Hello all! We've had a super busy week this week, now it's warmer out, we can do so much more and it's much easier to keep Abbie occupied! She's not a big fan of heat like me, and really dislikes having sun lotion put on, I now have scars to prove it.. Sunday Abbie woke up in a super grumpy mood, so after having a super long nap I decided to take her to her Grandpa's house for a run around to keep her busy! The sun was out, Abbie had a little kick about with Grandpa and explored the gardens too, before we headed home and snuggled up watching some tv as she wasn't feeling herself at all! Monday was a bit more of a mellow day, Abbie had an upset tummy so we stayed at home and just played in the paddling pool for the afternoon!
Tuesday Probably our busiest day, Ben was off work so we always try and spend the day out together, so off we went to the park at 9am, Abbie had full reign of the playground much to her delight! Although she'd much rather spend 45 minutes sat on the swings, unless of course another child turns up and plays in the sand, then she'd rather do that, obviously. Abbie wore her gorgeous new dungarees from F&F, I totally wish they did it in adult sizes, not that I could pull it off, but still. In the afternoon, Abbie's other Grandpa came over (she has 3 you know, lucky girl!), so we enjoyed a lovely afternoon of coffees, hot chocolates and cakes before heading off to the park for another run around and play, then headed back home for a big Chinese dinner, to finish! So good! This was probably the fastest has ever fallen asleep too, within 10 minutes actually usually it's at least 45 minutes, parenting win!
Wednesday Abbie woke up in a blissful mood, so we headed off to soft play with Granny, we had the whole place to ourselves for a good 20 minutes which is practically Disneyland for Abbie! This was the first time she actually had enough confidence to play on everything, she even threw herself around on the bouncy castle, dove head first into the ball pool and danced around in front of the mirror! I didn't take any photos as the lighting is terrible in there but there's some footage in the vlog at the end of the post! A family friend popped round in the afternoon, who hasn't seen Abbie in a long while, and obviously Abbie decided to be a super grump again so that was quite fun...but hey, toddlers will be toddlers! But it was a lovely little catch up anyway and Abbie did calm down once she had the Peppa Pig game on my phone, phew!
Thursday
In the morning we played out in the garden most of the morning, paddling pool and bubbles galore! Abbie had a panic attack when I turned on the electric pump for the pool, I don't think i've ever seen someone jump that high in my life! So I had to leave it to blow itself up whilst consoling her, poor monkey! Still, she was happy once it was all ready for splashing and getting Mummy soaked!
For the afternoon we headed out to take some photos of Abbie in her new dress from Mamas & Papas, you can see our review here. She looked so girly and pretty and wandered off into the wild flowers by herself quite happily, so I got the photos I needed pretty quickly, then we might've had to bribe her to sit down, that's where surprise eggs come in very useful!
Friday This was probably the hottest morning we've had in about 3 years! Ben was off work till the afternoon so we decided to pop to a lovely little park not too far from us, give Abbie another run around but also to get some more photos of her in her gorgeous new dress! The lighting was so lovely and once again we had the entire park to ourselves, yay! This was probablyt the first time Abbie hasn't spent the whole time on the swings, she wandered off and tried the climbing frame, the tunnel and even the zip wire, it's so amazing watching her little imagination at the moment, she walks around acting out scenarios, singing and dancing and sometimes reciting Peppa Pig episodes, it's pretty adorable, she gets properly into them! One in particular was 'The Playground', where Peppa gets stuck in the tire swing, so of course Abbie jumped at the chance of getting stuck in one too...damn you Peppa!
Saturday After a super early wake up time of 6.20am, (usually 8am), Abbie was surprisingly happy and cheerful for the morning, it makes things so much easier let me tell you! Me on the other hand, i'm not great with routine change or lack of sleep, so to say I was grumpy may be a little understatement.. The morning was spent reading books, playing puzzles and watching Abbie give us her own little performance of Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes! It was beautiful I must say! She then fell asleep for her nap super early and had an hour and a half of sleep before we had some yummy lunch and headed off to Nanny & Grandpas house! Again, considering she was up so early, this was the most well behaved she has ever been in any given day! We sat inside for a bit and Abbie did her usual routine of staring at the fish and smiling at everyone, before heading into the garden for the rest of the afternoon! With trampoline bouncing, throwing a 'bouncy ball' for the dog, getting us all to stand in a line to watch her performances and sitting down having a wagon wheel break, I definitely think she had a pretty awesome afternoon! Not a tantrum was in sight, until the very end when she tried repeatedly to climb over the garden storage box and into the greenhouse..but that was the first tantrum of the day so we did bloody well! I'm pretty annoyed I didn't take my camera for photos, but stupid me left it switched on so the battery was completely dead! Arggh. Still, I took a few little videos though which you can see on the video below!
All in all, despite the grumpiness from Abbie's upset tummy and an early wake up, we had a really lovely week together, keeping busy and enjoying the sunshine!
