Alternative post title: MY BRILLIANT BABY My brilliant child slept until 7am this morning. She has been ‘sleeping through’ for a little while now, by which I mean not waking in the night but waking for the day at any time between 5am (horrible, just horrible) and 6.15am (barely sociable but acceptable). So this morning … [Read more…]
I simply couldn’t resist this week’s listography challenge from Kate Takes 5. Here are my simple pleasures. 1. Kicking oranges along the path when we go for a walk. Mr B and I call the game Naranja del día or Orange de jour. The idea is to get an orange all the way round the … [Read more…]
Right, does anyone else bum-slap their baby to sleep? In this house we have moved pretty neatly from a bed-time boob dependency to a bum-slap dependency and I just don’t know how it happened. And before you all send round Social Services, by slap I of course mean pat. PAT. P.A.T. We call it the … [Read more…]
OMeffinG there is a cacophonous racket going on outside our house and my baby is trying to sleep I am trying to get my baby to sleep. I have more or less tolerance for noisy, noisy, noisy Spain depending on the day. We have car horns bibbing, the ¡frutas! lady shouting her wares, the builders … [Read more…]
Right now as I write I am sitting outside the bedroom with the baby monitor (hardly necessary as I can hear the little whimpers and calls through the door), wanting and willing and waiting for Miss Bibsey to go to sleep. Hang on… *returns from visit to the bedroom* This is her morning nap time … [Read more…]
