The kids are getting into their sleeping pattern after a false start or two. On the second morning Ellie woke up at 7 and I just couldn't pull myself awake so left her with the iPad and a pair of headphones sat sniffing away very loudly, right by my head. By the time Joey woke I was up too, started to open the curtains and Ellie flipped her lid, she didn't want the curtains open, she didn't want milk, she did want milk, she wanted to stand up, she wanted to sit down... Stuff like that, so she got sent to her room, we checked on her about 30 seconds later and she was fast asleep, she didn't wake up for three hours!
Our main daily activity is a walk to the beach late afternoon before dinner, these can be fairly entertaining. The first night we were just near the beach and Ellie started sniffing a wall announcing that it smelt strange! We looked up and just behind this wall was the hotel kitchen with a fan in the wall, so in fact she could smell the kitchen! 
But every time we walk past this wall now, she's convinced it's the wall that smells! Joey does well on the attention front and I would actually say that he steals Ellie's thunder a little over here, they love him! He normally just has a vest on and is a sizeable baby so I think maybe very few people are used to such big blonde cuteness! 
Although saying that... Never one to be upstaged, Ellie takes her baby jake along, baby Jake is well known among our close family and friends as I always refuse to describe him, wanting Ellie just to know that he's her baby and not "brown" baby. But in Thailand, I'm not sure that they have anything like it, literally, people burst out laughing and point at it! I'm quite chuffed she doesn't get why.
Last night when we were at the beach we decided to have a drink while it went dark, about 7pm, so we had two Singhas and Ellie had a Sprite (I kept it zipped as I'm always moaning about her sugar intake and feel guilty) so for about one and a half minutes we sat there feet in sand, enjoyed a nice cold beer, smiled at each other pretty chuffed and then... Ellie's sugar rush hit! She must have said "shall we play?" Fifty times and we just ran up and down to the sea over and over with no sign of her getting tired, Joey was set free from his pram after some considerable whining and kept climbing up this back of his pram eventually (don't get me wrong here, he was being watched at all times) he fell off, open eye first into the sand. We stopped the tears, which helped to be fair, and then Ellie wanted to play some more and Joey wanted to climb. We got the bill. Walking home we decided to stop off at Emmy's which had been recommended to us on our way into town by the people staying below us at Baan Puri, it was a very cute restaurant, busy, very importantly, and full of cool chunky wooden furniture, wooden floors, tree trunk tables, that sort of thing. Ellie was still on her sugar rush and walked up and down the steps over and over, found a rocking horse by our table and rocked back and forth at twice the recomended speed and then found a bouncer...Joey tried to join in, so more tears from both. The food came and Ellie wouldn't sit on her chair, only my lap (commencing come down) then wouldn't eat her food, only mine. Joey was fairly good but gave up with the food early and the tears came back. We ate pretty frickin quickly and I headed back to the apartment with Joey (running at top speed down the pitch black sand path) queue Joey turning angelic!! Need less to say, we desanded them, got them full of milk and into bed pretty bloody quickly so we could sit on the balcony with two lagers...
Before we left, my brother in law Jack / big Jack said we should get a # to go with the blog. After last night we were thinking #doingitforthekids for no other reason than to remind ourselves after nights like that why we're doing it!!!
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