Last updated on November 16th, 2023 at 05:41 pm
All over the place,
Your emotions running wild,
With smiles on your face,
But mischievousness in your style.
him
Buba, my sweet little boy where have you gone? In your loving place is this stubborn, difficult toddler at the moment. Everything is the opposite with you, if we want you to go right, you go left. Everything is, “I don’t like it” and “I don’t want to.” You are testing Mommy and Daddy, daily. We are not sure where it came from but you have lost your words and in their place is a whine, so high pitch and ear splitting that its a half cry and half tantrum constantly. The only thing that seems to keep you happy and calm is being outside. Where you have space to run around, be free, and get dirty. We are lucky the weather has been nice and you have been helping Mommy on her gardening. It’s a pleasure to have you outdoors with me, but as soon as we come in, you are back to whining. I wish I knew how to help you communicate your emotions better.
her
Missy Moo, is there ever a moment that something isn’t in your mouth? These days you will chew anything. I only hope I don’t catch you gnawing the side of the couch leg, again. Those four fangs I can see them peeping through, may them come quick and painless. Your hair has started to come in thick and fast. The verdict is still out whether you will be curly like Buba and Mommy or stick straight like Daddy but either way, it makes you look so much older now. Your personality is starting to shine through more and more each day. When Mommy or Daddy tell you no, you laugh at us making it harder to tell you off. You clever little girl. You are into everything now with your fast crawling. I think this time around Mommy and Daddy just might have to baby proof the house. I can’t believe you will be one year old next month. Time is flying by too fast.
Them
Together you are sat here watching Frozen and just by the look on your faces, I can see you both love it as much as Mommy. I don’t think either of you blinked for a good two minutes during “Let it go” song. As always you both have to be doing the same thing, at the same time, sat the same way with the same little disney cars in your hands. Like two little carbon copies of each other. Missy Moo you are starting to shout for your brother when he leaves the room to come back in your own bla, bla way. And Buba you are quick to come running back to your sister to satisfied her want for you. But as much as you both are inseparable still I can start to see it now. The little pushes back and forth and the “get out face” looks when one of you is too tired. Missy Moo you are starting to get your own back and those hands have caught your brother a time or two. I know this is only the beginning and natural but I hope you both remain close as ever even along this new want for your own space.
That first picture is just fantastic! Sounds like the terrible twos have hit, I hope they pass fast! x
Yes there certainly have. It full force out of no matter. Let’s hope since he is almost three they won’t last long. AAHHHH
Oh, your kids are adorable. Thanks for stopping by my blog and taking the time to comment.
Yes of course, you have a lovely blog. Thanks goes right back to you hun. lol The kids are fun but I am sure the fights will start soon over toys etc. hahaha
Beautiful shots…. love the first one with the messy hands! My little one is obsessed with frozen!
I think we all secretly are obsessed. lol He loves being outdoors and messy!
Lovely pics ! Love the messy hands as nothing better than messy play 🙂 Moo is so cute 🙂 xx
Thank you so much. Yes he indeed loved his own messy hands too. So proud.
Gorgeous pics of your littlies. Definitely sounds like the terrible two’s, we have flashes of them and then little man goes back to normal. Yesterday he shouted at me in the car because, and I quote. “Mummy, I not like you singing!” 🙁
Oh no! Ya been there too. Its the same here the monster toddler isn’t out all the time yet and hopefully never will be but it shows its face a little too often lately for my liking. I got the whole get away mommy I am doing my puzzle. and get out of my bed I go to sleep you go downstairs at bedtime. Boo Not a baby anymore at all. hahahah
Gorgeous pictures I particularly love the one of bubba! X
Thank you. Buba was having so much fun helping Mommy and Daddy do our garden up. He really is the get your hands dirty and be happy outdoors boy.
