Ripon - day 1

We drove up from Surrey to Ripon in North Yorkshire today to visit Brett's parents. It is a long long car journey, made slightly longer when Brett couldn't remember if he had turned the cooker off before leaving the house so we had to turn back. :0S

Luckily Emma was in much better spirits today. She slept a lot on the journey, and we only had to stop once. She was such a happy bunny when we arrived, and was very charming to her nana, grandad and auntie Hayley. She sat at the head of the table for dinner, and ate loads. Well we thought she had... we found most of it on the floor under the table after she had finished! Emma's nana (Anne) did a good job of wearing her out, and she went off to sleep really quickly tonight, even after all the sleeping in the car. It seems that sleep out of bed (i.e. in the sling or the car) doesn't count - she still wants to sleep as normal.

Emma's half brother turns 18 tomorrow. Wow how scary is that?!?! I still always think of him as a little 11 year old kid, but then when I see him I realise what a great young man he has grown up into. We are all off for a nice Sunday lunch together tomorrow - should be fun!