After getting off Skype, Abi went to sleep for her morning nap and I took Dylan to the supermarket. From there we came home, dropped the stuff, checked on Abi and Penri (who were both asleep) and then we went to the park. On our way to the supermarket I was thinking how pleasant the weather was (I guess it must have been about 9.30 a.m) so I thought it would be cool enough to go to the park. However, when we got there we only ended up staying for 10 minutes as it turned out to be quite warm. I managed to get a couple of photos of DJ. After being there for only 2 minutes, he decided he was going to take his shoes off – that's what the photo is of him sitting on the grass with his back to me. I also got a picture of this (rather huge looking) squirrel? Weasel? I don't know what he is. Any suggestions?
On the way back from the playground, I saw these lights and I remembered what Pen had said the other day: 'Only in India!' So, all around our apartment block there are bushes and inside the bushes there are standing lights, however the bush literally covers the lights all the way to the top!! You can just see the black bit sticking out of the top of it.
So, Dylan loves his new remote control car … just one problem … he can't quite suss out that it is him who is controlling it. He pushes the button on the remote and the car zooms forward but then he goes running after it saying 'my car, my car' and picks it up. We keep trying to explain to him that it's him controlling it, but he just wants to hold it and push it along lol. Glad I didn't spend loads on it!
We had a very relaxed day yesterday just chilling around the house. I managed to get on Skype to my mum and to Debbie in the afternoon which was really nice. Dylan and I also made a money box out of some old magazines and a Pringles tube – I think we made more mess than anything but it was fun! Finally, I did a bit of handiwork … I moved the curtains out of the dining room and Abigail's bedroom and put them in my bedroom.
Let me explain – all the curtains in those three rooms are the same design – brown with silver circles on them, but none of the curtains quite fit the windows so every morning at 4 or 5 o'clock Abi would wake up because it is so bright in my bedroom (where she is currently sleeping next to me in her travel cot). When I moved the other curtains in next to the ones I already have, it made a huge difference! It looks much nicer and I bet the room stays cooler too. It was so funny because I don't have a step ladder and the curtain rails are really high up (they're above French window style doors), so after struggling standing on a dining chair and not quite being able to reach, I remembered there were four plastic chairs stacked up in the servant's quarters so I used them. Our new cleaner had just started and I think he thought I was mad … both my children were sleeping and there I was with a screwdriver, standing on plastic chairs taking curtain rails apart! It was worth it though and I can't believe I hadn't thought of doing it before!
Dylan has started waving goodbye and blowing kisses to EVERYONE we pass, see or talk to. It's so funny and far too cute! If he doesn't do it automatically, I say to him Dylan say goodbye to ____ (person's name). A few times now when I haven't known someone's name I have said to him 'Dylan say goodbye to the man' and he turns round and says 'Bye man' and waves and blows a kiss. Then another time I said 'Dylan say goodbye to the ladies' and he said 'Bye ladies'. It's really funny! When we went to the hospital that day, Dylan amazed me. At the beginning when we were in the waiting room, I said to Dylan 'we're going to go and see the doctor because Abigail has to have her injections'. That's all I said and then we were called in. Dylan sat in the pushchair and watched while Abi had her jabs and he didn't say a word. When Abi got upset, Dylan started to cry a bit and that made her worried and more upset. I told him she was fine and then she looked at him and started laughing, then he started laughing. Anyway, I've gone off on a tangent. When it was time to leave the doctor's room, DJ turned around and waved and said 'Bye doctor'. I couldn't believe he had remembered what I told him in the waiting room 20 minutes before! So clever!
Back to today … when the children woke up, Dylan had a snack and I tried Abigail with the baby cereal again (added a few photos). Dylan was 'helping' me feed her and there's a photo here of him wiping her mouth with the muslin and then another photo when she cried of him tapping her chest lightly and saying 'OK baby' … where's he heard that? I must say it more than I think lol.
Later in the evening we went swimming. Pens came home about 9.30 and they were both still awake. We had pizza (which DJ ended up sharing as he was still awake) and all went to bed about 10.30 p.m.
