Spring Bank Holiday

We've made it to Spring Bank holiday, and I now have a timetable for teaching for September. At the moment it looks good. I contacted HC-MD a few weeks ago to explain my intention to return, then had some correspondence with HR which went surprisingly well, my annual leave was calculated, and I was given a return date of 16th June, with an actual return date of 18th August. I've got three AS classes at the moment, and feel quite encouraged about that.

Sazzle-Pear hasn't been sleeping at all well. After the conjunctivitis episode, subsequent antibiotics and string of colds she's been waking at all hours. Most nights she will wake up at around 9/10pm, then again at around 2am then again at around 5.30am. It is beginning to really get to me!! She is feeding far less in the day, typically:

5.30
9.00
11.45
1.45
4.45
7.00

She has porridge and toast for breakfast at around 7.30/8am, and eats a fair bit of porridge now. She has bagel/toast/oatcake etc for lunch followed by fruitbat, and for tea is just beginning to eat some serious yoghurt after her main course. She is as messy as Edward!! Still not sitting up, but spending a lot of time in her Bumbo playing with her toys in her little pink basket. Just started playing a sort of peekaboo game with her bath towel. Three teeth at the bottom in the middle. Hair getting a little bit longer now but nowhere near as long as Elizabeth's was at this age.

Elizabeth is writing - she can easily write her own name and Mummy, Daddy, Edward, Sarah without any prompting. She used to copy our letters but now just writes them straight off. She can also sort of guess how to write words e.g. today she wrote 'Monkey and me' and sort of guessed it all right. Behaviour iffy (again!). Serious tantrums, snatching things from you, hitting Edward, whining and so forth, not listening when you say no, e.g. yesterday pouring water from the garden tap and getting absolutely soaking wet when told not to.

Edward is saying more than ever, obviously. He sings his own versions of popular classics such as 'the wheels on bus' (Edward sings the diggers on the bus). Loves diggers, loves dumper trucks, loves tractors, loves watching me make tea (and reaching through and grabbing things, even though he knows the no grabbing rule!).