The weekend has come and gone

Wow its Sunday night already, the weekends always seem to come and go so quickly. It's been a fairly chilled out weekend really, on Saturday morning Pete had to work so I popped over to my parents house. My big sister has been visiting for the weekend so it was lovely to see her. My sister Emma lives in Glastonbury, Somerset so we don't get to see her that often but she popped down to see us this weekend as she is on her way to Ireland for about 6 weeks. 

I came back home at around lunch time and Pete was just getting home from work so we gave Eliza her lunch and then put her down for her afternoon nap. I was feeling pretty sleepy myself so for some reason I snuggled up on the living room floor inside Eliza's play tent and had a snooze. It was quite comfy in there but I'm sure it would have been more sensible to lie on the sofa. 

In the last few weeks Eliza has learned to open the fridge door, as you can imagine this is beginning to get quite annoying especially when she finds the yoghurt's or chocolate buttons and helps herself. We already have locks on the cupboard doors but didn't need anything on the fridge until now. We had a look online to see what sort of fridge locks are available and to be honest they all seem pretty rubbish so after some deliberation we decided that it would be best to get a child safety gate across the entrance to the kitchen in order to keep Eliza out altogether. It wont be long until she can reach the drawers and work surfaces so for her safety and our sanity we think its the best idea. 

Once Eliza woke from her nap, Pete suggested that I take her to Argos to choose a safety gate so that he could have a shower without her banging on the bathroom door.  Unfortunately I chose the worst possible time to go out. The very second I parked up and got Eliza out of the car we were hit with torrential rain and were both wetter than if we had actually been in the shower ourselves.  We got the gate we wanted, struggled back to the car and were back home within about 30 minutes. 

By now it was time to go out again as we had been invited out for tea by our friends. We headed to the Toby Carvery on Festival Park and Eliza was thrilled to bits when she realised who we were having our meal with. She absolutely adores her Uncle Jabba, Aunty Amy and Uncle Neil and had spent most of the week asking to see them. Eliza enjoys going out for tea but after about 45 minutes of sitting in her high chair she is bored and shouts "out" at me until I let her sit on my knee. She soon cheered up when Uncle Jabba shared his dessert with her though. I can see why places like Wacky Warehouse were invented now because it can be hard to entertain a toddler for longer than an hour at a dining table. All in all we had a lovely meal then we all headed back to our house for an evening of the X Factor and snacks.

This morning we headed up to Hanley  because I desperately need some new boots, my current ones have a hole in the bottom of them and have started to let water through. Unfortunately I didn't see anything I liked so I'll have to look online instead. It wasn't a completely wasted journey though because I got Eliza a few new books from T K Maxx. We are going on holiday to Tenerife in a few weeks and need a few things to to keep Eliza occupied on the aeroplane. 

This evening we all went to my parents house for a meal, Eliza really enjoyed seeing everyone and had a great time showing off to us all. We arrived home at 7pm and it was time to get Eliza in to bed, she already had her PJ's on so we popped her straight in to her cot and left her to cuddle up with the teddy's for the night. 

Its been a nice relaxed weekend so lets see what the week ahead brings.