Heh Baby! Or where will the baby be and in what insane Cirque du Soleil-esq position will we find her...

When Madeleine first arrived she was placed in a gorgeous white cotton covered moses basket with a little white sun shade on top. She seemed so impossibly small and delicate that we laid her in the bassinet like she was a porcelain doll made of eggs.


Eventually we could not ignore the fact that our little girl was getting too big for this starter bed. We went out shopping for her cot. It seemed impossibly large compared to our little baby. She was down at one end and a vast expanse of snowy (and rather expensive I might add) sheet was at the top (1/3 baby 2/3 sheets). Now she is growing into this bed and we are all getting used to it.

These days Madeleine is getting more and more mobile (she is nearly crawling). It has become incredibly interesting to go in and check on her - as she is almost always in some strange pose that is different from the last time you checked.

Currently, she is favouring a sort of prayer-like position kneeling with her bum in the air, face on the mattress and her little arms tucked under. She will be found like this on any part of the cot - often up in the corners at the top.


This morning my little chirpy girl was chatting away in her cot and so I went in wondering what to expect from the little acrobat and there she was sitting up cross legged in her bed smiling at me. I had to laugh and was thinking...it's all over now...we will never have a moments peace from now until she can walk properly...I think THIS weekend we should buy her a helmet!