A rather quiet week for us, recovering in general from the last few weeks and all the travelling. As suspected, Isobel has taken a long time to get back to her usual sleep routine - I think we're just about there now, and we've been back for over a week now! Last night was the first time she slept through on her own again, previously she's been waking about 40mins after I put her to bed and then screaming until I picked her up again - the jetlag seems to have made her very clingy, to the point where she'd cry if I even took a few steps away. It's been quite tiring for us both, and rather frustrating for Andy - many times Isobel just wouldn't calm down unless she was with me.

I was lucky enough to win a contest on Cara's blog - I started reading earlier in the year a little bit after I got stuck into knitting again. She takes lots of artsy photos of her knitting in progress, and has even done a bit of crochet recently ... I wish I had her sense of colour! Anyway, I've got a lovely little box of goodies on it's way to me - a couple of skeins of sock yarn, a box of gorgeous notecards from Cara's photos, and a cute little tape measure ... and you can never have too many of those!!

Meanwhile, the Mustang is still at the mechanics'. Not too bad this week, as the weather outside has been rather average and dreary. Still, I hope this doesn't drag on for too much longer!! I managed to get out to my crochet guild meeting on Monday night, Marcia did a workshop on a lacy spiderweb block which looks like lots of little motifs without all the sewing together. I had to pass on Latte at Denise's house on Tuesday though, which was probably a good thing in the end as Isobel and I are still getting over our colds ... not something I want to pass on to other kiddies this close to summer holidays.

Andy got up early on Saturday morning and took his kayak out to Lake Sammamish to christen it (oops, did I forget to mention he's got himself a kayak?!). Next time he's going to leave me a note to say where he's gone and when he's getting back ... I got a bit worried when I came downstairs with Isobel and the car was gone . In the afternoon we were invited to Ash & Denise's house for a BBQ - Isobel had a great time crawling around in the backyard, over the concrete patio, and even playing a bit of soccer with the guys. Playing soccer involved me holding her under her arms, and swinging her body like a pendulum to get her feet to kick the ball ... she thought it was absolutely hysterical!! Needless to say we got her a ball of her own to play with on Sunday . She also sat very quietly in her high chair at the table and munched on some little sweet potato bites, but started to wind down at about 7pm - very good considering she didn't have an afternoon nap!

Sunday was rainy again, so we caught up on some more shopping after cleaning out the cupboards of expired goods during the week. I also found a great shoe organiser that does just the thing for my yarn stash - Andy was kind enough to put it together for me, so now I have lots of compartments to organise all my yarn . Well, most of it anyway ... I'd better start finishing off a few of the various projects soon to help finish the job!

We've also bought a little walker to keep Isobel amused - she's still a little wary of it at the moment, but likes the little noise-makers here and there. She's had a bit of a go pushing it around on her knees, but I'm sure she'll be zooming around and crashing it into things before long...