Believe it or not, today was even more gorgeous than yesterday – how lucky we are – my luck with weather whilst visiting Scotland seems to have held. We decided we would stick closer to home today. Morning was spent visiting Islay House Square and the craft shops located there. Then we found ourselves a beach to play on. We found a huge beach at the top of Loch Indaal which we had completely to ourselves. The beach was a little too wet for sandcastle building, but we all had a dip in the sea (toes, not bodies) and played a good game of football.
We then headed off to Port Charlotte for lunch at the Croft Kitchen, where Tom disgraced himself by refusing to eat anything – he can be really stubborn when he wants to. We then had a play on the beach there – Tom decided to swim on the sand (it was very fine here) – very bizarre watching him to so, sand went everywhere, I have a feeling we will be finding it on him for a couple of days, but he seemed to be having a lot of fun doing it.
We then headed off home. I kept him awake in the car on the way home. This week we have been conducting an experiment, trying to wean him off his dummy (best time to do it as neither of us have work pressures which can be upset due to shorter / non-existent nap times). We have been refusing him his dummy for afternoon naps, but he kept falling asleep in the car, meaning when we brought him in to his cot, he was rested enough to be awake and cry for the rest of his nap time. Today, he didn’t sleep in the car. When I put him down for his nap in his cot he was very unhappy, he cried for half an hour but then all went quiet. We heard him wake up, but after some whimpers he got himself back to sleep again – a potential victory?
At 5.30 we were back in Port Charlotte at the hotel for our last treat and dinner. I had scallops, Matt some beef (lots of cows on the island) and Tom sausages. All was good and we even had time for sticky toffee pudding afterwards – yummy. Came home, Tom had his bath and then went to bed. We didn’t give him his dummy as an experiment, and guess what after about 1 minute of crying he stopped. Fingers crossed for tonight, but it would be good if we have cracked it.
So tomorrow we head back home. Such a shame, we have settled in quite nicely and although we have done our best to see the island, there are still big chunks of it we haven’t explored, we all wish we were staying longer, especially as the weather has been so good, but I have cakes to bake and Matt has translations to do – real shame!
New words:
Wow, sea, house (pronounced ‘how’), boat (pronounced ‘bo’), a snake says ‘ssss' and we have our first verb 'look' which is fab - it comes out as "Mummy ock!"
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