A typing we will go.

Alice has learned a new skill today. She was typing on the computer all by herself. Of course she needed a bit of help sitting at the computer to do her typing. She's not sure whether to write a novel or follow mummy's footsteps into the wonderful world of Drama and write scripts. This is only a first draft you understand, it'll take a lot of re-writing, but we're sure she'll get there.

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We're so proud!!!

Garden and Visitors

This is Alice's first time in the garden when Pauline was hanging out the washing. The sun actually stayed out long enough to dry some clothes. There's no real shade in our garden during the day except behind the neighbour's shrub.

Alice's Nana and Grandpa came to visit this week too. They were really pleased to see their granddaughter. Stuart and his dad did loads of DIY jobs that have been put off since Alice's birth.

Can you get me up please?

A month ago Alice hated being in this ring and would cry as soon as we put her into it. Now she really enjoys moving around in it and curling herself up in a ball. She can normally move herself back into a seated position, but not from here. The other photo is just a cute wee picture of her. Disturbingly, she is trying to crawl when we put her on her tummy. She lifts her knees right up under her bottom, pushes her bottom in the air and tries to move forward. Thankfully her arms aren't strong enough to hold her weight and so she can't move anywhere... yet!!! We don't think it's going to be too long before she's mobile. We'll have to re-think the whole layout of the house and move everything up. We thought we might get a good few months yet without having to do this. That's progress for you.

Please don't go, mummy!!

Alice has taken to holding on to mummy like her life depends on it. Sitting down, standing up; it's quite a strong grip too.

She seems to be settling down after her "not wanting to feed" phase. Thankfully she is feeding again, but not quite so ferociously as before. Apparently, when they are born life is all about the food, but after about week 16 life is much more interesting than that and who cares about food.

What Statisticians do for a living

This was ordered from the Cadbury website: a 5000g bar of Dairy Milk (see the link below). The bar contains 32 "chunks", each of which is equivalent to three normal small bars of Dairy Milk. It helpfully says on the back that this bar should be one person's allowance of Dairy Milk for six months. We worked that out as half a standard bar per day. Not quite sure where a chocolate allowance is mentioned in government health guidelines.....

The bar isn't out of it's foil wrapper yet. Promise.

Buy your own bar!!