Birthdays and Penguins

Baby had his 1st birthday this week, he started off the morning by giving himself a fat lip, of all the days!  Both boys had fun though with lots of people around and sweet stuff they don't normally have, and both very well behaved, they make me so proud, every day.

We took them to Living Coast the next day to see the penguins, baby called them quack quacks all the way around and the eldest ran too fast and fell and grazed his face but they (and us) enjoyed it.  Was lovely to walk around Torquay after with sunglasses on, its finally getting warmer!

Made cakes

Today we made some Smarties cakes, not from scratch sadly, just from a ready box mix to see how he got on.  Last time we made cakes he really wasn't fussed but today he enjoyed mixing and putting the bun cases on the tray, although possibly it was more that he was allowed to stand on a chair that he was enjoying! Maybe next time we make some i will do it from scratch so he can weigh out the flour etc.

What made it really special though, was once they had been iced and had set, he asked for a cake so i let him choose which one he wanted, then he picked another one out and said it was for baby, good boy for sharing!

Been to the Zoo, zoo, zoo...

We took the boys to Paignton Zoo yesterday for my birthday, this was the eldests first time where he could name all of the animals and the youngests first time where he really paid any interest so it was a good day out for all of us. The eldests favourite was the choo-choo train, no surprises there! He did spend a while watching the Elephant, Giraffe's and Monkeys though :). Baby was fascinated by everything (What's that?! was said a thousand times), he giggled at the baboon's but his favourite thing was a tree, strange boy that he is!

Been poorly sick and ill!

So the boys have been poorly this last week or so, baby had a viral rash all over his body but wasn't really unwell with it.  Poor big boy though, he really suffered bless him.  He had his first ride in an ambulance but he didn't really know what was going on, and his first overnight stay in hospital with a drip in his hand for antibiotics.  He was pretty good, he didn't try to pull it out, i think he knew it was making him better.  They are both back to their normal cheeky selves now thankfully,  babys bad attitude continues to go from bad to worse and big boys speech is improving every day.  Hard to believe it is the babys first birthday soon, where did the year go??!