TODAY'S NEWS!

Last night's sleep I mucked up and gave in at my bedtime, two and a half hours later she went back to bed and we both finally got some sleep. Tonight I will go to bed, exhausted, with a renewed iron-will!

Another relatively simple day. Back to swimming lessons this morning. Alice did well considering she hadn't been in the water for 4 weeks. D and A weren't swimming after the lesson (as they've closed the creche, ugh), so I joined the other Mums for a coffee - fab. It was really good to properly get to know them and chat, I vow to do it again - next week hopefully!

Home for lateish lunch, nap time went fairly smoothly but resulted in another nasty nappy - those teeth are really making Alice suffer.

Then we went into Usk to get some errands completed - including another visit to the framing gallery - I hope to have the prints, embroideries, Chinese characters framed and home by the end of the week!

Back at home we had a while to play before supper - you'll notice that the TV is on (again) but only to play a CD. Alice 'danced' through her playing. Favourite toys continue to be the breakfast set (especially the wooden flower), the farm animals and the shape sorter.

Despite teething, food is a big 'YUM!' at the moment!

I kept Alice up for a while longer than usual - we went upstairs at 6.30pm and she was in bed for 7ish. I've started to stay with her for 5-10 minutes after going into her bed - to try and calm her, she still cries when I leave but it's much more of a token effort than a real cry as it used to be. She was asleep by 7.30pm (Hooray!) but has moaned and groaned a bit through the evening and she'll probably stir when I go to bed.

Overall a good day, she stayed in routine and the routine (tweaked) is working more effectively again, hooray!!