March 2007 - Part 1 - into the garden we go....!!!

"the spring has sprung, the grass has ris....I wonder where the birdies is..."

....and Theo is still getting more teeth.... this time it is the canines or those big fangs that every mother learns to hate as they cut their way so literally into the wee ones' mouths.....still if he gets all four, we'll be getting close to 16 teeth which bodes well for the 2 year old check up....yeah!

.....we've also been a little sick this month, especially Theo, although Zak seems to have sailed on by it. Theo has learned to say 'mine' which aggravates everyone and insists on doing all that Zak does. He has also taken to going over to Ms Madison's house as well..... usually because he's stalking Tiger the cat, who seems to have decided that Zak and Theo's sand pit is a prime pee pee spot.....not that he would be alone in that decision.....


.....as we begin to see the signs of pee pee advancement in Theo as he attempts to mimic his older brother, even standing at the pot, zee zee in hand..... and then we wait..... and wait.... and he gives up and pees on the carpet/mattress/floor.......we're working on it......as Mama can see the light at the end of the nappy tunnel....happy, happy, joy, joy~!


....there is much running in the house as Zak and Theo chase each other around and around and around.... there is also much mudbathing as we begin to recover the garden from the snow and add to the sandpit as well as the vege garden. Yann has constructed a new addition to the garden in the form of Zak and Theo's garden and there are many Mummy dreams about how the boys can get the salad from their garden while Dada mans the barbecue!!....

....for some reason both boys have decided they want to learn to drive Mummy's car, at the same time.... yeah.....



....Zak continues to evolve and struggle. He is now almost entirely bilingual, switching in and out of languages at the drop of a hat, on a flight of whimsy or the entry of someone new into the context. He's becoming adept at figuring out who speaks what and needs to be spoken to in which language. He and Theo have wonderful renditions of 'Happy Birthday to You'; Zak sings 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star' with Theo doing backup 'lalala' and is now venturing into the alphabet song.... Numbers can go sequentially but usually '1,2,3,7, 9, 10' a little something he picked up from Ms Madison, which Mummy is trying to eradicate......(ggrrrrrr)......

......Zak is also now chief table setter, vege chopper and dish washer, all with varying levels of prowess. He can now almost entirely dress himself and has begun his morning bathing rituals. He likes to style his hair himself and scare Theo with the hairdryer, both boys are partial to some mousse.....and Zak has been known to wear mascara because it makes his eyes 'jolie'....not that he needs too much help in that department....

.....when we measured Yann's head for Bison, it came in at 60 cm, Zak measured 52cm and Theo at 50cm..... Mama measured 57cm......scary......