hi ladies - will be brief cos i'm exhausted. went to a birthday party with mum and miss E today - 410k round trip! buggered!

found E a high chair last night - wasn't the one i was looking at in a catalogue - but was less then $5 more and is still really good - just not as padded as the one we were initially looking at (was worth more but on special for less..) - she seems happy in it - sat in it last night while we cut up stuff for dinner

ummmm, sleep - yeah, i think i've worked out part of the issue. another daddy who doesn't quite get it. E NEEDS to be wrapped tight - she doesn't sleep well without being wrapped properly. DH has been getting slack in wrapping her and she doesn't stay asleep as long cos she gets her hands out, and then pokes herself in the face and wakes up. night before last, i wrapped her and put her in bed awake - 10 hours later she woke, awake half hour, and back asleep for 3. last night, DH put her into bed again. she went to sleep. she'd had a sleep in the evening for a couple of hours, so it was almost midnight - she woke at five, was still awake at 7! he kept getting up to her (which i love him for) but wasn't fixing the problem (hands out) wsa just putting dummy back in. i cracked the poos big time, fed her again, made sure she was wrapped up properly - and she was still asleep at 10 (we were supposed to leave at 9.30!). hmmm, me thinks mummy needs to teach daddy (again!) how to wrap her!

party was good but a very long trip for the poppet. she slept probably half the way there - cried HEAPS cos she wanted out - sigh - can't do much on the freeways! we did stop and feed and play half way - but she wasn't happy with that. i was dreading the trip home - but she had an awesome sleep - woke only when we stopped to get petrol about a km from mum's - and then whinged on the way home (another 20kms) - had a feed when we got here, and has been on the floor talking to daddy ever since.

must run and see if i can get some dinner - so hungry and so tired!