Little miss sunshine and her four teeth..

Anna is finally starting to feel better and this latest period of teething and pain has subsided, until the next one. Everybody in the Hammond house is day by day breathing a sigh of relief as she has regained her humour and love of life. She has had highs and lows this week. She is now able to stand for about thirty seconds as the race to walk before her first birthday next week is on! A less than dignified mishap in her cot a couple of nights ago was not quite as much fun, as Amy found her screaming, arse in the air, having got out of her cot, stuck between the side and the window sill. To say she was not amused was an understatement. The adult section of the family Hammond then had the interesting task of lowering Anna's cot with two small helpers armed with screw drivers, alum keys, disappearing bolts, a confined space and the wish to hinder every step of the way! I am not that practical as it is without all of the above. I'm amazed that the cot has not fallen apart since and Anna has not had another mishap. This issue was discussed several weeks ago. Parental note: when we discuss an issue such as 'do we think it is time to lower Anna's cot as she can nearly climb over the side?' - PUT IT INTO ACTION RIGHT AWAY!! I guess we are not quite the proactive parents we thought we were.

It's 7.40pm, the girls are asleep (don't want to tempt fate), Amy is at the gym and I am blogging in perfect silence. I have plans to have half an hour parental wind down in front of the television with a magnum. Slight problem - just checked the freezer and I must have eaten all the magnum's weeks ago...Oh well I will settle for the silence.