Theo's Invite List

With the Royal Wedding, quickly approaching 'invitation lists' have been a big source of discusion. On that note, Theo informed me of his birthday invitation list:

Jack
Molly (his friend)
Jos Myers (his friend)
Addie
Daddy

Then to my prompting, 'anyone else, Theo?'

Theo quickly responded 'no'.

I have three months to improve my standing in Theo's world unless I might be missing my son's three-year-old party!

To be like Grandad

Jack just went to bed without his shirt. It is cold in England tonight. I asked inquisitively, 'are you sleeping without your shirt tonight?'

Jack responded with 'Grandad does it and I am just copying Grandad.'

There are many things I would be delighted for Jack to imitate my dad on - this is not necessarily one of them! Thanks Dad!

My Big Brother Jack

Yesterday we went to the farm with our good friends the Grahams. Jack and his friend Josiah went over to play a ball game and Theo, Addie, and I stayed on the bouncy castle.

A big boy (he told us he was ten) came over and started to bounce on the bouncy castle with us. He was a sweet kid and interacted with Theo quite a bit. He was very physical and was able to jump super high as well as do somersaults. It was really cute because after he did each 'trick' Theo would say 'My brother, my big brother, he can do that' or 'Jack, my big brother, can do that too'. Just to be clear, Jack would not even be close to able to do any of the moves this ten-year-old was performing. BUT in Theo's mind he could, and Theo was super happy to brag on his brother, his 'BIG' brother!

I hope Theo always loves and respects his big brother, even when he is just as big and able to do the same (if not more!) physical stunts as Jack .

Happy Birthday Grandad!

This post was not supposed to be this late in the day.

We had friends come around unexpectedly for dinner which was good fun. After they left we got the kids quickly ready for bed and then as I was tidying up downstairs I thought 'oh shoot I forgot to get the video made to wish Dad a happy birthday'. I went back into the boys' room and told them to get out of bed. They thought I was mad, but they did it happily and here is a somewhat sleepy but enthusiastic birthday song for Grandad!




Happy Birthday to my wonderful dad! We SO wish we were there to bring you ice cream on this busy day for you. Thank you for being so awesome.

Addie and the outdoors

So one of the things that we have learned about Addie over the past month is that she LOVES to go outside. As soon as we say something like 'time to go outside' or 'everyone get your coats' she goes nuts shuffling towards her coat and the door. It is super cute. We did our best to get this on camera. To be honest, it is much better and more focussed than this video shows, but we thought better to post it than not. She was a little thrown off by the fact that Charles had the camera. When she puts her hands together that is her saying 'please or yes'. Enjoy!