Day 30 30/7/2011 Saturday...Shopping.

Micahel and Rocio woke up at 8.00 and played for a bit in the living room.They decided to let Russell sleep until 12 but accidentally fell asleep on the sofa. I woke up earlier then expected and discovered them there.
I couldn't get a happy photo of Mike in the morning. So here is a grumpy one.




It's Saturday so Michael insisted we go shopping. It's always his favourite.
We were delayed on the way to the bus stop by a couple of our near neighbours calling to us "Is that a baby in there?" about Michael in the sling of course. We stopped and showed him off and chatted for a while. This happens a lot. People often want to have a good look at Michael. I really can't blame them I suppose. He is wonderful. Everyone says the same thing though "Ahhhh isn't he lovely? Hasn't he got a lot of hair?". I love it and I'm glad people don't mind coming up and asking for a look at our baby.

We are still not morning people. Having a young baby in the house hasn't changed that at all, so we didn't exactly get to town early but we had a fine time walking about and Michael was actually awake for a lot of the time. I carried him in the sling with his little head sticking out to have a look around. I was very careful this time not to let anyone even get near to hurting him and in fact town seemed not quite as aggressive as last time and nothing bad happened.
Here's Mike in the low class baby changing in the Victoria Centre. We didn't get to the posh feeding room in Lewis' today




It was a really hot sunny day and we mostly wandered about, looked at the children playing in the fountain in the city centre and went to our favourite Alley Cafe.
Michael was fine if a little more restless than usual in the cafe and on the way home on the bus.

We were all very tired when we got home and tried to arrange a family siesta but Michael took so long getting settled that I was nearly fed up with the idea before he was asleep. Sometimes these days he just feeds a little, wriggles a little, cries and then feeds a little again round and round for hours. If he would feed a lot and then sleep or play everyone would be happier.

No sign of him laughing or smiling today. I guess he is still learning, it's not something that will just happen all the time from now on. More and more though I hope.