Sorry, not written for ages again !
The boys are doing well, Harry counts up to 7 now and will play a game where you say the odd numbers and he will say the even ones !
Ben is talking lots too, not much coherent stuff but really chatting a lot and coming along nicely.
The other day I was in the kitchen when Ben let out an ear splitting scream I popped my head round the door and Ben was stood in the middle of the lounge crying his little head off with no obvious reason why.
The next day at the same time, he does it again. This time I realised what it was, there is a children's program called 'Step Inside' and it features a magical cottage that has a face on the outside wall. It is this face that was upsetting Ben so much.
That was my theory anyway. Like all theories it needed testing, so as an experiment I was sat down with Ben the following day and sure enough when the program came on and the face appeared it freaked him out. A little cruel of me I know, but I had to make sure that was what the problem was and nothing else.
Unfortunately the next day I was sorting out the laundry in the kitchen and forgot the program was on. Again I had a traumatized Ben to deal with. I felt really guilty and I am sure he'll need therapy if he sees it again :-(
The offending cottage:
I have always fancied photographing & filming a tornado, but these storm chasing holidays in the US are silly money and I have more important things to spend Carols money on :-)
Imagine how pissed off I was when there was a photo in the local paper of a tornado above Andover. Even worse it was practically over our house. If I had only looked out of the window during the storm I would have seen it. Gutted ! - My only consolation was that it was a very small partly formed one.
Whilst on the subject of filming.....
When the boys were born we bought a video camera. I am so glad we did as we have got some amazing video of the boys growing up. This has lead me to creating DVD's of the boys for close family & friends. I have done two so far, one of the boys first 3 months when they were in hospital and a second that covered all the stuff we did during their first year. The second DVD had a couple of daft extras on the end, one was of the boys 'dancing' which was pretty funny to see.
I am currently editing the third film, which covers their second year. I have recently got a professional video editing package and it is awesome. Very easy to use and unlike the free Microsoft Movie Maker, it doesn't crash every 5 minutes (no I am not exaggerating! Movie Maker really is that bad, but hey it's free.) Anyway I have got some good footage of the boys and the film is coming together nicely. I have made several short daft pieces of the DVD extras and I must admit I am a big kid and got totally carried away with the jokey stuff. I gave Carol a sneak preview of them the other day and she really liked them, so that's good.
Both Ben and Harry have mastered the art of sofa scaling. They can climb onto the sofa in less than a second and fall off it face first just as fast. So when I have to leave the room I have to lay the upright cushions from the back of the sofa, flat on the seat cushions to make the front of the sofa too high for the boys to climb.
Occasionally they get up onto the sofa so fast I don't have time to 'put the barriers up':
