2 days of good HE in a row!

Wonders will never cease.

i think after all the stresses of jobs, new babies, selling houses etc, it is nice to settle back into being us again. BB a fully paid up family member, so now part of the routine. In fact, she is totally gorgeous. She has a great interest in her hands, can hold on to rattles. Finds her playgym so exciting that she sounds like a steamtrain with all the huffung and puffing [she isn't the quietest of breathers - probably those 20 chins!] She smiles and coos, and loves being able to watch SB, though looks abit nervous if she gets too close – those python hugs.

SB is happier now she is getting a more normal amount of attention from us [a lot] and because of it, perversely, is happier to play on her own. We got the happy street out earlier in the week, and make up lots of stories for the people in it. She usually likes me to start, saying she can’t make them up, but is then quite happy to tell me I’m wrong and take over. I call this our drama sessions! to build on the shadows thing, we read together our DK book about seasons etc, and she seems happy with the spinning earth around the sun, and was concentrating on what was in the book. She does want me to make a circular inca calendar tomorrow though – a ‘gery’ big one please. We did some letter sounds – not any blending though, and a bit of writing. We also made houses with the lego, and decide to make one with lots of windows for the summer to let the breeze go through, and a bumpy roof like a castel [crenellations] [ I may have to buy more lego if she starts demanding turrets!] We excercised our inner domestic goddesses by making double choc and oat muffins – yummy. A bit of leappadding and cbeebies website, and our day was done. There was negligible fusses today either. I loved it.

However, thanks to Merry – who has opened a massive world of what if……. in my brain – I spent most of the day unsettled and miserable from a dream, so needed lots of cuddles, which luckilly I got.