Bwog

So its 7.45am, Allan has just left for work and I am now home alone with a toddler and a 10 day old baby. I'm 22. Sometimes I forget that. In my head I'm still about 18 then I'm sat working out our finances and all of a sudden I'm 30!

I have no idea what we're going to do to pass the next 10 hours before Allan gets home but thankfully the sun is shining so the park is an attractive (free) option. Seth just came downstairs and said 'what doing Mummy?' I told him I'm writing a blog, he said 'bwog Mummy, fun!' I'm glad I have his approval!

I've wanted to write a blog for a while but kept making excuses like: not interesting enough, not enough time, don't know how! Well I'm learning as I go and I've been inspired by my AMAZING friend Melissa who manages to have seven million jobs, a 3 year old and a blog. And she even has time to exercise her little size zero butt!

I wish I was more like her. Super organised. My mum was like that too. At one point she had 3 boys (aged 3, 2 & 0) and she couldn't drive. Every night she would set up activities for the next day, she would have dinners prepared and frozen for th

e week and her house would still be immaculate. I am really organised when it comes to planning certain things but in general I just take my days one by one. I'm working on it though, one day I will be the perfect housewife and I'll change my name to Martha.

We took Seth and Jake to Colchester zoo on Friday, our first outing as a family of 4 - it was a little stressful as Seth kept seeing other children with food so then he wanted to eat too, he actually spotted some bananas in the bottom of someone's buggy and ran over to get one! He's very independent, he doesn't like holding hands and following - he's an explorer. I'm pretty sure he would have happily walked around the zoo on his own. His favourite bit (and mine!) was the Africa section, there were elephants, giraffes, zebras and rhinos all roaming around together. He loves animals so it was great for him to see just how big elephants really are.

My Dad and brother (Jonny) are going on safari to Africa tomorrow - I think we'll stick to the zoo as even that seemed too expensive! I know they'll have such a great time, my Dad has always wanted to do something like this. Mum wasn't up for sleeping in tents on top of landrovers though (I inherited her dislike of camping, bugs etc) so she's staying at home.

Anyway I could waffle about nothing all day but the house needs cleaning and Seth has brought me the remote and is saying 'Balamory Mummeeeee' on repeat so I best go. Hopefully I'll have something interesting to write about soon.....here are a few zoo pictures

Jacob was very interested...

This looks like Jake when he's just been fed + burped!

Must have been a male elephant, having a good old scratch on a handy rock! (Allan's photography)

More of Allan's photography....gross!

Seth and the penguins - they were cute, I think he would like one as a pet :)

Me, Seth and a few African animals