Samuel has an enquiring mind

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Samuel learning about water dynamics

Last week Sam and I made a visit to the Science museum as we had heard very good things about an area that they have in the basement called “The Garden“. The area is really aimed at 3 year olds+ but a lot of the interactive displays seemed to appeal to Sam anyway. He especially loved the water course that they had where you could block off the flow of water through a number of different runs and see how it effected the flow of water… however I think the main appeal for Sam was playing with the boats and splashing.

There is a great section with large soft lego pieces and a winch for getting beanbags to the top of a flume before sending them plummeting back down. They’ve also got some musical bits – in fact Sam enjoyed playing with a set of buttons that played different notes so much that I had to practically drag him away so that we didn’t miss the bubble show.

One of Sam’s newest words is ‘bubble’ and he really loves watching them and chasing them… however I was worried at the start of the show that we would get kicked out as the children were asked not to stand up or pop any bubbles… oh ooooh. However Sam seemed to be mesmirised by the show and all the other children sitting so well that he wasn’t a problem. We both enjoyed wafting bubbles to keep them in the air and the finale of the huge bubble that were made encasing a couple of children was also very impressive.

We both had a great day out and hopefully will return some time soon bring daddy with us 🙂

Vrooom!

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Every day Sam seems to be picking up something new and in the last week we seem to be starting to get more attempts at talking. Sam can currently say Dadda, no, vroom and most recently – car. No mamma yet – not unless he is complaining when I get a ma ma ma ma type annoyed noise, but hopefully some day.

Sam loves cars. He loves the little cars that are part of his garage, he pushes these along surfaces and says vroom quietly to himself. He really loves the big Early Learning Centre cars that are at a number of the play groups that we go to, he can’t drive them forwards yet but he enjoys beeping the horn and walking it backwards through anything that is foolish enough to be behind him. So we really shouldn’t have been too surprised when he happily repeated ‘car’ to us the other day, and now it seems to be his favourite word.

Samuel also seems to be quite happy to watch the Grand Prix with his daddy which should be handy as we are going to be having it on a lot now that the season has started again and won’t be finishing until November. Maybe having Sam listening to the Grand Prix while he was still in my tummy started all this interest in cars for Sam – I just hope he doesn’t grow up wanting to drive formula 1 cars…

Blogging break

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Yikes – it’s been simply ages since I last posted! I’m very sorry loyal readers for not keeping you more up to date with the day to day happenings here at Tea Towers, I must try to do better. With all the changes that Rich has been working on to improve the look of the blog I thought it was high time that I did a new post before you all forgot about me.

Looking back at the blog it seems that my last post was back in August last year about our trip out to the Bluebell railway and since then Rich has been keeping you informed. In those 7 months much has happened and much has stayed the same. We’ve had Sam’s first Birthday, a trip out to Center Parcs, Christmas (and all the associated Christmas panic), Rich’s 30th as well as tons of Sam events like his first steps, first pair of shoes, first hair cut and lot’s of other new events that seem to happen almost daily.

Sam and I are still keeping ourselves mostly out of mischief and spend a lot of time visiting the nearby baby groups as well as socialising with other mums when we can. Today, for instance we went into town to get lunch out with a group of mums at Pizza Express. Sam enjoyed being in his high chair for the first hour, after which he just wanted to wander around the restaurant and see who he could get smiles from. He is as gorgeous as ever and still seems to charm everyone he meets.

Blog changes

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You may notice that the page has changed a little since you last visited. Me and Jessica have decided to combine our blogs so there is now a single place that you can visit to get news from both of us. I’ve been intending to make this change for a while and still have a few tweaks to make, but for now… enjoy.

Quantum of Solace

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I was reading “For Your Eyes Only” this morning and I noticed that the title of one of the chapters was “A Quantum of Solace”. Perhaps you already new the meaning of the film title but if not here is the text from the book:

The Governor paused and looked reflectively over at Bond. He said: ‘You’re not married, but I think it’s the same with all relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some basic humanity exists between the two people.  When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn’t care if the other is alive or dead, then it’s just no good. That particular insult to the ego – worse, to the instinct of preservation – can never be forgiven. I’ve noticed this in hundreds of marriages. I’ve seen flagrant infidelities, patched up, I’ve seen crimes and even murder forgiven by the other party, let alone bankruptcy and every other form of social crime. Incurable disease, blindness, disaster – all these can be overcome. But never the death of common humanity in one of the partners. I’ve thought about this and I’ve invented a rather high-sounding title for this basic factor in human relations. I have called it the Law of the Quantum of Solace.’

I though it was interesting anyway 🙂

Changes

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It’s my last day at Kingswood Warren today – I first came down here for interview just over eight years ago. Next week my place of work will be in West London which’ll mean an unhappy commute for a year or so before I escape to Salford.

This morning at Kingswood

We’re almost finished with the packing and then we’ll be going to the pub.

Steve emerges from under his desk