First Sleepover

Logan's Dad and I were invited to a wedding the other day. We've known the date for a year and had it all planned: Logan would be coming with us during the day time, and sometime in the early evening on of us would quietly disappear with Logan and take him to his grand-parents for the night. We decided not to ask them too early. Maybe we should have!

We then realised the date was a Friday. Not a problem: I took a day off work, and booked Logan into nursery. You never know how a 2-year old is going to behave at a wedding, the nursery was a safer option than taking him with us and possibly throwing a tantrum and shouting a loud NO! just at the wrong time in the church.

And then, when we asked the grandparents a few weeks prior to the wedding, they said they themselves had a wedding reception that very night!!!

We were stuck.

We thought about the babysitter, but she now works evenings in a posh restaurant.

When I mentioned it to Logan's best friend Freya's mum, she straightaway offered to take him. But I wasn't sure. He'd never fallen asleep anywhere else but where we his parents were, or at his grand parents. We decided to try, as it would be the best solution, so we agreed.

She had it all planned right from the start: hot dog sausages and chips for dinner (Logan ate 3 sausages!), sweets, biscuits and fruit for dessert, Cars movie on the TV. And then everybody into Freya's room for book reading and cuddling up. Freya was very keen to sleep in the same bed as Logan but Logan wasn't, so they chased each other for a while round the bed and the mattress that Freya's mum had put down for Logan. Logan lying on the mattress, Freya coming and lying down next to him. Logan getting up and going to Freya's bed, Freya following him them. And so on. Until it was REALLY time for bed and to avoid fighting and tears, Logan was given his own bedroom.

Freya's parents, those lovely friends of ours, dropped Logan off back home at 11 am the next morning... WE HAD THE FIRST LONG LIE IN 2 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS!!

Possibly the best part of the wedding!

New house!

It's been a few weeks since we moved into our new, bigger house in the village by the airport. We have so much space now!

I haven't had much time to spend on the computer, what with cleaning the house and frantically painting walls to try and personalise it a bit. The first room that we tackled and completely did over is Logan's room. It was a teenage girl's bedroom before, so the carpet was full of make-up stains and straighteners burns. It was pretty disgusting and I was adamant this was going to get changed as quickly as possible. We first repainted the walls (they were bland Magnolia like the rest of the house), 3 of them white and the 4th one blue. He has blue curtains too. And for the carpet, we thought a muted green would look quite good with blue and white. We went for bright, apple green! Once all this was done, we took a trip to Ikea and came back with extra bits and bobs. Logan absolutely LOVES it. In fact he would play in it all the time, which is the opposite of the old house.

 We also have a spare bedroom now, where we have put a keyboard. As Logan loves music, very often he goes in there and asks us to put it on, so he can press the Demo button and dance to the very repetitive tune that plays constantly!


But the best bit about the new house has to be the spacious and completely safe garden. Logan loves to go outside, even first thing in the morning. We've got into a routine when the sun is out and it's warm, and when we come back from work/nursery we go out to play. It was hilarious tonight: Logan asked for a carton of juice for himself, then sat himself down on the steps in the garden. Looked up and me and said: "Mummy! Beer! Sit!" So I obeyed of course! Got myself a beer and sat down beside him, and both of us enjoyed our drinks in the sunshine.

He's really coming along with his language skills now. Everyday there's something new that he says or does that surprising us. The other day, not really thinking he would succeed, his dad told him to go and put the music on. He went to the radio/CD player in the corner of the dining room, and slid the button the right way to put the radio on! 

Most of what he says is in English (although he understands all the French I tell him) due to spending so much time at nursery of course, but last thing at night, all he wants is a "bisou" before going to sleep :)