Wednesday I took Tommy out to get some shopping. I'd intended to let him choose a magazine but when we got to the shop it was already closed. Instead I ended up buying him one of these.
For Christmas he got a more basic version of this one - with the track and a train that you pull back to make go. Until recently he's not shown much interest in it, but suddenly building train tracks has become one of his favourite things to do. When I saw that the track on this one fitted with the track on the one he already has, I had to get it. And he loves it (unfortunately for us he wants us to love it too - and I find watching a train go round and round for three solid hours a little tedious).

On Thursday evening we took Tommy swimming. He's got one of these but it's still scary how independent he's being. He doesn't care if we're next to him anymore, and is quite happy to go swimming the length of the pool on his own. I'd bought him a pair of googgles earlier in the week and he loved wearing them until he decided they were too tight. I'll admit they probably were - and have already loosened them for next time.

When we got back I was hanging his swimming shorts out to try whilst Yuri was getting the water warm enough for his shower. When I got back to the bathroom, Tommy was holding himself, peeing up against the side of the bath, like he was standing at the toilet. It was hilarious.
Yesterday we spent the day out in Wimbledon househunting (and yes, we did finally find something). He enjoyed his lunch at pizza hut, especially the ham and pineapple pizza, but turned his nose up at pepperoni.

Later in the day I got an ice cream from a very nice looking stall in the mall. When Tommy saw it he wanted some but didn't want to eat it from the cone. So I got one of those little spoons and he insisted on scopping it from the cone. At one point he even pinched the cone from me, insisting "mine!" In the end we bought him a mini cone (mini really was the right word) but he didn't really want that. Next time I'll get an extra scoop on mine for Tommy.