Its been a complete shock to us.  For years (well, two) Tosha has point-blank refused to eat fruits and veggies. There had been rumours that he had fruit up at the Oak Tree nursery, but we didn’t believe them.
He reminds me of my childhood: for years, I’d only eat hot-dogs.  Favourites: smothered in peanut butter; [...]

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Tosha earned his “Ducklings Award Grade 1″ certificate today at his swim lessons.  You might remember that he put up a bit of a fuss at his first lesson…well, he calmed down and got on with the business of learning to swim!
Today, Tolii, too, earned his latest, and last, Ducklings certificate: Grade 5.  Now its [...]

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Our cats, Snape and Lyra turn 1 year old this month.  We’re not sure which day exactly that they were born; just the month.
So, in celebration, Lidl had a sale of cat toys!  We picked up a couple…
The boys were super excited to help assemble them and give them to Snape and Lyra as their [...]

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Tosha said to mummy tonight: “I’m an Oaks Boy now, I don’t need a nappy!”
So, Tosha went to bed for the first time without his pull-up.
Now daddy, fresh off the plane from his latest trip to Munich, has to figure out how to get two boys to the toilet for their midnight wee…

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Today was Tosha’s first swim lesson. His lesson at 10:20am at St. Swithun’s School’s pool was at about the same time as Tolii, Angus and Rupert’s lesson. And, Katie joined the swim school this term too!
All this and you’d think things would go, well, swimmingly.
Daddy and mummy decided to see if just one [...]

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At today’s swim lesson, Tolii actually swam for real. He moved his arms around in circles, kept his head looking down at the bottom of the pool, then tilted his head side to side as his arms went around and kicked his legs.
He may have swam a bit wobbly but he got from the [...]

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On 8 May, Tosha abandoned his crib for good - now he spends his nights on the bottom bunk. That is after he has a good tussle with Tolii on the top bed.
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Today, Tolii swam the entire width of the pool by himself! Three times!
He kicked his feet and put his hands over his head while looking down into the water.
Watch out Olympics 2016!

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Here’s a start to the Reeves-Hall family blog. We’ll add interesting info about our outings and photos too. Of course, tons of photos will still be on-line at photos.reeves-hall.net.
Today, we went hiking from our house to the Watership Down pub in Freefolk. It was a long trek! Tosha had his afternoon nap while mummy, daddy [...]

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