Samuel, Samuel, Samuel

At around 10.30pm we heard Samuel crying, Sunny went to the bedroom to check and I started to make a bottle, in case he was hungry. Sunny called out for me to come, I went into the bedroom with the light out so couldn't see what was wrong. Sunny was leaning over the cot trying to hold Samuel. Still too dark, I put my hands into the cot and could only feel his legs and couldn't find his head. I quickly turned on the light to see Samuel had split the material on the side wall of the cot and had his head and shoulders hanging out of the hole in the cot material. He was stuck and we had to lift him back into the cot backwards to get him out of the predicament.  After a short grizzle he was ok and came to bed with us, but not for long. We quickly understood why he had split the cot material, from his constant rolling and kicking. 

Oh well off to get the cloth tape to fix the cot now..

Madness in Milano

We went for an overnight trip to Milan on Saturday. That morning we left Cham, it was snowing heavily and traffic was slow. But after going throught he Gotthard tunnel the otherside was bright sunny and well, relatively warm. Thes pics are taken from our walk from the hotel to the Duomo. On the way we stopped at a local restaurant and they were really nice to us and we loved the food, we had spaghetti Vongole (with mussels and pippis) scampi risotto and a thin crust pizza with spinach and ricotta yummo.

The Duomo was spectacular and there were Baci promoters handing out  chocolates.  After the Duomo we walked up to the high fashio street Via Montnapoleon and checked out the Zegna, cartier and few other stores. That night I had booked  a baby sitter so Sunny and I could go out on a date. The hotel had lost the booking and there were no baby sitters, bummer. So we had a rather ordinary dinner in the hotel.The next day we drove back and stopped at Foxtown an outlet shopping mall inside the swiss border. Sunny and I had lots of fun in the ferragamo , Cerruti and Reebok stores. 

Birthday part 2 - sledding

How cool is it to have a first birthday party and step outside the back door and go sledding. Andrew and Samuel were waving their arms with delight as soon as we stepped outside. The snow had been falling ll morning and the sky had cleared long enough to give us a chance to jump on the sled and have some fun.

The next door neighbors saw us and got their sleds too and joined for a sledding party.  Andrew had a ride on the sled with young Angela....

Happy Birthday Boys!

The party started around 1pm with balloon chasing and bursting and then went to the sit down affair. Almost sit down,that is,  until Andrew saw the birthday cake and couldn't help himself to stand up in his high chair and take a handful of cake. The cake was yummy creamy sponge with strawberries inside and a marzipan top coat for the face (phil thought you might be interested to see the swiss cake decorating techniques!).

PS the boys were born in the chinese year of the mouse hence the mouse cake and the swarovski crystal mice!

After the party we took the boys sledding.....

Kung fu fighter takes first steps

Today is the 11th February, the eve of their twins first birthday. Sunny had a dress rehearsal for the birthday outfits today and the lads were quite excited with their new silky threads.

Samuel surprised us all with his first steps !