If you go down to the woods today

Slightly later waking from Ethan today - 6.50am ... although that doesn't count for much when you consider he didn't go to bed till just before 9pm last night!

Hubbie left at 10.30am for a stag weekend. So it's just me and Ethan now till hubbie gets home some time tomorrow. We started our day with a trip to the library. Ethan's favourite thing to do there is to push the little chairs in the kids section out into the main library and to the front door! When I closed the door of the kids section he was not impressed!

We then popped over the road to see my friend Jenny. Unfortunately her wee boy Finn (who is at nursery with Ethan and whom he gets on really well with) was having his nap so we didn't see him. By the time we left, it was lunchtime and Ethan was knackered. He fell asleep in the car 5 minutes from home but woke up when I took him in the house and was practically bouncing off the walls. I guess the chocolate biscuit at Jenny's house wasn't such a good idea after all! So, we had lunch, and then I took him for a walk in the pushchair to try to get him to nap. I decided to go for a wander through Wilderness Wood, in the hope that the fact it was quiet with no distractions, would send him to sleep quickly. But no. 45 minutes later he was still wide awake and making it quite clear he wanted to walk. So I let him out the pushchair, but soon regretted it when he kept heading off in the opposite direction to me! It was wet and muddy and very frustrating when he kept ignoring me. Back in the pushchair he went - kicking and screaming! Ten minutes later he finally fell asleep and slept for an hour and a half. Phew!

He was like a different boy when he woke up and we had great fun this evening. Lots of books and playtime. Macaroni cheese then strawberries for dinner. Fun bathtime, milk and only a few grumbles from him at bedtime.

Now for mummy time!