Pee and Pounds

We took Emily to the Baby Clinic yesterday to get her weighed etc. So at 10am the 3 of us toddled out of the house and bimbled down the road to our local Doctors surgery. Now get this we are talking about a baby clinic and what kind of set up do they have? They have the Clinic upstairs in the surgery - eh what - 10 people turn up with buggies and prams just so we have to leave them downstairs unattended and then hike up 2 flights of stairs to get to the one roomed clinic!! Come one people use some common sense, it would have been far simpler and easier to use a room downstairs. Anyway Emily showed her disgust by peeing all over the scales and desk - good girl! She now weighs a healthy 13lb, sleeps for 9 hours every night and eats all day long.

Useless Facts and Weird Dreams

Torchwood is an anagram for Doctor Who.

I had a dream about my friend Amanda in Auz the other night. I dreamt that I was speaking to Blondie in the ladies toilets at her wedding!

Play-doh like you've never seen before! http://www.squidgeme.com/index.htm

Pete and Jordan singing like you've never heard before !!!! Warning you will need to be careful you don't wet yourself laughing. http://media.smh.com.au/?rid=22751

More Smiley Pictures

SMILE!

Number 1's - what was number 1 on your birthday?
http://hit40uk.somethinelse.com

Christmas

I know you don't want to admit it but it's finally here. You can't get away from all the advertising on TV, radio, magazines, newspapers and even the internet. Best thing is to give in to it but don't believe the hype. Not every child needs £500 worth of gifts and toys that end up either in bits or gathering dust at some later stage. No instead send all your lovely gifts to me and if you can't think of what to get me then some John Lewis vouchers would be nice or try this site

http://www.cocooncollection.co.uk/christmasforher.php

Ha ha only joking folks. I don't need a thing as I have everything I could wish for at the moment, 2 beautiful children, loving partner and some wonderful friends - even though I do have my eyes on a DVD recorder, a food processor and Lost Season2 on DVD - drat that addictive programme.

Milk and Honey

Last week I was speaking to one of my fellow Tae Kwon Do buddies and he was asking how my milk maggot was doing!
(yuk)

somehow I don't see the similarity.

Anyway I've had a nice day out with Mrs T and her baby Boo and toddling Digi, and Mrs L with Jack Jack. The boys ran around, jumped, slid, bounced and dived in the ball pit, whilst Baby Boo smiled alot (and I mean alot - bet her face aches!) . Emily being herself ate lots and slept some more, whilst the ladies chatted and drank tea/coffee. I can't wait for Emily to grow some more and start playing and running around, mind you I think the DVD and CD collection will be in for some abuse at that point. We will have to rethink the layout of the living room at some point - sigh.

Anyway girls if you are interested in some 2-for-1 beauty vouchers or some plastic surgery check out January's issue of Eve magazine. mmmm restylene here I come...

Sleepovers

Phoebe had her birthday sleepover party last night and to be honest having 6 young girls in the house wasn't too disturbing or destructive. The played some Eye-Toy games on the playstation which kept them amused for an hour, then they ate (very little) pizza and drank cola. Next they dashed upstairs and played with their Nintendo DS's - very hi-tech bunch of girls! After that they ate some chocolate cake and ran oustide to play with sparklers. Thankfully no injuries! After that it was bedtime so all the girls got ready and covered Phoebes bedroom floor with sleeping bags and watched DVD's whilst eating chocolate covered marshmallows.

Preparing for the party, balloon blower master! some crazy chics and fire!

New Shoes

I ordered some new running shoes yesterday, and I was delighted when they turned up this morning. All shiny and new! So I popped them on and decided to take myself off for a run. Now I haven't been able to run due to obvious reasons for the past 11 months and boy it hurt, it hurt a lot. My lungs were screaming for oxygen and my legs were complaining that I wasn't going slow enough and that was only at the 8 minute mark. I managed to keep on running around the park before I got home, completing approximately 2 miles in 21 minutes. Very slow but very pleasing at the same time. I was amazed that so many muscles were out of shape, even my stomach was hurting. Well it can only be onwards and upwards now, the first few runs are always the worst and I'm looking forward to improving my distance and time.

