There’s been an accident. Christmas has exploded all over my mother’s dining room.
Inevitably my mother will read this and get upset – please note that we (my father, Mark and I) are not mocking your effort in decorating the house, and the effort is appreciated – merely we are amazed at the extent of your festiveness.
To-do list for the next 4 weeks:
- Make the switch from formula to cow’s milk (hurrah, less money spent).
- Get him to stop drinking milk from bottles (he drinks water from a cup very well at meal times now – however, if I let him hold it he enjoys pouring it all over himself, and I never had any luck with sippy cups…help).
- Plan for the Great Dummy Take Away of 2007 (coming to a cinema near you in January).
- Organise a first birthday party that primarily consists of adults.
- Figure out the Christmas present balance between not buying enough for him as I’m cheap and my parents have already cleared Toys R Us empty, and buying too much because it’s the one time of year he gets stuff, because of his unfortunate birthday.
- Also, begin some kind of programme so we can catch up on all the areas he’s seriously lagging behind on – 2 hours a day of training him to say Mama and Dada, to start (okay, I am kidding, but Babycentre emails freak me out).
