Happy Birthday?

Today was my partners birthday, my son was thrilled to see all the banners and balloons I had put up round the house. I think he will be rather upset when they are gone tomorrow, although he does have plenty of balloons to play with.
When I came in with the birthday cake for us to sing Happy Birthday to Daddy, my son screamed. We had to rush to blow the candles out as he was sobbing. I thought it was the candles but after a little while he was prepared to help daddy blow them out for a 2nd time, however when we sang again the screaming started once more.
Turns out he doesn't like the song "Happy Birthday" I'm dreading the next time its one of the kids at playschools birthday, I can just picture him screaming till everyone stops singing to them.

DVD Hunting

Ive been searching for The Lion King on DVD as a stocking filler and was completely shocked at the price of it. Other Disney DVD's are available at £7.00 nowdays but to get a brand new Lion King was over £21.00. Ridiculous!!! I could buy 3-4 Disney DVD's at that price!!
I decided to buy a BOO! DVD off of play.com instead. It was only £5.00 and my son is still crazy about BOO! even if it hasn't been shown on Cbeebies for months.
I managed to buy some christmas presents today, it was good to get some of it out of the way. I bought my nephew a In The Night Garden Aquadraw and my son a Tomy Lumisketcher. I was going to buy his Disney Cars scalextric too but it was £54.99 and in a huge box, ive seen it online delivered for £49.99 so I decided to do that instead.

Fireworks weekend

We spent some of this weekend watching the fireworks. Last year my son was very impressed by them clapping and jumping up and down everytime 1 went off, this year he wasn't really bothered - actually I think I wanted to watch them more than he did.
I do love fireworks, although home displays are usually full of the same old rubbish fireworks every year, HUGE rockets that are actually pretty tame when they go off, traffic lights which are so low that it looks like your grass may be scorched for all eternity, catherine wheels that get stuck and don't spin and then that "expensive" 1 that you save till the end and it turns out to be a dud!!!!
Ive decided next year we are going to a display instead, I can show my son some real fireworks then!!!

Another trip to the supermarket

Today I had to bite the bullet and take my son to the supermarket whilst I got some shopping, I managed to steer him away from the toy isle but he managed to find the childrens books and begin grabbing them from the shelf. Seeing the waybuloo book he picked was only £3.50 I gave in and bought it for him. (Alot cheaper than the £20.00 purchase he guilt tripped me into spending the last time).
This evening a certain little boy didn't think it was time for bed and was playing up but on reminding him I was going to read him his new story he relented and went off like a good boy... Thanks Waybuloo.
I found out that this De-li story book is also available online from this Amazon Waybuloo store.

Christmas thoughts

I spent most of today wondering what on earth to buy my son for Christmas. Ive tried to get him to give me some ideas by going through the Argos book together. He told me he wanted a scooter, I asked "which one?" and he pointed to a Thomas The Tank Engine bike!!! He also got rather excited over a peppa pig alphabet board but he already has that, he got it last Christmas.
Im thinking the Micro Scalextric Disney Cars set is probably a safe bet, he got a "my first scalextric" for his birthday which was quite a big hit but its at his nannys so a larger set for home might be a winner.
Apart from that i'm stuck, we have every Vtech and Leapfrog toy going and Fisher Price seem to have a very limited range of toys for preschoolers these days... I best get some inspiration fast only 52 sleeps to go!!!

Back To The Old Routine

Half term over and my son is back to playschool, I celebrated my 2 and a half hours of freedom by having a morning fry up with a friend.
My son never tells me what hes been up to at playschool, I would love to be a fly on the wall for a day and see what the little rascal gets up to whilst im gone.
After playschool he spend most of his day glued to his V Smile which meant I could catch up with some much needed housework. He loves his V Smile, funny thing is when we bought it he couldn't work the joystick and it looked like yet another waste of money but after forgetting about it for a while and finding it in the cupboard its fast become one of his favourite toys.

Halloween

Where on earth were all the trick or treaters this year? I bought 3 bags full of chocolates and only had 2 kids turned up. I'm now wishing I had bought sweets that I actually like.
My son seemed to enjoy running around in his vampire costume, I would have taken him trick or treating but he will only eat chocolate buttons or magic stars so I would have ended up with even more sweets to get through.