As our joint blog has now had its 2000th hit, despite our not having written in nearly six months, we felt we really had to post something new.
Our fans have been simply wonderful, of course, continuing to check our blog in the hope that we’ve written when we haven’t managed a line in half a year, and with ne’er a word of complaint when they’ve had to go away empty- handed.
We could blame the bedlam that is our lives, the result of having two hyperactive parents who just seem to want to play in our playroom all night, but no, I think we should take the blame squarely on the chin and admit that we have been slack. We could’ve been writing instead of doing all the wonderful new things we’ve been doing in the last few months but somehow experiencing life and writing about it rarely co-exist!
So, even tho’ we are still sleep-deprived and exhausted, we thought we owed you an update before the next big thing- Ayana's first birthday!
Since our last post, my baby sister has learnt to turn over, sit up and crawl. And now, even walks with support (sometimes just holding my hand!)and is more and more often to be found standing without any support whatsoever!
She echoes my every word and talks with meaning too (when she can be bothered!) like when she wants to watch Bob the Builder or Postman Pat on TV or when playing cars with me; 'car crash’ being amongst her favourite phrases, as it was mine when I first started speaking. Of course I have gone far beyond that now- there isn’t a word or phrase I can’t say and have complex conversations with the people closest to me. I am shy however (I blame my parents for passing this trait on to me) and tend to be laconic with most people. However, Didou (as I call our Dida) who has been with us this last month will tell you what motor-mouths we are when we are at home (in every sense of the word)!
What else have we been doing over the last few months?
I am a really quick runner, a good climber (Sis-sis is showing lots of potential in this area too), and a promising artist (glowing reports of the cuddly brown bear I drew the other day has now gone ‘round the world)!
Sis-sis is turning out to be the musical one in the family. Although I like music too, she seems to have an innate sense of rhythm and a fine pair of lungs that can only be the result of some sort of combo-gene (No such word? Well, there is now!) from both Grandmas, as Grandma Handley could’ve been a dancer and Grandma Sen is a very good singer who still sings in her church choir.
Both of us also love the water (as we discovered on our trip to Cornwall, more about that later) and books and green vegetables (yes, I know, amazing isn’t it?!). We love building blocks- I love building intricate skyscrapers and colonnades with them and my sister loves chewing on them. The only kind of block we don't like is Writer's Block which Mommy says is what prevented us from writing these past few months!
There’s so much we’re both doing and enjoying now that we didn’t six months ago that I could go on forever. I could tell you about my culinary flair which I’ve definitely got from Da. My chocolate chip cookies, my Nursery Key Worker said, were the best in (play) class!
And I haven’t even got started on our fantastic parties, trips, days-out and many firsts in the last half-year, but in the interests of actually finishing this piece (the first to be finished in many months), I’ll wind up here and leave my tales of our travels, revels and great times spent with family and friends for the next post.
In fact, dear readers, I promise not stay away for so long ever again because I’ve missed you guys (and a promise on our blog is binding, not at all like the toys me and Sis-sis sometimes give each other and take back)!
So, toodloo and pip-pip and I hope you return for the the next instalment because the two of us have had such fun together this year, that we’d love to share it with you, and we’ll line up some extra-cute photos too, for you to look at.
See you soon!