If at first you don't succeed...

... try and try again... then try some more... then a little more... then give up and decide that the freezer full of milk that Mummy has expressed should be donated to the neonatal unit at Kings College Hospital.

Looking back at this photo the look in Lyra's eyes says to me - you think I'm going to drink from this don't you. Ha! I can play nicely for the camera but just you wait....

Lyra has never drunk from a bottle. She far prefers the original container.

This was also the day that Lyra first babbled.

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