Already a week ago, one of my post-natal friends (from Conrad’s sister’s baby days) said the weather was going to be glorious yesterday, and – as we were discussing meeting up – she suggested us digging our paddling pool out. So that’s what we did and it turned out a fantastic day, with five other mums with kids coming over to ours for the afternoon, splashing about in the paddling pool, jumping on the kiddie trampoline, playing with the sand table and generally running around while the mums lounged in the shade of our gazebo.
I put Conrad in the little wet suit he’d been given for Christmas (!) for the first time, and it fitted him perfectly. The water in the paddling pool was a bit cold, which didn’t seem to deter the older kids, and as I didn’t really seem to get around to bringing out those buckets of hot water to sort the water temperature out, I decided to just risk it and plonk Conrad in too, preparing to fish him out straight away if he complained. But he didn’t at all: first time in the paddling pool, in his new swimming cossie and with five toddlers bundling about in the cool water around him, splashing him non-stop, and he just laughed.
I brought a couple of cartons of ice cream out a little while later for the kids, and Conrad got his first ever ice lolly, a blackcurrant 100% fruit juice one. He put the stick in his mouth almost as much as the lolly itself, the lolly broke in half, lots ending up on the grass and he made a sticky mess of a towel I put over his lap, but he seemed to enjoy it – every time he dropped it on the ground he picked it up and put it in his mouth again (usually, at the moment, he’s generally not very interested in finger foods, he mashes them between his fingers or in the palm of his hand but they very rarely come near his mouth…).
Today, without any other kids around, Conrad and his sister got the pool all to themselves and, boy, did they enjoy it!
(More piccies to come!)
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