Our baby boy's 1st Birthday!

You know time is flying when one minute you are holding your newly born son and then then next you're celebrating the fact that a whole year has gone by! That's right peeps, on the 3rd February 2011 Charlie turned in to a 1 year old little boy (so now when Jude asks how old Charlie is we can actually give him a number rather than confusing him! Bless).
I thought it would be a good idea to share with you all what we did:

We had heard of this great place in Melksham for kids which is called "Boomerang". So on Monday 1st February we took Charlie and had a wonderful hour or so.

They had all kinds of soft play toys there, we took advantage of the bouncy castle being empty and dove on to see what Charlie thought. Unfortunately he was a little tired and wasn't too impressed.

We then took him over to the ball park which he loved!

I have to say, this donut thing was probably his favourite thing there. I get the impression he'd have stayed in this for hours!



We then took him on this "fun house" type gaunlet. Unfortunately Mummy was too afraid to come on but did a good job of getting some fab pics!

By this point I think he had completely lost interest... These pics were more for us I think lol!

That night we took Charlie in to Bath and went to STRADA where he had his first ever ordered meal. The waiter brought over some crayons (which said not suitable for under 36 months!) and a childrens menu to use them on a long with a few breadsticks which he LOVED! I was quite impressed that he actually got the hang of colouring in instead of just putting the crayons in his mouth.

Charlie ended up having grilled chicken breast and panacotta for dessert!

On his actual birthday we got some birthday banners and party food and had a little party at home for him. He got lots of nice things including; Money, new clothes & coat, a play telephone, shark towel & swimming shorts plus lots of new toys! AND as we're off to our roots at the end of February he has lots of pressies waiting for him!

To end the celebrations we thought we'd take him swimming. So today we packed our bags and set off for the Olympiad Leisure Centre. It's only a 10-15 minute walk but the day didn't look great so I suggested taking the car... Needless to say this was met by a lot of heckling from my beloved. We arrived and got down to the pool to find a bunch of old perishers  swimming in lanes! Luckily I asked the life guard who said it was ok to get in as they had extended the times for the over 50's so they'd just have to swim round us.
Charlie had a fab time and wee definately going to take him back soon.

We hope this has served as a great birthday celebration in his eyes and that he had lots of fun, I guess we shall never truly know.
Still it's a real blessing be able to celebrate the birth of our baby boy as it really is one of the bestest days of my life.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY BOY!!