Friendly Weekends

Fergusson Family Selfie

It still feels strange when my alarm wakes me up for work, that Eve is asleep, cosy in bed under her duvet; and she remains that way until I go and wake her up after 7am. Whilst experiencing severe sleep deprivation over the last couple of years, I don't think that I could see this light at the end of the sleep-tunnel previously, and it's very welcome.

I  sat next to Eve's bed to put her hair clips in one morning last week, (I still can't bring myself to have her hair cut - think I'm going to let it grow until she is old enough to decide for herself), and asked her if she had nice dreams. She looked up at me and said, 'church bells ringing and swings in the park.' What a happy dream that sounds! I love that she can tell me these things now, it was such a nice first thought to start my day.

Mummy and Eve Sunday Swing time!

Eve has been brilliant during bath time and bed time for the past week. She's sleeping really well which is fantastic. Her teeth have been a bit on and off over the last few weeks, but she's dealt with it quite well. However she did have an upset stomach one day at nursery last week, which I'm almost certain was related to her teeth.

We ditched nappies during her day time nap a couple of weeks ago. After doing well initially for the first couple of days, it then obviously affected her because she went through three days of 'accidents' - literally 5 accidents a day - and a lot of washing for Mummy. I quickly realised that this was because she felt nervous about doing 'number twos' in the potty at nursery. I discussed it with the nursery staff in the Bouncies room and asked them to be a bit more open with Eve. I asked them to say to her that they would help her. This seems to be working and within a few days she started to improve.

The nursery staff told me that Eve refused to eat curry for lunch last week. She got quite upset about it and would only touch the rice. But then her good friend Euan fed her some curry sauce with his spoon and she liked it. They both ended up feeing each other curry for the rest of the meal. Euan came into Bouncie's a bit later than Eve and each day that we go to nursery I tell her to look after him and make sure that he is happy there. It's so great that Euan does the same for Eve. We're so glad that she has made such strong friendships already.

Hard at work with her drawings

During the icy weather a couple of weeks ago Eve did not want to get dressed for nursery in the mornings at all. We had struggling sessions each morning, where Sam and I had to hold different parts of her body and put he clothes on as swiftly as we could, whilst she cried and screamed. At the end of last week, for the first time in a while she sat happily on Daddy's lap and let him dress her completely, as well as putting up her hair and putting her shoes on. I went off to work with a spring in my step after not having to struggle at bath time or getting her dressed that morning. These little things make all the difference to a mama's life.

We're fairly sure that she's been going through a growth spurt this past week or so. She's been having two lots of helpings at meal times at nursery and when I get her home in the evening, she wants to sit in her chair to eat toast, a flap jack and bread sticks. Daddy and I stayed up a bit too late on Saturday evening together and I was a bit worried that Sunday was going to be hard work. We woke up to Eve singing happily in her bed - she sang for a good half hour until Daddy got up with her. I looked at the clock and it was 10am - we could not believe it! She had slept for about 15 hours. That's the longest lie in we've had since she was born, this gave us a great feeling for the rest of Sunday.

Jilly and Lamorna

On Saturday morning Jilly and Lamorna, and Sarah and Jake came over to see us. It was the first time that Sarah and Jilly had met each others children - it's been so long since we've been together. We had a lovely day playing with the kids at home, and then went out for a walk through the woods.

Eve and Jake

Eve and Jake

Jilly with Lamorna, and Sarah with Jake

During our walk, Jake found a small birds feather. He and Eve were intrigued by it. He gave it to Eve and she put it in her pocket for safe keeping. It was a very cute scene to witness.

Jake is a real trooper and walked most of the circuit through the woods with us mums. Eve bailed half way round as she was tired. She saw Lamorna sleeping in her pram and asked to have a nap as well.

Daddy and Eve having a laugh at home.

This weekend Eve has started to get the hang of using 'I' when she is talking about herself. Usually she says, 'Mummy, help you,' when she wants me to help her with something. We've been trying to explain the use of, 'you,' and 'me,' to her for a few weeks and now she is starting to understand. Yesterday when she was eating her lunch she said to me for the first time, 'I want helps, Mummy.' 

I cooked my own version of lasagne-crossed with-moussaka yesterday for dinner. Whilst we were eating, Eve looked across at me obviously enjoying her meal and said, 'I love you.' Truly heart warming after so many meals that I've cooked have gone in the compost bin!

After dinner we had a nice time on the sofa altogether. Eve had tickles with Daddy and then came over to sit on me. She snuggled up and relaxed on me for about 20 minutes whilst we watched a funny show on tv. Times like those are gold and I think that we all went to sleep last night feeling very happy and thankful for a lovely weekend together.