Holidays!!

The first term is over and we have survived but boy has it been tough. Plenty of illnesses, hard work and sleepless nights have taken their toll. Fingers crossed I don't get sick over the hols. We are all looking forward to me being off for 3 weeks, the house will be tidy , the cupboards will be stocked, the ironing mountain will shrink to a small hill and most importantly we all get to lie in.

Lydibug has changed so much. She has become a little girl who knows what she wants and when she wants it. She loves going to her family day care, now she even walks me to the door to wave me off each morning. It is so much easier to leave a happy smiley girl, but I will admit I rung her Daddy with tears in my eyes the first few mornings she did it.

The list of things she can do now is huge, but here are some of my favourites:

• take her shoes and socks off and put her socks in her shoes every time
• finds her hat, shoes and sunnies to get ready to go out
• get the tomato sauce from the fridge (and puts it back when it's not needed)
• dusting, sweeping and hoovering (honestly, she loves doing it)
• do the actions to Twinkle, Twinkle and other nursery rhymes (yet to get on video, but will keep trying)
• gives out lots of kisses and blows great raspberries on my neck
• magna-doodling

At least we don't have to worry about the white walls

All set to go

My little Cinderella

She is constantly chatting and lots more words and signs are being used. She is always doing the sign for food and has discovered the bag of snacks I keep in her change bag so we often find her with the bib on trying to help herself. At day care she lets the lady know she needs a nappy change by going to get a nappy from her bag, but strangely she doesn't do that at home. I'm hoping to get her back to using the potty while I'm off but she is more interested in putting her toys in it and pushing it around the house.

I got to take her swimming this week and they have all moved on to the next level. Now we have to encourage them to hold on to us, rather than us holding them. Lydibug loves holding herself on the bar and moving around the edge on her own. She is even trying to pick toys up from the bottom. I would love to get some underwater photos of her as she has such a huge smile on her face when she is under. She is not so keen on the holding onto me part as she has never liked facing in, but she is great at kicking and loves falling in.

Lydibug has still only got the 4 teeth at the front but 2 more suddenly appeared at the back on her left and the same are coming through on the right side. She is getting better at brushing her teeth but only when we do ours as well.  She finally has a proper pair of shoes, they're very cute, white with polka dots on them and only size 3.5.

Here's a little montage of what she has been getting up to. Enjoy and I'll try not to leave it so long next time. xx