QUICK UPDATE

Life is speeding by and I find myself with no energy at the end of the day to do a blog entry.  Even just typing this is a struggle and I keep wanting to just click on the red x in the corner and go to bed.

The boys are growing up fast.  Oscar has hit that independent age but is very frustrated and angry at me a lot.  Leo is calming down a bit it would seem.  He is a lot easier to look after at the moment and is very cuddly and loving.  Ellis is our big boy, who is into his rugby and maths.  He comes into my bed in the morning (6:15am) and starts asking me questions like, "What's 28 divided by 7?"!

This winter has been tough going.  I'm so glad the nicer weather seems to be on its way.  I don't mind rain normally but continual rain for days on end is just not on!  I've struggled with a netball injury and virus after virus that has sucked the life out of me.  The boys have got away with it quite lightly this year.  A few tummy bugs but nothing major which is good for everyone.

Oscar is now in a single bed and a big boy car seat.  He is such a big boy for 3.  He is already in 3/4 clothes and wearing clothes that Leo didn't grow out of that long ago.  His feet are a size 9 1/2!  Leo's are 12 and Ellis 13 1/2.  Ellis seems to have had a growth spurt too as he needs age 7 trousers now and he usually falls in line with his birthdays for needing the next size up, if that makes sense.  And Leo is wearing Ellis' school trousers from last year, so he is catching up too.

We have lots of exciting things coming up over the next few months.  We are off on a rugby mini tour, with Ellis' rugby club which should be good fun.  Then we are going to Majorca for a week, which will be the first time on a plane with the 3 of them.  Then we have the music festival again, which we are all looking forward too but this year will be different in more than one way.   We have paid to stay in a tent already put up and also all our friends that usually go, aren't going this year, so it will just be us.  I told Ellis this yesterday and he was unimpressed as he likes playing and messing around with the other kids in the group.  Hopefully he will be okay and there is loads to keep them busy.  We also have a week away to Devon booked with Lucy, Craig, Shauna and Ashlee.  Very busy but fun.  I don't take anywhere near as many photos anymore and adding them to the blog takes so long, which is one of the main reasons I don't blog that often I think.

I'm still getting to grips with my new iMac.  I need to book in and have some lessons on it.  That's another reason that I haven't been blogging as it isn't that easy for me to do what I want to do.

Sleep is still hard to come by sometimes.  Ellis very rarely wakes in the night now but he does get up early in the mornings.  He usually up before 6:30am.  Oscar is the one more likely to sleep in and Leo can still be quite needy and many a night I spend in his bed.  Rob gets up early for work each day and the boys like to see him so I think they wake so early because of that.  There is also the race to be the first one to get to Mummy's iPad!

I love my life with my boys.  It's loud and chaotic but they are my gorgeous babies.  I would love to add one more to the brood but really don't think it will ever happen.  Maybe we will just get a pet.