Hi everyone!!! Yes, a couple of milestones for each of the children recently. Emily got her first haircut last week! She did really well. She watched Oliver get his done first and was very eager to get into the airplane chair that he had used. And she very happily sat in the chair playing or watching the TV while she got her hair cut. This time I didn't lose the snippets of hair like I did after Oliver's first cut, although you know she'll probably throw them away and think I'm a crazy mum when she's older :) As a matter of interest I looked back through the blog and discovered that Oliver was also 15 months when he got his first cut - strange but true!
Oliver's milestone is potty training!!! He has done so well over the past few weeks. He pretty much always takes himself to the bathroom when he needs to go and we haven't had any accidents in a good long while. When we started this whole thing we promised him that when he was clean and dry and using the potty without much prompting he would be able to go and choose a present. So yesterday we went off to Toys R Us and he did just that!! We didn't tell him where we were going and when we got there he said he didn't want to go (!) but as soon as we explained why he was very excited. Of course he picked up the first thing he saw (Lightning McQueen cars) but we encouraged him to have a good look around before deciding, especially since he said ages ago that he wanted some new Thomas tracks. And that's what he chose in the end :) We are a very proud mum and dad!!
The weather is ridiculously hot at the moment so we are spending time indoors making the most of the air conditioning! Really, even if I got the pool out for the kids it would still be too hot. I think it's way too dangerous to be out there in a "feels like" temperature of 115F. Even Scoop just flops down on the ground as soon as she's out there and doesn't want to move!!! Anyway, we have been out and about when it was a little cooler and a couple of weeks ago the kids got to play in one of the local lakes. I hadn't gone prepared for swimming so they both got their clothes soaked and had a fab time in the water!!
Other than that, Oliver "married" his friend Celia at the playground the other day so that was nice ;) Kids and their imagination - it's wonderful!!! Emily can be quite the chatterbox sometimes and now makes good attempts at saying "fish" and "duck" (just because they are in one of her books!). However, she does continue to be quite a handful and cries an awful lot which can get very wearing. Neither of us are sure why and she can't tell us but it happens every day - you'd never believe it because I always catch her smiley pics :) I'm sure it'll figure itself out before long - she got an extra nap today so let's see if that helps!!
