Applause, very good old people

I have blog guilt. 

Not posted for a while, but I have been busy. It's hard work trying to entertain two small creatures. I have discovered that Play Doh holds the key. Well for the smallest one anyway. 

Zack loves squishing it and Scarlett, she likes to sniff it, walk round with the pot, sniff that, then attempt to eat some of it. 

Pants has been a bit poorly. He developed some high temperature, vomiting, upset stomach bug. The doctor gave us some antibiotics just to be safe. Safe of what? Probably to ensure that if he did have anything chesty it didn't get worse or develop into anything nasty. No idea what it was but it seems to have disappeared as quickly as it arrived. 

He's been in a lovely mood these past few days. Very smiley, very happy, very responsive. We even left him with Nanny/Grandad Price. And Nanny Price did all of his afternoon food on her own, medicines too. She was extremely pleased with herself. We have to give some credit to Grandad Price as he mixed up Zack's food in the blender. Ahem. Stand up, applause, very good old people, proud of you. I can say that, I know they read this. Hahahaha.

Zack's trike has arrived. My, oh, my it's fantastic and he loves it. But I am not going to say too much now, I am going to film him on it for his blog. So watch this space.

We are off on our hols next week, North Wales, not too far but far enough for it to be a change of scene and a break for all of us. Excited. Yes. 

Final update, Zack went to see eye lady. Usually he reserves all of his ability to see for home this makes me look like a deranged liar when I tell people what he can and can't do.  However today, what a brilliant little man. She actually saw him, watch, follow, smile at and laugh, yes laugh at the toys. She was really delighted with his progress. She still thinks he is a cheeky boy....I've said that all along. But that just makes me love him all the more. 

Six long weeks

It's the summer holidays. The "Summer Holiday" season has always eluded me, I didn't really get why people would go on about it. I get it now. 

Six weeks of having both children to look after, for six long weeks. I think I got used to having three mornings with just one child when Zack went to nursery. I understand why summer could be so difficult, thought it would be nice to have six weeks of nothing. It also completely throws your routine out of the window. 

On the plus side some nice things have happened. Dan is off for a week which means days out all together, and days to ourselves. 

This weekend we had Scarlett christened. We were really pleased to have it at the same church with the same Curate that Baptised Zack. It was a lovely day and Zack was brilliant. Scarlett was, as usual, fabulous. Here are some pictures for those of you who haven't already seen them on Facebook.

Looking fine and dandy

Don't think she rates his outfit.

Nanny

We have also been making use of the fantastic Warrington Sensory Play Centre in Woolston. It's a soft play area especially designed for children with Special Needs. During the holidays they have been running a session on a Monday for a couple of hours called Dolphins (no idea why we have that name but no matter). It's for children with complex needs. As well as the usual soft play things they also have a sensory room, an area for use with ultra violet light, a quieter dark area with two projectors.  It really is a brilliant facility for the Warrington area. 

Scarlett loved it. But the Pants, he thought it was brilliant. They have a very large soft play slide. I let Zack go down on his own. He shut his eyes the whole way down then laughed his head off at the bottom. This called for a lot of slide activity....any excuse to play really.