My wee boy, a week from being 10 months old, cannot crawl. But he is absolutely desperate to walk. He's been grabbing our hands to pull himself up and walk around the house since we're back from France. He can easily pull himself up from the floor using furniture now. The first time this took place was in the bath 2 weeks ago. Scary. He is standing constantly. Sometimes when he reaches an area of interest he will sit down for 2 or 3 minutes to inspect something, and then wants to get back up to explore further.
So I decided that the time of £5 pairs of plastic floppy shoes out of Tesco's was finished, and that he needed a proper pair of shoes that will hold his feet proper and FIT well in order to learn to walk without getting sore feet/ankles and bowed legs.
We went to Clarks of course - where else!! They had a sale on - dancer! Logan loved the experience. He was walking about somewhere he'd never been before, with lots of things to look at, touch, go to etc... And mirrors!! There were 2 little boys in front of us so we had to wait a little. I spotted a really nice pair for him in size 3 (I'd no idea what size he was) which seemed to be the smallest. That was only £5, like Tesco's!! Our turn came, and guess what, he's only a size 2.5! Well he was only 9.5 months old last week. Tiny feet, tiny shoes that weren't in the sale... But it doesn't matter, they FIT and that the main thing. So he's wearing them all the time now and at last his feet go nice and flat on the ground and he's making great progress. And I bought the size 3 at £5 for next month - might as well when they're so cheap!
While Logan's getting nice FITting shoes, I'm getting FIT again! I was running 8K twice a week before I fell pregnant with Logan. I'd only been doing it for a year or so, and I ran a couple of races up in Glasgow. Great feeling. I ran once, pathetically, back in June last year but it was somehow too early. 2012 came and with it new resolutions, so my work got a team together to run for Sport Relief on 25th March. It's 6 miles so I need to build up stamina to last!! I can only run once a week, at the week-end when Logan is having a nap. 3 times so far, and the last time was the best as I felt I could have run longer (I did about 5K - half an hour). I realised that I'd been thinking all along about this blog entry, so my mind was not about running and wanting to stop. Definitely need to sort out my iPod as that will keep me going too! Horrible feeling on Sunday when a boy about 10-12 years old over-ran me (does that exist? ran past me much faster). But he only lasted about 5 minutes. I had to keep running until I got home!
We had another Mummies and Children meeting on Saturday and it was the firt time really when the children actually played together. It was brilliant. Up until the mummies sat down for their lunch and they all started to get grumpy and tired and demanding... Ah well...
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I'm sure there is some whisky in tehre somewhere...
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