Oh, Frozen is a huge hit here, too! It’s tough when your sweet little baby hits the toddler years and become stubborn, but he’ll come out the other end! Gorgeous photos x
Thanks Jocelyn. I stupidly thought I would never see it as he is almost three. Skipped the terrible twos and hit the testy threes I suppose. Eek
lovely photos! I especailly love the first one. Frozen don’t we all love frozen, I can’t stop singing the songs around the house and in the car,lol! It’s so sweet he looks out for her xx
I know I have never know a disney movie to be such a hit and the music is amazing. I haven’t stop seeing everyone loving it up all over the social media networks. It’s great. One for the whole family for sure.
Ahh, the whining-my son is an expert in that as well. The sibling relationship is wonderful, but it can test you too when the bickering is at it’s height. Lovely photo’s of your two.
I can imagine as I used to do it with my brothers and sister all the time and my mother used to go mental. So funny now looking back knowing it’s coming my way for revenge!!!
What a lovely post Jenny! Outside is the only answer for us most of the time too – my three boys are just plain happier when they’re running free! SO cute that your little angels are so in tune with each other and want to be near each other. Beautiful pictures. MASSIVE congrats again on making the shortlist – you must be SO chuffed to be up for MADs and BIBs! Very well deserved, you deserve to go far. Sorry I didn’t link up last week – was going tweet-crazy with the shortlist announcement! Best of luck honey! xxx
Don’t worry I am here so link up any time. It’s always open all week so don’t ever feel if you miss a Wednesday you can’t link up during the weekend. Thank you so much on the congrats. I still can’t believe it with the mads and the bibs. So nervous but grateful to have got this far. It’s been a great six months of blogging I am in heaven at the minute with it all. Yes my son is alot happier too outdoors Missy Moo not so much She prefers inside and cuddling but she is still young. There is time yet. hahaha
So lovely, toddler whining so normal and it lasts a long time, my 4 year old whines a lot. As long as he’s busy though baking, drawing, playing outside, he’s happy, it’s just hard to keep them constantly stimulated and they need to learn to entertain themselves too so I let him whine a little! Beautiful photos #sharewithe
Definitely here too. I let the whining go as far as I can take it as I think they need to learn to entertain themselves and to sort whatever they are whining about out themselves too. Thanks Vicky. You are too sweet. Thanks for linking up! Honor to have you on Share With Me
Oh bless them Jenny! So sweet, and getting so alike aren’t they? Oh the dreaded toddler years! I’ve now done it three times poppet, and promise you it will get better – with Noah and Annie I honestly thought someone had replaced my child with someone else’s in the dead of night – Awful!! You love them, but it can be hard to like them some days! Loved this post, as always chicky xxx
Yes that’s exactly it. One day is was my angel and at almost three I thought I am getting away with this nope green eyed monster showed up overnight. AHHH save me. lol
What beautiful pictures Jenny, your two are just gorgeous! I do remember that frustrating time of my kiddies not being able to talk properly so the whining/tantrums are swapped for speech. Frustrating for him and you, I imagine. Hang in there, it will get better I promise. Thank goodness it’s the summer eh?! Thank you for hosting #sharewithme
Thank you so much Suzanne. Glad I am not alone. I do hope it won’t last long. hahah Although everyone keeps telling me it could be years. Good thing I have blonde hair to hide the grey!!! Thanks for joining in.
Awww such a sweet post I think frozen had everyone mesmerising ! Thanks for hosting the link up it my first time around here looking forward to being a regular ! 🙂
Fantastic and welcome!!!!! Always great to meet another blogger! I look forward to your posts and hope you enjoy it here!!!
