Along with living arrows and the me and mine project, the siblings project is something I really look forward to keeping up with each year.
I’ve been taking photos of the children together each month for this project since January 2017 and it’s something I want to keep doing for as long as I can. I absolutely love having this push to make sure I capture at least one picture of the children together each month. And I am so pleased to have all these photos to look back on, to see how the children and their relationship changes over the months and years.
This month’s photos were taken on a walk around Cwmdonkin park as we tested out the walkie talkies that Nerys got for Christmas.
The children were both so excited to split up and test the walkie talkies out, and luckily they were as good as we’d all hoped.
Once they’d mastered the art of pressing the button, waiting a few seconds and then starting to talk we were off. And it really was fun, which seems almost silly seeing as we use mobile phones to chat while we’re out and about all the time!
We bought Rhys and Nerys a few things this Christmas that they could use/play with together and I love how happy they are about it.
It does make me laugh though that out of all the presents they had the thing that has been most played with and enjoyed is a simple pack of Uno cards. We’ve played so many games already and it’s so much fun.
I’ve loved seeing how quickly the children picked up the rules, and how well they take it when they’re close to winning and then someone makes them pick up 4 cards. We’ve talked a lot in the last few years about being a good winner and a good loser when you play games like this and I think that message has pretty much sunk in luckily!
We had such a lovely break over Christmas this year and the children loved having that time with each other, and with their cousins who were visiting from the Isle of Man.
I think we’re all ready to get stuck back into the old school routine now, but at the same time I’m already looking forward to half term when we can just take a break and enjoy some time all together.