Indoor Biker

Its been horrible weather for the last few days and poor Alex has been standing by the sliding door pointing outside saying “Bike! Bike!”. Mean Mummy won’t let him outside as it is too cold and wet so, I let him bring his bike inside (thank you for the suggestion Aunty Patsy!). Alex spent ages this evening doing the kitchen, laundry, hall, living room, dining room Pro Formula 1 circuit. Eat your heart out Schumacher!!

Shopping day

Tracy and I took Alex shopping to get the last part of his present from me. We went into Farmers where Alex had great fun trying out all the buttons on the toys. Managed to find what I was looking for and he now has a dome play tent for inside and phonetic letter fridge magnets that also play the alphabet song! Went round to Tracys for chicken and coleslaw for tea. Yum!.

On the phone.

Alex had his first “real” phone conversation this evenng when Aunty Brenda rang to wish him Happy birthday. It went something like this…”Pleft blah babble. OK! Bye!!”

More words!

Gave Alex banana on his cereal today and he picked it all off and ate it. He then pointed at the table and asked for “naana”. It’s the first time he’s used words to tell me that he wants for more of something! Yes, he got more banana!!

Happy birthday Babe!!

It was a quiet day for Alex’s real birthday as we had already done our celebrating. He went to day care and Sharlene took the kids to baby music where Alex had Happy birthday sung to him. I picked him up after work and took him to McDonalds for dinner as a special treat. He was only interested in the chips but loved tearing around the playground. Unfortunately it’s a mass of tunnels but luckily he would only go a little way into it before the echoes of the other children caused him to come scuttling back to Mummy. He definitely recognises Ronald McDonald though and kept pointing to the poster saying “Nonnal”!!

A visitor in the night…

Nan and Grandma Nola stayed the night with us last night so we could all go to Cobb and Co for Alex’s birthday lunch. I slept on the couch so that our honoured guests could have a proper bed. Alex has been getting up in the night and I warned Nola that she may get a visitor. I heard Alex talking at about 7am so got up to bring him out into the living room. He wasn’t in his bed! He’d got himself up and hopped into bed with Nola and was jabbering away with Nola lying there going “uh huh” so as not to give it away that it wasn’t Mummy he was talking to. He’d been there for about half and hour and only realised that it wasn’t me he was cuddling into when I turned up at the door! We had a lovely lunch at the Cobb – glad they have a kiddies play area that keeps Alex occupied!!

Alexs birthday party

We had a lunchtime party for Alex today and had about 25 people around to the house (Bertham family, both lots of neighbours from over the back, Nadia, Connar, Cohen / Dave / Glenys, Tracy, Nola, Nan – phew!!!).
As a special treat before the party, Alex got passed over the fence to Matthew who took him for a ride in his big red firestone truck! Alex thought that was fantastic and wanted to have another go! Nan and Nola came over and did a sterling effort in helping me get the food sorted, and Sharlene turned up early to help out and gave Alex a bath. While there she asked him if he wanted to use the toilet and he went and did 1st wees on the toilet!!
Luckily it was a beautiful sunny day for the party so we had a table full of food in the conservatory, balloons everywhere, the sandpit being put to good use, chalk drawings all over the concrete, pass the parcel, and a Barney birthday cake with two candles!! Alex managed to blow the candles out all by himself!