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Mostly, our days are a mixed bag, with laughs and shiny moments all smushed up against laundry and angst. But today was just one long lovely shiny jewel of a day.

It began for me with that sweetest of things, a sleep in. It was my Huey night (we take turns) and he’d been up in the night, manic and flapping with glee to be awake with us at 11pm, zooming around the carpet with the wooden trolley we got from the toy library. So when 6.30am rolled around and Arlo started clambering over us and chatting in his newly invented language, rather than joining in with a cheery ‘hey dah!’ as usual, Huey kept his head down and had a little cry. ‘I think you better get Arlo up’ I told bean, and rolled over, plugged Huey in and went back to sleep. Imagine my surprise when I rolled back and looked at the clock - nearly two hours had slipped by. Bliss.

Once Huey and I were up too, we headed out for a special treaty breakfast at a cafe we love. Breakfast out with the boys is so wonderful. There’s coffee, and good food, and no dishes to wash at the end of it. Heaven.

Huey’s sleep in plus the drive home then gave us another unexpected gift - the rare and elusive double sleep (we’re hanging out for when Huey is old enough for a one sleep day). Huey’s morning nap was late, and Arlo’s midday sleep early because he fell asleep in the car (and transferred to the bed!), and so we had a whole hour and a half of baby-free time. Usually we would use that time to frantically run around and do chores, but today we gave ourselves another treat - a bath. Just the two of us, lounging in the warm water, no slippery babies to manage. Nirvana.

After they woke up and we gave them lunch, we got back in the car and headed to the women’s hospital to visit the enough grows girls and admire adorable little Turkey. Charming!

The day was topped off by a delicious meal of lamb tagine made by bean and her gorgeous friend J who stayed with us on the weekend (so no cooking needed to be done). We drank red wine and watched Dr Who, and now I am writing this as bean writes in our book where we record stuff the kids are doing. Soon we will go to bed and snuggle in the middle and listen to the kids breathing peacefully on either side of us. Perfect.