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!

Feilding Festival

I took Alex over to the Feilding Festival of bands, to see if he would enjoy some live music. In the hall where the bands assemble, we went and said Hi to the Feilding band before they went on stage. Alex recognised Nigel and went over to have a look at his E flat Bass. Nigel showed him how to play it so Alex had a go and managed to get a decent noise out of it! He then played a B flat Bass and a tenor horn with great success!! While at the festival, we got word of Lucas’s arrival on the other side of the world!! How exciting!!

Watch your Language, Mummy!

I knocked a half full cup of coffee all over the bench this morning and swore “sh*t!” Suddenly I hear “shi!!” followed by (giggle giggle). Alex then went round repeating that for about 5 minutes but luckily had forgotten what was said by the evening! I took off to a baby shower in the afternoon and Jen came round to look after Alex. When I returned, I wasn’t sure who had had more fun!! There had been a hive of activity both indoor and out!

Play date with Angus.

My friend Trudie from work came round for afternoon tea with her husband Brent and son Angus (18 months). Alex was still in bed having his afternoon sleep so Angus had to play by himself for a bit. Finally he got up and the two wee boys had great fun going through the toybox while we drank coffee and ate muffins!

Holiday with Mummy

Queens birthday holiday! Alex and I had a lovely day at home. I was doing the washing and Alex hopped into the empty washing basket, pointed up at the ceiling and said “Sky!”. We then spent the next hour having washing basket rides in the magic flying washing basket. Alex was spun round and round until my arms were literally falling off!!!
When I put him in bed tonight he said “Hawoo?” That really had me stumped for a minute until I realised he was after his toy “Harold the Helicopter”. I found it for him and he then said “Tator?”. He fell peacefully to sleep holding Harold in one hand and his new tractor in the other.

Boy bonding with Pete

The girls shopped at Queensgate and the boys went to the kiddies playground. Caught up with Julie D in afternoon which was fantastic. Yet another day with no sleep for Alex. Had pizzas for dinner then packed up the car and drove off home with a sleeping child in the back.