A while

It's been a while since I last posted. I can mainly put this down to a lack of sleep. R has had a couple of weeks of waking every couple of hours, so we've been desperately trying to catch up on sleep in the evenings, leaving little time for anything fun. The last few nights have been even worse, with her wanting rocking for hours in the middle of the night. Hence a break from blogging. There has been a lot going on though, so this may be a long post while I record everything!

R is starting to want to climb things, the car seat base being one favourite. She has also been starting to walk! At the weekend she did a couple of metres with me hovering just in front of her, and today she voluntarily walked from the sofa to me (usually we have to trick her by having her start walking using our fingers and then letting go). She also stood on her own for about a minute on Tuesday... and then started crying as she didn't know what to do next! Last week she walked to the park! It's about 250yards so a very long way for little legs! She's started vocalising a bit more too; dog is used fairly frequently, and she can say woof with a bit of a prompt, 'ish is used for fish, and 'iya for hiya. Daddy is a very well used word, but she's only said Mummy once yet.

The weekend before last was lovely with a visit from P's parents. R absolutely loves having her grandparents, so it was a wonderful weekend all round - R and her grandparents spent some quality time together, and P and I had a bit of a relax! This weekend was great too, a visit from her other grandparents.

We went down to the park on Saturday, and then on Sunday we took advantage of the beautiful weather and went for a walk. It was wonderfully warm, rather muddy, and rather picturesque.

The circular walk took us through Berkeley, along the Berkeley Pill and back up along the Severn. R had a good time in the back carrier, looking at everything, and then having a good snooze.

Well, that seems like a fair chunk of blather, so I think I'll stop here!