Growing up fast

Engrossed, watching children's music videos on youtube

My girl is growing up so fast. The weeks seem to fly by as we race between nursery and work. I love collecting Eve at the end of the day; seeing her little smiley face as she comes running toward me is something I look forward to as I while away the hours in my office.

When we arrive home I always have lots of things to do; running Eve's bath, watering plants, sorting out the recycling and preparing for the day ahead, which means that I don't get to spend that time with Eve. Though, we do always have hugs and giggles at bath time.

Due to this it makes the time I spend with her on the weekends so important. On Sunday we didn't do a great deal. We mainly focussed on playing in the park and dancing in our lounge to MTV. Eve loves dancing and makes us laugh all the time.

She loves being outside

Sam and I took it in turns to do different dance moves and Eve joined in with us. I reached my hands to the ceiling and said, 'hands in the air!' and then touched the floor saying, 'and down on the ground.' We were shocked and delighted that Eve also reached her hands up and said 'hands in the air!' 

She tries to copy a lot of the things that we say. She sings in perfect rhythm 'la la la' when she wants to watch 'Elmo Song' on youtube. Instead of sitting on my lap she now likes sitting on a chair watching children's songs on the internet, and happily scrolls up and down and clicks the videos on and off. It's cute seeing her sat on the bench in the kitchen creating her drawings, with Daddy sat next to her working on the computer.

 Mastering the slide

She knows where the playgrounds are near our home, and if we try to push her in the pram past them without stopping she gets very upset. She has recently been mastering the slide during her trips to the park with Daddy.

On Saturday evening I ran Eve's bath earlier than usual. It was so nice not having to rush bath-time. I had run the bath too full, so I decided to share it with her; something that I hadn't done since she was a small baby. It was so relaxing and fun having quality time with her. Sometimes on weeknights Eve gets upset during bath-time when she is over tired from the day's events. Whilst she was sat on my lap in the bath playing, she looked up at me and placed her finger on my eye and said 'eye' and then did the same with the other one and so on. This was the first time she said 'eye' so I was most impressed.

Checking out her belly button

I enjoyed bath-time with her so much that I have made a promise to myself to do this more often with her. She is a funny thing and has recently discovered her belly button, and likes to jab her finger in it. She also realised that Daddy's nipples are most amusing and likes to pinch them.

Playing in beautiful Perrett Park

Eve has recently started a habit of having a tantrum every time one of us leaves the house without her. I think she gets upset as she wants to go outside too. However, we tried a new approach this morning - as I went off to work Sam brought Eve in her pram to take her to the park. I said goodbye to her at the traffic lights and thought our plan had worked. But, Sam phoned me awhile later to say that she had still gone crazy. Ah well, I guess she will grow out of these things. I suppose it's good to know that she loves and misses us when we are not around.