At Long Last

I cannot believe that I have left this update so long! But what a busy year 2007 has been so far... As most of you know, we travelled to SA again to visit the family and had a lovely time. Ben travels amazingly well, and adjusts to almost any situation. That is not to say that there is a lot of hard work behind the scenes to keep him happy... I have realised that for the next few years at least Bob and I will not really have holidays per say... No lounging around the pool and sleeping til 10 - oh on, we will be on duty from 06:30 in whatever time zone we've adjusted to until the kids fall into bed at night. And this duty will be made doubly difficult as we will not have the comfort and familiarity of home to help the process :)

We went down also for Lisa's wedding which I must say was beautiful. It was a lovely day and very enjoyable - Lisa made a beautiful bride, Jason a dashing groom and a beautiful reception afterwards topped off the day.

Once back in Dublin things started falling apart a little... Bob headed off to Hawaii the day after we got back for a week - and in that week I had to have emergency dental surgery, the boiler in the house broke and cost a fortune to get fixed, and Ben got really sick - tonsilitius and an ear and throat infection. So the first week I was due back at work saw me actually at work for a day and a half. Ben hasn't really been well since and was back at the doc's yesterday with spiking temperature and thrush... I'm hoping that this course of medication will see him get over the last of it and back to his bubbly self. Although, at this point I don't know if we've lost bubbly ben to the terrible twos for a while! My little guy enjoys getting his own way these days and protested VERY loudly and dramatically when things don't go his way - I'm told that this is normal, but you have to second guess yourself a bit when the performance is Oscar worthy!

To top it all, I find myself seven months pregnant now... I don't know where the time has gone, honestly! I am stuggling a little with the concept that in a few weeks I'll be a mother of two... I've been very well in this pregnancy, but things are getting a little harder now that I'm getting bigger. We are trying, somewhat in vain I think, to get ben to understand that his brother is on the way - but sure, in eight weeks reality will hit... Us all - not just Ben :)...

I must say though that I'm really starting to look forward to the summer - the weather here is glorious at the moment and the days are getting longer, and it's difficult to let anything get you down... We go for walks inthe evening now and Ben is loving playing outside and it's wonderful to see him run and play and learn... We're most proud of his recent ability which is an Houdini-like talent of opening doors - which has led us to learn our most recent lesson - turning our house into Fort Knox and adopting a jailer like disposition :)...

I'm sorry for the long winded essay - but we had a lot to catch up on... I will keep the blog updated more frequently now, which will mean less in the way of paragraphs.... Hope you are all well... Here are a few pics from the easter weekend and our egg hunt...