Swimming & A Play Date

I took Lily swimming again this weekend. When we arrived at the swimming pool, a huge queue had already formed. A few of the teenage girls recognised Lily from last week and started waving and shouting "Oooh look there's Lily! Hello Lily!!!!". I let Lily out of her pushchair and being the mini celebrity that she is, got all excited and ran over to the girls and waved at them.

Unfortunately Robbie had a cold so he couldn't go swimming, but he and his mummy Elizabeth came to watch Lily swim. Elizabeth bought along a swim seat for Lily to try, but Lily refused to sit in it. The water in the pool felt really cold again and one of the other mums even complained, but she got fobbed off by the pool attendent who said that the water was normal temperature. Lily accidently went underwater, and I thought she would go beserk and never want to go swimming again, but she was a bit shocked when it happened, but then she just squeeled and started splashing water all over me.

After swimming we went over to Elizabeth and Robbies house for a playdate. Hehe, Robbie isn't very good at sharing toys. Lily and Robbie kept fighting over his Peppa Pig musical ride on toy. Everytime Lily wanted too play with it, Robbie wouldn't let her. So Lily would be grabbing hold off the handle with both hands while Robbie kept grabbing the steering wheel and trying to pull it away from Lily.

The Hunny didn't come home to sleep that night. He finished work and then he had to go and do a power flush in central London and he didn't finish until late so he decided to stay over at his mums instead. I was a bit miffed at first, but on hindsight, it was great because I got a good nights sleep thanks to not having to listen to the Hunny snoring and grunting all night and hogging the duvet. And Lily only woke up once during the night!

The weather has been really nice today (although when I woke up this morning it looked dark and cloudy), so I took Lily to the library, to the co-op and then to the park. In the library, they were doing a stock take on the childrens toys and books. Lily kept insisting on trying to help one of the librarians count books. She kept grabbing books and handing them to him. And she wanted to help the other librarian count the toys too, so she ended up bringing out some of the toys for Lily to play with. Lily got bored with all this after a while and then she grabbed my hand and led me to her pushchair, indicating that she wanted to get into the pushchair and leave. And so we did. We popped across the road to the Co-op and we bumped into a little girl called Leila (aged 3) and her mummy who we met at the library about a month ago.

We took the 'scenic' route home and stopped off at the park. Lily made friends with a couple of little girls who were sisters. Lily ran around, went on the swings, went on the slide and drove a train. All the excitment wore Lily out, and when we got home she threw a huge tantrum, so I put her down for a nap.