The Toddler Diaries 'The life of Brian'

We have a new member of the family, Brian the snail. Josh and Bethany found him yesterday (Wednesday, just so you’re clear on the day Wendy) on their little table eating cake crumbs. They rushed down this morning to see how he had settled into his new home, an ice cream tub with air holes punched into the side. Brian clearly favours minimalist retro chic combined with a touch of natural foliage for his interiors.

We had a great time at the toddler group yesterday. They’d designed the craft in Joshuas’s honour, (literally) a collage of Mr Incredible. He was thrilled, I’ve never seen him do craft so quickly. He normal can’t be doing with craft (unless it’s making Disney Pixar characters) especially if it’s making butterflies or flowers. Of course when we got home we had to find all the other characters on the internet, print them out, colour them in and cut them out, Joshua loves finding little projects like this for me to do, to keep me out of trouble!

Managed to get more wallpaper stripping done last night. Have located 6 rolls of paper in the shed to put on the walls. In the name of this no budget project I’ve decided to mix together all the paint in the shed so I’ll have enough paint to do all the walls. I told Daniel it would be called shed white, “shed brown more like”, he replied.

The other exciting event of yesterday was Caleb had to go to the doctors. He’s quite chesty and his breathing has been quite heavy. I thought maybe I was just being neurotic, but the doctor said he has asthma and gave me an inhaler, nose drops and some antibiotics to give him. True to form, Caleb doesn’t seem too phased by any of this, although he doesn’t really like the antibiotics.