Owner: My Wife And Twins URL:http://mywifeandtwins.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:53:14 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: am the only man in a house of 3 females and this blog is here to tell my story….
My Name Is Michael, I am 32 years old and I work in IT for a living. I am a geek at heart and I love gadgets and gizmos.
I am married to Emma and have been for 10 year Site statistics:Click here
Having Teeth Sucks! 2008-03-21 06:48:05 Three weeks, that’s right, three weeks of peaceful nights of unbroken sleep. We had just started to forget about all of the sleepless nights that we had prior to these wondrous weeks. As I sit here typing this with only a few hours sleep to my name from the previous night. All of those nights come flooding back.Why are human beings not born with all their teeth? Now I'm sure that there is a scientific explanation for it but I don’t care. It’s a rubbish design floor. We come into this world, toothless and gummy and over the next 2 years we suffer as these pointy, bony things slowly force there way through our gums. I don’t remember this process from when I was a baby but I do remember when I was 14 or 15 when my wisdom teeth decided to come through and that was hell. Both Amy and L Read more:Having
The Ingredients To A Successful Birthday Party 2008-03-26 07:10:33 Preparations have been going on for a couple of months in the form of lists. But with less than a week to go until Lilly and Amy’s second birthday, nearly everything is in place for a memorable party. As always, Emma is the project manager in these affairs. I take the orders and get the jobs done that need to be completed. This is how it should be, I find that things go a lot smoother and I get a lot less stressed.So, we are going for the birthday and party on the same day, as their birthday is on a Sunday, we though it would be a good idea. I class myself as a semi people person in that I will make the effort to interact with people that I don’t know that well but I can honestly say I feel quite nervous about this one. Granted, it was my idea to invite loads of people but I seldom thi Read more:Ingredients
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Just A Reminder 2008-03-25 16:05:58 This is the last couple of days for you to email me on the Calling All Parents thing that I have been running. I have got some good quotes from you out there but more will be welcomed. I will post the results on Friday. Thanks. Read more:Reminder
Our Easter In Pictures 2008-03-24 05:32:33 We took them out in the garden for their first adventure in the snow There was a snowman, it was very small They both sampled the local delicacyThey had their first Easter
eggsSurprise, Surprise, they both liked the chocolate!And as always, there was much playing! But they slept well in the end (Thank goodness)! Read more:Pictures
Your One Sentence Answers 2008-03-28 04:50:17 As part of the pre birthday run up, I asked you to email me an answer to this question.“If you had to summarise your experience of being a parent so far into one sentence, what would it be”Thanks to everyone that emailed me and commented with your answers. There are some funny, sensible and inspiring ones.Everyone who answered my call have great blogs themselves so please take time to visit them as well.So here you are I started :)Name: MichaelBlog Name: My Wife And Twins "It’s been emotional, it’s been a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs, cries and laughs, it has made me grow up and be the man I am now, I love being a husband and a parent."Name: RuthieBlog Name(s): My Mama Drama and Got Multiples?"My experience of being a parent has been and continues to be very rewarding, and h Read more:Sentence
Lilly & Amy’s Second Birthday In Pictures 2008-04-02 03:23:57 In The Morning - Behold the pink plastic. I set out the outside play stuff ready for them to play - It was all a big hit.Back inside and we opened and tried out all the presents. I, I mean we built a tower out of all the blocks. It was taller than Amy. They had their card read out on CBEEBIES that Emma sent in The Cakes - Emma slaved over a hot stove to cook these birthday creations The Party (I only had a couple of beers) – They Got Lots Of CardsThere was face Painting – Thanks Tara Amy Lilly
Max (Nephew) Alice (Friends daughter, thanks for coming Helen)We got the girls in from outside long enough to sing happy birthday - Emma was quite emotionalWhen it was time to go inside, Lilly has a total melt down for about an hour but they both slept straight away at bed time (phew again).A grea Read more:Second
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Two Contrasting Days – Part One 2008-04-04 03:10:19 Monday – One Of The Worst Days EverI had 2 days off this week. The day started out okay as the routine goes. We got the girls dressed without much drama and went down stairs. Emma had a bath while we all had cheerios for breakfast. This is where things went down hill a bit.The introduction of cereal and milk was a good idea at the time but now Lilly refused to eat many of the rings and just wants the sweet milk but she can’t quite get the hang of the getting the milk to the mouth with her spoon without spilling it so she gets mad. So I start feeding her the milk to keep her happy while stuffing rings into Amy’s mouth to keep her eating. Then Lilly throws a complete stress because I accidentally get 1 lousy ring on her spoon. That’s it, no more cheerios today. I give them yoghurt wi
