15/52 GO OU'SIDE

The weather has been more pleasant of late and the three of you are so happy that you are getting to (in the words of Teeny) go ou'side much more now.


Another of Daddy's funny photos

D's Selfie



Are you watching me Mommy?

14/52



Celebration Assembly
(without Daddy, hence the sad face.)

Breastfeeding our Babies

Baker Boys

Sweets for my sweet, (icing) sugar for my honey.

Such concentration

Craziness by Daddy!

13/52 CATCHING UP

After a few lovely days away in Istanbul I was looking forward to spending some quality time with you all when I got home and what better way than a trip to the park.

 

Take a seat

On yer bike



Protective

Down in the Daffodils

12/52 ISTANBUL

Twice I have spent hours writing an open letter to Julia, Ville, Ruskin, Matti, Anton and Neve to express my heartfelt gratitude and thanks for their wonderful hospitality, love and friendship which allowed Teeny and I to visit them in Istanbul recently.  Unfortunately Blogger has decided that saving said blog post was not on its list of priorities and now, as hard as I try, the words will just not come as they did before and I know myself well enough to know that if I do not publish a post about our trip soon it will stay in my drafts folder forever.  So here is my very condensed down, but equally as thankful post on our wonderfully enriching trip to Istanbul. 

 

Julia, Ville, Ruskin, Matti, Anton and Neve please know that my lack of words in this post does not reflect a lack of appreciation, rather the opposite; I feel that today whatever I write could never reflect my gratitude or admiration for you all. 

 

Crazy Hands

With Matt-iii

With Ru-kin

A word from the wise

Topkapi Palace

Beautiful Neve

Sunset Fishing

Patisserie de Pera

With Du-li-a

A view from Galata Tower

Home for the week

(For anybody who would like to see much better photographs of our trip they can be found on Julia's very gorgeous Flickr page)

12/52 WHILE MAMA'S AWAY......

11/52

So Fresh and So Clean

My Baby Babywearing

Whip Whip" (German Whip)

Lazy Sunday Morning

10/52 A SPRING IN OUR STEP

It really feels like spring is on its way now.  The dark nights are becoming a thing of the past, we're having our Inspire workshops at  school (which foundation classes are always the last to have) and we have even managed a trip to the park in the sunshine.  Here's hoping for more of the same.


D's Inspire Workshop
Owl Babies

After School Catchup

Swinging Together

Cud-tle
Lu You

Football

Football

9/52

This week our week mostly looked like this......



Just a few of the prescriptions we've picked up this week

And when the children and the husband weren't busy being ill here's what we managed to get up to......



Battlelines

Auntie Clare's belated birthday breakfast

New (to you)  jewellery.
Thanks Auntie Kaz!

8/52 HELLO GERMS, GOODBYE PHOTOGRAPHY*

Cuddling up to your poorly brother

D's Daddy Love

Somewhere over the rainbow...

I'm hoping this rainbow is a sign that my little rays of sunshine are coming home and that the storm clouds of germs are passing.

*Apologies to my beautiful girl, for not seeming to have a photograph of her this week.

7/52 MAKING THE MOST OF YOU

There really is no running theme for this week's photographs.  I'm making the most of  being off work for half term as it means that we can slow down a little and I can enjoy some quality time with the children, particularly A&D who seem to be at school far too much for my liking.

 

This first photo is exactly what I saw when I walked into the living room on Thursday.  How did he learn to do this?  My heart was literally in my mouth while Teeny was just super impressed with himself. 

 

At the window!

We had A's dance class and two birthday parties this Saturday.  I'm not quite sure how or when it happened, but our weekends now seem to mostly revolve around our kids' social schedule.

Bubbles
At Freya's 2nd birthday party

 

In uniform
At Grace's 2nd birthday party

On Monday, as it was at half term, I finally got to take you to the new Library of Birmingham.  You went with Daddy one day when I was working not long after it opened, but I hadn't been lucky enough to go with you before now.  Today we decided to take Teeny to nursery for a few hours and then the three of us went into town on the train.  Our new library is such a lovely place to explore from top to bottom; to snuggle up on the story steps in the children's library downstairs right up  to being able see the view across the city from the top and then, of course, there all of the lovely vantage points and nooks and crannies in between to be examined.  It should also be mentioned that with all of the light being let through those floor to ceiling windows and all of the different shapes, angles and colours it is perfect for taking lots of lovely photographs especially when you remember to take the correct lens (which I did not.)

Holding Hands

Its a long way down.

Books, glorious books.

Pretty In Pink

Taking a break.

At the Top!

'Red' any good books lately.

Looking Up!

Twin Telepathy
(They chose the same books from different areas of the children's library,)