Immunised - [2 months old]

It's Friday night around 715 and AW has taken the screaming Scarlett to bed, hopefully for the night. She's still what is considered a 'good' baby: once the nighttime starts, she's reasonably content to treat it as sleep-time, even if she needs a couple of feeds and her nappy changed during the night. She'll usually go back to sleep quite quickly, especially if she's feeding between us in the bed. But we're trying to put an end to that, as we are moving to our smaller place, with its smaller bed, next week.

We're expecting a more disturbed night tonight as Scarlett had her first set of immunisations today. She was not pleased at the two injections, one in either chubby thigh. She'll have these again at 12 weeks, and at 16 weeks, and then the next set at 12 months. It was like we'd betrayed her - she's been very happy in the flat and in the doctor's waiting room, and then all of a sudden - pain. Hope she doesn't blame it on me because I was holding her at the time. I'll be holding her next time as well, as AW will be back at work then, I think.

Then we had to wait around the surgery for 10mins or so, to see if there was any reaction. She swiftly fell asleep in AW's arms, and remained so on our walk back to the flat. It is so convenient having our chemist, our doctor, and our dentist literally across the road from us. It was especially good when AW was pregnant.

Ducks - [1 month, 3 wks old]

On Wednesday we went and fed the ducks in Hyde Park, pushing Scarlett in the stroller my brother and his wife gave us. It was the best kind of day - cold enough to be bundled up cosily but sunny enough to be warm on our faces and for us to wear our sunglasses. We went to the statue of Peter Pan and the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, and back along the Serpentine, and had the same boring conversation we always have: "How lucky we are to live here!" "How lucky we are to have Scarlett!" We are in complete accord on both those things. We feel very very blessed.

The theme of this week has mostly been - 'I can't believe how big she is!' My mother came back from Ireland this week with a really classy French baby outfit, which SAID it was for a six-month old. But that cannot be right, because Scarlett will be fitting into it fairly soon. She's getting long, and very chubby.

Stroller - [1 month, 2wks old]

This is our stroller, both the joy and bane of our lives:












The joy because it is so well-designed, and so smart.


The bane because the person who bought it for us got us the 'country' version rather than the 'city' version. The city version has a small front wheel that swivles. The country has all wheels the same size, and that means a massive turning circle.

Very frustrating getting into Starbucks on Notting Hill Gate.