A very baby weekend...

Hope everyone enjoyed their bank holiday weekends (despite the dreadful weather), ours was *extremely* baby focused (even more than usual, if that is even possible)...Saturday morning was baby swimming (as usual), the new (and final) term starts next week, without a break (worse luck) as I think we could all do with one - half of every Saturday, every week is starting to become something of a drain...

Saturday afternoon my folks took Thomas off for a few hours while Flyingpops and I had some well deserved rest assembled new Ikea units and re-arranged the entire living room into a more "baby proof" format (or so we thought), attempted to put up one of our (brand new boxed) boot sale bargain stair gates across the entrance to the kitchen (but the drill battery was flat)...and then Thomas came back from my folks having gained the ability to slowly move around the room in small shuffles (albeit backwards) and hang onto the side of sofas (etc.) but thankfully went to bed early letting me snooze the rest of the evening on the sofa in front of Simon Cowell (et al)...

Sunday saw us drive to Crawley retail park (in the pouring rain) and charm a (very patient and helpful) young member of staff to carry a succession of car seats out (through the downpour) and then struggle to fit them in the back of (a three door and *rammed* with baby things) Poppy the Beetle...at the end of which he then had to carry the huge cardboard box out and actually finally fit the one we decided on - the Maxi Cosi Priori XP - all part of the service...in the afternoon I cooked the aforementioned pasta and finally fitted the semi-permanent stair gate to block off the kitchen...then proceeding to stub my toe three times in a row (after wedging it open) by forgetting it was there... >X0

It now stays shut...

Monday we tried to fit another stair gate (actually at the top of the stairs this time), but it was too short by about 3cm (how annoying), so Flyingpops ordered us a free extention piece and then tried to find us a car that's slightly more baby friendly (don't listen Poppy!)...we considered several times taking a little walk, but hail or rain kept putting us off so in the end we just spent the day at home, playing as a family, during which Thomas managed to find his first DVD - my fault - which he introduced to his lethally sharp teeth (RIP DVD - although I'm lucky, as there was an Xbox game right next to it) - so I'm moving my Xbox up next to the telly as soon as possible (after that little learning experience)...and when the sun came out I managed to get the BBQ up and running and cooked myself some spicy BBQ pork ribs (which were delicious) - oh and I learned how to hang a mirror with picture wire (if you ever need such a thing done, I'm now an expert)... ;)

So not what you could call a relaxing weekend...but we certainly got a lot closer to being ready for Thomas being more mobile...