Last updated on August 6th, 2024 at 12:48 pm
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Buba you are full of energy lately, more than ever. You are an explorer. You are a runner. You love sports. There isn’t a moment during the day that you aren’t trying to do something fun and creative even if it exhausts me sometimes. You are talking more than ever now. I love to sit at the table while we eat our lunch and have full conversations with you about your friends, your favorite toys, and the things you want to do after your nap time. I like to let you make decisions now, asking what you prefer or would like? It makes you feel like such a grown up and I love the pleasing look you give me when you made a decision and I have honored it. You still have your moments of not listening, which really frustrates me. I try to stay calm and explain things to you but with your non-stop energy also comes your hyper not listening skills. I don’t like to shout but it happens and I hate the look you give me after I have shouted but I know discipline is a must and gives you boundaries that you need. I hope one day you will understand that because I love you so very much.
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Missy Moo you are one year old now and they say it’s just another day that you don’t change over night but it seems you have. You have changed so much. Your looks have changed, you have more hair. Your voice has changed, into a little girl’s voice and no longer a baby cooing. You are sturdier, you stand strong and walk along things. You are more assertive. You know what you want and shout for it, letting your feeling be known to us all. I can’t believe how fast the last year has gone and how much you have grown into a little tot, my baby no more. That’s the beauty of life, growing up! You will always be my baby as will your brother too, for eternity, and that’s the beauty of motherhood. I love you so very much!
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These are two of my favorite photos of you both, this month. You play so well together both watching out for the other. You are healthily competitive and I love that. Both racing down the slide or up it which ever you both prefer, if one does it and the other will follow. You watch each other and learn from each other. I could not ask for more! There are still the sibling shouting and pushing that goes along with the territory but overall I never imagined you would both love each other so very much. It’s a blessing and honor to watch. The giggles and laughter that come from you both as you play outdoors together is priceless. Even when Buba, you push your sister down and she cries, she is crying out for you, reaching back up for you to be nice and play with her. Missy Moo you don’t go without fault, you pull on your brother and steal his toys when you think he isn’t watching you. You torment him just the same as siblings do and he may shout at you but then wants to sit right back down next to you. It’s a ongoing circle between you two but the love is always there.
You are lucky that they play so well together (mostly!) A sibling relationship is very special…
Thank you Clare. Yes I think so too!
Aww they do look like they’re having a blast together – such gorgeous little sweethearts!
Thank you so much Carie!!! You are so sweet! I loved this weeks photos of them!!!
Aaahhh they are just sooo cute, love that they play so well too 🙂 x
Thank you so much. Yes I am so lucky. May it long continue
This is beautiful lovely!!! A really nice way to capture them as individuals and together! Xx
Thank you. I am planning on at the end of the year making a book of all my Living Arrows posts from every monday all year, for each child, so they have a record of them individually and together. For them to look back on and read and cherish too!
Aw Jenny, I love these posts – they are growing so fast and have such an axing bond x
Aww Jenny, this is such a beautiful, simple post. & those pictures!! Such photogenic children. So sweet to see them playing well together too. xx
such lovely pictures hope you are all enjoying your holiday 🙂
Beautiful words to accompany beautiful images. Does your son have what I call ‘selective hearing?’ Where if he doesn’t like what’s been said, he simply ignores it? Mine does, and has it down to a fine art!
Such lovely pictures, I especially love the last one as it looks like they are up to mischief x
What a lovely post with some amazing photos of them both. It looks like they are great together (most of the time!). What a wonderful time they seem to be having on that slide!x
These pictures are lovely. Your writing is gorgeous too. So true that they will always be our babies. When H turned one I was so emotional, was sad to say goodbye to the official baby days. Lovely smiling bubbas as usual x
Aww lovely post about your gorgeous 2! So lovely and they obviously love each other very much which is lovely to see 🙂 xx
They’re so gorgeous. Love the way they’re always so close and playing together…look forward to the competitiveness when they’re older. My brother and I were terrible and still are in a way!
Beautiful post. My two have a similar bond and there is just something so special about siblings and the way you, as a parent, get to watch their relationship form. It gives me such a warm feeling when I watch them play together.
They are both adorable and you can see how much they care for each other. Hope your having a lovely time x
We are having a great time thank you. My instagram feed is filling up with American adventurous already. Loving it. They are loving it too! Its great too show them where I lived and grew up.
Beautiful post and beautiful photos – your little ones look so happy together 🙂
Thank you Louise. They are so much fun together.
Beautiful post and gorgeous photos! It’s great they get on so well together, they sound just fab, you must be so proud 🙂
They are so much fun, I know I always say it but so glad I had them close together in age. It’s almost like having twins growing up together and having a play mate all the time. To love and be competitive with too!
I’m relieves to hear that they’re not completely perfect! Gorgeous photographs – healthy sibling rivalry is a good thing (or so I tell myself!) x
Yes rivalry is a great thing. They are healthy competitive and I love watching them be loving and competitive together. It’s all part of growing up. Life isn’t a perfect fairtytale and I want them to know that too.
It is lovely to watch sibling relationships grow and develop. A bit of healthy competition is good and natural.
I agree, I had healthy competition with my siblings too. Part of growing up together and having fun in the process. So fun to watch my two now doing the same.
The GL Gang say – It looks like they’re having a right laugh together. Good to see them getting on so well. #sharewithme
They are great friends, ones that love and also torment each other all the same. True sibling love relationship.
Awesome photos and they look so happy together. #sharewithme
Thank you!!! They are so much fun at the moment together. Their little personalities are forming and shining bright even their tantrums together. LOL
What a lovely post! My two are now nearly 5 and 7 and I can’t believe where the time has gone. With their birthdays coming up this month I have a slight feeling of sadness at them getting older, but at the same time delight in seeing them grow and develop into wonderful children.
Thanks hunny. I am the same. It’s almost like a pull between not wanting them to grow up and excited to see what the future holds. Life really does go too fast.
They really look like the best of friends, bless them! So sweet that you are noticing a change in Missy Moo’s voice and intonation. Buba being full of energy is fab. He might end up being really athletic. X Mel
Oh Jenny I have tears in my eyes. Such a lovely post xx
Thank you. They are so fun together. Lol I love the living arrows portrait project each week.
Here’s hoping their relationship as siblings goes from strength to strength, They look so happy together.
Oh I really do hope so. But I know how siblings work so I am prepared for any of it. Lol
Such beautiful photos and words Jenny. Your love for your little ones totally shines through 🙂
Thanks Hun. Love the living arrows portrait project to document them each week and how they grow.
This is such a lovely thing to have documented. I’m loving seeing how my two are growing as siblings #sharewithme
Thank you Rebecca me too. I love doing the photo project each week to capture how they have changed at this age it really is every week something new.
This is such a heart warming post. I hope you are going to show them all this when they are grown. It is such a great way to show how much you loved them each step of the way!
Thank you. Yes I am making it into a book at the end of each year for them. I do it every Monday. Love the portrait project.