It’s been forty degrees or over for the last three days and more of the same predicted for the rest of the week so it’s hot hot, hot.

Ryan and Libby have arrived and I am very happy to see them. Marilyn and the girls have also returned from Adelaide so things will be a bit more lively around here.

Nina’s sleep training is going pretty well. Heated up a little too. Basically now she has no more dummies or singing she has to learn to fall asleep by herself (and around 7pm). We just sit beside her until she falls asleep. I thought it was going to be horrendous but it hasn’t been really. She usually wines a little for about 10 mins (which she did anyway if we bounced her to sleep maybe even longer) and then falls asleep. She also only gets one night time feed now and she has to stay in her cot until 6 in the morning. Again I thought it was going to awful but on both nights she has woken twice. The first time she got her feed and the second I just got up and rewrapped her and sat with her and she fell back asleep within five minutes. She’s woken at about 5.45 but just played in her cot until we get her up at 6. Napping has been a little harder. We decided she has to have three naps a day for at least 1 hour and half. She usually goes down pretty easily, again 5-10 mins of wining but then wakes about 50 mins later. Then I go and sit with her but unfortunately it takes about 30 mins of wining before she falls to sleep again. I do still pick her up for a hug if she gets very upset but thankfully that’s rare. It wasn’t an easy decision to make we really had tried to not have to do anything like this but we have reached my limit. We have also become convinced that she really needs to sleep more for her own good (and ours). She doesn’t love this but we have done it as gently and gradually as we can and as said she has actually gone okay and we are all happier when we are awake for it. We also figure that over Nina’s lifetime there will be many times when we are going to have to make her do things she doesn’t like eg eat veges instead of chocolate or go to school, it will never be easy I assume but we are all going to have to get used to it.

In other ways she is going well too. She laughs and rolls and swims and plays with toys. She is fascinating to watch. She has a fancy new pram which she seems to like and I absolutely love as does my back.

I start teaching again next week and yesterday I went in to meet with the guy who will be working with me. I have enjoyed thinking about thing apart from Nina. I just hope that the late night won’t be too heavy going.

I think that’s about it.