Max...

This is just prior to Max eating gravel and Eliza drinking the water out of the sandpit. Bleurgh! It's just as well Nix isn't a control freak... I'd be frigging useless at being so cool about that. 

Nicki looks after Eliza on a Thursday and she does so with such calm she makes parenting look like a piece of piss. I'm exhausted simply observing. 

Pepsi has been hiding out in the bedroom most of the day. She's wasn't interested in coming out when Max was awake, far less when Eliza arrived. That's okay though, she's got everything she needs and Chris was with her all day while he worked and we went out into town to get provisions to bake some brownies. 

Max fell asleep before dinner and is still asleep so Nix and Chris have gone to bed. Pepsi has decided the coast is clear and is wandering around exploring like she owns the place. She came from a house with a toddler but I'm wondering how honest the guy was about whether she liked children at all!  I do get the feeling it's the noise she's not keen on. She doesn't appear distressed, she's just got a safe hidey hole upstairs and she's staying there during child waking hours. 

Tomorrow we're off to visit the Emma Bridgewater place in the morning, seeing Gem and her Mum for lunch and then we're off for a swim in the evening. It's perfectly lovely to be doing stuff but nothing is set in Stone. Well apart from the house!  Literally! We're just going with the flow and it's exactly what I love about coming to visit, it's very easy just to hang out.