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Had a lovely weekend with the Carrot Cakes, who looked after us beautifully. Babycake and Shortcake fitted right in and we seriously thought about leaving them with their new mummy and daddy to enjoy a very pleasant life. Babycake didn't treat them to his newly acquired vocabulary of vileness and we didn't hear 'fucking road' (transformed to 'rocking road'), 'fucking hell' or 'bugger' at all. I did try to get him to tell them of his affection for Gok Wan, as cruel parent that I am, I was in complete hysterics when Babycake (who substitutes a 'k' sound for 'g') announced that he liked Gok - but he wouldn't do this either.

We were all exhausted when we left (relaxing is very hard work for us these days) and Babycake had a nap on the way home. This was a disaster, as we are not allowing easy opportunities for sleep in the day for him as it invariably means that he doesn't sleep until 10pm and of course he didn't sleep until 10pm last night. If kept awake, we enjoy 7.30pm to 6am of sleeping Babycake, giving us an evening free of toddler. Shortcake (so far) is sleeping like a normal baby and I only have to wake a couple of times at night, which takes me right back to Babycake...at 20 months! Anyway, he is my precious first born and I love him, even though he does not want to cuddle me quite as much as I would like. Shortcake however, gives me as many cuddles as I want, she smiles and coos at me and thinks I am wonderful, so already we agree on something.