Sas has seen her family quite a bit in this month. Firstly Gran and Grandad Weiss came to stay over the second May bank holiday weekend, when it rained almost continuously! We had a nice dinner though indoors as Sas slept peacefully upstairs, and went out to the pub in Lower Oddington for lunch the next day - the same pub Sas went to when she was a few weeks old in fact, although now she's twice the size.
Shortly afterwards Wendy took her on a three-day expedition to Hitchin to clear out her old bedroom. After a marathon six-hour journey through horrendous traffic (including an emergency feed on the hard shoulder), the two young ladies got safely to West Hill, where they then received multiple visits from surrogate aunties bearing gifts. After a few days of not knowing what to do with all these unbroken nights' sleep, life got back to normal for Daddy once more when W&S got home again, having visited Nicky and baby Jack in Watford en route.
No sooner than they were home, we went off to Rickmansworth for the weekend to stay with Pete and Clare. This was back in the glory days of when we thought we were in for a nice summer, so we all had a lovely few sunny days in their garden and around the parks and shops of Ricky. We also saw Sarah and Simone and their baby Leo for dinner on the Friday night. The only downer was Tim having to go bleary-eyed and hung over to a meeting on the Saturday morning in London - not sure how convincing I was talking about Economics in these circumstances.
The following Friday marked an exciting step for both mother and daughter as Sas started going to nursery. Only one half day a week for now, but a big event for everyone nonetheless. After her first afternoon at the Circus, the staff generously said she had been "a bit unsettled" which - reading between the lines - probably means she spent most of the time in tears... On the plus side, she seems to have got to know the entire staff from being passed round for a cuddle to cheer her up, and they couldn't stop saying how cute she is!
Seeing as we couldn't let a few days go by without introducing Sas to something else new, the next week saw her moving onto solid foods for the first time. Or almost solid, that is. She has now already gone through virtually the full menu of purée options - carrot, potato, courgette, broccoli and sweet potato, and that was all before the end of June! Sas seems to prefer her veg to her fruit for now, and enthusiastically grabs the spoon as it comes her way, sticks it and her thumb in her mouth at the same time and soon gets mushy veg smeared all over herself, Mummy, the table etc.
We were off to Cambridge later in the month to see the grandparents again, admiring the blooming gardens at Lansdowne Road and Clare College. This was one of the few nights when Sas has lulled us into a false sense of security by sleeping through from 7 till 7 - don't worry, she soon realised how ridiculous an idea this was and has resorted back to her usual 7-11-4-7 routine. She also wowed Gran and Grandad with her eating prowess, while splattering their kitchen with semi-liquid courgette...
Finally, at the end of June Sas had her first proper "Waterbabies" swimming lesson - having dipped her toe in the water (!) in Corsica and with the NCT crowd at the Leisure Centre. The teacher wasted no time and dunked Saskia and the other babies underwater before they realised what was happening. Sas and her friend Elliott (Seonaid's son) were the big rowdy kids of the class, splashing about while the younger babies cowered in the shallow end.
What an action-packed month then - July will see us go on holiday again though, so Sas won't be getting bored in the near future!
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