Learning to eat from a bowl

First we empty out the Shreddies


Then we look around...

In goes the car!

Weekend away and cats to chase

Jen and Harry spent a lovely weekend with Grandma and Grandad Cox up in Horsham. On Saturday we went to visit Uncle Tom and Auntie Kate and their three cats.



Initially the new musical car was enough of a distraction.

But what's that?

Nearly caught it that time!

Fun in the garden

There is always a lot of work to do in the garden, everything seems to grow so quickly. Harry is getting more and more confident outside, he loves running about on the grass.

Here he is helping Ram with the digging. Hopefully it won't be long before he is helping us properly! Note the funky dungarees, a present from Canada.

Feeling sorry for himself

Poor little Harry has not been very well. We suspect chicken pox, although this will only be confirmed if his little friend goes down with it in two weeks time (we didn't know Harry was infectious when we went visiting!). He had a very high temperature for two days, but luckily that has gone down now and he is just left feeling grumpy. He's got lots of spots, but they aren't very big or itchy and don't seem to be bothering him. Now I'm struggling to entertain him, as we can't do the things that we usually do, like going to the library or swimming, and he won't sit still in front of the television and be ill.


Since he was ill, Giraffe has featured more prominently in his little world. I'd always wanted to keep Giraffe for the cot only, but we relaxed this a bit when he was ill, and now he goes to the cot and fetches Giraffe (or screams if he can't reach him) and carries him about. When he wants to hold something else in his hands, Giraffe is carried in the mouth. Giraffe is becoming very smelly. I really don't want Giraffe to come everywhere with us, I don't think that I can handle the trauma if he gets lost.

Sunny again!

Our camera takes much better pictures when it's sunny outside. This morning we went for our usual walk over to Tesco. I try to encourage Harry to walk a little bit outside, but he's not keen. He's only interested when there is a bus going past, but he still wants to cling on to the pushchair.

I'm hoping that he'll continue to enjoy books like his Mum! Not sure why he likes this uncomfortable spot in the corner next to the television, possibly he's acting innocent and waiting for me to leave the room so that he can press buttons and pull cables. The Gruffalo is his favourite book and also favourite television programme. He can identify a Gruffalo better than most other farmyard animals.

The conservatory gets more use when the weather is warmer too. You can just see the back of Beowulf's head through the window. Beowulf the statue was found hidden in the flowerbed when we moved in, and he makes everything in our garden grow (he's a bit too good at it, it gets a bit overgrown). Harry likes to go and visit him, they are just about the same size.

Harry won't sit still in this chair anymore, but he still likes to play with it. We saw a real cat yesterday and it was the most exciting thing that he'd ever seen! He chased it about, pointing and laughing.

Chessington World of Adventures

Harry is such a busy baby! Today we took him to Chessington World of Adventures. I haven't been for years and it has changed a lot, although a lot of the older rides are still there, just with new names! First we went on some of the rides, here we are on a little roundabout. It had a dragon in the middle with a long tail which Harry confused with a snake - "sssssss"!


It was very busy today, we've been to the zoo during the winter and it was almost empty. This time it was nice because Harry was able to walk about a bit. Here he is being confused by a pig, it wasn't nice and pink like the ones that he recognises. Whenever he sees Daddy he points and gives a big smile.

He really enjoyed meeting the goat.

Another easy way to make him smile is to give him a biscuit!

Legoland!

I've always wanted to go to Legoland and it's only now that we have an excuse to go! We all had a great time. We went on a few of the rides - Harry's first boat trip and train rides, as well as his first (3D) cinema experience. Harry's favourite area though was the room full of big Lego blocks.


Harry delighted Mummy by eating something that she had cooked - chewy cereal bars. It kept him busy in the pushchair long enough for us to look around the entire display of Lego models.

When he was flagging towards the end of the day, it was the giant Lego bricks that perked him up. What a great place, we're hoping to go again soon.