BookBug Day!

It's been a busy day for little Son3 today. He turned 12 weeks yesterday (which I really can't believe!) and so had his 3 month developmental check with the Health Visitor followed by a rather traumatic visit to the nurse for his second send of innoculations and then a lovely book bug session.

Here in the UK they look for certain skills at the 3 month check such as smiling, making noises like cooing, starting to support their head etc as well as obviously checking that Mum is happy with babys feeding and sleeping as well as happy in herself.  Questions such as 'are you going to any of the local groups?' and asking what sort of family and friends network you have are reassurance that they are there to support you if need be and here in Aviemore there are 3 lovely groups to attend that have been really welcoming and friendly.  We also received some lovely freebies of weaning bowls and spoons and a leaflet despite the fact that you are advised to try and hold off from starting solids until they are as close to 6 months of age as possible.  I'm not telling you how old Son2 was when he started on the purees but there was no way he was waiting till 6 months!! 

Son3 managed to get naked and weighed without peeing on everything and everyone in the nearby vicinity and we then received our BookBugs pack which was rather nice:

BookBug is run by the Scottish Book Trust and gifts book bags to every child in Scotland. They also run free song & rhymes sessions across the country and although Son3 is still very young, we've already started attending the session in Aviemore as it's great to get him into this as soon as possible.  I used to be a bookseller with two different companies and so am quite vocal in my love of reading and getting my kids to read.  I've read to all of them since they were born and actively encouraged the use of audiobooks for journeys and after bed time story to go to sleep to.  This is a lovely wee pack and a great addition to Son3s' library.  Find out more about BookBug here.

We went to BookBug Aviemore straight after Son3s' inoculations (which went fine although he did give the nurse a rather dirty look after he'd stopped crying) where he had his bottle and listened to lots of songs including Tommy Thumb, Hickory Dickory Dock, Old Macdonald had a farm (not in this family he didn't) and Row Row Row your boat among many others.  There is also a story at the end which was a birthday story today as some of the children had had birthdays during the week.  It's nice how they do that for them :)

So that was our busy morning all before 12pm!!  I've spent the afternoon with my fingers crossed that he doesn't spike a temperature following his jags and even managed to get a couple of rows on the duffel coat done while he had a nap.

Tomorrow sees me taking Son1 to Inverness College for his application interview eek!!!  How'd he get so old?? How'd I get so old???!!  I think there will be a couple of hours spent biting my nails in Starbucks waiting for him to phone to say he's finished.  Have a good evening all!

Kelly x