No sleep in the Evans House

Oh dear. For some reason the last few nights Tully has gone to sleep absolutely fine when we've put her to bed, but she's then woken up and is wide awake at about 3-4 in the morning and nothing we do seems to make her sleepy again for a couple of hours. Mark and I are both absolutely knackered! I think her gums are hurting her, as she's generally more restless too the rest of the night. Any advice gratefully received - we're both getting rather broken. She's gone off the Dentinox stuff I've been using - she used to love it but now it seems to make her cry more. Last night we resorted to Infant Nurofen, but not sure that's good for a longer term solution :(

Visit to London

Last weekend we went to London to see Vics and Ben. You can read more about it on Tully's blog here and here. Anyway, there wasn't a good photo of them together there so thought I'd put this one on my blog. Oh, and in case anyone is feel adventurous and wants to go on an activity holiday Ben has started up his own travel company so I'm sure he'd be pleased to hear from you!

X Factor

I'm mildly embarrassed to admit that I've got really hooked to the X factor this year. I didn't really see it last time, but I'm loving it this year. I'm outraged that Maria got kicked off on Saturday too! She's loads better than the Conway Sisters! Grrrr....

it's been a while...

Ooops, just realised I've not posted anything for a couple of weeks. So, what's been happening? Well, last week I headed back to mum and dad's for a few days - I'm owed so much holiday from work and I'm trying to use them up before Christmas... I took Tully to see my grandparents whilst I was there as I'd not gone the last couple of times. It was really good to see them, and I think they enjoyed seeing their first great grandchild.
I didn't do much else when i was there, just chilled out really. But I ended up staying one night longer than expected. I got everything ready to come home on Thursday, but for some reason Tully just screamed when we were in the car so I headed back to try and settle her before I got too far away and was stuck miles from wither house with a screaming baby. I planned to set off again, but in the end decided to stay as it was getting really late, and I didn't fancy being in a lay-by on the Woodhead pass on my own if she woke up and got stressed out again. Poor mum - she just thought she'd got her house back to it's normal quiet self too :)

Busy Weekend

This weekend has been quite hectic. Firstly we had a night out on friday, which I talked about in my last post.

Then, on Saturday, I went to see the group of people that had been thrown together when we went skiing for the 2004 New Year in La Plagne. We all got on really well and have net up since, and lots of them got a chalet together last New Year too, which sadly we had to miss as I was too pregnant to be able to go :( This time John was hosting the reunion in Hyde, which is just a few minutes round the motorway from us.
I forgot to take my camera, but here's a couple of snaps that we took during the ski holiday to show who everyone is. This first one was taken in the chalet and shows (from left to right) Amy & Stuart, Mark & Caroline, Becky the chalet maid in front, Sally & Scott, John, me and finally Mark. The onyl people missing this weekend was Becky (poor girl, tried really hard while we were there but was a little scatty. Not 'bad' as such, but certainly one of the least organised chalet hosts we've stayed with), and Mark, who had stayed at home to look after Tully. In addition this weekend was Alex, Mark and Caroline's 6 week old son...

This next one shows a subset of us out on the 'piste'! (Me, Mark, mark, Sally, John and Scott) I know it doesn't add much to this post, but I just saw it and it made me have really itchy feet to go skiing again so thought I'd put it up. Spot Scott though as the odd one out for being a boarder, although apparently John got converted to the dark side of snow sports last year...


Finally, today we all went over to Yeadon to see Chris and Chrissy. It was really really good to see them - we should definitely make an effort to see them more often! Tulster was on fine form too - sometimes I'm just so amazed that I'm mum to such a fab little girl. She's really well behaved and just makes me laugh so much sometimes. It was really funny today to see how she reacted to their cats - although I'm not sure who was most freaked out - I think the cats were most perturbed by Tully than she was of them!

Night out

Alison and Liz had offered to baby sit again, so last night we went out with Jon and Mandy to celebrate (belatedly) Jon's birthday. First we stopped off for a swift G&T in the Hog's Head, and then headed across the road to Jitrada, a very good Thai restaurant. We ordered loads of food (we were actually slightly embarrassed as we felt we were really over ordering), but we managed to clear all 3 courses without too much effort (mixed starter, soup, main) It really was incredibly tasty! Afterwards we wandered back to the Hill's house to try out their new sofa and have another bottle of wine... Yum!