Emily turned into a Muglet

Emily

Emily Week 10

I would like to apologise to all the people who have left comments on my blog, I've upgraded to a new version of blogger and have just found all your comments! Drats - annoyed that I didn't see that before.

xxx

No Tree Huggers Here

Here's 10 week old Emily - Giraffe Hugger!

Big Girls

Yesterday was my little girls 10th birthday, well she isn't so little anymore! She's still a good few inches shorter than me but I reckon it won't be long before she is towering above me. It was such an occasion for her reaching double digits and I have to admit I felt emotional about it too. I know that soon she will leave the small girly stage and fully embrace teenager hood, and that it may be a troublesome journey in parts. Yet I can console myself whilst typing this blog little Emily sits on my lap sleeping and dreaming of milk filled smiley days. I know we are lucky being able to repeat this precious childhood again.

Needles and Tears

Emily had her first set of injections this afternoon. Not a pleasant thing to have to have done, so I let Drew hold her while the nurse administered the first one, Emily cried. The tears flowed for a few seconds and then she was quiet. Drew then had to turn her round so the nurse could give Emily her second injection in her other thigh. Once again the tears flowed and she cried, this time with more anger. My poor baby having to suffer. It made me very anxious, and even more worried that we have to come back in another month for another injection. Emily cried for a while after her injections, all I could do to comfort her was to feed her. She ate well though, as she probably needed a lot of comforting. Now we have to wait and see if she has any side effects like a fever. We may be in for a disturbed night. She has been doing so well with sleeping for about 7 hours every night for the past week. Even last night she slept for 8 hours, only getting up at 5 for a quick feed, then back down for a snooze until 7.30 when she wakes for another feed and a cuddle in our bed.

She has turned out to be a very good baby so far. I hope it will continue :)

GET WELL SOON SHEENA


Emily falling asleep

still coughing and sneezing this week. I feel like I've had the flu. But my morning smiles from Emily make me feel on top of the world.

Emily

Some photos from the wedding where Phoebe was bridesmaid

Emily&Phoebe
Emily&Drew
Emily&Phoebe
Bride&Phoebe

today I have coughed up green phlegm, picked boggies out of noses(not my own), seen a dead jack russel by the side of the road, bought a LCD for a certain persons 10th birthday - then found it £43 cheaper on another website, so I will be returning the LCD for a refund! Doh!!!
Boy my days dont get any more exciting!

Ugh today I've come down with a sore throat. Yuk I hate feeling ill. Anyway have some fun with this link

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator

either use the online version of download and use the full version, have some great fun creating art of your own from your photos!

Funniest thing I've heard this week is "milk drunk" - babies look drunk after a good milk fest! I'm off to drink some milk now.

video of Emily smiling

Emily

Sleepy

Cute

Some Emily facts:

She now weighs 11lb 5oz, on average she has gained half a pound a week.
She is now 56cm long, on average she has grown a centimeter per week.
She has started to smile, doesn't cry much and has hic-coughs once a day.
Her favourite past-time is eating and sleeping (in that order)
Hobbies include barfing after large meals, burping, filling nappies and lots of cuddles.

I had the crazy health visitor pay us a visit yesterday. I don't mind these health professionals coming round to check on Emily's growth etc, but what I do mind is their relentless stupid questions about my health. I'm a 36 year old professional woman who knows her mind, has a supportive family and network of friends. I have no problem discussing anything with my friends - that includes any health related matters. What bugs me though was this health visitors insistent nature in trying to get me to answer some rather unnerving questions about my mental health after having a baby. For example :

1. I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things
a) as much as I always could
b) not quite so much now
c) definitely not so much now
d) not at all

now come one it isn't hard to see how many new mums could just answer a) and that's that - job done, health professional happy. Fair enough they may catch some mums with depression but wouldn't it be simpler just to ask the mums, maybe even get to know them better where it would be more fitting to ask these questions. Do the health professionals believe this is a fool proof way?

My favourite question was

10) the thought of harming myself has occurred to me:
a) yes, quite often
b) sometimes
c) hardly ever
d) never

do I answer a) to this one as I've been harming myself with left over chocolate from Halloween!

for those of you who are sleep deprived some soothing pictures to help!