Breastfeeding anniversary

It's been over a year since we last breastfed. Springy has changed so much in that time. Her molars are coming through, she lost her 2 lower teeth and she lost her right top front incisor on 5th August and her top left front incisor on 2nd August 2008 so she's looking a bit gappy at the moment. It's also made her speech hard to understand at times (at least for me).

Thank you to Breastfeeding Network most of all but thank you to La Leche League and Association of Breastfeeding Mothers.

Springy has been swimming twice over the holidays for about an hour each time, which has been nice. She's really coming along. She's still a bit lacking in stamina and will put her feet down but the best thing is she is confident and happy in the water and doesn't mind going underwater either (which I still cannot do). She's been learning front crawl, backstroke and has picked up doggy paddle (from her uncle) and breaststroke (which apart from backstroke is my only swimming stroke). I still cannot go under the water so I am so pleased that she can because it opens up so many possibilities and looks like great fun too.

Tooth Fairies

So what did the Tooth Fairy do? Well, I asked Springy whether she wanted to keep her tooth or if the fairies could take it. She said out loud, "Dear Tooth Fairy, I want to keep my tooth." As her first tooth it was a bit of a trauma for her. The day she lost it she put it under her pillow and in the morning she found 20p plus a letter on the windowledge in the tiniest handwriting and it had little footprints on it too.

The weather wasn't great which is why the Tooth Fairy didn't bring anything else (somehow Springy was convinced that she would bring an extra gift and I got convinced too!). Anyway, about a week later the weather was great (as can been seen from our beach trip) and Springy found a teeny tiny cowrie shell under her pillow. She's got the tooth, her coin and the shell in a little box now.