April 2004 Archives

Another first night out tonight.... this time for Emily.

Yes, for the first time since she was born, Emily is sleeping in her own room, on her own. All by herself. Without us.

As you might be able to tell, I'm not taking this very well. And she's only been in bed for 3 hours. Max seems better about it than I am. We'll see how well we sleep tonight (although I've just moved my brother's entire house contents in a van over the weekend so I think I'll sleep OK).

But alas, it's the price of process. Keeping her in our room until she's 18 could get a bit crowded, not to mention embarrassing.

This having a baby lark - everything all moves so quickly!

We had our first night out last night. It was like going on a date for the first time, it felt so new! It was pretty weird but it was fantastic. We went to a lovely Thai restaurant, had lovely food and talked about lovely things. In fact it was lovely!

So thanks for babysitting Jude, it was just what we needed!

We can hardly believe how quickly Emily is growing up. So here are some more photos so that you can see how much bigger she is getting. They are from the past couple of months

I went into town yesterday to get a few things and I suppose to get out of the house for a couple of hours. Em has been off colour all week and I thought it might do her good to get out and about too. I think she is going through a bad teething spell cause she is permanently grumpy and is not keen on having her bottle. She has also been doing this weird thing where she screws up her nose and lips and sniffs like Bear from the Big Blue House (its only been on a couple of times honest!). So she might even have a cold, its so hard to tell whats going on with little people who can't tell you whats wrong.

Anyway I am digressing slightly.

As you can guess the venture into town was quite hard work, as Emily spent most of the time crying. So, during one of these spells, in Boots, I was frantically stacking the top of the pushchair with goodies (one of these days I am going to forget that I have put something in there. I will walk out of the shop and no doubt be arrested for shoplifting!), and a girl (maybe early twenties?) and her baby started talking to me. In fact, this is the reason for my post.

Whilst Emily was crying and I was trying to reassure her, the girl said to me "Will she take a bit of Milkybar?". I thought to myself - did she just say that or did I imagine it? Surely no-one looks a little tiny baby and offers them chocolate?? Anyway I said "excuse me?" and right enough she was offering Milkybar. Just because it has the word 'milk' in the name I don't think it is any less chocolate! I caught myself saying 'No! I don't give her anything like that!' and immediately felt bad and thanked her for her offer.

Milkybar!

I suppose it could've been worse! But I couldn't help thinking noooooooooooo!