Sebi Soccer Skills

Sebastian has taken to saying "hello" to indicate he wants something. If you're serving up the next course at dinner, he stops eating his soup and starts saying "hello, hello" until he gets his pasta...

Roo at 2

Madonna and Child

The youngest with his mother. Eddie is now fulltime at school (2 weeks in) and coping well. Sebastian is charming, though still inclined to end his baths like the Who end their concerts.

Our local Playground

Eddie and two friends at our nearest playground. Last week, Sebastian made a break for it and escaped the playground through the gate, and got all the way to the street, where he was rescued by a suspicious mum. He has since made another dash for freedom.

Nanny, Nanny

Along with TV, our best hope of survival is Gemma, the boys' lovely nanny, who, appropriately, also works as a children's TV presenter. Gemma took over when Kathryn went to America at Easter time. The boys love Gemma, though Eddie has hardly forgotten Kathryn. He was telling Val last week that she was coming to London soon, and said the other day "I like Kathryn, normally she lives in London."

In May, a month or so after she'd left for Texas, Eddie had a disturbed night, and I went in to comfort him. He was worrying about Dinosaurs, and consoling himself that there weren't any dinosaurs in the house, just the plastic dinosaur. I said Mummy and Daddy would look after him. He said "Mummy and Daddy and Kathryn, actually".

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Our blog profile was missing not one, but two children. This tells you something about how fast time moves with kids. Here's all 5 of us.