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It has been a pretty busy week at Chez Still… Last weekend, hopped up on Diet Dr Pepper I made a major push towards getting my workroom sorted out, and its very nearly finished. The Monday was a Bank Holiday and also my 29th birthday so we spent most of the day with Jon’s folks and had a tasty lunch and all napped in the sunshine afterwards! Thursday was Jon’s 29th and so yesterday we provided tea, cake, but no death to the extended family. (We also gave the whole house a good clean - which included the opportunity for inhaling furniture polish)

But even better, Amelia has started to roll over. However, in a very quantum way we can’t (yet) observe it in progress, we’ve just answered the more miffed than usual cries and found her on her tummy in her cot. Last night when we were drying her off after her bath she was very nearly rolling over, so she had a better view of the bottles of Viakal and Flash that live (for now and not much longer) on a low shelf by the shower.

Also today Helen and I traipsed into London and Earl’s court to go to the International Jewellery London trade show. I returned with some fabulous beads, including matte crackle rock crystal, blue goldstone and Botswana  agate. Helen got a 17″ graduated strand of Rubies for an amazing price, which I am currently knotting.

Have shamelessly pilfered this post from my other site…

Recently listed on Folksy is this fabulous Herringbone stitch cuff for £30.00. Roughly 6.5″ in length and finished with a gold-filled clasp it would look stunning on all skin tones and with many different coloured outfits.

Also when you purchase it and the co-ordinating earrings you will get a £6 refund via paypal, meaning that you get both items for £34 plus p&p.

Again it has been over a month since the last blog post; they seem to be in bursts and then nothing for a while. Since the last entry things have been trundling along much the same. Well apart from taking Amelia on her first trip out of the country when we we went to Ireland for a week. All told it was reasonably stress-free. Armed with cartons of formula there wasn’t much the drive to Holyhead could throw at us. And unlike her mother, Amelia slept very well in the travel cot. I wasn’t in the travel cot but the bed at the TravelLodge was far too soft so I slept very badly.

To continue her reign as most disgustingly good baby she slept perfectly in the cot at my parents, and was a smiling delight to all about her! Thankfully this did continue, apart from the 3 hour ferry trip home which she didn’t enjoy so much, so Jon and I had to take turns wandering around with her. She made up for it by only waking up once on the drive back home.

The trip home was very successful, she saw and was seen and coped with the almost constant stream of new people very well, and even managed to fit some time in with a contemporary of hers; Hugh/prawn who is about 5 months older than her, and she managed to hold her own very well!

Last Monday the new blinds for the Velux windows in her room arrived, ordered because she is now too big for the moses basket (at 4 months) and has moved up into her own cot in her own room without any trouble. And now she has discovered a new trick - spit bubbles and going Bpppt! 

Its all go!

Amelia and Jon “enjoying”  the lumpy sofa bed in her room.

Today Amelia has achieved another milestone (she has been smiling and cooing for a while)… her first laugh. And then some, mainly elicited by my making a complete fool of myself laughing and googling at/with her.

Unfortunately Jon was not at his phone when I phoned to tell him of this marvellous development…