Laura’s Life

A collection of photos of the boys from the last few days of June.

One day after school last week, it was scorching hot so I took the boys home via the play park.  There was water in the paddling pool.  How do you think this story ends?

Yes, that is Aidan dipping his head in the water:

After the head-dunking, the boys progressed to swimming.  Fully clothed.  Strangely enough, I was a bit too occupied to take photos.  Yes, me.  Too busy to take photographs.  That’s how nutty my sons’ behaviour was.  Needless to say, they were absolutely soaked and had to walk home through town drenched and dripping:

On Friday afternoon, Aidan’s class performed a ‘Caterpillar Boogie’ which his brothers and I went to watch.  This is Aidan wearing his butterfly and caterpillar hats:

Aidan with his new ‘Harry Potter Lego’ game:

The gift bags Aidan made for his teacher and classroom assistants:

The wrapping paper Orin and Evan made for the staff at their nursery:

Orin with the cookies he made at the weekend:

In the middle of using the Wii Fit, I nipped out of the room for a minute and, upon my return, discovered that Arlo had decided to do some exercise:

Another milestone is reached: Arlo can walk! He finally decided to take more than a few brief steps on Saturday when my parents were visiting. I guess he wanted to show off for the grandparents. So, at 12.5 months (not too shabby for a preemie), Arlo is officially a walker.

This video, however, is of Arlo NOT walking because he decided to just mess about instead, much to the amusement of his big brothers:

In this video, however, he finally co-operated and you can see him walk:

An assortment of photographs taken in June.

Picnic in the garden:

Arlo:

Evan made Spiderman out of duplo lego:

Evan and Arlo dressed as Buzz and an alien:

Setting off for Rhyme Time at the Library.  Evan decided they should go along dressed up as characters:

Orin drew this picture at preschool.  It transpired that he wanted to draw Arlo being stolen so that he could imagine rescuing him:

Arlo can walk!

Chris is attempting to engage the boys in the World Cup by having them each support a team.  He has bought them each a t-shirt with their own team on it and a South Africa football too.

Arlo is supporting Brazil:

Evan is supporting Italy simply because his favourite food is pesto pasta:

Orin is supporting Germany because he liked the flag:

Aidan is supporting England because his Daddy was born in England and supporting Scotland is rarely, if ever, an option in international tournaments:

Just a couple of short videos of the boys playing on some swings. They have remembered that my compact camera has a video function and demand to be filmed from time to time.

Another random selection of photos showing the kiddliwinks getting up to all sorts.

Arlo helping his Daddy build the new dining room chairs:

Arlo has found a method of getting up to the window - by pushing over and standing on all of the toys beside the toy box …

… which also helps him reach the TV and DVD buzzers that I thought I had placed out of reach:

We allowed the boys to stay up (for a while at least) to watch the Eurovision Song Contest.  They all got into their jammies and dressing gowns:

Arlo is fascinated by the washing machine:

On Wednesday morning I was looking after my friend’s son who was not in school because he has chicken pox.  Evan and Joseph made muffins:

Arlo riding on his digger:

Arlo fell asleep all of a sudden while clasping an aquadraw pen:

Playing in the garden:

“Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk … Ah-ha-ha-ha stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive”:

Suddenly Orin’s legs have grown:

Cheeky trio:

Arlo playing on a swing:

All four boys on the swings at once:

Aidan trampolining:

Arlo wearing his trendy wee skinny jeans about to hop on a bike:

Aidan had a Gruffalo Day at school on Wednesday.  Julia Donaldson read the book to the children via webcam and there were lots of Gruffalo activities during the day.  Aidan came home with some items he had made:

This is Aidan’s joined up writing on the back of his Gruffalo Child.  He has not got the hang of capital letters for pronouns but his handwriting is far neater than Chris’ already:

Aidan was allowed to bring his Beaver Scout troop’s trophy home for a couple of weeks, which made him feel very proud:

Just a random assortment of photos taken this month.

Aidan found a huge slug in the garden:

Arlo:

Evan’s horse balloon finally deflated:

Eek!  Arlo has learned to climb the stairs:

Playing in the garden:

A cool beetle we found on our wall:

The boys looking up Lego animations on YouTube:

Our wee Arlo, almost a whole year old.  It is hard to believe that this wee chunker with his turkey drumstick legs was such a wee scrawny mite just twelve months ago:

It’s like Arlo is auditoning to be in a Kiss tribute band with his tongue sticking out in every photo:

SpiderEvan helping Arlo to walk:

Arlo fell asleep on the floor so Orin covered him with a blanket and Evan gave him a teddy bear:

Chris bought Guitar Hero for the XBox and instantly dorked out:

All four boys playing in the garden:

Orin currently wants to be a tattoo artist when he grows up and unfortunately last night the boys decided to use gel pens to practice their inking skills on each other’s bodies:

Evan learned this song at nursery. It is all about the days of the week and he loves singing it. He specifically asked me to video him singing it so that he could share it with a “wider audience”. Cute. So here is the clip:

We found this note at the end of Aidan’s bed one night.  We had to laugh at the fact he chose the destructive option having considered some sort of peaceful mission.  Such a boy!