Dylan Henry Jones - Month 28

Tuesday - 24Jun14
Well, it looks like Dylan has missed out on chicken pox this time round (as has Daddy - but it turns out that I am in fact immune I guess it must be the joy of having three brothers that no one can remember who had what when...).  He does have a heat rash at the moment which is not doing wonders for his skin which is reasonably rubbish at the best of times.

Other than that he's doing really well.  This week has mostly been about practising his jumping (off things).  Last week was climbing up things (walls, changing stations).  Relatively uninterested by the paddling pool despite the heat.  Perhaps he remembers falling in last year?

Dylan intent on the meerkats at Bristol Zoo

Busy making sandcastles.  Far more interesting than any of the animals.  Even the owlpackers....
(at Puxton)

 Given the state of (some of) the garden, we have a number of nesting birds which doesn't always mix well with a psychotic cat*.  So we had a small incident with a baby blackbird which we all saw - well cat's like to advertise their hunting skills - still slightly alive outside the backdoor.  Dylan pronounced to dead on the scene but having pointed out that he wasn't and attempted a rescue Dylan stated that actually I should have just left it for the cat.  Harsh, but probably fair.


*In fairness to the cat he's actually not been causing that much carnage amongst the wildlife of late.  He hasn't touched the mice in the garden shed...


Wednesday - 28May14
Well, the holiday was mostly a success despite Dylan waking up on the day of the flight out with the start of a stinker of a cold.  As it happens the weather was distinctly hotter than we anticipated and so he was really unphased by the cough.  The hot weather also explains my lack of climbing ability and that's the excuse I'm sticking with!  He had a lovely time winding up and learning new tricks from Holly - who's six months younger than him - but nothing useful like eating reliably with a spoon.  Or eating even.  Equally, I'm not sure whether Holly picked up any good habits other than the ability to say "pickle".  And demand items by shouting "'ave it".  Dylan has also migrated to a big-boy bed with a duvet as he was a little bit ill on one night.  He also experienced showers which he's decided isn't quite as much fun as a bubble bath.  On the downside we're expecting him (and possibly me) to come down with Chicken Pox in the next week or so.  Once I have a little more time I'll put a link to a web album with more photos.

Looking cool.  Or special. Perhaps both?

This is the face of a boy who knows he's being a wind-up merchant.  In this case
teasing Holly by touching her pram

"Mummy's ice cream, no I've not had any..."

Despite our worries about taking a small child who vomits really easily on plane, he was really very good and well-behaved throughout.  Helped in no part by a new sticker book!  Based on this success we've just booked flights for our annual pilgrimmage to Font (ainbleau) and no doubt this time he'll be an absolute stinker!

Dylan Henry Jones - Month 27

Friday - 09May14
Should we worry that one of the Godparents has introduced Dylan to power tools?

"Auntie Cat? Did I say that you could drill there?  And what are we building as it
appears to be the wrong shape for a slide..."

 Friday - 02May14
 Despite a week where the boy was ill (another cold interspersed with coughing vomit or is that a vomity-cough?) we've gone from
               "May I have a Mummy going please?"
whilst in the peaks to
               "Wondering what the cat is doing in the garden"
last week (nothing - the cat was still asleep in the kitchen in case you were wondering).  Needless to say school still think he's a genius especially as he knows his shapes as well as being able to count.  So the boy is mostly doing good, causing minor levels of carnage and keeping his parents on their toes - which is as it should be.  He's also acquired someone's charm - obviously not mine - as he managed to get free chocolate out of random strangers in a cafe.  I was most impressed.  Good chocolate too!

The excitement this month is progressing to a big bed - this is mostly so that we don't have to carry a cot bed with us when we go away - and we're going on a plane.  This latter point is going to be nerve-wracking (for us) on two points.  The first is that Dylan is not great with noise that he's not generating; he hated the steam train we went to see a couple of weeks ago.  And the second is just the potential for illness and not wanting to be in France with a poorly boy who needs to be in hospital fast.  It'll all be fine really!

 

From this (above) to this (below) in the space of an hour.  I wondered why the chatting had stopped!