Two Contrasting Days – Part Two 2008-04-07 03:14:48 Tuesday – One Of The Best Days EverI woke up, had a shower and made my way down stairs. Emma has done the milk this morning so that was a bonus. Amy and Lilly were just finishing off their breakfast. Coco pops. As I came down to the bottom of the stairs I could hear them both saying “daddy’s coming”. Things like that give me a happy glow. As they both saw me, I was presented with a pair of chocolate smiles. I helped them finish of the rest of their cereal. They both ate the lot and they finished their yoghurts off with very little mess. We went into the lounge to play.We played with the microphone that we got them for their birthday and we sat and built things with their blocks. We all shared the blocks and there was no arguing. We all read for a while and then sat on the couch and Read more:Part Two
Me Me Me 2008-04-09 01:49:04 So what’s this post about I hear you cry. Well I'm bored, no wonderful ideas leap into my head at this point so I will take a quick break away from my wife (who is in the bath) and children (who I can here snoring on the monitor as I type) to give you 10 things you never really wanted to know about ME.1. I am about 60% Geek. Emma would say more 80% but I know my place in the geek world. Computers and me seemed to fit at an early age. On a daily basis, I hear words like stored procedures, binary compatibility, public keys, private keys, virtual machines and so on. To keep my geekness down, when I get home I don’t talk about my day in detail as when I do Emma has that glazed look about her and Amy & Lilly just wouldn’t want to know.2. I hated school as a child
The Art Of Bribery 2008-04-11 01:50:51 My wife Emma gave the idea for this one. She tells me all of the little things that the girls throughout the day. What they did to make her laugh, small accomplishments and of course the terrible two’s driven tantrums. When I said that I was stuck for something to write as my poor brain is all clogged up with work type things and an unhealthy dose of the man flu. She said why don’t you talk about me bribing them to get them to do stuff? Excellent idea!As Lilly and Amy are becoming more aware, we as adults can start having conversations that they can, for the most part, understand. Now that we have a dialog open, we can start making deals with them. Well when I say deals I mean bribes really because they learn if they do things that they don’t really want to do then they get som
Favouritism 2008-04-16 01:26:39 I love my children equally as every good dad should (even if one has been a total nightmare and made your day a living hell). One would think that if you love your children the same way, your child would love both parents the same. But this is grownup logic and not toddler logic.For the last few months I have had a fan and that is Amy. She would greet me with a smile when ever she saw me and generally hang around like a groupie. Now Lilly would do the same but she didn’t care if mummy would take her to bed or read to her. Amy on the other hand would throw a fit and say “daddy do it”, “daddy do it” until she got her own way. It’s good to be wanted I guess unless you can’t leave the room without where you are going and when you coming back. Emma was getting a little upset
Toddler Mess 2008-04-21 02:42:03 BeforeIf I had a pound or even a dollar for every piece of plastic block, small figure or cute stuffed animal that I pick up in a day, I would have a few thousand. If my wife was also given the same amount of money, I could retire right now. A bold fact I here you say. One thought that is probably ringing true for every parent of a small child reading this right now.I shouldn’t be surprised that my lovely children have inherited the messy gene. I myself had it for a long time. The only way I was semi cured from it was constant nagging and complaining and still now I slip from my ways from time to time but a swift hand of marital justice does the trick.Amy and Lilly are too young to understand about being tidy. They will in time become educated in the ways of tidiness. Put one toy away be
Toddler Destruction 2008-04-23 02:06:29 Most of us know that if a toddler get hold of something they shouldn’t they will undoubtedly destroy it given enough time to do so. The concept of a pop up book to a two year old is not wow, look how the pages of this book come to life in a 3D style. It’s I wonder if the book will look better with all the pop up parts scattered throughout the lounge. I have given up the amount of times I have put the pink plastic door back on the pink plastic school bus.The story that follows sums up the ability of toddlers to break anything including my house.My sister got Lilly and Amy a small child size rocking horse for their first birthday. They didn’t really use it much until about six months later when they could actually get on it and rock around. One day I noticed a small rocking horse handl Read more:Destruction
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