Emily is really suffering with her teeth. She now has six, with at least two more erupting. It makes up for lost time after five months with just four. She woke crying before 5am and when finally up at eight I had to administer Calprofen as she was really upset. She didn't seem very hungry and hardly ate any breakfast.
We had lunch with Nick. It was threatening rain all morning but there was nothing falling so we ate outside. Emily was charming lots of ladies with her antics. It's very sweet when she does a little head nod for a bow. I am trying to teach her to say 'arigato' (thank you) and bow as well. She does a good approximation of 'oishii' (delicious), especially when Nick encourages her in a really exaggerated voice, just like the hundreds of daft cookery programmes on TV. They are all the same, featuring Z-list celebs tasting dishes and exclaiming 'oishii' as the camera zooms in indecently close to a spoonful of glistening (with MSG) noodles or such like. Honestly, television here is so infantile, and the acting so appalling, compared with the UK. We should be very grateful indeed for the BBC.
Emily got upset again after her nap and I had to give more medicine. I abandoned my plan to shop at a baby store and we went to Pokke instead. Actually it was not a bad idea as it is important to go there and play together so that she is not scared to be there in daycare without me. To illustrate that, when we arrived she kept saying 'mummy' and holding onto my leg. It took five minutes or more before she felt reassured that I wasn't about to leave. The staff all know her and she responds well to them. She was marching around with a big grin and her hands in the air when they did the singing session at the end.
Again she was upset at teatime and hardly ate a thing. It is very wearing when she refuses food repeatedly and I just don't know what to do, except hope it is a phase that will run its course.
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