Half Term Day 6 - 28/10/15

We woke up to totally hideous weather today: thick fog, heavy rain and a cold wind. Great. We had a lazy few hours at home before driving to the farm shop to place our Christmas meat order, so exciting! 

We then went on to Hall Hill Farm just up the road and had a lovely, if a little chilly, morning carving pumpkins, feeding the animals and riding on the tractor. Henry absolutely loves it there and our annual pass has been worth every penny this year.

We then came home and Henry had a nap while I did some housework and we then had some nice hot soup and bread to warm us through after such a cold and damp morning. 

Our friends then came round for the afternoon with their 4 month old puppy who Henry absolutely adores. It was lovely to catch up them all and Henry had a whale of a time with his doggy friend Ted, I'm not sure George was as keen on his new puppy friend who chased him round all afternoon, nipping at his face to get him to play! 

Half Term Day 5 - 27/10/15

After an amazing night's sleep I went to pick Henry up from my mum's and took him to a Halloween story party run by 7 Stories. He looked cute in his skeleton outfit but the party was a total disaster, I could go on and on but basically they let far too many people in and there were some fine examples of how not to bring up a child in there! Henry enjoyed it despite the hundreds of other kids but I found he whole thing massively stressful! 

He had a nice sleep afterwards and then later in the afternoon we met my mum at the garden centre for a coffee and a wander. Later on my mum and I went swimming before I came home for bathtime and bedtime with Henry and an early night for me and Mr B.

Half Term Day 4 - 26/10/15

Today we got up bright and early to go and pick a pumpkin at the Magical Pumpkin Patch at Brocksbushes Farm. We got to ride in the tractor up to a field where there was a little show with a witch which went way over Henry's head. In fact, he seemed pretty terrified of the witch and just wanted to get on with finding a pumpkin! He found his pumpkin buried in the straw and wanted to carry it the whole way home. We're looking forward to carving it later in the week.

We then drove back to Consett and had a quick lunch in Maddison's, which is a little restaurant on the front street. Marmar and I both had a flatbread and they were SO good, mine was goats' cheese, rocket, honey, figs and walnuts. Yummy.

Henry and I then popped into the sling library session at Tesco to pick up a Toddler Connecta sling that we can use for the next few months. They're so handy for fireworks displays and all of the Christmas events that we're going to, as well as being priceless when we visit London in December. Henry fell asleep in it before we'd even left the building so it's a definite winner!!

This meant that I got a Starbucks in total peace with my friend that we'd met up with. She had her 3 week old with her and he slept too meaning that we had well over an hour of chat and hot coffee, a serious treat for any mummy. 

On the evening we dropped Henry off at Marmar's for his second ever sleepover and Mr B and I headed out to see the new James Bond film at the cinema. We arrived early so went to the champagne bar for a few drinks, I had 2 vodka and tonics which felt like such a treat because I haven't been drinking any alcohol on my diet! We had nachos in the cinema too, I'm hoping they don't affect my weigh in too much this week!! 

We then went home and I slept all night long, which pretty much never happens anymore so that was a serious treat too! A very lovely Monday altogether.

Half Term Day 3 - 25/10/15

Today we had another lazy morning before watching the Sunderland Newcastle derby game on TV (3-0 whoop whoop). We then met Mr B's dad at the farm shop for Sunday lunch. Their roast dinner is the best ever and today was SO good, Henry ate tons as usual, we picked up our order form for our Christmas meat and saw all the animals too, a really lovely afternoon out.

We then came home to pick up George and headed to the woods for a long walk to walk off some of the rice pudding we devoured for dessert!! We had a lovely long walk, broken up only by Henry stopping every couple of minutes to collect various forest treasures: conkers, acorns, leaves, twigs, pine cones. 

We then came home and watched Toy Story before Marmar dropped in for a coffee and some Henry time.

He was absolutely shattered so he had an early bath and straight to bed and while Mr B popped out to work for an hour, I did some ironing - very rock n roll. Sunday nights are so much nicer when there's no work on Monday morning! 

Half Term Day 2 - 24/10/15

We had such a quiet morning after we'd been to Weight Watchers. I lost another 3.5 pounds, taking my total down to 9lb lost in 2 weeks, whoop! We were planning on going for a long walk with the dog afterwards but it started to pour so we decided to hibernate instead.

Henry and I had a nap and then once we were up we got ready for a party that he was invited to. It was fancy dress so he went as spider man, as did most of the other little boys there!! He was most annoyed that he wasn't allowed any of the party food until right at the end but other than that, had a lovely time!!

I quickly dropped him off with Daddy and then went out with my mum and 2 of our lovely friends for the evening, to Nando's for dinner and then to see Suffragette at the cinema. The film was amazing and so so powerful, I really recommend it.

Half Term Day 1 - 23/10/15

I was at work today so it's not technically  the holidays yet, but I literally skipped out of school because I was so excited about the prospect of 7 days off with my favourite human being.

We had a gorgeous nap together and then Daddy came home early so we could all go for a late afternoon trip to Wheelbirks for Halloween ice creams and a run around. Henry really loves it there and so do we, it's middle-class family heaven and their sorbet is to die for which is great for my diet and also the little dairy-free toddler. We saw the cows, had a play outside and had our Halloween ice creams in pumpkin cups, complete with gummy spiders and 'blood' (strawberry sauce). A really gorgeous start to the holidays.

We came home for dinner and then decorated our lounge for Halloween. We have lots of fun Halloween activities planned this week so I thought we may as well make the most of our Halloween decorations (all total bargains from Poundland) and have them up for a full week. 

Life lately

My blog has been well and truly neglected recently, I will definitely try and do daily half term updates this week because we have so many lovely things planned and they're always lovely to look back on. 

Life has been totally normal, totally settled, even 'boring' if you like, but it's so so perfect. We are happy and settled, life is so so easy with Henry now. He's such a good boy, we love our afternoons together and our weekends with daddy. 

He's chatting non-stop now. He can say most things we ask him to and he's constantly finishing our sentences. He's totally Toy-Story obsessed and loves nothing more than being outdoors; at a farm preferably. He's just so gorgeous, I know he's mine and I'm biased but he's such a pleasure to be around and I just love being his mummy so much.

So that's it, a short update to say we're still here and all is good, and I promise to be a better blogger in the next few weeks...