ailbhe | It's all good (Reply)

We went to the Baby Show in Olympia this weekend, and discovered that it's incredibly easy to get to Olympia so we will probably do it again from time to time. We bought some things, including a hug-a-bub baby carrier, and got a whole stack of free stuff.

The hug-a-bub is great; it distributes the weight so it's as comfortable as carrying her when I was pregnant (before she got hiccups, I mean) and I even managed to do the washing up wearing her this morning, which I could never do with the Baby Bjorn. Mind you, that could be because we got a cheapo second-hand Baby Bjorn and the new ones are better, but anyway. This one is easy for us both to use, Linnea likes it, and it won't be too hot in summer, because it was designed in Australia. Yippee!

Linnea now eats lunch, as well as breakfast and dinner, and has worked out how to get food off a spoon herself. She has five teeth and appears to be working on a sixth. She can crawl - the house was described by guests as "steeplechase for cats" because of all the safety gates. On Tuesday she crawled off the bed; first she pushed the cat over the edge, then she went to see where it had gone. I was standing right next to the bed at the time and managed to grab her ankles before she hit the floor - she moved fast. She appeared not to be hurt.

She will be six months old on Saturday, and I will be 26 on Monday, so we're going to Kew on Sunday to celebrate. My sister is also coming over from Ireland for three days as she has never met Linnea at all.

Thanks for all your concern over the insomniac pome. I'm really not all that gutted any more; the pome was supposed to be sort of funny, though it obviously didn't come across that way. Perhaps I should write while awake instead.

We got more stuff into the attic yesterday preparatory to throwing it away; it needs more sorting to divide into junk-charity-sell piles, but that will come. It's alarming how much of my wardrobe isn't fit to donate to charity but was "too good to throw away". The phrase "years of wear in it yet" has a lot to answer for.

Linnea is currently asleep and I have the energy to take advantage of it. I need to water plants, dust, wash pots and pans and similar. Very exciting. When she wakes up we'll pootle into town and buy foodstuffs of various stripes.