A Visit to GG

An incredibly short day to report on yesterday. After the antics of Saturday night, Emma and Helen slept in until well after midday. They didn't miss much weather - it was overcast and looking like rain outside. I prepared a brunch of scrambled egg on toast with bacon, tomato and mushroom, then when i came back upstairs, i found Emma had been busy wrapping up my first ever Father's Day presents! She'd got me a chocolate ipod from Indulgence and a photo album with a silver frame attached to the front.
I also received a lovely card and balloon!

We dropped by on Rob and Leila to say "hi" and wish Rob a good fathers day too. He said he's ambivalent about Father's Day, being caught between a natural cynicism of a merchandising plot by card manufacturers on one hand. and receiving lots of liquorice on the other!

Our next stop off was GG's - as Connie, Emma's Great Grandmother would like to be known. I have some amusing photos of the two of them taken last week. I left the camera at home yesterday.


We had a lovely cup of tea and an egg custard. Connie was treated to a feed, then a nappy change, then hunger, then another nappy change, then another feed. We were there for over two hours! Emma was generally extremely well behaved though, looking calm and contented throughout and alert enough to fix her GG with some big blue eyes. Her eyes are certainly lightening to a striking blue from being quite dark initially. Connie said her husband, Geoff, had very blue eyes and long slender hands which both Helen, and now Emma seem to be inheriting.

We took Emma for a push along the sea front, past the Walton Park and back. The sun was getting lower over the sea and reflecting on the water. It was a beautiful evening for it and the 30 minute walk was enough to relax Emma into sleep. She cried when we transferred her back to the car, but slept for the short trip back.

We contemplated a pizza delivery in the evening but settled for homemade pizza on some of the copious amounts of gorgeous bread left over from Saturday. We had cheese and onion bread with cheddar and bacon topping, with some pepper and mushroom sprinkled on top. It took all of 10 minutes to assemble as it had all been prepared the night before. We settled down to watch some Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring. Emma didn't seem bothered by Orc or Balrog noise, just fed then slept and burped. At one point I had both Emma and Tigger sat on me!









The night was going the way of previous nights at half midnight when Emma was clamouring for her third feed on the trot. I took her from Helen and sat in the chair outside the toilet holding her arms down by her sides and gethering her legs up. She released lots of burps, then had a 5 minute hungry cry which I managed to ignore, reasoning she wasn't about to starve. A walk up and down the stairs settled her to sleep, albeit a twitchy light sleep. I held her for 15 minutes, then went downstairs to a more comfortable position on the sofa. I must have fallen asleep holding her and woke at 2.30am with her still asleep. I put her down then, and slept until 5.30am. Helen later told me she'd woken at 3.30am for a feed. At 5.30am she was making throaty noises so I cuddled and burped her for another 30 minutes, until she slept and then I put her down and she slept again until 8.30am. I reckon I slept for nearly 8 hours and Helen slept for 7 hours. Whats more we were up at 9am feeling a lot better than the last few nights. A much better night all round. See how fresh Helen was in the morning for a nappy change (the first for the mess to have gone right up Emma's back!)

Today's excitement will be the trip to the pottery shop to attempt an imprint of Emma's hand and foot. We hope to have lunch in the craft centre or a nearby garden centre, baby allowing! It's also the last day of my paternity leave. Neither of us are looking forward to my going back to work.

Dave x