Well, a whole week and a half has passed us already and it's been so lovely to spend quality time with my little one, all day, every day. The thing with working every day (albeit only part time) is that we never have lazy mornings or full day trips out. When we want to go to places on an afternoon, we have to rush off as soon as I finish work to make the most of our time and we seem to always battle against early closing times, especially in the winter. So it's been so so lovely taking our time a bit more. Getting up when we want (when Henry wants; I'd get up at 11am if it was up to me), having lazy breakfasts together, cuddling for an extra 10 minutes at bedtime, reading that extra book, staying outside just that bit longer on a warm evening. It's a real treat. I'm hoping to upload a week's worth of photos every week this summer as a little diary or memory 'book' for us to look back on in the years to come. Remembering our last summer as a three. Certainly not a relaxing maternity leave like last time, but much more memorable I'm sure.
Meeting Iggle Piggle, Henry not leaving go of his hand. We loved CBeebies land so much, Henry was a perfect age for it.
Our amazing hobbit house that we stayed in for the night at Alton Towers. Really magical.
Afternoon nap under a giant oak tree in Alton Towers while the other three went off on the big rollercoasters. It was so lovely taking an hour out and just cuddling this beautiful boy.
A trip to Brocksbushes with mummy and daddy to pick berries.
Our first lazy breakfast. Monday morning juice and waffles. Such a treat.
Helping mummy shop for her hospital bag things. All I can say is, buying nappies and sanitary towels and breast pads isn't all that relaxing when your two year old is in charge of his own trolley!
El Coto for dinner, stealing Daddy's Manchego cheese! We didn't have much in for dinner, Mr B was late home, so we had an impromptu family dinner date at our favourite tapas restaurant in Durham.
Baking banana and chocolate muffins at 8:30pm after a really busy day. I'd promised we'd bake all day and he kept me to my word when we got in from dinner!! It's been so lovely not feeling like we have to stick to a certain bedtime or be home by a certain time in the week.
A successful week of washing and ironing countless loads of baby clothes, towels, sheets and blankets!
A trip to 'Swan Lake' aka Herrington Park with Henry's friends and my mummy friends. The boys ran and ran, played in the park, ate their lunch picnic at 10:35am (!!!), fed the swans and geese and had so much fun. A really lovely morning.
Watching Despicable Me 2 at the community centre on the big screen. Henry was loving his little bag of 'hotcorn' and juice and I was loving that we got a couple of hours worth of entertainment for £2, with a cup of tea thrown in for mummy too!
Playing Dinosaur Spots, a new game which was given to us by a friend. Henry loves it and I love that he's at an age where he can really appreciate proper games. This one helps him practise his colours and shapes and he's now mastered his semi circles and parallelograms thanks to the game. You might think a parallelogram is an odd shape for a child's game...but my child will never call it a diamond after I have had to say countless times to 11 year olds "there isn't a 2d shape called a diamond! It's a rhombus/parallelogram/square". The joys of having a mum as a teacher!!
A morning at the theatre with mummy watching Peppa Pig's Big Surprise at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle. He absolutely loved it, I unashamedly cried during the 'Bing Bong' song (blooming pregnancy hormones!) and spent a fortune on overpriced merchandise.
Post-theatre lunch in Jamie's Italian. Henry munched this lush bowl of fish stew and a salad pot and I had ravioli. He was such good company.
Another lazy morning for these two! Watching CBeebies while mummy cleaned the kitchen.
A trip to the forest with Marmar and Parpar. His smile says it all.
We found the Gruffalo's child!
Lazy family lunch in Granny B's with daddy on his day off.
And that's it. We've actually done way more but I don't have photos of a few of the days. We've been back to Swan Lake, had more coffee and cake dates, met our friends at the garden centre for an entire day of fun and a tasty lunch and lots more cuddles, afternoon naps, films in our PJs and ice lollies in the garden. Such a lovely week.
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