Hey ho, hey ho, its off to China we go!

Constantly in motion!

The sheer joy of movement.

 

 

Tired

Its only day 9 of Nomby Plomby and I don't know if I will be able to keep up the posts for the whole month.  I'm soooooo tired, feeling stressed about lots of things and that always knocks me out.  I thought I'd just post this couple of lines to keep me officially qualifying for NoPlo and see if I get a burst of energy tomorrow!

In Remembrance

Today was Remembrance Sunday in the UK.  When I lived there I would watch the BBC coverage of the National Ceremony at the Cenotaph in London and every year the Queen and various members of the Royal Family would be there to lay wreaths.  I think that continuity, that constant presence at these events is one of the most valuable things about the Royal Family.   I've lived in the US for so long now I haven't been able to watch the ceremony for years and I miss those Remembrance services but thanks to YouTube I was able to see some of this years coverage.

This piece really brings home the reality of the loss of each individual Serviceman or woman.

These are some of the constants that I remember from every year's ceremony, Big Ben, the Cenotaph, the two minute silence and the laying of the wreaths. This is from this year's Remembrance service at the Albert Hall. A song made famous by Dame Vera Lynn - the "Forces Sweetheart" and also, much to my mother's annoyance, one of my Dad's favorites. That is Dame Vera at the end waving to the audience. I couldn't find any footage from this year, but this is last year at the Albert Hall as the poppy petals rain softly down, so, so many. Each one representing the lost life of one of the fallen.

My Dad is the boss of your Dad!

I'm not even sure how to introduce this video clip, I'm still a bit flabbergasted.  We were at the book shop earlier today, which is a sadly a rare occurrence these days, (visiting bookshops I mean) Beau was tired because he'd missed out on his morning nap and the more tired he got the better his impersonation of a Whirling Dervish became when suddenly he spotted an Obama calender.  Lulu can spot a photo of Obama from several 100 yards away but I wasn't aware that Beau could even recognize Obama and actually quite possibly he doesn't! 

So Beau rushes up to the calender and I hold my breath wondering if he will declare "Obama!" at the top of his lungs, as his big sister does whenever she sees Obama, but no he does not!  Although, apparently he does believe he knows our esteemed leader, indeed it would appear he believes he has a very special relationship with the President.  Watch and you will see what I mean.

I can not for the life of me figure out why he did this, I'm not sure whether it is some kind of compliment to Simon and I or whether our son is just a social climber trying to trade us in for better and more beautiful.  I swear I did not and have not coached him to do this in anyway.  After he did it the first time I scrambled to find my camera and whilst I was doing that Beau was running wild around the fixture and I thought for sure there would be no repeat performance but to my delight he did it again.  Got to admire the boy's ambition, I mean if your looking to up grade your family, might as well go for the top!  Hmmm wonder if he can get me an invite to The Whitehouse?

Of course if he ever gets lost and is asked to describe his parents we might have a job convincing the police that "no really, we are his Mum & Dad."

Comfy, comfy sofa!

This is getting a bit embarrassing now.  Once again I am on the sofa, so once again no Fairy pics.  Just to clarify I haven't been sitting on the sofa for three days, well not the whole of the three days, its just that by the time I come to post this is where I am.  However, I do have a good replacement for Fairy photos.  One of my most favorite things is when Lulu and Beau make each other laugh, its the bestest best to hear that beautiful sound.  In this clip Lulu was cracking Beau up by pulling the seat belt for him to hold and of course it kept winding itself back up much to Beau's amusement.  By the time I thought to pull the camera out they were really on the tail end of the joke but I still got a bit of that sweet sound.  I love at the very end they are holding hands, so often when we are out in the car I will check in the mirror and see them sitting their holding hands and it makes my heart go melty melt.

Oooooh which reminds me talking of melty melt, today for the first time ever Beau asked me for a kiss!  I kiss him all the time and he will give me kisses if I ask for them (well mostly he will) and if I'm very lucky he'll give me a spontaneous kiss but today was the first time he actually asked me for a kiss (well apart from kissing a hurty better).  It was sooooooooooo sweet and then in the afternoon he asked for a hug, just like kisses we hug all the time but this was the first time he asked me for one, whaddya know, that boy really does love his Mama

Coasting is the new blogging.

Oh no its happened again, I'm on the sofa, Fairy Princess photos are not on the sofa.  I'll just coast a wee bit more and post these non Fairy Princess photos from this morning.  I love my babies and oh how I love that they love each other sooooooo much.  That's a lotta love!  This morning they took photos of "Amy Sparkles" to show their teachers.  Lulu has been in love with her baby sister from the moment she heard about her.  Beau on the other hand has no idea he has a baby sister but when he sees her photo he proudly declares "baby!" like the old man of almost 2 that he is.  "Amy Sparkles" you have the best big sister and brother in the world waiting for you - I think their compensation for your coasting parents.

 

I'm coasting, I'm coasting, watch me coast!

So Anne Marie totally saw through my cunning plan to coast today's post with a photo of Lulu in all her Fairy Princess glory.  However, those photos are on my GDrive thingy and I'm sitting on the sofa and can't retrieve them from here cos the lead doesn't stretch that far.  Instead, I'm going to coast with the H1N1 photos which are on the laptop hard drive!

Lulu is terrified of shots so we happily went with the nasal mist for her and Beau, being small and easy to sit on, had to suck it up with the shot. I know this stuff is still in short supply so it really was a relief to get them both done. 

To NompyPopy or not?

I'm debating doing the NombyBlompy thing again this November (blog posts everyday for the whole month) so here is a quick photo to at least keep me in the game while I decide how much of a glutton for punishment I really am.

Two fairies and a dragon conducting long and serious studying of the candy!

More Halloween!

It was such a good Halloween there had to be two sets of costumes!

Happiest of Halloweens!

We had so much fun yesterday, the weather was mild and the "trick or treaters" were in high spirits!  Lulu and her good friend M know the drill but Beau took a while to really get the hang of things.  For the first few houses he found the choosing of which piece of candy to pick VERY over whelming and he wasn't entirely convinced that it was okay for him to take it.

Here he is at the start of the evening, the girls had long since picked their candy and were raring to be off to the next house but we all had to wait, and wait, and wait for Beau to make his choice.  I felt sorry for the man holding the candy it was an awfully big, heavy bowl to be holding while the Little Dragon tried to make his mind up and he was super patient with him, he'd probably heard that Dragons are quite partial to a nice bite of crispy human being with ketchup on top and wanted to stay on the right side of him.