hi again
figure i've been a slacker lately - reading but not posting. i guess it's partially laziness, mostly to save you all hearing the woe is me that is my life atm. E's sleep is up the creek cos of teeth, mine is up the sleep cos of her teeth and stress. life is just full on and i am sick of feeling like i have nothing positive to say! i read, i want to post persies but i just - i dunno - energy gets used for other stuff and i end up closing the tab before bed, unanswered again. sigh

so, on that note - time to share some positives now - yes, this will be a full on gush about my poppet so skip over this bit if you don't want to hear happy in love proud mummy gush!

i can't believe how much E is coming ahead in leaps and bounds. she is so switched on, and every single day she is doing something new to surprise and enthrall me. i am so in love!! she walks everywhere, actually, she walks almost everywhere, runs when she can (which is scary - she is gonna be a runner!). she is talking up a storm and constantly amazes me with what she comes out with. her game of the moment is grabbing her remote (yes, she has her own remote - so she doesn't steal ours lol) - and using it as a phone. we get 'allooooooooo allo' until we reply - but it has to be with a phone or remote to our ear - just replying isn't enough! if we don't, we get "ALLOOOOOOOOOO MUM!". she will giggle and reply to whatever we say, and replies to "i love you" with "yuvooo mummy" (or daddy - whichever of us she can coerce into playing).

she is a rather smart poppet (yeah i know, proud mummy much? lol) - when she is tired, she grabs her wrap and lays on her little couch for a minute. if we don't get to her, she comes over and gets our attention and goes back. if she needs a nappy change, she will grab a nappy from her nappy bag and put it on her couch. she will even grab a full outfit (nappy, jim jams, slippers) when we get home from being out, and lay them, and herself, on her couch! i didn't think it was a big deal - it's just what she does - but a BB'er with a bubba born earlier in May said he wasn't doing that sort of thing and she was surprised, so maybe she is advanced more than i thought.. i dunno!

this afternoon, she decided it was bed time - came up to me and tried and undo my shirt. when i told her that wasn't what you do cos it's rude, she reached down beside me, grabbed the pillow we use at feed time, dragged it up on my lap with her and started pulling at my shirt again, going taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa the whole time. she was asleep within minutes. she is so cute!

she knows how to knock on the door to wake granpa and only to do it when granma's alarm goes off.... ahhhhhhhhhhh i could gush all day - i'm just so damn in love with her - all the other stuff going on fades to nothing - where we live doesn't matter - it's just a house. it will be a home becuase it's where our family will live. we will be content because family is worth infinitely more than the walls in which it lives.