The time has come and a big decision has been made in our household. As I have previously written we have been discussing, as a family, the various options in terms of my returning to work and or becoming a stay at home mum. Well, we have finally come to the conclusion that with nursery costs, petrol and parking costs and the amount of time that BB would have to be in nursery that I will not be returning to work. That is, not to my old work. And so, I recently handed-in my notice. It was not an easy decision to make but it does feel like the right one for us for now. Instead I will be becoming self-employed so that I may work around BB's needs. I am working on a couple of projects in order to do this and I am rather excited at the various prospects. Although it is rather strange to think that I wont be returning to the office and working with my old colleagues, for me, since the arrival of BB, my priorities have simply changed and I want to change my work-life accordingly. Saying this, BB will be going to nursery once a week so that she gets proper play time with other little ones and gets used to being around other grown ups. I truly believe she will get a lot out of it. And this will give me a full day of focusing on work matters. My mother has also very kindly volunteered to look after BB for another day in the week so giving me two full days to work.
BB has just had her first holiday! We have just got back from a few days in North Devon and I have to say that BB coped with the traveling and staying in a new "strange" place very well. We booked a self-catering cottage very last minute and it worked out really well. We stayed for four nights and had two good days' worth of weather. Luckily the farm where we were staying had very good facilities including an indoor swimming pool, which BB loved. We did manage a couple of day trips out to local beaches and seaside resorts too and BB had her first proper meal out too. I am so glad that I have been doing Baby-Led Weaning with BB as she was able to have the fish fingers off of the children's menu at the restaurant. The waitress was a bit skeptical that BB would be able to eat all of them (three) at first but I was confident that BB would be able to manage - she often has three or four at home. BB did not disappoint! As soon as they arrived (well a few minutes after in order to allow them to cool down a bit) she picked one of them up and tucked in. We also gave her some of our salad and allowed her to suck on a couple of chips (no salt). The first time she has had chips and she didn't seem overly impressed with them and returned to the fish fingers. But the plus point of this experience was that she didn't make much mess and it showed to Mr B (and re-iterated to me) that BB is able to eat proper meals out from time to time.
Crawling is almost there. BB is able to get herself onto all fours and does a bit of revving. She sometimes manages to push herself backwards but often just ends up lying flat on her tummy and rolling around. But it is clear that she is thinking more and more about it and with each day she is getting a little bit closer to being mobile - eek!
Her speech is coming on too. "Dada" and "daddy" have been mastered, when the moods takes her she will say a "ello" and a "bye", and every so often she does do a bit of a moany "mum" or "mummy". "Na na na na" is slowly but surely turning into "no no no no" and this morning she attempted at saying "teeth" (which she is fascinated with still not having her own just yet - although again, I don't think these will be too long in appearing).
BB managed to get herself into a fit of giggles last night which was hysterical to watch. There didn't seem anything obviously funny but something had clearly tickled her. With two days off of her 10 month birthday BB is truly becoming a little mademoiselle and becoming a lot of fun with it.
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