Dear Ilysha,
Today, Daddy got to see you once more :')
I got to the Contact Centre and went in to prepare for your arrival, to get everything ready so I could spend my time with you better. I got the highchair set up, I went and rounded up all the good toys for you hehe, and I sat waiting patiently talking to other parents.
Mummy brought you in and explained you were a bit tired, and hadn't been awake long - you even had bed hair that me and Mummy giggled about but you looked adorable! You smiled sweetly at me straight away, and Mummy passed me a little bag with your bits and pieces in. Mummy told me that you'd had your nine month review and they said it was important you get used to using a tippee cup and not relying on bottle teats hehe. She also said you were teething again and are on your way to having 6 teeth now! Big girl! You're using sudocrem now, because Mummy has no zinc oxide, so she is trialing it. Mummy passed you to me, gave you a kiss and said she'd see us in a couple of hours, and then it was just me and you - perfect :)
I started off by giving you a big kiss and cuddle, sat you on my knees and had a little chat with you, telling you how much I'd missed you whilst you smiled back and me and babbled along hehe. I could see you eyeing up your food bowl so I popped you into your chair, and started feeding you. You were a hungry little munchkin, and kept patting your hands on the tray of the highchair smiling as you ate your breakfast. You kept rubbing your bare feet against my knees and smiling, the little things you do are so cute :') - you started getting distracted and looking over your shoulder to see what was going on around you, so I rotated the chair so you could see easier :) - at one point you were looking away and I leaned right in next to you, and you turned your head, smiled ever so sweetly and leaned forward so our foreheads and noses were touching... it was adorable! You ate all your breakky without too much difficulty... and then I passed you your tippee cup. Well, that was entertaining! You seemed to enjoy filling your mouth full of water, then pulling the cup away so it dribbled out all down your chin! I spent most of the time trying to not let you get drenched in it!
After you'd had a drink, you reached up for me to pick you up, so I lifted you out the chair, flat packed it with my legs like a professional and we carried it back through to the other room. I lay you down on a big cushion and got the little blue cube you liked last week - I jingled it about you and you kicked enthusiastically, smiling and giggling with your eyes wide in excitement hehe :') - you have the cutest smile ever :) - we played for a while like that with me cuddling you, and tickling your tummy and talking to each other. Your love for mirrors has developed now, if I put one in front of you, you lean forward until your nose is pressed right against it! We practised your rolling with you on the playmat and me putting toys just out of your reach so you had to roll over to get them. You aren't as comfortable with rolling onto your back from your front just yet - at least not in the Contact Centre.
I helped you stand upright - you love just standing up, it's crazy that you are amazed with something so small, but I am equally amazed, you just smile constantly as I hold you steady :) - you wobble back and forwards, and occasionally fall on your bum onto the cushion under you - the cushion encourages you to keep weight evenly on your feet and not just stand on the balls of your feet like you try hehe. We played with all the toys like usual, and you were in your element, giggling and smiling - I know what you like these days, so keeping you entertained is easy, and we can interact easier without you getting distracted or bored :P - I carried you round the room and you were still fascinated with the ceiling lights, and the TV on the wall... I think Mummy must let you watch TV quite a bit, you always stare at it when it's in your sight!
When I changed your nappy this week you neither wee'd on me, or got upset haha - you had two packs of wet wipes to play with too so you were in your element! :')
When Mummy returned I had you stood over my flat leg like before, and you were taking small shuffles backwards and forwards, holding a red ball out whilst saying "da-da-da-da-da" hehe, I won't lie, I'm encouraging that one! I keep saying back to you "da-da" and hoping you pick it up properly and associate it with me since I'm the one teaching it to you! hehe ;)
Mummy was all smiles and sunshine again, she asked if you'd been a good girl and I couldn't disagree - you were good as gold, and hadn't got upset at all! We'd had a good play, and a cuddle, and as heartbroken as I was that you had to leave, I was just grateful that I'd got to see you again and spend some time with my special little lady.
Next week should be the last time we have to see each other at the Contact Centre, after that we should be able go out and go new places together - I can't wait to show you off to the world - proud Daddy's little Princess :')
I love you so much Ilysha, you are my everything and always will be. I can't wait to see you next week, the countdown has already started.
Daddy x x x
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