Still struggling with our colds, everyone has a horrible cough. Ollie's seems to flare up when he is trying to sleep of course. After a week and a half of it, it has finally wore him out and he had a 2.5 hour nap this morning and a 1.5 hour nap this afternoon. Yay! Lucky mummy got to sleep through the morning one, and dad got to nap through the afternoon one, so we all feel a little better. Probably means we are in for an awful night though.

Having mastered crawling for all of two weeks, he has decided it's time to start standing up and is pulling himself up on everything. He has no balance of course and weebles and wobbles all over the place once he is up, which has led to much head-bonking, with bruises to show for it.

We bravely babysat last weekend for a drop-in mum who is moving and needed some time to organize without a wee one underfoot. Emerson was a very easy going girl, went down for her nap without a peep, didn't try to get into all the forbidden stuff, but it was still pretty exhausting watching 2 for 4 hours. First they watched a show together:


Then they played together and tried to 'share' toys:


Then Emerson helped out with Ollie's lunch: