5 months

I know it's a cliche but I really can't believe how quickly time is flying. Leo's first six months felt like such a long time, yet Angharad will be on solids in just a few weeks and I still feel as if she's only just been born!

So apart from being beautiful and rosy-cheeked, what's this little miss like? She loves baths, being tickled, Incy Wincy Spider, crinkly-crackly books and kisses on her cheeks (they make her grin). A laid-back little girl, she is happy to hang in the pram and watch the action when we're out and about (now that she can sit in the front seat and see what's going on), and at home she'll lie around on her mat and amuse herself with toys, toes and raspberry-blowing. She's a roly-poly girl, has

been rolling from her back onto her front for a week or so and just a couple of hours ago rolled back onto her back from her front. She was so pleased with herself she did it again twice in the next 5 minutes. This means she can travel around the floor now so we'd better watch out! (And that's a blog exclusive - if you're reading this before GMT 10am on Thursday then you know about her new-found rolling prowess before her father does)!

Life is still busy with the two of them, but slightly less frenetic now that Angharad is at the stage where she can be distracted by a toy or bunch of keys if you need 5 mins longer to finish what you're doing. These days we've settled into a bit of a routine and she has around 3 naps a day with normally one of those being longer (1-2 hours) and a couple of catnaps. If she is in her

cot at home she'll do the long sleep, but in her pram doesn't usually go longer than 45 mins, unless she's kept moving. And she has 6 feeds, with the last one around 6.30 before bed at 7; her morning wake-up time is pretty varied but usually around 5 and then after her feed she goes back to sleep for another hour or two. It all pans out pretty well because, more often than not, I can work it so that she and Leo both have a decent nap after lunch which means I get a break to do things like this! We skip Leo's morning nap some days as otherwise we'd never get out of the house; between trying to co-ordinate feeds/meals, nappy changes and sleeps.

It's a hell of a plate-spinning act. There are days when the plates stay on their sticks beautifully and others when they all crash to the ground at once, but, luckily for us, we have more of the good days at the mo.

Next stop purees and rice cereal... nappy changing is about to get a whole lot stinkier!