Our 2 Sprogs Blog: Monday, Tea crisis & Cupcakes!...

Just another Monday really, the day I catch up on things left undone through the weekend, this time around it wasn't actually that bad. I managed to even brush my hair and put on some perfume before the kids got up, wow, yes, wow indeed.
Haley has been great all day, watching Caillou, singing, dancing and spinning in circles. Bumping into me (deliberately) just to say "Ooh, sowwy" Even after the thousandth time, it was still cute.
That was pretty much our morning, I get her dressed, do her hair (a trip to the salon is definitely well overdue) give her a Banana and some juice and then I get little man changed, dressed and fed. It's all very routine.

I simply can't start my day without my cup of tea, every morning, without fail, until today. I walk into my kitchen, fill the kettle, "click" on it goes, grab my cup which very fittingly says "She who must be obeyed" LOL. add some sugar (okay, a lot of sugar) go to add my Tetley teabag and DUN DUN DUN! There isn't any! "Don't panic" I say to myself, I look in the tea cabinet (Yes, I have a cabinet designated for tea, let it go!) but to my horror, no reserves! OH.MY.GOD.
How can I start my day without tea? I'll have to settle for........ I struggle to even type it.....APPLE JUICE! Not a good start. Anyway.

Haley had a doctors appointment at 2:30pm, it went so well and I am so relieved, to understand this I'll have to fill you in on what you've missed.
The last couple of doctor visits have shown Haley's head circumference growing very quickly, a good thing to most but her doctor was worried that at the fast rate it was growing in such a small amount of time may be an indicator of some fluid on the brain or maybe a mass (instant panic right?) well no, they said they would wait a month and measure her again to see if maybe an error had been made one of the previous times she had been measured, maybe she just had a growth spurt etc etc. Anyway her doctor told me to watch out for certain things that would raise a red flag, nothing so far.
Today we went back in and she was measured again, she is at the same as she was at her last measurement so that is fantastic! I asked her doctor on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being ultimate panic, sit in the corner of a room rocking back and forth kind of panic, what was she at when it comes to this issue, she said 1. All clear, yay!.
Obviously I'm keeping my eye out for those signs but now I can breath again.

Haley playing with the toys at the doctors office.

So here comes Tuesday, a nice, relaxing day at home with the littles. Not much to tell really, Haley loves to throw her tantrums when I tell her no, She throws herself on the floor and kicks her head backwards until it makes contact, sounds terrible and I immediately feel bad for saying no to whatever silly thing she wanted so bad she was willing to almost give herself a concussion to get.

Other than that she is really coming along, she can count to 10, obviously she doesn't get what it actually is but it's a start. She sings along to her favorite cartoons and she even has started say "icky" when something is, well, icky. Every day she surprises me.

Onto my mega mini man, he is growing like a weed! Still in newborn clothes but filling out a little more I think, people that see him still say he is tiny, they didn't see him right when he was born, to me, he look chunky now! He smiles a lot, I know the whole smiling thing is supposed to be because they have gas but let me ask you. Do you smile when you have gas? I know I don't, so I'm going to believe he is smiling because I'm making eye contact with him and tickling his feet, not because he has a doozy of a toot to get out. So there.

So this afternoon I got the idea to make some cupcakes, I tried a new recipe (why don't I just stick to my own recipe? I say this every time, even hubby prefers my cupcakes, ugh) and they came out rather well, the frosting was also home made and I added a little blue food coloring so it wasn't boring, added some clear sprinkles and voila! I couldn't eat too many but Haley sure got stuck in, I only let her have the one but she went to town on it! Now I have the baking bug, what will be next?! I'm thinking of what to make for Halloween, I know Haley still won't really understand it but I want to make a bigger deal out of it this year, I see Pinterest in my future LOL.