Little people

We had such a nice weekend with our two little people. On Sunday morning we went to the Berry market. Maia picked out a mermaid costume for her dolly Sally. In the afternoon, David watched the kids while I went to The Berry Tea Shop with my friend Zelinda and after wards, we went to the beach and it just seemed like the perfect day.

Today, Monday was Maia's last day at the Berry Pre-School. After much thought about what to do, what to do, we decided to just send her to Bommaderry two days a week. She really enjoys it there and it came to a point where she was identify the schools as the one she liked and the one that she didn't like, so we just figured to go with where she was most comfortable and I want my girl home with me on Monday mornings, so Kiran, Maia and I can go and do something together like swimming or playing outside.

If I could freeze a moment in time, I have to say that one of my favorite moments each day is when Maia and Kiran wake up and Kiran lays next to me and has a breastfeed while Maia lays on his other side and we all snuggle together. It is like having my two kittens in bed with me in a pile of love. They are the most lovely children on Earth and I mean that wholeheartedly. I think that we were chosen by two very special little people.

David says that his favourite moment is when he comes home from work and you both scream, "Da...Da..."

It is so cute to see Kiran waddle to the door as he is still finding his feet, but he is so sure of himself now he rarely falls down and he has started to run away from David when he knows he is up to no good.

Side note to Maia: If you decide to have children of your own, be patient with potty training as you are now three and a half years old and still wetting your pants at various times during the day and at night time. I still have to put a pull up on you at night time and the other day, after taking you to the toilet in the park, you wet yourself before I could help you as you tend to wait until you are ready to bust and then while we were going into our house, you proceeded to wee down your legs and into your shoes and all over our doorstep. Unfortunately, I lost my temper, but then, the crazy thing is that you have not weed your pants ever since, so why is it that after I have been kind, gentle and understanding for the past year and a half and finally loose my temper, that you take notice? Don't worry, I am not going to fall into a pattern of yelling to get your attention as I don't like loosing it, but my I wish it was easier.

Your Dad just reminded me to write about Kiran and how much he likes lawn mowers. He will actually stand on the luggage by the window to look at and try and see the neighbors mowing their lawn. He runs to the window every time he hears the mowers and says, "Mooow..." He stops what he is doing to just go have a look and he is also obsessed with the vacuum cleaner and he pulls out the vacuum head and carries it around the house as well he will take the actual handle of the machine and vacuums while it is running or pretends to while it is off. He is fascinated by bicycles, motorbikes and trucks. Must be the boy gene. And he loves to pull my hair and says, "Ouwwww...." When he is bored in the sling, he will bite my chest...ouch! And he laughs as he thinks his is funny. He blows on his food. When we took him and Maia to the beach, he got a glimpse of the water and went crazy in the back of the car and started screaming as he was so excited that we were going to take him swimming....our water baby. He must think that the sand looks tasty as the last few times we have gone, he has eaten wet sand only to find out that it is not as good as it looks, I am sure he will figure it out soon.

Kiran is also really making a great attempt at speaking and although not crystal clear, it is obvious that he is trying to say, "Hot, Bath, Ball, Pop, Blueberry, Nanna, Maia, Hi, On, Off, Up, More, Mo (for Mower), Man, Wee Wee, Light, and there are more words that we just can't quite remember now. He signs finish, more, bye, bye, and points to himself when he does a pop or a wee. He climbs up on a box in the front room to switch the fan and lights on and off. He will sit and read a few pages of a book and then want to go to another and then go back to the previous and then look at another, as he just can't seem to sit still long enough to take a book in page by page at this time. He favourite book is about construction equipment. And he loves to push around a toy motor bike. Today he brought me the motor bike with the man as if to say, hey, could you help me put him in the motor bike and when I did, he smiled in gratitude and went on his way. Kiran is a very independent little boy and is gone in a flash at preschool if I don't watch him closely. This morning he was playing with some cars and I turned to speak to someone and when I looked back he was gone and out on the play equipment in the yard by himself, turning the steering wheel of a car that was fixed to the wooden play structure. He tends to really hang on me only when he is hungry or scared, but he only is frightened by loud noises.

We had the pleasure the other day of seeing thousands upon thousands of blue solider crabs moving across the sand like waves as they had just hatched and were grouped together trying to get away from us as we approached them. They were so tame they were curling up or burying themselves and we could hear their feet clicking across the sand as they moved, it was really something very special to see and behold. How lucky were we?