Happy birthday daddy!

Daddy reached the ripe old age of 26 today! Noah celebrated by waking with a temperature at 3am and whimpering until his paracetamol kicked in and I rocked him to sleep singing "Baby mine". Lucky daddy?! Poor boy :(

He woke again at 9am so lots of nice sleep cuddled up to us and we got busy playing! He woke in a fairly cheerful mood but refused his breakfast, so we played with some nice sensory bits and pieces - buttons in a fabric bag, rice in a plastic zip lock bag, coins in a tied sock (haha I'm the master of finding things to do!). He soon cheered up and when I got some ice out or him to touch he was gobsmacked - wanted to touch but it was cold so he kept pulling his hands away. Very cute :)

We were meeting daddy for lunch in the carvery near his work so we popped into nanny's house first and she'd got down a baby walker! Now, we aren't sure how we feel about these but I followed guidelines and he isn't in it for much time at all so I thought - to hell with it, go with it! He was so shocked at his own movement! Cute! He got distracted by a banana and wolfed it down.

He ate quite a bit at the carvery and attracted the attention of all the diners around us. He does this "smile and stare" at people until they smile back, creepy little man! Still, it works a treat and he gets endless smiles :) Daddy loved the card that Noah "wrote" for him. I then shot off to pick my niece up from school and that little niece spent an hour making Uncle Oli a birthday card!

We had a nice family dinner and Noah was absolutely fascinated by the candles on the cake. So much so that we had to sing "Happy birthday" a few times (in welsh) so that he could see and so that my niece had a chance to blow out the candles too.

Big first for the little man - first cake! Exciting stuff! Oli has spent the post-bedtime hours building the lego digger and truck that Noah bought him. Big Kid.

Happy birthday husband x