… and 3,498 points to Nora! But that one point meant a lot to me!!

She had a long sleep last night. She woke me up around 4:45am for her nappy change and feed. And then she wanted to play for hours.

Whenever I leave the room for a second, she’ll start screaming.

No matter how many times I rocked her and sang to her, she was determine not to sleep. In the end I just put her in the hammock with her Fuzzy Bee and Friends book and went to the kitchen.

I could hear her fake crying but I ignored it and carried on folding the laundry.

Five minutes later it all went quiet.

I went to check on her. Her hammock had turned around facing the TV, which was on as I was watching BBC Breakfast when I was in the front room with her.

I switched the TV off and told her off for watching TV (even though it’s not her fault… plus it was the news channel so it’s not that bad). I went back to the kitchen and finished folding the laundry.

It was all quiet in the front room… as she fell asleep on her own!!

I must learn to be more firm!

But of course it didn’t last… half an hour later she woke up and cried… not her pretend cry… so I picked her up.

She’s now on the day bed with Laura the elephant… looking at me and giving me her wonderful smiles.