Sleep

Still struggling with sleep here. I'm not sure what she's up to, but it usually precedes a bit of a milestone, so maybe walking is just around the corner.

We've been encouraging her to walk, but not really pushing to too much.

Things have really just been plodding along here. Starting to get packed, all the Christmas shopping is done (although yet to be wrapped). Applying for new jobs for when we move and finishing up all the end of year stuff at work.

Bubba just seems to be enjoying the whole moving process. With the dining setting sold, she has loads more room to wander about. And if we don't close boxes quickly she unpacks them for us.

My Pinterest obsession continues, and I now have dozens of craft and sewing ideas I want to try out, as well as some great ideas for the new house. I think it will be a fun summer, settling in and doing fun non-work related stuff like that.

Still hoping to find a mothers' group when we move, as i'll really miss mine. I wonder if the MCHN will be able to recommend me to one? I guess there's always playgroup, and the church might have some activities, like they do here.

Now to decide what the little lady and I will do today. I think "we" need a latte so might walk into town and visit our local cafe. A few things to pick up like re-washable cleaning cloths, too (I know, fun!)

14/9/11 - On the go

Well, she might not be sleeping, but my little Monkey sure is on the go. She is crawling everywhere. At top speed. All the time. All. The. Time. She loves it! She even loves when we play chasings (me pretending to chase her as she crawls).

Plenty of giggles these days. Still only signing "milk" although we are still working on "food" and "finished". She's waving all the time (even to inanimate objects that aren't going anywhere).

Last weekend she decided for 48 hrs not to have any breastmilk. That wasn't fun. I even called the ABA to see what I could do. She's back on now, although I'm only offering morning and night. Tonight she had one side, then didn't want the other or a bottle. Maybe she really is weaning herself. Not good timing - I'd recently decided we should continue to feed until after getting back from the OS trip :( We'll see though. So long as I don't have engorgement or crazy hormonal stuff as she weans herself, i'm happy for it to happen naturally. Just so long as that's after the trip!

Last weekend she also managed to fall and cut her top gum. I felt so bad. I think her bottom teeth went through her top gum as she landed. Luckily I'd given her panadol for a completely unrelated pain only 20 minutes before!

Her favourite toy this week is a Fisher Price dog that has body parts labelled. It talks, sings, woofs - is generally noisy and kind of annoying. She gets so excited when she sees it though.

On a side note, I am wholly disappointed in the Aldi 70% chocolate. It's no Lindt.

Off to bed - she wakes every 3-4 hours at the moment. Even if we feed her lots and give her formula. Nothing seems to change it. I'm freaking exhausted, but just keep plodding on.

One more thing - she managed to "walk" along behind her push-toy (like a cart) on Monday, 12/9. We got a video of it. Such a clever Monkey! It looks like she has wooden legs and is so adorable.

Can she do it again?

Wed 15 June 2011

So, Monkey slept from midnight to 6:45 am this morning. I'm hoping that this is the start of longer sleeeps again. Please! It was quite funny - I woke to her grizzling and asked hubby to change her so I could feed her, then asked what the time was, thinking it would be about 4am. When he said 6:45 we high fived. Awesome start to the day!

In other good news today, some people are coming to look at our house tomorrow morning. I'm now in a strange place - I want to sell but not ready to move! It would mean probably moving mid-term now which is a bit of a pain. Anyway, cart before the horse there. We'll see if they like it first.

Last week was a good one. Terrible on the night sleeping, but Monkey is a delight, really. She naps well and eats well. She's having three meals most days now, plus 4-5 breastfeeds. She's also still incredibly close to crawling. A couple of times now she's put one hand and one knee forward,. but then belloflops before the others can follow. The closest she came was at mother's group last Tuesday when she spied the muffin plate on the floor. She seriously almost crawled towards it to get one! Oh, Friday last week she had her weigh in with the MCHN and was just over 8kg. Growing up :( I had a real sad moment in KMart the other day looking at the baby clothes and realising that she'll never be that small again. I expect I have a lifetime of that coming!

I enrolled her in occasional day care yesterday. I went and looked at it and while it's not me or hubby, it's still a nice place and seems ok for a couple of hours a week. I'm going to take on a couple of extra hours a week at work for 4 weeks so will put her into care for some of those days and she'll hang with a friend of ours the other days. I'm nervous about it but it's a good time to start at least so she gets used to being with other people.

Yesterday my period arrived back. Not impressed. After 17 months without it i'd forgotten that it kind of sucks!

A lovely friend of mine had her baby two days ago at 32 weeks. He's doing amazingly well and so is she. I wish I could meet him, but they're in a hospital in the city. Maybe we'll go there for a couple of days in the holidays.

Sunday I went for two amazing hikes with some friends. We did Mount Zero and Hollow Mountain. Lots of scrambline up and over and around rocks so it was a great workout. I was ready for bed by 7pm that night! We're hoping to do more each weekend.

Now enough procrastinaton. Work to do!