Howletts Zoo

Last Month........

The weather forecast for yesterday was that it was to be a lovely sunny and warm day so we thought we'd make the most of it and go out for the day. We went to Howletts Wild Animal Park in Canterbury and we had a smashing day! We left home at around 10.30am after we'd made T's lunch and T had had his mid morning snack. We started off with T being in his pushchair but he couldn't see anything so very quickly we put his reigns on and he was running around the place. It was very sweet watching him bending down to be able to look in the enclosures, unfortunately we didn't see very many animals which was very dissappointing but you can't make the animals walk around their territory just so we can see them. We did see some tigers, one of them had a young cub which was very sweet and Thomas was very interested and tried to shoo them away as we do at home in the garden! We saw quite a few monkeys and gibbons but most of them were too far away for T to see them, but Simon, Auntie Debbie and I enjoyed seeing them. Sometimes Thomas was far more interested in looking at the other children running around the park than at the animals, but he loves looking at other little people! We spent quite a while with the gorillas as they're all so gorgeous, they're so human in their behavour and really look you straight in the eye! Here are some lovely photos from a smashing day!!!

Teething!

Thomas is teething at the moment. Our poor little boy has a big tooth on the bottom left that's just cut through the gum and then there's another one above it and one on the other side too..no wonder he's not sleeping and gone off a lot of his food! He loves eating sweetcorn, peas, baked beans as he can pick them up with his fingers and they're pretty soft to eat. He gone completely off banana (his most favourite thing ever) and when at home just picks at his food, luckily when he's at nursery he's still eating lots! Tammi (his key worker at nursery) is always writing how much he eats and how much he loves to eat and that he has to climb on everything!! He is also her little shadow...very sweet! He has started to sleep a lot during the day (sometimes two and a half hours!!) as he's not getting enough at night, bless his little heart his teeth are hurting him so much that he's not sleeping well. We don't want to keep giving him Calpol or Medised every night but at this rate it's all we can do to make sure he gets the sleep he needs. Last night for example he went to bed at 7.115pm and woke up at 10.15pm and it took us nearly two hours to get him to sleep. We put Bongella on his gums and even gave him Calpol but he just wouldn't stop crying, he eventually wore himself out and we were able to get him back into bed at just after midnight. It's pretty tough at the moment as I'm back working full time and Simon's very busy with trials and totally stressed out at work so we both need our sleep too. We're going to bed by 9pm most weekday nights but we're still totally shattered when we get up in the morning as we've been up such a lot in the night. Fingers crossed these teeth will settle down soon and we can all get a good nights sleep!!

Some photos taken this week:-

YUMMY..I love baked beans!

I don't want the toast..just them lovely beans please mummy!

Sad little boy this morning, even though he was playing with my hair drier and making all the noises. New way of reading a book..on top of the table!

Sitting in his favourite chair snakcing on raisins, apricots and cranberries.

A day out at Leeds Castle

A couple of weekends ago we three went to leeds Castle to meet up with our NCT friends and their babies. The sun was shining and it was such a beautiful day. Unfortuneley not all of them were able to make it but we had such a lovely time catching up with them whilst sitting on rugs and snacking on picnic foods. Thomas had to take his little lawn mower and all the babies had a lot of fun pushing it around! We took lots of photos of a lovely day out, and luckily the entrance ticket is valid for a year so we're planning to go back on another sunny day very soon.

Thomas with his lawn mower and then kicking his football


A quiet moment with Tom, Susannah Felix and Samuel

A new game...hat on...hat off!!

SHOUTING!!!

Me and Mr T by the lake....how peacefull! and with the swans too