A delayed post …

So it’s been days and days since my last update and I’m sorry about that!!  Cas and Wendy arrived a few days ago and it’s just been a whirlwind of activity since they landed.

They’ve spoiled Peeds rotten with treats and sweets and toys.

 

A bag a treats from Wendy.  Yummy!!!

This is a magnetic drawing toy that James picked out for him.  MAJOR WIN!!!  He absolutely Looooooooves this thing!!!

Here he is opening a pack a 4 – count them – 4 – squirt guns.  These will be loads of fun for the 4 of us! 

A bubble gun from Grandad!!!  It was 40 degrees outside but he simply HAD to have that gun opened STAT so that he could play with it and none of us were about tell him, “No”.

 

Blocks from Daniel.  He has really enjoyed playing with these.

His Zakumi toy that Wendy carried here in her hangbag all the way from South Africa.  Peeds thinks the world of this toy.  He calls him Kumi and puts him in timeout regularly.

Needless to say, we’re all having a great time, especially Peeds.  But don’t think for a second that there isn’t a ton of stuff for Charlie as well.    Jewelry and clothes and jackets and toys.  She’s too small for most of it at the moment, but give her a few months and we’ll have her dolled up like a right little DIVA!!

Sug and I are truly lucky to have such wonderful friends and family who love our kids so much.  We love you all!!!

 

Charlie is doing really well.  She’s sleeping about 4 hours at a time at night so we’re only having to wake up with her one time, really.  And since Peeds is sleeping until 8am we don’t really feel sleep deprived at all.  They’re both eating well and doing all of those natural things that babies are supposed to do.  Life is certainly good in the Clarke house!!

Here are a few shots of Oliver holding his baby with Daddy helping.

Fun times for Peeds!!

Just some pics and clip of the good times Peeds is having during his stay with Aunt B.

 

Playing with Daddy in the Wagon…

 

Baking with Aunt B and mummy… complete with Billy Wiz!!

And, of course, a pic of the little sis after a visit to Aunt B’s Beauty Boutique yesterday due to a much needed hair-washing.

Clarke Family Reunion

After nearly a week of being apart, we were able to reunite on Monday evening.  All four of us gathered in the floor as we cuddled with Peeds who we’d been missing all week and he got to cuddle his baby sister who he had only see one time before this.

They’re so cute together.  Peeds is absolutely crazy about what he calls, “His Baby”.  We just need to find a way to help him express everything that he’s feeling.  When Charlie goes to move out of the house in 30 year or so, I’ll be able to tell her how much her big brother loved her.  And how when we brought her home he was wild enough to shoot at :-)  and that since she was able to survive infancy with Peeds “helping” us with her, she deserves to live a loooooooong and fruitful life.  :-D

I’m really looking forward to sharing future posts of his antics where she is concerned.  Like today when he hugged her and she actually  grunted because he squeezed her so hard or when he got mad at her because he wanted her hat and we wouldn’t give it to him so he smacked her or how on the night when we got here he tried to play ball with her and threw his bouncy ball at her which bounced off of her head.  There are many many more adventures to come.  And I’m looking forward to all of them.  As I’m sure, you’re looking forward to hearing about them.

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iVideos of Charlie being the precious little thing that she is

Today after she finished eating she was laying there being so sweet that I just couldn’t help but take a vid.  Unfortunately Peeds wasn’t able to be in the vid because he was in a time out for throwing his juice cup at Aunt B.

 

 

A coupe of minutes of Peeds trying to settle in his big boy bed

It was a looooooong night.  He just couldn’t seem to settle down in his new bed.  We’ll go back to the crib and try the big boy bed again in a couple of weeks.

 

Aunt B and Charlie playing before bed

Last night, before we went to bed, Becca and Charlie laid in bed playing.  Silly girls!!

1st night in the big boy

We're just a few hours into our first night in our "big boy" bed. So far we've only had one instance of getting up and wondering around. At present, Peeds is laying in the bed awake but he's staying in there. When I initially put him back in bed he cried when I started to leave so I went back to him and sang a few songs. Then told him that I loved him, to which he replied that he loved me and I asked if he was ok and he said yeah so I told him that I was going to go back to bed and that I'd be right next door if he needed me. We'll see how that goes as the night wears on. :-)

 

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