033/365 Daddy Cool!

Daddy Cool!

I love Bank Holiday weekend!!

We have David (Daddy) all to ourselves and we have been having a wonderful time!!

I am so lucky to have such a hands on father for my children. David and I do everything we can together for our babies. We make every decision together and we share every idea and emotion. I could not be the mother I am without him. I think that our dynamic us quite rare, from what I have seen first hand anyway. Most couples I know the mother takes the lead and the father does what she decides. It is not like that with David and I. It could never work like that. We are both too strong headed, we like our own way which is exactly why every thing that we is debated, thoroughly debated. But it works for us, it makes us, it is why we work, it is why we love each other. We are a team! I love that we are equal in the eyes of our children and that we make the most of the time we have available to share.

Esther and William’s faces light up when David enters a room. They love playing with him and the funny noises that he makes. He is so good at feeding them and changing them. Bath time is his domain! He takes them running every morning and he soothes them to sleep every night.

On top of all that he looks after me too. I really am a lucky lady and I hope that every day I am learning to be more like him, enough to deserve him, to marry him! As I will do, 10th September 2011 and I can’t wait!!

Before that I am looking forward to Father’s Day when Esther, William and I will spoil their Daddy rotten and until then we will remind him every day how much we love him, appreciate him and need him.

He is our Daddy Cool!!

Flashback Friday – 14 weeks and counting!

This time last year I was 14 weeks pregnant with Esther and William. Because we knew it was twins and because we had IVF we had lots of early scans showing us our babies developing. We really were very lucky in that respect. From 12 weeks they started to look less like aliens and more like babies. Things started to feel real. We were going to have not one baby but two!!

I loved going for scans though I was alway anxious that something would not be right, we had been warned by our clinic about vanishing twin syndrome and a higher risk of miscarriage throughout the pregnancy. It was a time of joy but also of worry. I did not have a very active pregnancy as I was so frightened that something would go wrong.

The scans were like a window into another world. A private silent world that Esther and William were already sharing and learning about each other.

When the babies were born at 27 weeks we were given another window, an opportunity to see first hand how babies develop at such an early stage. We saw with our own eyes what most parents see only on a scan photo. It helps to look at prematurity in that way sometimes, an opportunity to witness human development at its earliest stages.

Esther and William were so tiny and so perfect and it was a privilege to be able to watch them grow from kidney beans to aliens to mini athletes to proper podgy babies.

Today for the Friday Flashback I wanted to think back to those earliest of days and to remember the excitement of being pregnant and the thrill of growing new lives inside of me. It really is a wonderful thing we do.

Here are Esther and William at 13+5, less than 14 weeks later they were born x

031/365 Solo Swinging!

Today was a gloriously sunny day in Kent and so I took Esther and William to the park where they went on a proper baby swing for the first ever time. They really liked it and we are going to go and do it again tomorrow. Now I only wish I had four arms so that I could safely swing them both at once! Here they are, Esther and William, solo swinging!