Happy 7th Birthday Josh

Today is Josh’s 7th birthday and unfortunately this weekend isn’t one he’s spending with us; he’s at his mums. Its actually quite rare that his birthday falls on a weekend, this is the first time it’s occurred actually. Usually on his birthday I pick him up from school and take him out for a treat and some tea. In the past couple of years for example we’ve been bowling a couple of times and played football in the park till it got dark. Then we’d go and have some tea somewhere, Pizza Express and Nandos being regular haunts.

This year was a little different however as his birthday fell on a weekend so as i get to see him for a few hours I asked him in advance what he wanted to do that day. His answer was to go swimming at the local swimming pool because he said his mum doesn’t take him! Well not one to refuse such a straight forward request that was exactly what we did, Alli, Harry and I picked Josh up at 9.30 and went straight to the swimming pool. It was a first visit swimming for our water baby to a swimming pool, something that Josh was pleased to be part of. Unfortunately the pool was open but only the main one, the baby pool, jacuzzi and all important water slide weren’t open because they were being refurbished over the Christmas period and were running late on competition.

Fortunately Josh wasn’t too put off and it turned out they had sectioned off a 1m deep section of the main pool and it wasn’t too cold so we all had a good time watching Harry kicking around in the water for 45 mins before getting tired and playing chase with Alli and I taking it in turns looking after the water baby.

Alli then took Harry to get changed whilst Josh and I played catch, chased each other around the pool and generally throwing him in the water which he loves!

We eventually got out and got changed and had a short walk into town where we went for a hot chocolate at Cafe Nero! Some of us (Josh) had a huge slice of double chocolate fudge cake to go with it because he was hungry!

Unfortunately it was nearing time to take him back to his mum’s (I only get 3 hours) so we walked back to the car and stopped at WH Smith on the way to get him a comic!

A brief birthday day out, Josh’s birthday with us will be next friday when he’ll get all his presents from us and the main party event is on the Saturday; this year’s party choice is a football one.