Elsa is 9 months old

Elsa is 9 months old and where has the time gone?
She started crawling at 8 months old and says "Daddy", "Mum", "no" but it sounds more like "num" and she will shake her head no whilst saying it, and she also says "na-na" meaning food.
She's giving Lucas a run for his money and I don't think she will have any problems keeping him in line!

"I want to buy blue eyes!"

For some time now Lucas has enjoyed the fact that he, Elsa and Mummy have brown eyes and Daddy is the odd one out with blue eyes, but lately he has taken to wanting blue eyes like daddy.

This morning when Daniel woke him up the first thing Lucas said was "I want to buy blue eyes. I don't want brown eyes!". Bless his heart, we sure aren't going to tell him about coloured contact lenses just yet!

Lucas is 3

Lucas turned 3 on the 11th April and he had a blast.

We hired a bouncy castle and despite it raining we did get breaks in the weather for the kids to enjoy the bouncy castle and for them to eat outside too.

I made a cake in the shape of a number "3" and iced it with blue icing and then decorated it with wine gums in the shape of planes, trains and cars. Lucas and his friends had a great time and I can't believe my little boy is 3 now.

Happy 3rd Birthday Lucas!

Lucas 3 years old, Elsa 5 months old.

Mummy's little helper

Elsa is now 5 months old and time just flies by! It definitely goes by even quicker second time round.

Lucas is enjoying Elsa a lot and when he comes home from daycare he will go up to Elsa who is usually in her bouncer and say to her "Lucas missed Elsa today".

Every time Elsa has a bath Lucas has to wash her hair, then tummy and then legs and that's him done. We learnt not to bath Elsa without Lucas doing his bit because the one time we did, he had a complete meltdown and we ended up putting Elsa back into the bath so that he could wash her and we could stop the tears!

The same goes for saying good night to Elsa and giving her a goodnight kiss as well as saying bye bye to her in the mornings.

Lucas certainly likes to be included and be mummy's little helper.

Lucas giving Elsa a cuddle.

Family of four

It's been 6 weeks now since Elsa joined the Wright household and Lucas has been very good at adjusting to having a new noisy baby in his house!

He has become a very protective and proud big brother calling Elsa "Lucas's Elsa" and when people look at her (especially when she's sitting in her capsule or bouncer) he will often position himself so that he's in between Elsa and whoever is trying to get a look!

Lucas has also been naming who is in our house as a way to get his head around us now being a family of four and will say "Daddy, Mummy, Lucas and Elsa".

When Elsa cries Lucas will give her her dummy or will put his face up close to Elsa's and say "Hello!" as a way to try and cheer her up. Elsa is quite taken by her big brother as she will often stare at Lucas and will smile at him.

We are very proud at how well Lucas has adjusted to this new arrival.