Hooray for Elsie! She slept for 13 hours last night, I knew she was a magic baby!! She went to bed at 9pm last night, and woke up at 10am this morning. I got up once just after Rob woke her up at 6am, but just stuck her dummy in her mouth and she went straight back to sleep. Brilliant!

It’s a good job too, I was shattered yesterday after our proper rock and roll weekend! Well, more funk and hip hop weekend. It was Katie’s birthday party, so Grandpa Caig came round to babysit and Rob and I went out until 4am! Rob was DJing for the first part of the night (Elsie and I had loads of fun helping him pick out his music – she particularly liked E-Man Par-tay by The Jimmy Castor bunch!!) So, we had a really good night, and Elsie got to spend some quality time with her grandpa!

She has learnt some new noises in the last couple of days, which are extremely cute. She now sounds a bit like R2-D2 – in a good way! She is making them now, looking out of the window at the grim and grey weather today as I write this. She really is such good company the majority of the time. I have heard motherhood, or at least these early days on maternity leave, described as brain draining time spent alone with nothing to think about – but I don’t feel like I spend my days alone at all. It definitely seems to me like Elsie and I have real interaction and communication, and that I spend all my time with an intelligent being. She seems to have a sense of humour and reactions to the world around her. I don’t know how much is actually there, and how much is me endowing her with qualities that I imagine she has. I suppose the point is that I really enjoy being with her – most of the time it is a real pleasure.

These are a couple of pictures of Elsie looking particularly animated a week or so ago.