A day for visiting Granny and Grandpa, but first the lad came up with an eight word sentence
"In the living room the teapot lid is".

We enjoyed our visit to Wembley, Nathan making use of the fine weather to mess about with watering cans in the back garden.

Today we went to Bekonskot model village on its opening day, the first time since last September and an opportunity to compare Nathan then and now. Back then the lad was three days away from his first step. Today he walked for at least half the time we were there, and we were there for three hours.

Nathan and his friends loved it. It's not quite as educational as Odds Farm Park, but very enjoyable.

First we went swimming, at the new pool in Earley. Nathan didn't exactly love it, but by the end he was at least sitting at the water's edge splashing about. Perhaps he'll enjoy it more as he gets more used to it.

Then granny came, and Nathan had a lovely time, at one point shouting to dad "get in kitchen" because he was detracting from the experience, bless him.

We went to Silverdale Road toddler group today, then in the afternoon we went to a new little friend who lives fairly close to us. We played with toys including Play-Dough and Lego, read a book, and watched Bob the Builder.

When mum came to ask the lad what he'd done today, he insisted that he'd gone to Whoosh! When she asked him "So you didn't see (little friend's name) then" he said (something like) "and we didn't watch Bob the builder either".

Yesterday we bought the lad a new type of juice in a carton (the kind with a straw in, it's the only non-milk drink he'll have): orange flavoured. Dad opened it and Nathan decided that he didn't like it, so we now had one carton of apple juice open and one carton of orange juice open. Nathan then asked for "ordinary" Ribena (blackcurrant flavour). Dad thought about it for a moment, then weakened and went over to the shelf. "Joking" cried Nathan with a great big impish smile on his face.