Farewell Blogger

I have been having major issues with blogger lately, I don't know if its just me, or if its everyone? But yesterday was the last straw when it was set to redirect the whole day and I couldn't get in at all. Since Duncan is on holiday this week I was able to sneak a few hours to myself, open a Typepad account and transfer this blog to a new space. I hope you don't mind moving over there with me, I love having comments left and its a lonely blog life with no comments. The new/old blog is called Mama's Little Beats (our surname is Beattie). I hope you like it. Mama's Little Beats
Love Val & Oscar
Find us HERE

A Saturday Treat

My husband is quite a thoughtful soul, and allows me a lie-in every Saturday. Now I dont know about you, but that doesn't mean sleepy time to me, not when there are blogs to read, emails to check, and this

And this

And this

Have a lovely weekend everyone.
xxx

Belated

I didnt post here last weekend because I was busy getting my sketch blog started HERE. But I wanted to say belatedly that it was my darling husbands birthday on Saturday and he turned 35. We had a relaxed day with tea and birthday cake in the afternoon

 

In the evening I cooked him his favorite carnivorous dinner and we opened a nice bottle of wine. Belated birthday wishes darling, you mean the world to us.

A bit fuzzy but one of my favorite photo's of them

Just Lovely

When you live on a housing estate (hopefully not for much longer!!!) in a working class Scottish town, its easy to despair of books filled with rosy cheeked grubby children wading in puddles and playing with pine cones. I have a security camera on a pillar 50 feet from my house. The pharmacy at the end of my street dispenses methadone to a waiting que at 10am every day so we have to avoid it. There is glass in the park, shopping trolleys occasionally half way down the hill, and comings and goings at all times of the day and night from some of the more dubious residents of our street. You can see why I want to move? But this book didn't depress me, it was quite uplifting on a cloudy afternoon when I had a migraine hanging over me.  For a little while I forgot where I was and saw the wonder all around me through the eyes of a child. I will also be following SouleMama's blog from now on.
Thanks SouleMama, you got through where many others have failed.
SouleMama

Scribbles

Hello, I haven't been around much, but you can see what I am up to HERE

Swimmy Doodles

We went swimming yesterday, the littlie and me. Maybe a bit unremarkable for most Mum's, fun, but not necessarily newsworthy. But it is for me because I have never taken him swimming by myself. I am an awful swimmer, in fact I would say I cant swim, I just manage to keep myself afloat somehow. Normally Daddy takes him, or we go together, but I made up my mind on Sunday evening to give it a go, and packed the swim bag, so I would be less likely to change my mind. After I dressed the little guy in the morning I asked him to look in the bag and guess where we were going. When he realised it was swimming he jumped up and down and yelled, 'its the best in the world' (so cute for a 2 year old, and talk about Mummy guilt!).
We set off early (again, so I wouldn't have time to think about it and change my mind), and arrived at the pool at about 10.30am. As it turns out, there was a swim class going on in the toddler pool, so half of the pool was roped off. Luckily there were only 2 other families there so we all had loads of space (although all the Mummies of the swim class were sitting on the side making me feel a bit paranoid). All in all, it turned out pretty well, with only one escape attempt when he shot up the steps and sped off along the side of the pool (that boy is turning into a 'runner' and will try and make a break for it at every given opportunity). After about an hour we were both surprised to see one of my friends for the Ante-Natal group and her little girl, arrive (this was the group I went to when expecting Oscar). My friend is expecting her second baby and was looking wonderful, and also as happy to see me as I was to see her. The swim class finished just after that and at one point the 4 of us had the whole pool to ourselves. So, a pretty successful outing all in all. I am thinking of going back again next week.
Since photo's are banned at the pool, I have no evidence to show you, but I thought I would take a leaf from 'Doodlemum' (I LOVE HER), and show you some swimmy doodles.
Have A Nice Day Everyone.

Sensational Sunday

I decided yesterday that I couldn't stand another day stuck at home, for me or the little guy. When I realised we hadn't set foot out of the door since last Monday, due to this rotten cold, I made up my mind to head out.
There is a science center where we live, that neither myself or my husband had been to called SENSATION. Although its billing says its for all of the family, no one seemed quite sure if it was suitable for under 3's, but since they were running baby sensory sessions we figured we would give it a go. And a good thing we did too, because the littlie LOVED it. So much so, he was crying when we dragged him out 2 hours later.

Needless to say, he was asleep when we got there.

But some juice and a snack soon sorted him out

Then the fun began

Needless To Say, Many Of The Photos Are Blurry, Because He Never Stopped Moving

But Remarkably, He Made A Friend With The Same Name As Him

Watch This Space For A Little Video I Will Upload Later.