Saturday, March 28, 2009

Award


Aimee was awarded her first gymnastics certificate today. She managed a few forward rolls and even a head-stand. there's no stopping her now. I collected her from nursery last week and she was doing forward rolls on top of the stairs - made my heart stop a beat!
It's all fun to her. Hope she progresses well and becomes a bit more active.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Surprise!


Our boy is growing up fast. Weirdly I think he still has virtually the same appearance as he did when he was just a few months old - that round face, big eyes and lack of hair. But in reality, he is a boisterous, full-blooded, boy's boy and it is tiring keeping up with him.
In the photo above, you can see a red scrape to the left of his forehead. That's when Dylan slid down the nursery's outdoor kiddie slide head first and landed on the astroturf, scraping his face as he did so. That's just one example of his self inflicted injuries, but he also likes to inflict injuries on others. In the baby room, he loves to push over other babies, then sit on their heads. At home, he rugby tackles Aimee to the ground then, well, it doesn't go much further because Aimee's ear-bending wails are enough to send us scurrying to her rescue. Yup, the boy Dylan is going to be a bit of a bully bruiser. We'd all better watch out.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Numb nuts

I call this video numb nuts because everything Dylan says sounds like the words
'numb-nuts'. It doesn't help that I chant this to him to help him say it better!


Today was a good day for the kids. We took Aimee to her first ever Gymnastics lesson. She was a bit scared and needed Mum by her side all the time, but she did get to do a few forward rolls and a couple of bounces and leaps off the trampoline-like launch pad. It's not much but at least it gets Aimee to be a bit more active, which has concerned us recently.

Dylan observed the gymnastics and was itching to have a go himself. All in good time.