchen though, tonight he carried half of lucys cake on its plate into the lounge. He takes random bites out of fruit and tries to sneakily eat it, he once nabbed a tin of sweetcorn from the fridge and sat silently on the settee eating it!! Monkey!!