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Liam and his cousin Maddie, older by 4 weeks.  I don’t know who’s the least impressed.

Bonus photo!  Liam and Jilly, his guardian

Yeah, I should make smaller cookies next time, maybe

In other news, I watched Ink today and promptly ordered it on Blu-Ray.  You should hunt it down and watch it.  Seriously.

Testing out a Catbird Baby mei tai. Liam was actually pretty happy in it…until he wasn’t. I think he just needs to get a bit more used to it.

And yeah, it’s a terrible photo of me. I need to get back in shape.

How do you fit writing into your day?

This is what my life has expanded to include: an obsession with cloth nappies.

The left hand side contains all-in-ones and -twos as well as pocket nappies, mostly from Itti Bitti, Baby Beehinds and Green Kids. There should be some fitted nappies in there as well, but they’re currently in the nappy bucket. On the right hand side, liners and boosters in the back and covers in the front (mostly Thirsties).

There’s another drawer below this one which holds prefolds. And more nappies in another drawer which are currently too big for him (I’m stocking up on bigger sizes when I find good specials).

Words

Despite the fact that Liam’s been sleeping on and off all afternoon (he’s pretty much been awake for an hour then sleeping for an hour, rinse and repeat), and I’ve had time to get some work done, I haven’t done any writing. I have managed some reading, which is something. And I did contemplate some of my characters, which is also something. I may do some work on my character outlines if Liam stays asleep for a little while longer.

Poor Liam was very unsettled last night after his vaccinations. He was crying a lot and didn’t want to go to sleep. Eventually he slept, and boy, did he sleep! About ten hours with only one short break for a feed. He’s spent most of today sleeping as well so far, but he’s been his normal cheery happy gooing self while he’s been awake.

Writing work – yesterday, was none, since I spent the day tending to Liam. Today, I’m still working on my character outlines. Slow and steady, getting to know my characters again. I’d actually had very little enthusiasm about returning to working on this novel, but I’m starting to feel some again now.

Liam went for his slightly belated checkup with the doctor today, which included his eight-week vaccinations. The poor little guy was napping when we had to leave, so was already cranky. He really didn’t enjoy the injections (and I wouldn’t either, given the relative size of the needles to him!) and cried for about five minutes before calming down. I expected him to want to feed for comfort when we got home, but he just went to sleep. Poor little guy But I’d rather him go through the discomfort of the needles than have him get any of the illnesses.

I got the pertussis/diphtheria/tetanus booster as well, so he was in good company. He’d calmed down when I got my jab – which didn’t hurt at all – but when I got injected, he cried again.

No writing work done yet today, but I’ll try to get some more organisation of character sketches done while Liam sleeps.