Party is booked

Got hold of the woman I needed to speak to at the local family centre and we can have Poppy's birthday party there. It'll be so good as there's loads of toys there already, and my in-laws have a ball pool and bouncy castle that we can put up in there too. There's also a little outdoor play park with swings, slide and climbing frame if the weather is dry. Yay!! It'll be much better than having it in the house.

Today Poppy has eaten weetabix for breakfast (off a spoon) whilst being distracted by feeding herself banana, tikka chicken/quorn/butternut squash and couscous, and for her dinner a veggie sausage, broccoli, peas and mashed potato. She really wasn't fussed on the mash, it looked like we'd put poison down on her tray when she tried a handful. She loved the Linda Macartney sausage though and ate the whole thing, and tried a few peas and sucked the florets off the broccoli. Also after lunch she had most of a huge conference pear, and after dinner a plum and a yoghurt. So all in all a successful day, which - most importantly - was pretty low stress. Giving her the bedtime bottle was lovely too, she fell asleep on my lap taking it. I didn't think I'd get any of those moments again as she's not one for cwtching up on your lap, so when they do happen I absolutely love it. I hope when she's a bit older though she'll want to come up for cuddles before bed, or if she's ill, or watching a film together on a sunday afternoon.

Saw my GP again today and I am being referred to a Rheumatologist. Going to go private for the consultation as my nanna has it for the family, and waiting time is 3 months for an urgent appointment :-o Need to ring them tomorrow and get the go ahead so surgery can fax my notes over or whatever they need to do to get the ball moving. Got a different painkiller to try too, I so need to get some sleep and not keep getting woken up with the pain.

Just done bits of ironing, only the urgents as I can't be bothered with it all tonight, and done a quick vacuum so I'm off to bed to read and get some sleep. It's Daddy's last night shift tonight then two weeks off, and only 4 more sleeps until our weekend away. I'm sure I'm owed some lie-ins on his time off.