Maia

It appears our little princess is finally learning. To sleep, that is! After spending 4 days and 3 nights at the Ellen Barron Centre last week, she has learnt to self settle without her dummy and to go all night (6pm - 6am) without a feed. That doesn't mean she doesn't wake, but we are making progress. She did go last night from 6:15pm until 4:40pm without waking. Only problem was, her daddy decided he wanted to keep everyone up by coughing for an hour. Oh well......

Big rain

These photos are from the big rain we had a couple of weeks ago. The level in the park got even higher after I took these photos and was flowing very quickly. Amazing how many people stopped outside our house just to look at all the water.

Maia

Loving her first taste of yoghurt.

Painting

I found a recipe to make your own 'puff paint' on the internet the other day and thought Ella and I would give it a go. The only problem was Ella didn't want to leave enough paint on the cardboard for it to puff.

Becoming mobile....

Maia isn't crawling yet (thank goodness), but is definitely starting to get around. You leave her somewhere thinking it will be safe and come back and she's rolled halfway across the room. Ella brought me in a magazine the other day that Maia had started to rip to shreds. Time to lock everything up soon (well, pick it up from the floor anyway).

New photos!

I thought it was about time I added some new photos to the blog site considering I haven't even put any up of Maia yet. Will try to do it a bit more regularly from now on (depends on how much sleep I have had!?!?).

These are just a couple of photos from this morning. Very hard to get a nice photo of Ella, she always does a silly smile.

This is Ella's latest thing - to set up a 'bed' somewhere around the house and lie down for about 10 seconds and then hop up again. Takes her a lot longer to set up the 'bed' than she actually lies down for.

Ella's growing up!

Ella had her first night in a bed last night, well, still the cot, but with one side off, so technically just like a bed. There were lots of tears when we first left her (mind you, she was asleep in about ten minutes) and a few more about an hour later when we think she fell out of bed (we had a mattress on the floor), and a few more a couple of hours later, but that was all we heard all night. I think she was more upset at being tucked in than anything else.
Thought we would try the daytime sleep as well, with one side off. That was a disaster, no sooner had we left the room had she gotten up, opened the door and managed to crash through the new safety gate we had just installed. So it was back on with the side of the cot and she was asleep in no time. Something to do with not having had one since Friday I think.
Will wait and see how we go tonight.....