Eddie at the British Library

Enjoying the artefacts at the The British Library.

Swimming

I know it is a little dark, but this photo shows Eddie in the change room at our local swimming pool...
He seems to be choosing which swim suit to wear. Mine's the floral one. He wears stripes.

You can also see that his BCG (tuberculosis) jab wound is still quite big. We'll probably need to get it checked out next week, to make sure it's healing properly. They give this jab in London because apparently the cosmopolitan nature of the city means greater risk of catching TB.

We try to go 'swimming' once a week. This involves me holding E as we walk down from the shallow end into deeper water. He shudders and shivers a bit in apprehension...and then relaxes and starts to splash about with his hands, staring in fascination at the adult swimmers in the lane next to us. Sometimes they even stop to say hi and tell E how cute he is, and how good it is that he's learning to swim.

Swimming makes Eddie hungry. Here he is later on (6pm) at dinner time. Mmmmmm, raspberry yogurt, my favourite... hands are looking pretty big there, little fella.

I've just woken up...

Here's Eddie in his sleeping bag, serene, having just woken up from an afternoon sleep (last Sunday). It doesn't take him long to find his train, and get back to his usual self...

Fridays

As mentioned previously on this blog, on Friday mornings we go to the playgroup at St Mary's. Here's Eddie with his mate, Tom.


On Friday afternoons we walk to Westbourne Park (near Notting Hill) along Harrow road (kind of harrowing, because it's busy, noisy and polluted...but also quite enjoyable, because there are so many CARS to look at!).



We are going there for a 10 week course I'm doing to become a Breastfeeding Peer Counsellor
...which means I can support and encourage breastfeeding mums on a voluntary basis, in the community and in health clinics, etc. It is great fun - Eddie goes to the creche where he is treated like a little prince by Winnie and Petra, who adore him.

It was FREEZING when I took this photo of Eddie...his snowsuit has been essential this winter!

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At bath-time Edmund can also be known as 'Sparky'.

Photo opportunity

Tom and I, enjoying a Friday night in.

Sad, isn't it, to have to take pictures of yourself...but we realised we had no pictures of the two of us - and we need one, because we are starting a small group with St Mary's, and they wanted a 'profile' of us, including a pic...it will be posted on their website, so people can check out which group they'd like to join...

Apparently we have 9 potential members....cool!