Having said that, I have had the most marvellous time. But it has been the longest time I've spent apart from her yet, and I have been pining quite badly all day.

Come on Rob, drive like the wind (not really)...

...Hooray! Hooray! Elsie is now in bed. It was sooo gorgeous to see her. She is even more beautiful than she was when I left, her walking is even better, she can balance much more successfully, her hair is a little longer I think, and most excitingly of all... she can sing a song! She can sing the 'row, row, row' of row, row, row the boat - it is fantastic! I sand it to her lots on the phone while I was away (Rob said that after I'd been singing that to her down the phone, she kept going over the phone and picking it up again afterwards!), and I think they sing it at nursery too. But how clever is that?!

Anyway... it is great to be home in the bosom of my family once again.

This is a few weeks ago, when we met some of our buddies out at the mall.