Excitement at the Bevan's

Howdy Doo all,

As of late there has been much excitement in the  Bevan household, as most of you have already gathered Aidan can now officially be classified as a toddler as he started walking not so long ago! I'm pleased and slightly nervous to announce that he has mastered that in virtually no time at all, well that and walking BACKWARDS??

How is it that you have only been walking a month(walking properly for approx. 2 weeks) and you can walk BACKWARDS with ease?!? what did i miss here?

Anyways that isn't the only thing that has been keeping us busy and entertained, Aidan now plays round and round the garden with you, he circles your hand with his finger and does the one step, two step but waits for you to tickle him… sometimes he doesn't even wait to circle round your hand he just hops to the one step, two step, so he can be tickled… Funny little guy!

We are also getting into the whole soccer spirit with Aidan blowing his vuvuzela loud and proud, he really loves ANYTHING that makes a noise! typical boy! he is so cute because he cant make the proper sound like when we blow it so he purses the mouthpiece to his lips and  goes wooooooo woooooooo, and well there you have it a 16 month old playing a vuvuzela( gotta tell you i prefer when he plays it then when adults play it!)

Talking about soccer, Candice, Ryan, Andrew and i all went to the Durbs Fan Park on Saturday the 26th June for the Uruguay VS South Korea match, it was a total ball! we made a whole afternoon/evening of it, and the atmosphere was electrifying… not overly crowded, no drunken idiots running around and wait for it, no excessive vuvuzela noise (people reserved that for goals) which was such fun! Heck i even won a vuvuzela from the coke tent for doing a crazy corner goal dance, it was such an experience (well right up until i dropped my whole cup of cappuccino all over myself, with Candice and Ryan getting sprayed in the process…) i  mean yeah it was HOT but i didn't really notice my leg burning because i was too busy laughing at how stupid it all was, i don't even know how it happened, one minute the coffee was making its way to my mouth, and the next it was all over me… ha ha reminds me of the MiWay advert… ‘It just jumped in front of me!’ all this without our little angels- although we did miss them terribly, only to fetch the two kids and find that they were perfectly happy without us… must be the grandparent touch!

Anyway after such a good time we are so going to the Fan Park for the Finals!!!

 

i was also in a state of fantasmagorical excitedment as Aidan’s huggalugs were finally going to be arriving, for those of you who dont know me , lets just say i have excitement issues… i bounce, now when i say that i bounce, i REALLY BOUNCE when i get excited, strange- i know but what can i do? so with the huggalugs in the mail what else is there left for me to do , but get myself a free spoon for aidan  from Vital Baby( they are the same people that his sippy cup and straw cup are from, and they are fabulous, its a bendy one!

Huggalugs( basically Leg/arm warmers for babies and kids up to 6)

 

Vital Baby Spoon

 

And it bends…

Well time to sign off….

Damn It's Been Hectic

Wow so these last two weeks have been soooo crazy! It all started with a braai on Friday 28th, OK I must admit it wasn't too rowdy but still went on a little late(ish)

Then at 9am on Saturday Andrew Ramsden(had to give surname as there are 2 Andrews) and Mel came over and we all met up with Candice, Ryan and little Kyla- Lee in Hillcrest and made the trek up to Pietermaritzburg to hit the Royal Show, which was pretty cool because (my) Andrew had never been before and the rest of us hadn't been there in ages, of course all the guys got caught at the remote controlled gadgets stand and we had to practically drag them away, Never fear as they got their revenge when the 3 of us girls got to the scrapbooking and crafts section- some REALLY cool things!
later that day the kids were entertained on the merry- go- round however I don't think Aidan was so impressed( maybe the fact that these pony's weren't responding to his excited kicks and jerking on them, he even resorted to stroking its fibreglass mane) but this naughty pony didn't do what Aidan was hoping for...

As for Sunday we were up at bout 4ish to get ready to go to Kloof to watch the Comrades Marathon, don't think Aidan was too impressed by waking up so early and then going to sit in the dark in nippy cold Kloof, but that too turned into a fun day...

However I didn't think the word fun would crop up on Monday, as Aidan had his MMR vaccine at around midday, Andrew even took half day to be with us!
Well anyway vaccine time came and went with a little niggle and tiny temp but nothing too serious, and Aidan seemed his usual self, well that was until about half past seven that evening... when he just got up and walked... I think seeing all the runners the previous day inspired him to get up and go! go! go!
He has been none stop ever since even throwing a tantrum in the middle of Pavilion to get out of his stroller to walk!

He is also cut is 14th tooth(top canine) with only 6 to go!! Thank heavens!
Talking about teeth uncle Sean came over on Wednesday and fixed his 2 chipped front teeth and they have been perfect and beautiful ever since! Thank you uncle Sean!

Now to wait on more FUN!!
Chow for Now...

Aidan's First Steps