Failing to keep the pace...

Not with Summer and Sky I hasten to add but with my blogging! It has been three months since I finally started this blog and exactly three months since I last wrote anything! I am a hopless blogger.

But hey, they say if you don't suceed try try and try again! So here goes, a new pledge that I will keep up with my blogging at least weekly if I can't manage daily!

Summer and Sky are now 17mths old and still a complete joy. They spend their days chatting away to me and each another and Sky is picking up a new word everyday. Her vocabulary now extends to - horse, cat, owl, bird, book, bye no and yes! phew thats a lot for such a small thing, her sister on the other hand is good at shouting for KAI! If Kai is sleeping she just has to wake her up by standing at the bedroom door and shouting for her sister to please wake up and come and play! The joy of her face when Kai does finally wake up is something to be bottled...

Recently we spent some time in Bristol, UK and went for a short holiday to Menorca, Spain. It was a joy, I was worried how Summer and Sky were going to react to my family and friends who we meet often but not as often as we might, but they were thrilled, they laughed and played and depsite catching a terrible cold and cough had a brilliant time. It was great to see them in a different enviornment other than there home, so comfortable and at ease with themselves...hope its always like that, of course it wont be and it is not supposed to be.
And as for Spain well there it was a swimming marathon with the girls just in the pool the whole time splashing around...what fun it is to be a toddler and a pair of toddlers' mum!

Where to begin....

I think the most difficult thing about not starting a blog from the beginning is where to begin when you do start! I suppose it should be from where we are now, but I feel like I need to tell the stories from the last year so that you begin to get to know Summer and Sky and our family. Maybe I can keep reverting back to past stories as I write. Maybe some background is a good start.

Summer and Sky were born on 8th April 2009. I was completing my PhD in Anthropology when we decided to try for a baby. It was a series of those 'can't believe it' moments starting with when I fell pregnant on the first time of trying. Then after excitedly thinking about the little life inside of me that scan comes round and you discover there are two little lives. When I think back now, it is so easy to forget these beautiful moments when you are running around after two toddlers and the yo-yo of happiness and frustrations it throws at you. Wow what a moment...'so we are here today to have at look at your baby...there it is...and to make sure that there is only one...and...there are two! Oh my goodness, twins, I just knew I would have twins. It is a surreal moment when you discover that, what you imagined and were almost convinced would happen to you, does. I was sure that one day I would have twins, my husband is an identical twin, and I know there is no conclusive evidence to suggest this makes any difference, especially as Summer and Sky are fraternal twins, but I was sure that because of him we would have twins. And more than that the two of us had discussed it so many times. Strange. So when we found out that we did have twins, I was not surprised but at the same time, I went into shock. The thought of twins is romantic but when the reality hits it is a shocker! My husband on the other hand went into excitement overdrive!

A short insight to how this journey began....