Stars

Was having a bit of a down day but after Tony took Jonathan to Tescos and I had a nap I felt a bit better and managed to play with Jonathan on the floor for a bit. I would stack up his stars and he would come and knock them down and then I rolled about on the floor with him as he was laughing his head off. Going to go to Slimming World tonight

Crawling

Jonathan is crawling now. This means he is quicker to get away from his toys so he can play with buddys bones, wires and remotes. He's such a little monkey

PND

It seems like I have Post natal depression. The doctors have put me on some antidepressants. I've set up a meeting with the family support worker at the children's centre. We met her yesterday she's called Debbie and really friendly. She showed us the Rainbow room which is a sensory room full on light and flashy things, Jonathan loved the bubble tube which changes colour. I can book the room for just us in hour timeslots which would be good for both of us as it gets us out of the house and if I am having a particularly hard day then it means I go out but don't necessarily have to face anyone. Debbie also said I need to try to remember any good times we have whilst I am ill so that it encourages me so I will probably use my blog a lot more to try and remember these good times so that I know I don't only have bad times.

"Turn that frown upside down and do a little dance"

I drove Tony to work tonight so I can keep the car incase I need to take the boys for a drive. Buddy is really hating fireworks he goes mental crying and pacing the house. We weren't sure how Jonathan was going to react but thankfully by the time we got home from taking Tony to work the local display had finished, it didn't stop Buddy crying whilst I was putting Jonathan to bed, thankfully all I had to do was to take his mind off it when I came down by playing games and getting him to do tricks.

Jonathan has been experiencing messy play the last couple of days with cornflour, water, food colouring and glitter he loves it. Tonight when I took him upstairs to bed he was really tired I put him on his changing mat to strip him off for his bath, he wasn't happy and started grumbling so I sang to him "Turn that frown upside down and do a little dance" whilst drawing on his face with my finger a frown then a smile and then I did a wiggle. He absolutely loved it and giggled loads and then he had his bath and splashed lots and lots. He settled down to sleep so easily