Routine

Here is Adam month four when he would mostly nap on me.

The past two weeks though Adam has, as toddlers tend to do, changed and he has decided he only wants to take one nap.  It’s been throwing me off completely.  I kept trying to get him to take two naps and he of course did not want to.  I think I selfishly wasn’t ready to enter into this next stage of life and I also was completely thrown off my routine and felt out of sorts.  Adam, of course, took less time to adjust and I finally feel like I’ve caught up.  The past three days he’s taken one long nap from 12-3.  Which, I have to say is still pretty nice. It means we can go out in the morning and not have to race back.  It also means that here, where I have help, I have three whole hours to do whatever I want and I don’t even have to clean and cook!

 

So what do we do to fill our days, you ask?  This weekend we did nothing and it was great! We went for long walks in the morning, followed by a nap and then some pool time.  It has gotten HOT here and it’s so nice to have a pool downstairs.  When Adam wakes up from his nap it’s a great time to go.  The sun isn’t as strong and loads of people are down there.  As Randy said – it’s like a Budweiser commercial. 

Adam has really started liking the pool, now he just needs to learn how to swim!

We also found time this weekend to go to our friend’s birthday party! With one nap we were able to  stay there all morning.  We did all need a nap afterwards.  Why are kids birthday parties so exhausting for parents?? Basketball, balloons and clowns, it was Adam’s dream.

This birthday party was really cute, it was animal themed, so there were masks, stickers of animals, even a little farm.  There were also clowns….I think perhaps a lot was lost in the translation but the first joke out of this clown’s mouth was- ‘Is my nose bleeding?’ Is this even a joke? For a room full of kids? Anyway, thankfully his show did get better from there but was still pretty interesting to watch.  At one point he asked the children to find things in the room to win a prize and among the things to look for were a hot mommy and then their very own yaya (Filipino for nanny). Lost in translation I think. 

Sunday nights we’ve been going to Aria, a pizza place on the high street.  The pizza is delicious and the waitresses love Adam so we can enjoy our food while they fawn over him.   We’ve started to really settle in here and enjoy life so far.  I think the tropical weather, pool downstairs and countless amazing places close by to travel to make us feel like we’re perpetually on vacation.  We felt the same when we first moved to London, so I know as time passes and we get more used to life here that feeling will fade, but for now it’s really nice.