Mary’s First Easter Bonnet :) (by sarah)

Ok so I was a bad Mummy and forgot that Mary needed an Easter Bonnet for Nursery - so out came the easter stickers and one of Jean's old hats.

Jean and Mary spent ages decorating it! With Jean actually helping rather than just taking over too!

Of course Jean then made an Easter trail around the house with the left over stickers and worse she asked me if she could and I didn't click this would mean they would be stuck all over the place! She was so excited that we should all come and find them too! Good job we haven't decorated the walls yet!

Also Mary refused to wear her Easter Bonnet but wanted everybody else to wear it! I have vetoed the pic of me so you're only getting this cute one of Jean!

The Pussy Cat Sisters (by sarah)

Last weekend I came in to find the girls both dressed as cats rolling around the floor in the living room - they were both going 'meow!'

One was called rainbow heart and the other pink sparkly - pink sparkly ended up asleep on the sofa with Tom the cat.

Then the next day they were pussy cats again - Mary seems to think she is a pink version of the 'wolf' out of Where the Wild Things Are.

Rainbow Heart or Jeany as I call her seems to have a new cheeky pose thing going on - I struggle to get her not to pull the cheeky face for photos!

See what I mean?

I think they enjoyed themselves.

Cuggles! (by sarah)

Little Mary is now two! The last two weeks have seen her suddenly saying more understandable words, she asks for cuddles (cuggles), she says Dean (Jean which used to be meemee), she repeats and put her hands on her eyes, ears, nose, mouth, arm etc... she will sort of count with Jean as long as Jean goes slowely enough - just mimicry at the moment. And I was startled to hear her doing the alphabet with my mother.

She still mainly uses the baby sign and asks for milk in Lojban rather than English, she does appear to have taken to only trying to copy the English words though she responds best to the Lojban ones.

She is a little cheeky monkey who climbs on everything and escapes from everything!

She pretends to give herself injections in the tummy (just like my Dad does) and has started proper imagination play.

She was potty training and doing really well and then she forgot to pull her trousers down and now refuses not to have a nappy on. Unless it is near bed/nap time, she will tell us she needs changing - she knows that having her nappy changed is what happens before bed!

She is obsessed with cloths! She has opinions on what she will and will not wear and gets excited - she will even try and steel Jean's cloths - like the rainbow cardigan my mum knitted - 'MINE! Mine!'.

She sings nursery rhymes enough for me to guess what she is singing (normally twinkle twinkle little star), her grin is so large if I get it right 🙂

She mimics sounds so clicks like indicators (Jean did this too), makes a squeak like the broken tumble dryer and the scraping noises of zombies in Mine Craft.

If she wants to go out she will go to the clean laundary pile, select cloths, put her wellies on, get her ruck sack, fill it with toys and beaker, put her coat on and drag a blanket around - she gets very annoyed when you then say it's nap time. Sometimes we take her out just because she's put so much effort into it.

She is getting there with petting the cats and they tolerate being used as warm fluffy pillows.

She is still diddy but seems robust enough - not as much as Jean was she can't take the cold very well where as Jean never seemed to notice or want to really ware cloths!

She will tiggle tiggle you! This is high pitched and involves lifting your top and tiggling your tummy 🙂

She is a putting things away baby 🙂 She will tidy up putting stickle bricks away etc... unlike Jeany who is a messy little moo 🙂

She can get very cross - not laid back at all like her sister and is more clingy but at the same time is more likely to sit and play on the carpet next to the dest rather than having to have me entertain her. She loves her sister most of the time and runs up and hugs her but not when Jean is asking for hugs! Though if anyone is crying she will hug them.

I made Jean cry by telling her off about tidying bedrooms, Mary took one look at the poor sobbing Jean and instantly joined in and this was proper crying from both of them. I felt like a really bad mummy but had to stick to my guns.

Mary is definatly a hobbit - she has second breakfast though you are hard pushed to get anything other than a snack into her for the rest of the day.

Sunday Silliness :) (by sarah)

After Mary's belated birthday party we had two of Jean's friends stay over for the first ever sleep over which was fun for them but did result in a wee-wee incident and a bedroom you could no longer see the floor of!

Jeany was a little pedant and when I'd told the kids to move the luandary from the bottom bunk so the kids could sleep - I unthinkingly told Jean to move 'All her cloths' so they emptied the wardrobe and draws too but left the baby's cloths in place :/

After they went we did a bit of a clear up and Alaric went off to finish his ladder. Jean and my friend Charlee who had also stayed disappeared off and our garden was suddenly infested by giant pandas! I think it was a mummy and a baby!

As we can see they had a good time.

I especially like this photo of the baby panda!

And this one of the big panda hugging the girls 🙂

Mary found a little LED flashing ring that Jean had bought at a festival and she would not put it down!

My mum has been knitting Jeany a rainbow jacket for ages and Sunday was the day of trying it on - Jean loved it so much she refused to take it off even though it is not yet finished!

Mary was very excited to be the bell ringer for lunch time 🙂

She had a great day of opening presents and cards and exploring the garden in the lovely sunshine which we had all so missed!

The Trike of Glee (by sarah)

Somewhere in moving house we miss placed the little noddy trike that we were given second hand for Jeany. This made us sad as Mary really loves the little push along thing my friend Becca and her sister bough up for us after little Millie had out grown it. This showed us that Mary would adore a trike especially as she started trying to steal Jean's bike.

So for Mary's second birthday we got her one joint with my family. It had to be assembled but has gone down a storm!

She loved it straight away to the extent that she kept stealing the wheels as the were being attached to it!

Since then she has been on and off of it constantly 🙂

She scoots it alone completely ignoring the pedals which she's not quiet big enough for yet anyway!

She got a late Christmas present of a tea set as well which she packs into the seat - takes for a ride and then deposits somewhere else in the room! Obviously it is an outside too but she is so excited by it at the moment we are allowing it to stay inside for a bit.