What a lovely post, and gorgeous photos. I am going through the difficult stage with my monkey, too. One minute he’s an angel and then the next, a terrible little monster. It’s hard to keep my patience at times, when I am so exhausted. Is it right to be this tired all the time? Hats off to you Jenny, as you have two. I’m putting it off for another year 🙂 Thank you for hosting xx
Yes I know what you mean angel and devil at the same time! Cant get over it. I feel I have no patience left at the moment!!! Thanks for linking up! Look forward to your post.
both your children are adorable Jenny, my son is going through the whining stage its horrible but it will pass soon, I love the way you write you really deserve to be up the awards sending you lots of luck for both xx #sharewithme
Oh my goodness you really just made my day. thank you ever so much. I still can’t believe it on the awards. Thanks for the luck I will still need it being so new. Just honored to get this far in both mads and bibs. Thanks fro the children compliment too. They are cute but double trouble at the minute. hahaha Whiny all the way here with my tot.
What a great post, recording their little milestones individually, then together. Don’t worry about your lovely Bubba turned grumpy; they all go through that phase and then all of a sudden, they are happy again! (Sorry to break it like that but it can take months…. years?) I love the reference to Missy Moo teething on your sofa leg. That’s different! x Mel
I hope you are right and it doesn’t last long. Not much patience left. lol From the moment she could roll over she would chew the couch legs. so funny.
Urgh- I hate that whiny noise- make it stop!! Fingers crossed for lots of good weather this summer and, by the time the autumn comes the phase will have passed. x
I hope you are right. The whiny noise makes my skin crawl. lol hahaha Well we are in american all of july and august seeing my family it will be nice and hot so lots of outdoor playing hopefully that will help.
Beautiful! Gorgeous watching siblings grow together xx
Yes it really is. I am so glad I have two. It’s amazing to see them together and show love for each other so much.
Beautiful children and another beautiful post! Love that they are watching Frozen together Zx
hahaha Thanks Zena. We are definitely a Frozen family. lol Totally obsessed.
Awww jenny there both sooo adorable!… Im dreading going through the terrible twos again :/ lol #ShareWithMe
Me too as I am in full swing of it it looks like and I still have Missy Moo right behind him. Although he has gone to almost three without it I guess I should feel lucky.
Gorgeous photos – they look so alike! #sharewithme
Thank you Sophie. YOu should see baby photos of Buba he looks identical to Missy Moo now. So weird I have to check dates on bath photos sometimes can’t tell them apart.
I love the ‘them’ section – absolutely beautiful x #sharewithme
Ahh thanks sweetie. I love doing him and her but them is so very important too.
Grace says – this is really lovely. I felt a bit sisterly towards Lucas over the weekend……. and we wrestled a bit like brother and sister too!!! #sharewithme
Thats awesome. Always great to have a close friend that’s more like family growing up together and having fun family trips like this together.
Oh Jenny, its so lovely that you capture these moments with your ‘living arrows’ post. I wish i had the time to do something similar. Your pictures are beautiful & your emotions really come across. Bear also has been testing us lately, lots of head shaking, stroppy-ness, & like bubba he’s only happy outdoors, ‘kicking the ball’. I can’t keep up!! Great post as always xx
Thank you Katrina. You are so sweet. yes outdoors is better and we need to get out there more. I am bad as I have had too much to do to get out there like we normally do. He needs to run off the steam. lol
Beautiful pics and post, made me smile. They both have gorgeous eyes! Like their mummy 🙂 #sharewithme
Ahh Sian thank you so much you are too sweet. I love the living arrows project each week. Forces me to capture the individual side of each of them and them together as siblings.
What lovely photos. Nancy is currently screaming high pitched, so high it feels like my ears are splitting! So much is going in their minds, I am sure the communication will get there. So lovely to see the rapport and relationship two siblings have. Beautiful x
Thank you Emily. Yes I love this photo project I do each week. Capturing them individually and together. I know what you mean that noise kills me. My buba is great at it too just when I can’t take it anymore and I snap. oops bad mommy moment. lol
Congratulations on being shortlisted! That’s a lovely photograph of the two of them 🙂 All I can say is, you’re going to be very busy with a curious baby and a testing toddler! Actually, letting them, play outside as much as possible is the best thing to do.
