Bethany has been chewy again for the weekend as she seems to be troubled with her teeth but she did have her moments. She was a bit picky with her food yesterday but we set aside some carrots later on for her whilst we had our tea and she happily sat with us at the coffee table and picked them off her plate. Soon she ran out and started helping herself to those on Alison's plate but instead of eating them herself she started to feed them to Alison as we feed her so she thought she would repay the compliment. Bethany does seem to like participating in meal times and if allowed to roam free will help herself to the food from our plates. She also had one of her exploring days where she was bored by being downstairs and cried despite being surrounded by toys. Taking her upstairs to see Alison who was in the bath cheered her up as she ran along the landing and helped herself to books from the bookcase and wandered into the spare room where she collected video games and DVDs and carried them to Alison. Visiting my parents also afforded her the opportunity to run around in a new environment and she spotted a new place upstairs when my mother took her to my old room to fetch some toys and she started pointing at the cupboard they had come from in the hope that it may reveal more.
   I was trying to free my car with my father at the time as the black ice was particularly bad yesterday. Deciding not to park down their steep drive for fear of not being able to get back out I left my car on the front outside their house at the top of the street on a rise. As I was about to get out the car started slipping backwards and in trying to correct this my car ended up almost side on into the kerb. Taking Bethany out I returned with my father armed with salt, shovels and shoulders and managed to straighten my car up, turning the front wheels into the kerb and chocking up the back with some wood. We then chipped away at the thick of the ice on his ski slope of a drive which was luckily in the sun and starting to melt