Hallowe'en

Today Linus's nursery was very hallowe'eny. The children were invited to come in fancy dress, as mentioned before. I had been working hard all week on Linus's blue dinosaur outfit and it turned out really rather well for a first attempt, and considering I sewed it all by hand!

I was a bit scared that he would refuse to wear it when it came to it, as he had been quite reluctant to try it on for fittings. But no, he couldn't wait. He went into his nursery hallowe'en dungeon with a big RAAAAHHHH at everyone. There were 5 witches, 4 skeletons and 1 dracula when we got there, and only 1 blue dinosaur! so we definitely get points for creativity and originality I think. I am assured that no other children were eaten/maimed whilst playing with the dinosaur.

When I picked him up after lunch he was still wearing the outfit, much to my surprise. One of the staff asked me if I had made his costume as he had been telling everyone who would listen that I had :) Good Boy! His tail was a bit bedraggled from dragging on the floor in the playground, but rather than take it off he had just played whilst holding onto the tail to stop it getting any wetter/dirtier, bless him.

Anyway, here he is in all his blue dinosaury glory:

October update

In the past weeks and months Linus has been going to Nursery three mornings a week. He seems to quite like it. He is rather excited about his nursery being turned into a dungeon for Halloween. He is planning on going as a blue dinosaur. Claire has yet to make it.

At nursery Linus has to find his name badge when he arrives, to place on his coat and bag hook for the day. It seems that he has been recognising the stickers on it (two penguin stickers) rather than his name as he selected the badge belonging to 'Grace' rather than his own. He now looks for penguins and an 'L'.

Concentrating

We took this picture a couple of weeks ago, just catching Linus while he wasn't whinging (which after a trip around the supermarket, you really couldn't blame him).

He is giving careful attention to something he is about to eat.

Goodnight Linus

Linus has always liked to take something to bed with him. When he was little it was just Rabbit and Ninger, as he grew he would take the odd car perhaps, or a train.

Lately though, this habit has become a bit extreme. No longer happy with a book to look at, a soft toy to keep him company or a new train that he just can't bear to be parted with- we now have a bed FULL of things to do and play with.

Trains that get taken to bed need to also have a crane and some track on which to sleep (for sleep read: play with). It has now reached astronomical proportions and we have had to ban various toys, and place limits on the number of items to be allowed in bed at any one time!!!!

So, to honour the end of the "bed full of junk" phase I present to you:

Sleeping Linus and his bed of junk

First day

Today is Linus's first day at school (well, nursery). He had a couple of shorter sessions last week, but for a few days every week he has some full morning sessions.

Today he took is rabbit with him (the only picture I could find of rabbit has him (rabbit) squashed a bit under a present from Christmas 2006 /uploads/linus-2006-christmas-2.jpg (in which he looks soooo little.

Rabbit is in his bag, just to make sure Linus is okay. Apparently rabbit is feeling a little bit funny in his tummy. But he will be okay.