Warm and Dry

I keep getting asked what to buy Arthur, Alexander & Aristea for Christmas, the Christening, and Arthur‘s Birthday. Not an easy task as we seem to have everything. However after scratching my head a while… I came up with these thoughts.

For Christening presents it would be nice if they were keepsakes. Things like monogrammed jewelry and personalised things will be something they can treasure forever.

Arthur is currently into Buzz Lightyear and Wall-e. He also enjoys puzzles. However, please check with me before buying because he already has a range of products like a laser gun for shooting Zork brought back from Disney.

As for Christmas, we will be in Malta… so the only thing I say, if the presents are given to us in Malta, small and light please as we have to take 2 flights back home and it is not easy(or cheap)  travelling with 3 kids under 4 and luggage! Gift Vouchers and Investments can go a long way and are very light to carry.

Hope I don’t sound too rude with my requests!

Arthur got to celebrate Guy Faux this year. We went to Cathy & Amirah’s house. He even held his very first sparkler. Most importantly he learnt who Guy Faux was. Here’s a picture of Owen and Arthur enjoying the fireworks. And yes… Mummy as always was behind her camera (when not holding / feeding Alexander and Aristea ).

It’s my father‘s Birthday today. We all wish him the very best. Wish we could be with him to celebrate it. Still, we will be there in spirit!

We hope that Daddy was surprised. Yesterday we threw Daddy (Owen) a surprise birthday party. You see he has been doing so much for all of us, we wanted to find a way to say Thank you and spoil him a bit. Looks like we managed to surprise him.

Due to the fact that I was all over the place with our new arrivals Alexander & Aristea, I may have accidentally not invited everyone I should have. I feel awful but honestly, it was not intentional.  I have already found out about someone and I feel horrible. The worst bit about it, was there I was chatting about the party and not realising they did not realise they were invited. So my deepest apologies. I hope I did not hurt too many people’s feelings.

Hey Babes,

Happy Birthday. I know you read this and hope that you have a wonderful birthday!!

Love all of us!

I am worried that I shall be vegitating once the babies come and all I do is breastfeed them. It is not like I could do with Arthur, hold him with one arm to one breast and breastfeed whereever. This will require 2 breasts and 2 arms… which leaves me unable to do anything bar watch stuff happen around me. So, hopefully TV will keep me occupied. Ok not the best brain food but at least something. I wanted to upgrade Sky but Owen muttered something about high speed satellite internet TV or something like that. I told him he could do whatever he wants as long as it is easy to use. He says it is. Not sure if I believe him, but he did promise to teach me to use it! Hopefully it will arrive before the babies, so I can learn to use it before my brain goes to automatic.

I still need to prepare my bag for the hospital. I know it should be easy, all I need is to download a list from the internet but I cannot get round to it. I was joking with Owen, saying worst case I could send him out shopping while I am in labour!! Ok, I know this is unreasonable… but it is a plan B!

I guess unless I am given a couple of baby gift baskets and a set of mum to be things… then I need to move my backside and get my bag packed!!

I am trying to prepare for the babies. Sometimes I feel so ready and others… well not at all. We bought a car a couple of days ago. A seven seater obviously (a Renault Espace) but I could not see us with anything smaller. I know we have 2 cots now, and a double buggy but was wondering if I need anything else like baby girl clothes. Mind you I suppose most of the clothes for the first 6 months that I have (from Arthur) are neutral colours, so I can probably temporarily get away with waiting a bit. Especially as I would prefer to confirm what the babies are when they are born. Mind you one thing I know I must get are Nappies!!!