Welcome to the madhouse!!!

It's been one of those weeks when you want to shout "stop the world, I want to get off!" On the work front, it's that coming-up-to-end-of-term time that means last minute marking, filling in school reports, starting all over again when the computer eats all the bits you've already filled in (you come to expect it now !!!) and getting the end-of-term class meetings prepared. Plus today I had my visit from the inspector (first one in eight years of teaching so I can't really complain!) so I had to sort all that out too.

And Juliette's decided she wants to go up in the world. Not content with learning how to sit up all by herself (and giggling when I go to get her up in the morning and find her sitting up in bed), she has now mastered the art of holding on to the bars and pulling herself up to standing. Then she proceeds to bounce up and down doing a happy dance and laughing at anyone she can see through the doorway. Earlier, she even stood up (while I was holding her under her arms) and walked across her changing mat. Where did that helpless little baby go?!!! And what happened to the crawling stage? Did we blink and mis that one?!!!

Sorry about the bogey nose !!!

Best friends in the world

Now the post-pregnancy diet has finally kicked in, Sophie's getting worried to see I'm not eating the same as the rest of the family at lunchtimes, so she kept asking me why. I eventually said, "It's to get rid of my big fat tummy". That did for a day, until she came sidling up trying to bribe me with her sweets and said "But Mum, I like babies and if you haven't got a big fat tummy, you won't be able to have a baby in there" !!! There's a certain logic to it !!!

Sophie's now decided to try her hand at photography too ... except she hasn't figured out she can point the lens up, she makes me get down on the floor until I'm in frame !!!