Weeeeeeeeeeee!

 Eve making a beach in a jar, at playgroup in Totterdown Baptist Church

A few nights ago when we arrived home from nursery, I played with Eve and sat with her reading a book whilst she was on the potty. To my delight she did a wee in it! A parent or carer would understand how thrilled I was. To say the least I was over-joyed, non parents may think me mad. We've had quite a few accidents, which still carry on, but this sense of achievement on both our parts gave me hope that it is coming together, slowly but surely.

I know that she understands about the potty, it's trying to get her to use it without making her annoyed which is the test. I'm looking forward to the weekend when she can be bare for longer, and we can work on it a bit more. I must say that it's not as bad as I thought (however we've only been attempting it at home, I'm sure going out and about will make me more nervous), cleaning up number one's and two's is no longer such a big deal. Before I had a baby I would have run a mile.

Daddy and Eve at playgroup

Eve had a fun morning with Daddy mid-week. He took her to the playgroup which is in the baptist church near to our house. I loved seeing the photos, the activities look fab. I never got round to taking her there when we first moved here, because the time of the playgroup coincided with her morning nap. She's been on one nap per day for quite a few months now, and can stay up for much longer.

Filling her beach in a jar

Eve loves diving into the ball pool

Driving a toy car

The structure of the playgroup event sounded good, they played, then made things, then had a snack and a drink, and then finished off with singing.

Snack time

On Thursday morning I visited the doctors surgery - the nurse there is so kind and funny, we chatted for 20 minutes and she didn't mind how long the appointment lasted - lovely locals, hurrah. I spent the rest of the day with my darling husband Sam. Due to his trip to Greece and us both working hard we thought it would be nice to have a day together - just us.

We've been experiencing a really hot summer; over the last few days we've had the hottest weather in a decade. Typically it was grey with rain on and off for our day together, but we didn't mind as we could walk around without melting, which was a definite bonus.

http://patanegrabristol.com/  - it's the bomb!

We did a tiny bit of shopping, and even stopped in a cool plant shop. They have really interesting plants in there. We came away with a venus fly trap for our kitchen. Oh the things that excite me.

As we haven't been out together for so long we weren't sure which restaurant to head to. We had heard great stuff about Pata Negra on Corn Street, so we figured we'd check it out. They had a deal of £10 for x3 tapas plates for lunch. We chose three each, plus a tortilla and shared the lot. We were recommended Fino sherry to drink with the tapas. We'd never drunk sherry with tapas before; it certainly is a brilliant combo.

We spent a couple of very happy hours there, munching, chatting and drinking sangria. I could have stayed all day, but Sam, very responsibly said we should head home. Thankfully, his idea was a good one, which meant I didn't have a hangover the next day.

I fully recommend visiting Pata Negra if you're ever in Bristol. It's such a cool place; incredible food, sumptuous decor, lovely staff and they played great music. It's the full package. I'm sure most of the peeps of Briz have been many times. It's taken us a while to get there - a year and a half after Eve's birth. The good thing is that we made it there eventually. Happy days.