Hi cathie! Feeling a bit rubbish, to be honest - just bloated and spewy and gassy and gross. Nellie is across it, though, and totally giving me a break, god love her. She's having two sleeps today, she had a huge weekend, then swimming yesterday (AND we went on the bike, which is always more exhausting) so she just needed it. And she's sleeping all night. We were up to 23 nights in a row, but then went away for the weekend, which always screws us over. Still, she just woke up, cried, I shushed her, and she went back to sleep, every time. So easy.

MadB- I'm making a stack of soups today. Majorcan cabbage (aka fartbomb soup) and pumpkin and maybe potato and leek. Stuffing the vegies in to see if it helps with cold season. The toddler looooooves soup, DH not so much, but he can go jump. It's so easy and freezy and good.

We have counting here... "one, one, one, one one!" She has a counting book with butterflies that we have to read about ten times a day. Before lunch. Also, putting words together. We've had "night night bike" and "bye Rose" and "where hat?" Still hat crazy! But only sunhats. Not beanies. Nooooooo way.