Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Growing up

Tristan is now very full of himself, he has moved up a class in creche ("no not creche mummy its hedgehogs") and is loving it.

He has a strong idea of what he should and shouldn't wear (although his love of hairclips remains!), this is him getting ready for a wedding "I'm beautiful mummy".Whilst he insists that we dance with him at home, out on the real dancefloor he kept telling us to go and sit down as I guess we were cramping his 'style' (mostly running in circles, jumping and lying on the floor kicking his legs)




He still anything mechanical trains, diggers, planes, "I do it by myself mummy", and my vocabulary on these subjects is now tested to the limit (fortunately the Bob 2010 annual has a crib sheet in it!), he also understand his colours now so can't be fobbed of with me using colours alone to differentiate the world of tractor-type digging machines.


His favourite book though is 'The Gruffulo' and he can recite it by heart now, infact my reading of it is just me saying the wrong words so he can sigh and correct me. He also thinks it very funny to point out apparent similarities between his parents and the Gruffulo, "your eyes are orange-y, your tongue is black, let me look, purple pickles all over your back - it's mummy Griffulo ha ha ha!"

Dizzy!

...as in 'scoop, muck and dizzy join the crew..." (from great lyracist we know as Bob the builder!)

Dizzy the cement mixer arrived in out garden (handily borrowed from a neighbour) to help us start the foundations for the first of the three borders. The plants arrived a month ago so it would be good to have somewhere to put them! As you see we have a few chairs as its a spectator sport!


Here is the cement pouring (after many hours of digging and levelling)



This shows the foundations pre-cement and more importantly the new panels we've attached onto our ridiculously low fence... much more work needed before we have an outside space that is worthy of the name garden!

Football


Tristan is now dong a football class on a Saturday morning.



He loves it - it's so cute they even have warm-up exercises (shaking legs and turning shoulders), he takes it all very seriously and likes repeating the instructions "little kicks, no hands mummy", "red means stop papa". There a lot more non-ball time than time with he ball but I guess he hasn't discovered trade descriptions yet!