A Bear, a Monkey & a little Monster!

Right, straight into it…

Sunday – Family dinner and balloons. We celebrated Tim’s birthday a day early with dinner with the family. Just before dinner, Reg turned up with 4 helium balloons for Tim (but really for Cooper). Cooper loved them! And wanted to play with them all evening (and has continued to play with them all week). Cooper also learnt a new word (due to excessive squeals from excitement due to the balloons)… Shhh! And it included the finger to the lips action.

Monday – Queens Birthday, Tim’s Birthday, No Playcentre… the beginning of a very long week. Lorraine and Kevin stopped in to see Cooper and say Hello. Tim and I watched Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio. Quite a good movie if you ask me.

Tuesday – An at home day. A VERY VERY COLD DAY… So much so that it was snowing on the hills behind Upper Hutt when we went to collect Tim from work that afternoon.

Wednesday – A quiet morning. We waited until after Cooper’s nap before heading into Lower Hutt. We headed to Bond and Bond to see what they had in the way of vertical freezers. We managed to find a reasonably priced Mitsubishi one which we purchased and set to have delivered. After that we headed around (in our buggy and blankets) to the Library. A visit to the Children’s floor in the library and six books later, I had a happy little boy who was ready to head home. Oh – one of the books we got was Pooh bear and we have since had the word “pooh” added to his vocab.

Thursday – Cabin fever has set in. We had the freezer delivered and did the groceries. We started to get a very cranky boy who was getting tired of being stuck inside the house.

Friday – Swimming. Good kicking again. A short nap then a trip down to the courier depot to get a parcel that wasn’t delivered to us. From Lower Hutt to Avalon park to have a run around. Cooper wore his waterproof pants and splashed in the puddles, played on the slides, see-saw (first time too) and generally had a lot of fun. Oh Cooper also ran around in his baby legs for the morning. Here he is showing me where the bus is on them…

Today – a very busy day. No markets this morning though which is a shame. I had to get fruit and veges from the supermarket (quality is considerably less and so much more expensive). Anywho, we were up at the normal time and got ready to head out. Off we went at 9.30am on a trip into town to Junglerama for Brooke’s 2nd Birthday Party. Cooper absolutely enjoyed himself. He played on the giant inflatable slide, on the bouncy castle with Dad, played the games,  Boogied on down with the octopus, played in the little houses, the ball pit, made music and ate some awesome treats!  After that we headed home for a nap (albeit a short one) then out again to see Damian, Lauren, Zach and Tyler. Cooper enjoyed playing with them too – had a great time.

Next week, I have a new list of things for the boy to keep him entertained in the event of another bout of cabin fever.

Words of the week: Shh, GaGa, Pooh, Eyes, Thereya