Not quite sure where the past month has vamoosed to! I guess for two weeks I was knocked sideways with the flu, which coincided with my last week at work. My first week of only one day a week working I decided would be a good time to get builders in to sort the hallway out (strip, skim and paint walls and ceiling) and bathroom (knock out a small wall, move the cupboard door back and move the washing machine from kitchen to bathroom cupboard). Not the most genius idea I've ever had, I should have had a quiet week! Oh well, they're gone now, unfortunately I hired muppets, our washing machine is still in the kitchen, but at least the hallway is (mostly) finished. So now we just have to get the bathroom ceiling patched and the floor replaced...not looking forward to that. But enough about our renovations...

Sophs the little bookworm has been thoroughly indoctrinated into the world of reading, and loves to sit and read through all of her books. Miraculously she doesn't draw in them either, although everything else is fair game - the table, floor, toys, walls!