A nice sunny day

Today was a nice sunny day and we've not had too many of those recently. Although we are well into July we've had too much rain and not enough bright sunny days like today.

So there was no daycare for Jake today and therefore no rush to get him out of bed in order to get him to eat breakfast within a certain period of time. Instead I heard him start to move at around at 8.30 am and I just let him carry on in this manner as he gradually got more and more vocal and therefore fully awake ready for the new day.

At 9am I went up to see him and we played on the bed for a few minutes. He was full of smiles. After a while I brought him downstairs, gave him a wash and sat him at the table for breakfast. He ate a complete bowl of bran flakes, drank orange juice but declined any toast. He was very firm about declining the toast but very good at attempting to use a spoon to feed himself the cereal.

He was in a good mood this morning and at around 10.30am I got out the paddling pool for Jake and A. to play in. Along with lots of suncream they enjoyed the water for the best part of a couple of hours. Unless Jake is in a very bad mood water is always one of the most enjoyable things for him to play with.

After lunch he went with N. for a speech therapy session and then came home to play in the garden some more. I think that the sun tired out both him and his sister because although I was out at work N. told me that both of them had been tired and a bit grumpy this evening. Jake settled down to sleep earlier than normal tonight so I'm worrying that he may wake up during the night.

A. got us up last night at around 2am and although she settled back down relatively quickly we are always so anxious that she doesn't end up waking Jake because we know that he just won't go back to sleep once he is disturbed and that normally means that we won't either.