Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree...

The Christmas holidays are approaching fast - and I for one cannot wait. We had a lovely family weekend, with Daddy at home with us, which was the first time in weeks.  We were out bright and early on Saturday morning to get our Christmas tree from the Scouts sale in Knowle. It was really lovely picking out a tree and chatting to a rather nice lady there. Sam had to go back with the car to pick up the tree as we got a real beauty that was too heavy for us to carry. For the same amount of money this tree is twice the size of the tree we used to buy when we lived in Clifton. We've only been able to afford to have a real Christmas tree for the past few years, so this one is a real joy. We also enjoyed rearranging our lounge a bit to accommodate Eve's little play den - we've tried to make it more secure so there is less risk of her escaping and pulling the tree over or getting to the fire.

We are really lucky to have a wood burner. Unfortunately we never seem to have time to light it during the week nights; getting home late from work and then going to bed pretty early.  So having it burning this weekend felt really festive and cosy.  I adore dressing the Christmas tree - hanging family heirloom decorations gives me wonderful memories of many Christmas's gone by.

For the past 6 weeks of nursery Eve has always been so silent on the walk home, whether it's with me or Sam. I chat away to her asking her about her day and telling her about mine, but she just hugs me in the sling not saying a word. But then, last week she started singing on her way home. This is wonderful because it tells me how much she is enjoying her time there.

Sometimes when I arrive at nursery in the evening, I watch her from afar. Seeing her playing happily is so heart warming after so many weeks of tears.

She loves watching baby tv because it has a lot of songs on it, and she is constantly singing at home.   This morning even though her teeth were hurting, she was singing along to Tulli. From the age of about 5 months she has sung herself to sleep in the cot, which is very sweet to hear.  

Eve playing in her den

She finished the second course of antibiotics at the end of last week with Dad who said she had a great lunch and was on good form. She seems kind of better... I'm not sure if it's the same illness that won't go away or if it is new strains of colds one after the other. I'm guessing that another course of anti-biotics would not be a good idea.

Eve has her top two front teeth coming through well, and the two adjacent ones are popping through too. Now that she's basically one I've bumped up her dosage of ibuprofen medicine to a 5ml spoonful. I've been giving her one most mornings which I think is keeping the teething pain at bay. It's also helped with her ear infection, which I think has now gone.

Now we are only 2 days away from her first birthday. I'm fairly sure that I'm crazy overly excited about it, not sleeping well due to worrying about cake baking and wot not ha ha! I'm sure I'll probably cry all weekend - happy tears!