2013: Week 2

Saturday 5 January

Daisy got a kids' camera for Christmas, and she found out that you can move the lens to take self-portraits...

Sunday 6 January

Just relaxing at home.

Monday 7 January

Sometimes it works out quite well that Daisy wants whatever I've got...

Tuesday 8 January

We took the scooter out today for a practice along the street. Apparently she also wanted to practise her catalogue pose...

Wednesday 9 January

Daisy and I went to the bridal shop in Ipswich today to try on her bridesmaid's dress. Needless to say it didn't go brilliantly, but I did manage to get it on her and we established that the only alteration it needed was to the length. When we got home I put a pan of cauliflower and broccoli soup on as I was starving, thinking I would eat it while Daisy had something else for her tea. Daisy wanted to stir the soup so I sat her on the kitchen counter and told her to stir it gently, then went to get something from the fridge. When I turned back, she had the wooden spoon in her mouth! This is the same child who had had such a tantrum about eating soup two days ago that she said she'd rather go for a nap than eat it (and it was butternut squash soup which, in my opinion, she would have liked a lot better than the cauliflower and broccoli). Firstly I told her not to put the wooden spoon in her mouth without blowing it, as the soup could be hot, but after that I just watched her spooning soup into her mouth, so we both had a bowl of it for our tea, and she ate it all up!

Thursday 10 January

Today was Daisy's first day at nursery in three weeks, and it was also the day that she moved up into a different room. The speed at which the smile on her face turned into a grimace when she found out it was nursery day today made me feel like a really bad Mummy, and she reverted to screaming the place down when I left her, but once she'd been there a few minutes she was fine. And it meant I could catch up on some TV I'd recorded over Christmas; something I can't do now that she doesn't nap. Here's a picture taken after she'd had her bath tonight and was watching TV before bedtime. Her hair seems to have had another growth spurt recently, and it's all the more noticeable when it's wet and straighter than usual...

Friday 11 January

Apparently children who are involved in the preparation of their food are more likely to eat it. And children whose mothers take pictures of them every day are more likely to ignore repeated requests for them to smile :).