Half term is a bit of a mixed blessing really. I love spending time with the toddler but it makes me realise how much I love those couple of hours he’s at his Montessori nursery!
I’m trying to keep us busy so no-one gets bored and today we headed off to St Pancras to look at the trains. That might sound a little dull but for a train-mad toddler it’s heaven on earth. We bundled up in our warmest clothes and took the tube to Kings Cross/St Pancras.
The toddler helped by running around and chasing pigeons, Little Sis just slept, and I was just happy that they were both quiet for once. No-one ever told me that cute little babies grew into toddlers who don’t stop talking. The toddler is an inquisitive little man and I’m actually finding his non-stop verbal diarrhoea really difficult to deal with. I adore peace and quiet so a little voice constantly asking what things are called, what things do, is hard work. However, I know it won’t last for ever and I love the fact he’s constantly learning, and going to bed exhausted 🙂
Anyway, we went up and down in lifts, watched trains come and go, saw a Police dog at work and people watched. My reward was a trip to Cath Kidston where I bought an adorable iPhone case for my iPhone 5.
It features one of her new patterns called lattice rose and I liked the pattern so much I bought Little Sis a mini clasp purse in the same pattern. She spent the rest of the afternoon playing with it and her pretend coins, so everyone was happy.
We haven’t had an afternoon at St Pancreas yet. It is a really lovely station – the shops are gorgeous and I love the clasp purse for playing with pretend money!
It combined the best of both worlds for the toddler and me!
Haha “non-stop verbal diarrhoea”! I know exactly what you mean, at this age kids ask so many questions and sometimes I feel so stupid for not knowing the answers! On the other hand how many times you can answer a question that starts with “but why?”. My little ones moved countries when they were around 4 so adding to the toddlers’ curiosity they also asked a lot of questions like “what does it mean?” “how to say that in English?” and so on…
Must be even more fun dealing with toddlers who speak two languages 🙂