Moving, just keep moving

It seems we have entered a happy groove. One where the days drift by happily, we are busy with things but not pressured by having to do them and enjoying the slow pace and cosy house. The biggest news today is that we have booked a date to have our windows done, hurray! Eight and a half years of living with moulding windows and finally we will have clean and insulating ones. We're planning on getting the guttering done too, for anyone who has tried to enter our house in the lashing rain and had to come through the waterfall infront of our door! Anyway, i'm a little bit excited about the windows being done and not having to clean and scrub growing black mould of off them especially through the winter months. 

In other, more relevant news, we have had water beads out today. Originally intended for Plum but the boys have been dipping their hands in as they pass by and Bean announced that they don't bounce. He knows this because he tried throwing them on the floor. Plum has also been busy with her doll's house and we are losing count of the words that are now becoming more and more recognisable. Today's main words have been, 'Bob the builder,' 'Peppa,' 'more,' 'chair,' 'tea,' and 'dolly.' 

Pumpkin continues to wear his Spiderman outfit (day eight) but did get dressed underneath it today with the intention of going to the park, but he never made it. Instead he has been submerging himself in Stampycat and a few other minecraft videos. We have noted that he has really gone off breakfast except for toast so this morning was a bit disastrous as we had no bread in the house. Recently (in the last month) Pumpkin has taken to falling asleep in mummy and daddy's bed. Daddy moves him when he comes to bed and Pumpkin sleeps the rest of the night in his own bed. Yesterday morning I woke up to the sound of Pumpkin quietly sobbing into his pillow because he wanted to still be in our bed :( It made me sad and, as daddy was already up and getting ready for work, Pumpkin came back to bed with me and fell back to sleep. Last night he slept all night with mummy and Plum. He woke me at about 4am just to tell me that he loved sleeping with mummy, and then he went back to sleep. Happy boy. 

Daddy took Bean and Plum to the park when there was a break in the weather and mummy and Pumpkin stayed home. I began to put away the Christmas decorations and Pumpkin disappeared upstairs, i think to avoid even being asked if he wanted to help. We're having a small rearrange of toy boxes and i have realised that i really don't like keeping things as they are. I regularly move things around or try and make things better suit our needs and accommodate our family. It has to be managed carefully now though as Bean would prefer things to stay the same so we have spent three days talking through different ideas and visualising and walking through what is going to happen. Fortunately he is keen to have his toy box move upstairs into his room, so, so far so good.