Recently I purchased the camera add-on for the Raspberry Pi and eager to find an initial project, I took inspiration from a time-lapse video that I saw on-line. Once I’d tested it out I decided to place it Emily’s room to find out what happens in the time that she is supposed to be napping.

The video below shows exactly what happens… the camera took a shot every 10 seconds and the video plays at 12 frames per second i.e. every second of video corresponds to two minutes of real time.

Emily was ‘napping’ for 90 minutes but as you can see, the first 30 minutes was spent reading and generally messing around. During this ‘nap’ Jessica didn’t hear a peep from Emily so assumed she was asleep throughout.

After two trips to Ikea (left the legs in the trolley first time) we have a new high chair for Emily. She is now ready to start weaning and try her first ‘solid food’.

Emily impatiently awaits her food

Emily really enjoyed her new food which was quite a contrast to our experience with Samuel 3 years ago. Now if Emily can just master keeping the food in her mouth, meal times will be a lot cleaner.

Yummy

Quicker Mummy - I'm hungry!

Merry Christmas from everyone at Tea Towers.

There has been very little sleep here at Tea Towers due to the arrival of our daughter Emily. Both Jessica and Emily are doing really well despite the mini-heatwave we find ourselves in at the moment. Jessica and I were very relieved to see that the (scan) prediction was correct and that we had a baby girl. We’re really pleased to have the family we hoped for with one of each.

Emily in hospital

We’ve been trying to adjust to the difficult task of caring for a newborn and, whilst we’re better at it second time around, we have the added complication of keeping our first born happy. Samuel has welcomed baby sister and has given her a cuddly rabbit as a present. However, I have seem him quickly pick up all his cars when I carry Emily into the room so he isn’t in the mood for sharing yet.

Emily napping this afternoon

I hope that we’ll soon be settled enough in our routine to let everyone meet Emily… but in the meantime just spare a thought for us when you’re enjoying a full night of sleep.