You are so right and with not a huge age cap Missy Moo will hit terrible twos while Buba is still whiny and trying to learn to communicate at three! lol Good thing I have two hands. Outside is always best run that steam off.
Gorgeous pictures. Toddler times can be tricky, yet so wonderful at the same time. Siblings together can be so heart melting, we need to cherish every moment.
That’s why I try to do this weekly photo project of him, her, and them. To capture them together and individually. As I know they are testing me but I want to also remember these amazing moments together too. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Lovely photos Jenny! xx
Ahh Thanks hun. They are getting hard to capture together. These little rascals.
aww they are both such cuties, even if they drive you mad sometimes, in different ways! the whining is a sound that drives me bonkers, thankfully Monkey is still in that sweet little boy stage, I am really hoping he doesn’t flip the switch any time soon! Love the pic at the end of them watching frozen, fab film! xx #sharewithme
Yes me too. It’s the one thing I can’t be patient with and talk them round. It goes right through me the moment I hear it. He has been so easy and loving up until now and it’s like this monster exploded in our house. I hope its just a phase that is gone ASAP!!! lol Miss my sweet boy.
Gorgeous photos. So beautiful. Good luck with those terrible twos. Lucky they are so sweet right? 😉 #sharewithme
Yes so true. Terrible two if that’s what it is its not long until he is 3. Roll on and be done with this pronto I hope. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
It’s a great idea to record how your children are developing and also how the relationship between the siblings is evolving. It will be interesting to look back at this when they are older.
Thanks Nicola. Yes I want to make a Living Arrows book for them at the end of each year and then they will have them individually and together through out their lives growing up together. I love this photo project.
How lovely, i recently watched Frozen and loved it must buy the dvd for the Kids (not me at all!!) my daughter is saying I dont like it alot, im sure she doesnt even know what it means.must be noce them both growing up close in age always someone to play with
Yes I always wanted my kids close in age. To have the partner in crime. lol Oh no well it took Buba a few times watching it and now he asks for it. Keep playing it in the background. hahahaha
I love that first photo, such a perfect childhood picture 🙂 My little girl entered the terrible two’s at about 18mos (!) but I can assure you that it does get better, they will still have their moments, but it gets a lot easier x Loveky post Jenny x
Thanks Sara. I hope so. He is almost three so I guess and hoping I missed the most of terrible twos!!! lol
They look soooo cute together and Missy Moo has your eyes, I only just noticed!! My z is 3 now and there are days he’ll still whine and ask to be carried everywhere. I wonder if this will just last all the way into teens now, uh oh. He does have his cute funny moments though 😉
Lewis is just the same. Being outside is the only way to really keep him content, but I guess it is better than being addicted to tv. How lovely to see them interact so well together. All siblings have some rivalry, it’s part of growing up! A beautiful little family x
its so weird that kids change so much and show more character when toddlers
I know I agree. It’s funny how their personalities start to show up and when they really start having conversations is the best time. So innocent and blunt. I love it.
Oh such cute photos. Love the Missy Moo always wants to copy her brother. (Don’t worry, the whining will stop – eventually – although ours started at 3, so Buba’s started early)
No Buba is almost three so that sounds about right. lol Hope it doesn’t go too long. Thanks the kids are getting hard to photograph without them moving too quick and running away or plain covering their faces up. lol
Lovely pictures hun. We are having the difficult stage already and Baby is only 13 months old! He will be back to being your sweet boy before you know it xx
Lovely, I hope the whining phase passes quickly, my 4 year old is doing it a lot at the moment and it is rather testing isn’t it. It is great that your children are so close, mina are too, it is lovely to see them happily playing together and knowing they will hopefully be friends forever #sharewithme
Yes I agree I always wanted my kids close for that reason as I have a ton of siblings but huge age gaps between us and always wanted to have a sibling closer to me. Yes it’s very testing isn’t it? I can’t deal with whining it’s like just say what you want don’t whine it!