Bad day!
We had a bad day today! After weeks of really blossoming and becoming a very happy, smiley baby who laughs a lot, over the past week Imogen has become much more clingy, getting upset and whining at the least little thing. Especially after the hairy McClairy story each night when she cries when I put him away!

This morning I had an important meeting at 9.00 so was determined to leave on time for once – which is always where it starts to go wrong! Imogen was tired and so everything went a little slower and was more of a trauma. I then checked her nappy about 4 times as the morning present for mummy hadn’t materialised and, sure enough, it came just as we got into the car, so it was back to the changing table!

Then after throwing her dummy away several times and then crying for it so I had to keep grappling behind my seat to try to find it at traffic lights, she eventually napped five minutes away from nursery so was upset when she had to wake again.

Then for the first time ever she cried inconsolably when I tried to leave her at nursery and was trying to climb up my legs. All the frustration at being late then turned into massive guilt – she is still so small and the world is so big for her and sometimes I think I forget that as she adapts so well 99% of the time.

She did calm down and as soon as she saw her favourite toys she was happy again, I think it was just tiredness! Bizarrely, her favourite toy at nursery, by the way, are two hair curlers that fit inside each other – she is obsessed by putting things in other things or lids on containers – she loves shape sorters and is incredibly good at them!