June 2010

Sal - yes - wall sockets, any pkugs, cords and techie things! his favourite is our dvd player which is at a perfect height for him so i might have to mOVE THAT SOON. OKAY that was connor that just pushed caps - little monkey! i guess that's what we get for letting him bang on papi's keyboard

Alex - you are doing so well with the breastfeeding and baby led weaning - hats off to you!!

Connor also gets a bit violent! He loves pinching and scratching. He even made Craig bleed one day when he scratched his ear.

The cutest thing he's done lately - hahaahha it's so funny - (i'm going to try and explain it) - he's either getting angry or excited and he'll clench his fists and bite down on his teeth hard, straight mouth, make big eyes and then make a grunting noise. he normally does this when i'm about to take him out of his car seat or when he sees food - it's too classic!!

We're going for another photo shoot today - very excited for Connor but I hate photos.

Hope you all have an awesome day.

So Mateo has started rolling. I put him on the bed and he just starts rolling over and over till i have to run and catch him before he falls off. When i put him on the floor- same thing happens. I just so worried he'll bang his head on the furniture since he cant really see where he's going. On the plus side, he is sleeping much better!! Hallalujah!! He wakes to feed every 4-5 hours, that is like a miracle compared to how much i used to wake up. It seriously happened overnight, i just hope its not a phase and this sticks.

Sal- gonna try that. This kid of mine wont eat any vegs anymore, he loves fruit but i've been through most of it on the market so i need to move onto other things. Hope Shane's sleep improves.

mrs S H- Alex sounds real strong. Shame man, hope he sleeps better soon. i thought Mateo was the only one who is rough! He always pinches me and pulls me hair and it hurts like crap! Who knew those little fingers can cause so much pain. Lately he holds out his hands for my face, looking all cute and innocent, but as soon as i move close to him, he scratches my cheeks and tries to pull my nose! Violent little bugger! If i scream out in pain, he laughs! But i still love my lil sadist I can only imagine how free u feel now that u stopped bf, some days i just wanna quit. Good luck with the job search.

I think there must be a glich in the system because last night when I typed in the web address, it said I was logged in as Nozzy and I had no idea why!

Oh and forgot to say, although Chloé has all the nappies and everything that goes with teething, she still sleeps from 7pm till 6am.

Mrs SH - is your LO 7 months today? Then Chloe and he is exactly the same age. Birthday 14 June. Chloe doesn't have any teeth yet, but the sitting and rolling and standing is the same. She is not as rough as him though.

That is the weirdest thing - somehow my post was done in 'Nozzy''s profile!

The below post by Nozzy is mine - have no clue how that happened@@

Hi ladies,

Yay, activity!

Sal - Alex is being a terror at night too. At one stage he was almost waking up hourly, just restless. I thought it was the Cape Town heat and adapting from coming back from holiday to his own room again, but it's carried on for almost 3 weeks. He used to sleep through with maybe a dummy run or two, but now I'm getting up at least 5 times a night. I am so tired...

He already has his two bottom middle teeth so I'm wondering whether it's the top ones setting into place. Sucks big time. Teething is from the devil!! I also only used Panado or Neurofen and Hylands homepathic tablets when he was teething. I was told to buy Vidol as it's the only thing that works (according to a few more experienced moms) - haven't tried it myself yet.

Other than that, we've been good. He is a big strong boy, 71cm and 8,95kg and is 7 months exactly today. He is sitting unassisted and is starting to make moves that will lead to crawling. He is currently obsessed with getting into a standing position by either using us as climbing frames or holding on to our fingers and pulling himself up. Not anywhere else pulling up though.

Is anyone's children also very very rough - he pinches me and pulls my hair and his new favourite biting! Those little toothie pegs are LETHAL! He is really hurting me, DH laughs and says that's just being a boy...sucks as I don't get hugs and kisses at all. He wants me to hold him and then he either sits like an angel or wants starts yanking my ear, pulling my nose, etc...if it wasn't so sore, it would be very cute! haha Guess I'll have take Chopper Reid's advice and Harden the ** up!

I've stopped breastfeeding on Jan 1st and he is now on Nan 2. Quite a revelation once I stopped, I have more time, my body is my own again (please shrink a bit boobs, please!!) and I can finally see how much he is drinking! But breastfeeding is a lot less hassle. I'm still struggling to time the bottle right and must admit that in the morning at 6, it was SO much easier just giving boob. Now actually have to wake up and go make bottle...ha ha. But it was long enough for me and I am very glad I was able to do it.

What else, oh I'm still job hunting - feeling rather worthless at this stage, but then, I'm flippen impatient so must just chill out...eish. The most exciting two I'm currently long listed for is at Ackermans and MWEB. There are others too, but those are really cool and I'll be stoked, but flip people can take their time!

As for weight loss, I'm less than prepreganancy and want to shed another 4kg before my birthday at the end of March. Doing weighless (my sis joined and gave me all the details). Will start in full force on Monday - procrastinating a little bit.

Anyway, nice to see some activity again!