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[lalxx]

Hello StupidRomeo
Your ideas sound great - can I also suggest a couple of simple things which you can do each weekend which build a bond between you and your daughter:-
1. make pancakes for breakfast - have ufn adding food colourings and add fruit (my children and I love making pancakes together for breakfast when we are together)
2. make smoothies together - gets fruit into her and she doesn't even know!
3. paint pictures - date them and hang them around so she can see you have constant reminders of her (make one for Mummy too)
4. make bath time fun - we have a completely different bedtime routine each weekend my children are with me so that it differentiates it from school days!
5. plant some seeds - in a pot on your windowsill - you can talk about them when you call her each day and chart their progress
6. mark how tall she is on a wall chart or up the side of the kitchen door
7. keep a little diary of events i.e. cinema tickets, pressed flowers etc
8. learn how to plait (braid) her hair or pop it in rags
9. take lots of pictures and upload them to your computer - print some off for her to take home with her
10 plan 'holiday' occasions like Easter, Mothers day, Fathers day etc

I have always done this kind of thing with my children but it seems really poignant now as they spend alternate weekends with their Dad - children are only little for 10 minutes and I have tried to ensure that my kids have a little memory trail left behind them as they grow up. Money is tight for me too at the moment so it is important for me that my kids just don't expect 'big' events each weekend or holiday.

You are doing such a good job and I am sure all of your hard work will not be unnoticed by your wife or your daughter in years to come.

lalxx