Fire-juggling at not-quite-nine-months…

Owen, it's BEHIND you!!

I am feeling loads better today! So I’m not going to even talk about me. My little man is now ailing though, and has a rotten cold, his noz is all drippy, he’s sneezing all the time and has a quite bad wheezy cough. But for all that he doesn’t seem too bothered by it all thank goodness. He was a bit fussy at teatime today, but he also didn’t get much of a nap this afternoon so I think that was tiredness really more than anything. He was at mums, and I was shopping for boots (!) so its harder for mum to get him to sleep, not having the boobie prize and all that!

We’ve had quite a busy few days actually. On Sunday we went to Brighton and met up with Kelly and two of her friends, Abby and Reuben and their six month old baby Ned. Ned and Owen have met before, when Owen was about six months himself I think. We went for a roast in a pub, and then walked it off on the Downs. It was a gorgeous autumn day, really sunny but cold and snappy. Owen was in a very sunny mood and I felt much better than I have done for ages.

On Monday we went to PLAY in the morning to meet Tina and Fred, and they came back to ours for a spot of lunch before they had to dash off to the pool. In the afternoon, Owen had his nine month check and he passed everything with flying colours, he fairly dazzled the health visitor with his skills – you know, fire-juggling, reciting extracts from Shakespeare, playing the Moonlight Sonata (very tricky key, C#minor). Well, he didn’t quite do all those things but he did demonstrate 12 month old skills in most things, which is good enough for me! I am not a competitive mum, honest!

On Tuesday we went over to Brighton again and met up with Abby and Ned again, this time at the Sea Life Centre. Owen was quite taken with some of the bright tropical fish and he also seemed quite keen on turtles so I bought him a furry one which he promptly ignored and hasn’t looked at since. Today, as I mentioned, I took him over to mums and I went shopping for boots – have ordered a gorgeous pair and can’t wait to get my hands (or more appropriately, feet) on them!

Must go now, tomorrow we’re up early to go for Owen’s allergy appointment, at last!