Happy St Patrick’s Day!
I tried to find a photo of something green but it has been above 36 degrees up here for the last few days (that is celcius people, not fahrenheit) so there isn’t many green things left that aren’t looking decidedly hot and wilty. So this will have to do…. the swing is green and it’s not like we really celebrate St Pat’s day anyway. It’s just an excuse to drink green beer and party isn’t it?
Besides I really like this photo. No. it’s not the world’s best photo, it’s not even a half way decent photo. It is blurry and the background is a tad drab, but it’s not the photo I like but what’s in it. Muski, in his swing. His swing, which once belonged to his sisters.
The Twinadoes got a swing each for their first birthday and they swung in theirs, hung in the same spot under the back veranda (though at a different house) and had the same grins on their faces.
Muski is not much like his sisters, not in looks or in mile stones. Muski has hair, all be it very blonde, the girls were born with dark dark hair but it all fell out and they were bald for a long time. He has my blue yes, they have their father’s three toned eyes. At 8 months, he is sitting, crawling, has four teeth (almost – please let that last huge top tooth crack through before I go mental) and gives lovely open mouthed sloppy kisses. At the same age the girls couldn’t sit, were not crawling and had no teeth. He still doesn’t sleep much, at 8 months (corrected age so almost 11 months actual age) we had the reflux beat and the girls were sleeping pretty well.
Despite Muski and the Twinadoes being so very different there is a common thread that runs through their lives… that ties them together. In this case it is a swing. A swing that they have all shared and loved, like so many other things they have all shared and loved. Not because we are into ‘hand me downs’ but because they are siblings.
Lovely post, Kate :)
Just noticed in the photo… Is that a plastic animal there with Muski in the swing? Does he make a total beeline for the animals when the girls have them out? I know my boy has his favourites he goes straight for when M tips the basket out. xx
This post just oozes love for your kids – beautifully written. I love it when you have the similar, shot similar age photos. I have one of my eldest son in a red and grey jumpsuit sitting up and then my only girl in the same outfit. I am probably the only one that can tell who is who!
I love those sort of ties :)
What a lovely photo – it bought a big smile to my face!
I love that photo and the happiness jumping out of it.
Will be interesting to see what resemblences come to the fore between Muski and the girls as time goes on.
It’s only now at 2 and 4 that I can really see some strong physical resemblences emerging between my 2 (despite everyone having an opinion on who looked like whom from the beginning!)
More Muski! More Muski! More Muski! I just want to eat him up.
Blog bling for you at my blog, Kate.
Just so you know – I have never drunk green beer or eaten any food deliberately changed to green in honour of St Patrick! In fact nearly all these St Patrick traditions I have never heard of – including being pinched for not wearing green and eating corned beef and cabbage!
Happy St Patricks Day (a day late) from N Ireland.
Such a gorgeous boy :D