17 weeks old - Stanwick Lakes

Happy Mothers Day all you Mummies! And what a gorgeous day it's been here! Robert is 17 weeks old today - 4 months old tomorrow. And the longer we live here, the more perfect it seems for a young family! The local primary school is only 2 roads parallel to ours, the doctor's surgery, dentist, library, small tesco, bank and a selection of takeaways are within 5 minutes walk. There's a park at the top of the road, and we have now found a second gorgeous child-friendly country park. We went to Stanwick Lakes today which was gorgeous (although quite chilly with the wind). Lovely walks around several lakes, with fun things for children to do on the way (tire swings, a rope bridge among others, and a HUGE adventure playground in the centre, all made from wood, and looked fab!

We took Robert out of his pram near a little pond it looked quite picturesque with the sun on it and the reeds...

I'm really pleased with how those ones of Jonathan and Robert came out! Shame he hadn't had a shave, but they're still gorgeous photos!

Now the weather is getting nicer again we've started putting washing outside on the line instead of on racks in the bathroom, so we stick Robert outside with us in his Bumbo so he can watch us! Look how long his hair is getting! I can't believe we will probably have to get his hair cut before he's 6 months old :(

He is now rolling over at every opportunity, he does it with ease. The only problem is, once he's on his belly, he gets annoyed because it's like he doesn't know what to do once he's there, or he wants to do something and can't. He starts crying once he's on his belly even though he's the one that put himself there! He can bring up his bottom and get his legs underneath himself, but he can't yet support his weight on his arms. I'm wondering if he's trying to crawl already but because his arms and head are on the floor he can't! We're sometimes not sure what to do when he starts getting grumpy on his tummy. We try and leave him there for a bit so he can have practise doing things with his arms in that position but pick him up before he's screaming blue murder! Poor thing it's hard to know what he wants when he does that.

Anyway, there's now only 3 days to go until our first night out without Robert for over 4 months! (Well, technically our first night out without Robert for over a year if you count me being pregnant with him!) We've decided to go to Frankie and Benny's in Kettering. There's now at least 8 bags of milk in the freezer, ranging from 5oz to 6.5oz which should be enough for several nights out (especially if I carry on getting a few each week - down from 1 a day now but I do try and get a few a week to keep the supply up for incase one's needed when my MIL looks after him when I go shopping.

We've got leftover shepherd's pie in the freezer for them to eat when they're looking after Robert. (We had the other bits yesterday when we saw them) Anyway I'll be off, might do a bit of reading!