Have been enjoying the lovely weather. Yesterday watching my father-in-law resetting fence posts in the garden, and today up the road at a neighbours with a similar aged lad.

The DIY / get the tradesmen in / help from the inlaws on the kitchen continues with Philip now thinking it's normal to take wallpaper off the wall - what fun he had pretending to be like Daddy and scrapping the wall with a spatula - and that pieces of concreting need a playpen so they don't escape. A gas fitter and plasterer are now nearly lined up. Ed also took some more units and tiles down to find the condition of the wall a bit worse than we'd hoped.

Philip's been teething again although I think we're getting off very lightly with him and teeth. Main indications that somethings wrong are that he stops going down smoothly for his daytime nap and gets really stressed at minor irritations. He had a major paddy on Saturday morning after getting up which at not much past 6am with both of us drawn in wasn't quite how we planned starting our weekend but heh. However, with the help of a bit of calpol, he does largely continue sleeping through the night so long as we're at home, and when busy and on task he's his normal happy self. He seems to get 2 periods of 3 days with each tooth - the first before the tooth breaks through, then a short gap and then more upset as the tooth grows. Must be a painful business though. I've now stopped counting but I think these are teeth 15 and 16 so we're nearly there anyway. Just 2 sets of the bigger back ones to go.

Have been reading a book a friend lent about the stresses of 2 kids. It's not entirely positive. Sounds like a year of near exhaustion before things start to settle with no. 2 - although of course experiences vary. Asked my friend whose eldest is a similar age to Philip and whose no. 2 is a few weeks old whether she thought it was about accurate and she reckoned so but is hopeful things'll get easier after 4 months. Hmmm. Well we'll see.