Little chomper

At last Lydibug has sprouted a couple of teeth. Her top left one appeared on the 8th, followed by the bottom right on the 19th. I'm really impressed with her amber necklace as she has had no issues with them. The other front bottom one won't be long. She looks so grown up with two little pearly white teeth and she is given them a good work out. I keep finding her mouthing table edges or her cups.

We had a bit of a fright last week. We were at the park with Gosia and Max and as usual Lydi was off playing in the woodchip when suddenly she was screaming. I turned to see her flapping wildly and something was buzzing around her. The poor little mite had been stung/ bitten twice, on the forehead and at the side of her eye. I have never heard her scream like that before and the one by her eye starting to swell immediately. She was inconsolable. Gosia had to hold her arms while I held her and tried to get some cold water on the stings. After a what seemed forever she was distracted by some food and we managed to have a good look. Thankfully nothing was in either one and the swelling had gone within an hour, the marks were pretty much gone by the time her Daddy got home. Those who know Lydibug know how long she keeps a mozzie bite so I'm not sure what it was but I'm in no rush to go through that again.

It's official. I'm returning to to work in 2 weeks. We have got childcare sorted and the little bug is going on a few practice visits and I think we will have a few rehersals to get out of the house on time. It will be a shock to us all as to be up at 7am is early for Lydi and that is the time she will be dropped off. I'm not looking forward to being away from her but after a day visiting school I realised how quick it goes by. I'm just going to have to be super organised so I get as much done at school as possible, and realise if it doesn't get done it can wait till tomorrow. Felt a bit silly the other day choosing a lunchbox for Lydi, was almost in tears so I just walked away and thought I'll do it tomorrow, see I am practising.

Lydibug is doing lots of standing and climbing. There have been a few times I have found her on the coffee table or holding onto the window bars trying to open the windows. Boy, she is fast. Thankfully she has learnt feet first when climbing down which is great for getting down steps and off the bed or sofa, but not so great when trying to get her to jump into the pool. She does the safest jump in her instructor has ever seen. Daddy will have all the fun of swimming once I'm working as he is going to have a day off with her each week. It's great they will have that time together, just wish I could be there too.

At Baby Sensory the other week Jewels kindly set up mucky play and of course our little bug was straight in there. Thankfully it was only goop so once dry it just brushed off her. She loved it. I use to love using this with my reception class and it got me thinking of other messy stuff I could do with her; soap flakes, shaving foam...

You can see her tooth too.

She has finally got the hang of painting rather than eating the paint and loved making cards for Daddy and her Nana.

Can you guess what it is yet?

What else have we been up to? Lydibug still loves her music and has added a few more moves to her repertoire, mainly the stand and bounce, and the bottom up in the air wiggle. Her hair is now long enough for a helicoptor style pony tail, but I have to chase her about as I do it.

I'm not sure about this Mum.

We have also learnt the hard way to make sure Lydi at least has some shorts on over her nappy when she sleeps during the day. She quickly learnt that if I hear her take it off I come back into her room to put it back on, so I decided to ignore her. Let's just say I won't be doing that again.

We have been to feed the ducks a few times. Lydi now tries to quack and say duck, but every other animal is still an oof-oof. Every small toy is being used as a phone and she has a new cuddly dog toy which she loves. I'm sure she is trying to tell us she wants a dog, her face lit up when she saw the chocolate lab puppies at the pet shop and so did mine.

This week we had another hip check for Lydibug. It was very frustrating as after waiting for nearly an hour we were barely in with the specialist long enough to sit down. He didn't even look at Lydi, just quickly glanced at her x-ray and said all seems fine, see you in a year. But it was great to get the all clear. Now just have to look into getting my coccyx fixed. It is fractured and has displaced by 7mm, which seems quite a lot for such a little bone. I'm sure it must have happened when I had Lydi as I don't know what else could have caused it, but why has it only starting hurting in the last few months???

Read a great tip the other day. We are not beach people, crazy I know living in Oz with all its beautiful beaches, but the sand just gets everywhere. But I read the best way to get all the sand off bub or yourself is to use talc, I guess it absorbs all the moisture and the sand is easier to remove. Will have to give it a try and if it works will add talc to the pile of stuff we keep in the car just in case.

Think that is enough from me for now, will try to get a few videos sorted for the next post. Hopefully Lydibug will be walking by then, don't want to miss her first steps. X