First first birthday

We are entering into party season - some weekends we have 2 to go to!

Tristan has the same attitude to paper hats as he has to all headwear - it is to be removed as quickly as possible and to be accompanied by screaming to facilitate the removal!

This was the first party though which (albeit jointly) was for Tristan - the NCT group got together to reminise over how 'this time last year...' and 'can you believe how fast a year has gone...' aka a joint first birthday party.

Countdown

Yep the name tags are out - Tristan is off to creche in a weeks time. This will be a shock to the poor man as he still wont take bottles and isn't too keen on sharing! He is starting in the 'bunnies' room - having skipped the first class so is already a big boy. We are hoping that he wont pick up too many bad habits - swearing or bugs.

He's going to be there for 3 days a week and I'll be back at work after 53 weeks off trying to remember how to string together sentences and not speak in nursery rhymes.

A random image of Tristan and Manu having 'fun' at the recent fair (Manu felt very sick after this ride!).

Playing outside

This is one of Tristan's early birthday presents courtesy of ebay!

(Note the new shoes - he has 2.5 G size feet!)

There are holes to crawl through and peer into which he loves......infact he throws a complete tantrum if you take him outside and he sees it but you don't let him play with it. Concepts like wet and cold are not yet within our grasp!

Tristan's latest trick is pointing at everything that interests him (particularly lights), its quite handy though as he is so pleased with himself when you pass him whatever he has pointed at.

Lots of smiles as he's hoping to go down the slide.

He still loves his little car and will push it round himself if he must when our backs have given in and we are refusing to push him round on it anymore.

4 teeth a cut lip and the pox

Tristan has 4 very visible teeth even if they are all at different lengths (we hope that they will even out). He is enjoying rediscovering the world with the teeth - yes he bites everything (the favourite being shoulders). He also loves to grind them - a truly pleasant noise!


He fell over in his cot and bust his lip in the middle of the night (first blood as well). Thank goodness we don't have any visits planned to the health visitor any time soon!

This was a bad day as it was also when we discovered that he had chickenpox! We spent an hour in hospital trying to stabilise his 40degree fever and had 2 really miserable days of him needing to be constantly cuddled and refusing food. Then the spots came along (only for a day) they were really rather underwhelming and he was immediately much better. We certainly suffered a lot more than him!

I'm relieved that he's got one of the major diseases out the way before I start back at work (3 weeks to go :-( ) but apparently when they get it this young he could get it again. Great.

Sandpit

We'd been meaning to do this all summer these pictures cover 2 months - this baby business has not made us more efficient (and we still have the lid to build!).

It would have been much quicker and cheaper to have bought one but it seemed like a good idea at the time! Tristan did try to help but all he really wanted to do was eat stones!


And finally in October the colder mornings have spurred us on so it is now playable in (with a thick jumper!) - its just a shame that the shops no longer sell sandpit accessories like buckets and spades !