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I took this photo to show how you were squirming down Mummy Rachel to try to get horizontal, but now I've changed it to sepia the thing that's drawing me in is your bright, bright eyes!
Helping Grandma to move house... by keeping out of the way!
Back at Grandma's - you were SO comfy snuggled in these cushions that you had a great sleep.
Day one at Center Parcs: you don't have a blue nose - you just like holding onto the toggle of my hoodie. You spent a lot of the holiday watching proceedings from the sling. It was still very stimulating for you - so many different things to see, hear and smell. You found it exciting and exhausting in equal measure. And you LOVED swimming in the warm lagoon pool.
Day two at Center Parcs: giggling at Mr Monkey.
Day three at Center Parcs: you can grab hold of toys and squish them into your face. This is the rag tag toy I made for Little R when he was a bit to old to really enjoy it. You LOVE it at the moment!
Day four at Center Parcs: sitting up girl, rubbing your little feet together. We must remember to stretch your feet out so they grow a little straighter. You've got bowed legs like you big brother.
My little co-sleeper. This is how you've learnt about day and night. We lie you in between us and you beam around happily. It's like you're thinking "Good - one Mummy there. Other Mummy over there. Comfy bed. Must be sleep time! Hurray!" You snuggle close so our faces are touching and settle down, usually within minutes. The last few nights Little R has woken up so I've had to slip into his bed during the night, and you squirm around in a circle, presumably searching for me in your sleep (don't panic - there's a bednest attached to the bed so you can't tumble out, little wriggler).
Storytime. We've borrowed some Peppa Pig books from Little G and Little R is very much enjoying them. I really wanted to take a selfie earlier in the day when I'd got you on one knee and Little R on the other. We were reading a surprisingly morbid and gory picture book called "Here Be Monsters", which we found on the TODDLER shelf at the library. Cue lots of conversations about mortality and creatures eating one another. And another internal debate about whether I'm really a vegetarian at heart. Anyway... I was reading that book to you two, and you were really enjoying it. But I couldn't reach the camera and I didn't want to spoil the moment but getting up to find it.
I love that little frown of yours. I meant to take a photo of you wearing the muslin-and-elastic-band hat that Auntie Becka made for you, when we ended up at Grandma's with not a drop of suncream between us, or a sunhat. It wasn't stylish, but it was definitely cute!