Sunday: Lunch out with family and friends – first time out with our two boys. No problems apart from the usual, nowhere really comfortable to feed Toby, but we managed. Jack was so well behaved and ate his meal so nicely, to the disappointment of all the adults sat round him who were eying –up his roast chicken (inc me).
Monday: Mum & I planned to take the boys swimming, Jack hadn’t been for ages and it would be Toby’s first time. This proved to be more of a challenge than anticipated. Decided to go late morning, so we could go to the park in the afternoon. Got to the pool, only to find the small pool closed for cleaning, due to a child having a “little accident”. Jack was obviously disappointed, but dealt with very well – as we promised to come back later. Thankfully there was a park and boating lake behind the leisure centre. We didn’t know that this existed, so took the opportunity to use up our parking ticket time and do some exploring. Jack delighted in telling us over and over that a girl had done a poo in the pool and that it was disgusting.
One our second attempt we were disgusted to find the small pool closed again – for training or something, we were told that this was detailed on their website, but we had checked this before leaving. By this time I was not a happy bunny and starting to get a little cross. Quickly I racked my brain for a doable alternative.
Third time lucky! Toby grinned and kicked with excitement and even survived a dunking out without crying. Jack soon regained his confidence, got told off for running and even jumped in of the side. The challenge on the drive home was to keep Jack awake, which we did by sinning (badly).
Later that evening got a text from my Mum – complementary family pass was waiting at the pool for us, She’d phoned up to complain & the manager agreed that the website was badly designed.
Monday night – Toby’s first night in the swing crib (on loan to tide us over the next few weeks, due to out growing his mosses basket). Not a fan – took forever to settle and the same after each feed. Situation has now improved after a couple of nights and he even appears to like it.
Tuesday: Toby had his third set of injections. He is so good only cried for a couple of seconds and even gave the nurse a smile on the way out. Managed to see the health visitor whilst at the surgery (very handy). Toby peed everywhere whilst being weighted, another first (and last hopefully). Surprisingly when looking back at Jack’s growth chart, there is only an ounce difference between them. So no difference so far between bottle and breast.
Thursday: Met my nephew and the boy’s met their auntie, uncle and cousin for the first time. Smiles all-round – should be a good couple of weeks!
Friday: Toby and cousin Alex both have cut their first tooth, could explain why both of then had a bad night – what a coincidence.
Saturday: Painted my toe nails for the first time in years, really lovely Cadbury chocolate purple. Totally forgot about it, then when changing Toby, found Jack staring at my feet. He was fascinated by the "mauve paint" as he called it and kept toughing my toes to see if it would come off. Not sure how I managed to get the nappy on Toby whilst having my very ticklish toes played with.
