My sweetest 3 year old

He has trained himself onto the toilet leaving the nappy ages behind, he has started pre-school in his nursery, it was about time to become 3 years old.
We organised a get together with Richard's cousins for that day as we haven't seen eachother for over a year. The only day which was suitable for almost all of us was 1st of August so we couldn't avoid to celebrate Robin's 3rd birthday as well, and Danny's from two weeks earlier.
Robin woke up up not really suspecting anything twaddling down the strairs (oh how much I love when he wakes up, his eyes are still narrow with dream in them, the pillow left marks on his soft face and arms, he is still warm from the duvet and smells so robinish), we sang him Happy birthday and of course Benji was too enthusiastic to wait to give him his present which he chose for him (a St George knight and some pet monster thingies)
He said thanks dutifully for all his presents and loved opening them. He was happiest for the wooden train set he got from Nicola (not knowing he will get a better one soon with battery powered trains which all boys played with for a bout 5 hours)
Then the day become really busy with 8 kids, 16 adults and 2 dogs slowly arriving after eachother, we had lots of food, lots of presents and lots of kids noise, and lot to talk :-)
The day went really quickly and we even fit a little walk around Middleton Hall the day after before Pete and Laura went home.
Party to be continued in Rosy's birhtday and Robin's birthday to be continued in Hungary soon. But first lets go to Croatia tomorrow and let the holiday begin!

My sweetest 5 years old

5 5 5 !!!
Such a short time and in the same time such a long time. He started school, he came out of his shell, he has learnt to read and write, has learnt what "forte", "moderato" means in music, has created friendships, has learnt to ride his bike without stabilisers, created an immaginary friend called "benlaker-from-america", all that and more in a year.
We had his party in Kingsbury waterpark again with the small train (same as his 3rd birthday), but this time invited his whole class thinking half of them surely won't make it. But almost all of them (except his "wife" Chloe and another girl) were there, filling the whole train. Tried to fulfill all of his wishes: angry birds plates, chocolate cake (he didn't care about shape just make it chocolate, so I made a triple choc brownie), loads of balloons, plenty of friends, tableful of presents.

He was so sweet as he blushed when we all sang Happy birthday for him when we brought the cake in. By the way his first sentence was when spotting the 5 candle: "But I am not even 5 yet!!" Trust him grassing his parents up organising a fake birthday party... :-)
So he was double lucky as his party was on a Sunday, we could double celebrate him on 15th of June, Monday again.
Plus Nana and Grandad and Katy-Zander-James-Danny came to our house on Sunday afternoon as well and he was celebrated at school too.

Lucky Mr....I wish my cleverest, most handsome first born a Happy happy 5th birthday! Comes without saying I love you loads and all the things which you expected to happen when you turn 5 will happen any minute, e.g. your arms will be much stronger now, your teeth will fall out all of a sudden, you will dress yourself all alone before going to bed, and you will be able to build a Lego car all alone...xxx

Easter and being in Hungary

I can not beleive I do not have time to come here and type all the things what happened at Easter and Hungary, the boys had fun, I really could relax this time, spend time with the boys in good weather, but also could enjoy time on my own and friends, go out to theatre, have a drink and chat too. Been to the Balaton as well without the kids and could enjoy a good chat with my friend. The boys also enjoyed the good weather, bycicled, playground, zoo, great-grandma's garden, puppet theatre...etc etc
I can't wait to upload all the pictures again, so the pictures on the hungarian site alreary:
http://www.benbandita.com/2015/04/husvet-es-otthonlet.html

He is just writing and writing

Writes, reads and counts, and of course talks and talks 24h a day (ok at night not all the time)

Benji had his 2nd parent evening at school, no worries with him, we found out that he likes counting, and can not tell that he is a summer child and a boy as he is at the same level as his peers.
Miss Rogers reassured us that he has friends, she knows that he doesn't like new situations and takes time to accustom himself but he definitely has friends.
No worry with him which is good. But I noticed at home that nowadays he really enjoys writing, and spelling. He gets upset though if I correct him how not to spell something.

Robin also started to realise that there is difference between english and hungarian. Last weekend the first time he translated something. I gave him some kind of finger food, but he looked at me and asked for "spoon", which sounded more like "poo", so I didnt understand what he wanted, so just told him "I don't understand, just eat it". He looked down, concentrated, then looked back up again and asked for "Kanál" (in hungarian). So proud of him, he is getting more and more clever too, and asks if Daddy says something what does Mami says, and keeps repeating.

We also had the class's Strawberry the dinosaur to look after the weekend and had to document what she has done with us. Good job we had the Easter disco to went to....plus Strawberry helped us win the 1st prize in the raffle.

If you leave your child alone...

...then all sort of things can happen.
He could empty the contents of your bag, which you let him to do, as he is playing so nice and quiet...until you hear the following sentence:
"Robin's leg hurts...putting plaster on it...mumy's nappy..."
Then you look up and see the following:

We have also been in Hungary, just the three of us for a quick visit for 5 nights, and I even had to work from the Budapest office (saving on holidays for the summer...), but still managed to relaxed a bit