Giving kisses...

Eva woke in the night at around 2.30am, I checked her nappy, gave her milk (did all the usual checks), but she started crying again each time I lay her back into her cot. I cuddled her, rocked her, sang her soft songs, but she eventually started having a tantrum in my arms, making her really hard to even hold. She was literally jolted herself back and forth and throwing herself back. I tried to just stay calm and just cuddle her, but she was having none of it, I don't know what was the matter. In the end, I lay her on her changing table with her screaming her head off, leaned over her to give her more milk, and she calmed down. I don't think she needed more milk, but it did soothe her and make her sleepy again, so that she'd go back into her cot and go back to sleep. I got back into bed and Mike cuddled up to me, think he could tell I'd just been a bit upset, it was just what I needed to get back to sleep myself, my heart had been racing. She woke up this morning such a happy, smiley girl. No sign whatsoever of any paddies today thankfully.

I heard Eva chattering with her toys in her cot when I woke around 8 am this morning, but she was fine, so I went and got myself a shower. I went to go in then and get her, and she'd fallen back to sleep. I sneaked back out and went and checked some emails, but it was then getting on for 9 am, so I went back into her, and just going in was enough to wake her up. I got such a beaming smile when I picked her up and she rested her head on my shoulder as if to cuddle me, oh my gosh I love moments like that.

I sat her on our bed surrounded by pillows and her toys after her milk, so I could get dressed. She's started 'kissing' now. If I say "Eva, give Daddy kiss" you have to get close to her, then she leans forward with her mouth slightly open, and that's her kiss. So so cute. So on the bed I was saying "Eva, give teddy kiss" and she did. First her big teddy, then her little one..... awww, so adorable. I then say "Give Mommy kiss" and she hardly ever does, probably because I kiss her about a million times a day she thinks "I've had enough." I do get the odd one, and cherish them when I do get them. You can never have too many Eva kisses. The top 2 pics from today are when she was kissing her teddies.

We had lots of play and songs and books at home today, and I just loved being with her. She slept for over an hour at midday and ate well. She had her oats and apple baby cereal followed by toast then about 5 chocolate buttons for breakfast, beef stew after her nap for lunch and sausage pasta for tea, plus lots of milk. Apart from the cereal and milk, she fed herself everything and there was hardly anything on the floor at the end of each meal. She's doing amazing now. She did put quite a lot of potato in her mouth in 1 go a few times, but I just kept an eye on her and she was fine. The bottom 2 pics from today are of her enjoying her stew at lunchtime, when she literally had a mouth full of potato lol.

My dad came round as she was eating her stew, so we had a catch up over a few coffees and he read all the things that had come home from Eva's nursery this week. He said how thorough they seem to be and that he thinks the nursery seems lovely.

Mike gave Eva her bath tonight, then she had her milk and was in bed by 7.30, perfect timing for my vcc Skype meeting, but I did have to slope off back up to her, as she would not settle and was crying her eyes out sat up in her cot. I gave her more milk, lay her back down and after a few little moans, she was soon fast asleep. Xxx