Soggy Weekend

What a soggy weekend! Saturday we had a bbq to attend in the afternoon. First thing though we were free and decided to brace ourselves to another trip to the barber's with Tom as his hair has got out of control again. It was as bad as last time! He was fine waiting and watching but when it came to be his turn, he turned beetroot red and snot came out of every orifice - I ended up having to hold him and slowly turned into a blonde hairy monster as his hair and snot transferred onto me. Both us and the barber decided that it would be better to cut his hair short so he wouldn't have to return for a while. We still don't know how the barber managed not to stab him - years of experience I guess.

Came home, gentleman came by to pick up 60 cupcakes and a cutting cake for a christening - liked it so much he asked for business cards for his friends who are organising similar events - which is good.

We then piled in the car and headed off to Solihull for a West Midlands Translator BBQ (Tom and I being hangers on). Unfortunately the weather didn't play ball, however, it was in a huge garden with a big marquee so we managed to stay outside. Tom didn't seem to notice the rain, whilst we all huddled under the marquee, he continued to play out in the rain - bless him. It was a fantastic garden for a little boy - huge veggie garden and green house and lots of hidden footballs to find and play with - he even helped out Brian by watering the tomatoes. Anyway a good time was had by all and before we knew it, it was home time.

Sunday was revolting. Our original plan was for Jude to come down to us and then all head off to the Cosford Airshow as we thought Tom would really enjoy it. However, we woke to rain and it didn't let up at all. Plan B was to go to Shrewsbury for a spot of shopping and lunch at The Armoury. Tom was in his all in one waterproof suit and seemed very happy - didn't notice the rain at all and walked really nicely round the shopping centres (luckily there weren't many people around so he didn't get in too many people's way). Oh and we saw the red arrows practising in Shrewsbury anyway which was a bonus.

That's about it really, not much to report, as not much happening. I've got lots of cakes on at the moment and Matt is pretty busy with work too. Tom as you can see has now grown enough to be able to mount his bike. Just needs to find his sense of balance now so he can ride it. Talking of bikes, Matt and I are in a new 'get fit' phase and are going for bike rides every evening once Tom is in bed - we have a nice 4 mile circuit we do through the nature reserve here.

New words: a horse goes 'may', pigs go 'oink - not the word oink, but the snorting of nose noise), cows say 'ooo', dogs say 'oof' we now have 'Daddy' as well as 'Dada' and 'Dardar', 'sky', 'more'. He is now trying to repeat words when you say them to him, sometimes they come out more or less right, others just come out as babble as he still doesn't have all the sounds. However he is really trying to talk now which is great.

Oh and we seem to have weaned him off the dummy - we had a bit of a wobble last week - including one night when he cried for 1.5 hours, but he now goes to bed happy and wakes up happy and we don't hear from him through the night, so fingers crossed we are there now.

AND he is eating for England at the moment, some nights we think he might burst with the amount of food he consumes, it really is incredible. He still doesn't really like bits of food he hasn't seen before, but he is definitely less fussy about putting bits of meat in his mouth if it is mixed in with cous cous or rice etc.