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I can’t quite believe we’re here.  The last Living Arrows post of the year.

And it’s a festive one from me.

On Christmas eve we dug out the stockings to put them out for Santa, along with a plate of goodies for him.  And in the bag we also found this hat, which Nerys then wore while we got everything ready.

And I feel like I can’t have the last Living Arrows post of the year be just about Nerys, so we’ve also got these photos of the two of them together on Christmas day.

Well, it’s tradition isn’t it?  To have the children pose in front of the tree!

I am so pleased that I’ve stuck with this project this year.  I’m really looking forward to putting all the photos together and seeing how much my two have changed over the last year!

This is definitely a project I’ll be doing again in 2017.

I can’t quite believe that I’ve made it to week 50 of the Living Arrows project!  I’m quite proud about it to be honest.

And I’ve really enjoyed having this reason to take photos of my children every week.  Not that I really need a reason, but still.

This week was another pretty quiet one with us, with the wet weather and dark afternoons we didn’t really get out and about much.  Well, we did have the school Christmas fair and Rhys’ Christmas concert, but I didn’t take any photos there.

So my Living Arrows photo for this week is of one of those quiet moments at home.  Rhys and Nerys sitting together, playing nicely with their play dough.

I couldn’t help it, I just had to grab the camera and get a few photos when I saw nice they were being with each other!

Look at Nerys’ arm around his shoulders!

They might mess around and wind each other up, but they really do love each other so much.

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”

After struggling a bit to find a photo for last week’s Living Arrows post, I was determined to get out with my family and my camera at least once this week to get some good shots to chose from!

And on Saturday morning we all headed out to Brynmill park for a blast of fresh air and a run around.  Rhys and Steve went on a mission to hunt down some Pokemon, while Nerys and I walked round to the playpark.

She had a great time on the swings and the slides, and even braved the fireman’s pole, although she’s not quite mastered the technique for that yet!

When it was time to head home we all met up again, and I tried to get some photos of Rhys.  But, Nerys was feeling cheeky and kept jumping in front of him.  So I got several photos like this.  Look at that little glint in her eye.  And the look on her long-suffering brother’s face behind her.  He’s so patient with her at times, it’s unreal!

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”

I went to put together today’s living arrows post, and realised that I’ve not really taken many photos of the children in the last week.

We’ve not really been out anywhere, with all of us feeling a bit under the weather and generally a bit lacking in energy.

So this week’s photo is from bedtime last night.  After taking my standard headshot of Rhys and Nerys (I try and take one most days, it’s an on-going project), Rhys asked if I could take a few more of him.  And he gave me this.

I do love me a nice shallow depth of field!  I love the effect of just getting a glimpse of his expression, with the focus on the random hand gestures he was doing for me.

Hopefully we’ll be out and about a bit more next week and I’ll have a nice selection of photos to chose from.  Only a few more weeks left of the living arrows project for 2016, I need to go out on a high!

We were looking through some old videos the other day.

And we found one in particular of Rhys, called ‘trying to say stuff’.  As the title suggests, it’s Rhys trying his hardest to say stuff.  He’s about 18 months old, and trying his best to say ‘Uncle Phil’.

And it’s just ridiculously cute.

Between attempts at those 2 words he babbles away.  And this isn’t just general babbling, this is fluent gibberish.

Scribble my Mum calls it.

And it’s just amazing to listen to.  You’d swear he was talking a foreign language.  And the thing is, I’d sort of forgotten quite how much he used to jabber away.

It’s quite funny to look back and see it again.

He still does it now see.  He talks and talks and talks.  So it’s funny to look back and be reminded that that is just part of his nature.  He is a little chatterbox.

It’s just that now he rambles on about Minecraft instead of who-knows-what!

I took this photo of him on a trip to Caswell at the weekend.

And while he looks so grown up to me, I can just about see that scribble-talking toddler still in there.  And that makes me really happy.

We went up to Leamington Spa at the weekend, for a wedding celebration.

It was a really fun evening.

Friends, family, delicious curry to eat and lovely red wine to drink.

Rhys and Nerys both did really well too.

They may not have eaten the curry (they wouldn’t even consider trying any of it), but they sat with us at the table and ate some chicken nuggets and chips, and some other snacks I’d brought along with us.

And they looked so smart in their party outfits!

They had so much fun running round with their cousin and sort-of cousins.

And hopefully the bride and groom didn’t mind them joining them on the dance floor for the first dance.  For a spot of very enthusiastic break dancing!

Well, if you can’t let your hair down at a wedding, when can you!

I needed to write and post my review of the Maxi Cosi RodiFix car seat last week.

So I asked Rhys if he would get changed for me one day after school, then hop back in the car so I could take a few photos for it.

And to be fair to him he was very obliging.

He sat and smiled while I ran around taking photos through the open door, the open window and from the front seat.

After a while though, he couldn’t help himself.

And I got this.

I can’t decide if it sells the car seat well or not!