Hello August

How is it August already?! Ok I know it normally follows July but this year has been so fast. 

Bug was back at the childminders on Monday and he was delighted to see her. I'm so glad we have a wonderful childminder. On Tuesday he wasn't too impressed when I came to pick him up, after work, because he was having so much fun on the trampoline. There were plenty of tears, kicking the legs, screaming, etc.. The childminder made a joke about it being good he's not like that when I drop him off! Very true. 

I was off work today (excellent) but we didn't get out much, apart from a run in the car, because it's been miserable. Lots of heavy rain. What happened to the summer? I must have blinked and missed it. I'm off work again tomorrow so I'm hoping it's a bit nicer so we can get out. Even if it's just in the garden! We did have some fun today. Playing with lego, by playing I mean Bug asking me to build things and then destroying them. He absolutely loves drawing, with anything, crayons, pencils, pens, a black ball point pen from my bag! We were drawing for a while. Anything I drew got drawn over (of course)!! Bug is so good with his colours. He's such a clever little boy. 

This morning he slept in until 7:45am!! This is the latest I've slept since 2009! Towards the end of my pregnancy SPD made sleeping hard work, combine that with my bladder being squished and I was up at 6am most mornings. While I did enjoy the sleep in this morning I do think it might have messed up his naps. He napped earlier (strange) and not as long as usual. This meant by around 4pm he wasn't happy, lots of tantrums over little things and then wanting to go to bed at 5pm. I kept him up until 6:30pm when he happily went to bed. I wonder what time we'll be up at tomorrow. 

Last week I started Christmas shopping (seriously). It was only a present for my mum I ordered but it's still a start. My nephew, L, is one the end of this month so my sister mentioned she wanted a leapfrog thing so I ordered that this afternoon. I can't believe he's going to be one year old already. I'm glad I have a present sorted and didn't get the usual get him whatever you want suggestion. I'd rather get him something my sister wants for him or something he needs instead of a toy for the sake of it. At least this is a learning one. 

Speaking of toys, I really need to sort through my son's toys. There are so many of them, they're taking over. I'll need to mentally note what ones he doesn't play with. Some of them he won't bother with for weeks and then suddenly he won't put them down. They're everywhere. 

Since it's relatively late I think I'll leave this year and go relax a bit before bed. I'm still not sleeping that well but I'll write about that another day.