{4, not 3}

According to my son, he is turning 4, not 3! His actual birthday is tomorrow, but today we had a little party with his cousin's at his daddy's house. It's been a long, emotional day and I left the party first, with tears welling up in my eyes as I went. I found it a bit difficult. All the immediate family from his side were there plus me and despite nothing being said about the whole situation, I could feel the tension (maybe it was my imagination!?) and felt a bit awkward. I came back to my empty house, wiped away the tears and hit the gym! (About time too you might say!). I'm currently sat at my desk with a cup of tea in hand and I'm planning on having an early night - I need to catch up on sleep and prepare myself for the week ahead.

I thought I'd share a couple of the photographs in case you didn't happen to spot them in my Twitter feed. I had bought my son a very cool t-shirt (I think so anyway!) for his birthday that has his name across the front, as such I'm not sharing any photographs of him, but here is his little sister in her party dress!

Pointing at a 'birdie'

She *loved* all the balloons!!

An example of the t-shirt I bought my son by Flaming Imp

{Music}

My 2 year old son loves music.  He has enjoyed listening to children's music from a very early age and when he was tiny if I switched on a CD of nursery rhymes it would calm him down... regular music doesn't seem to have the same effect though.  He's now able to sing along to some of the tunes and knows the words (well, most of them!) for a number of the popular nursery rhymes... I too know all the words!! Not just nursery rhymes, but the Jo Jingles songs and the Gymboree songs too!

For his birthday he was given a personalised music CD from a close family friend.  It is fantastic! There are 8 songs on the CD and his name is mentioned over 40 times throughout the songs.  I've had a quick search on google, and personalised music CDs tend to cost in the region of £10-£15... well this CD is just £4.99 (inc P&P)! It's such a great gift that I thought I would share the details with you.  The CD is from a company called Tree Frog Limited, and they have a catalogue of 800 plus names which you can view online.  Contact details are on their website.

'Singing' at 10 months old!