Routines...

Change is a-coming, in the form of our childminder, who is starting tomorrow. I'm going back to work in two weeks, so the babies routines won't be my routines any more :<(

So for posterity, here's what we've been doing with our days for the last few months. It was 7-7 until the hour sprang forward...hoorah for daylight savings time.

7.30 Wake
7.45 Bottle in bed
8.00 Babies play and leave Mammy alone til she has her coffee
9.00 Lucy has breakfast while Ronan refuses breakfast
9.30 Get dressed and play
10.15 Nap
11.00 Snack and play, followed by whinging til lunch
12.30 Lunch (all finger food cause Ronan won't eat anything off a spoon)
13.45 Nap while Mammy collapses on couch to watch Spartacus, Mad Men, etc.
16.00 Podee* and play
17.00 Out n about...supposed to be a walk, but mostly shopping in the cresent
18.15 Dinner (all finger food, as above)
19.30 Yet another podee,just in case they could possibly be hungry
20.00 Bed
20.30 Mammy collapses on couch while Daddy does sterilising, tidying, laundry and pretty much everything else that needs doing.

*there will come a time in our lives when I won't remember what these are...can't wait. Where did the time go? Most days I feel like I've a day's work done when I look at the clock and its only 10.30. As Tara said, the days go slow but the weeks and months fly by.

We're all going on a summer holiday...

Actually we've been, and it was only myself and Sean. After considering (for about 10 seconds) what kind of holiday we could take the babies on we decided that the most relaxing kind would be to leave them at home and go away ourselves. So last week, for one night only, Sean and I went on our summer holidays...to a hotel about a mile away from home.

Gran and Auntie Clo minded the babies while myself and Sean had 24 hours of monitor-free blissful peace and quiet. It was heaven. I woke at 9.00, which is the latest I've slept in 10 months. The babies slept like little logs while poor Auntie Clo and Gran stared at the ceiling for most of the night, waiting for a monitor to bleep. Welcome to my life! The memory of good food, lots of wine, jacuzzis, massages and cool clean sheets will have to keep me going until the babysitters have forgotten their ordeal and come back for more. Lets hope they have short memories!

First tooth

We finally have a little tootsie from Lucy...hoorah! I thought I saw a white tip on the 1st of April (9 month birthday) but Sean thought I was april-fooling him. We've been waiting to see a tooth for a very long time! Lucy's teeth are obviously very slow-growing, because they are only becoming barely visible after 2 weeks. She's exhibiting no teething problems although she has taken to good-naturedly bellowing at the top of her lungs, which gives everyone a frighty. We fervently hope that it is teething-related and that she'll stop doing it soon.

In other dental news, we think Ronan's top teeth are on the way. Unfortunately he is exhibiting teething symptons, mainly irritability and extreme sensitivity to loud noises, i.e. Lucy's bellows. Every time she bellows, he cries. Grrrrr.