9-10 weeks

Life is chugging along here at our house! Finn is growing a changing everyday, I can't believe how fast time flies...

He is weighing 4.88kg now and is 68cm long. We are on a routine now where we are up at 7am, feed, play and asleep by 8.45. Then we get up at 11am, feed, play and sleep again at 12.45. Up at 3pm, feed, play, nap from 4.15-5.15, bath, feed, play, book and bed by 7pm. I do a dream feed at 10.30. Usually with this timetable, he will only wake up once the earliest wake was 2.45am, but the lastest was 5.10am.

I am feeling much more organised and prepared with the above. He is a happier bub and I can get a bot more sleep which is important.

Here are some current pics -

Under my play gym

Me with Grandma, Garry and Max

Five generations of Mum's side of the family.
Mum, Nana, Great-great Grandma (97 years old), Ompa and Nana Hill and me!

Me and Great-Great Grandma

Aunty Helen came for cuddles

I'm talking

And sleeping

Finn 6 Weeks

Finn started smiling this week, he was nearly cackling today when I was mucking around kissing him and making silly noises! He loves his play mat and can spend about 20 minutes entertaining himself under the toys.

In the bubble bath

Play time



In the suit my Uncle wore when he was a baby. He is now 13 years old!

 He had his needles yesterday and so he is a bit out of sorts, wanting lots of cuddles from Mummy, so I am not complaining too much.

4 Weeks

Finn was 4 weeks young on Thursday and he is now a wopping 4.1kg bub. He has grown 1.5cm in length and in head circumference. Life is as it should be, feed, play, sleep and then it all begins again. He is becoming more aware of what is going on around him and looking and responding to lights, noises and sounds. Sleep is still in bursts of between 3-4 hours with some 5 hours stints.

Morning sleep with Mum

Close up! I love the arm action.

Arms Up

In the bath with Dad.

I am doing well, I try to sleep in the arvo's with him, but I am lucky, I usually get between 6-8 hours between 12pm and 9am. My weight is within 3kg of my starting weight, but I still can't fit into any of my old shorts, pants or skirts. So we'll stick with maternity stuff for now.

Being Spoilt and back to Reality

We seem to take two steps forward and one step back in the sleep department with Finn. We have had 2 fabulous nights (Sun, Mon) and one trying night (last night). The two previous nights Finn only woke up once and was asleep within 45 minutes. There was even a 5 hour sleep on both of these nights  - bliss. Top this with Mum being here to settle him after his 7/8am feed and me being able to go back to bed for a few more hours, it has been bliss.

Last night however he was didn't go down till 12.30am, up at 2, 4.15 and 6.15. At least the 2 and 4 feed he went down after 45 mins. But still! And then Mum got him to sleep 5 hours till 12.15. I woke up at 10.15, swore and then bolted down to the lounge in a panic to find him still asleep.

Mum left today :-( So back to reality, and no sleep ins in the mornings.

2 weeks

Finn is now 15 days old and travelling like a little trooper. The childcare nurse came to visit us yesterday and I was extremely pleased to hear that he had put on near 500g in 1 week, he has now passed his birth weight which was 7lb 6, he's now a 7lb 12 bub - GO FINN!

Reality hit a few nights ago with me only getting 2 hours sleep. This we think was a combination of my sore and cracked nipples and him not getting enough to drink from me not relaxing and letting down. My soreness comes from him being a strong little rabbit and pulling while he is attached, this has split the skin at the base of my nipple. To try and fix this I have tried three different sized nipple shields, which have helped with the soreness, but have caused to much wind in Finn. He burps well, but also regurgitates what he drinks for up to an hour. Thus last night we had another shocker of a night and went through 6 romper suits and singlets. Each time he'd settle down and sleep, he'd vomit or poo!

So last night we feed him at 9.45, he didin't sleep till 1am, was up again at 3am, down at 5am and came into bed to bed fed again at 7.45. I try to side feed in bed and doze through the early morning feed between 6-8am, as he usually falls asleep beside me and we tend to get another 2 hours and get some lovely skin contact.

Kane came and got him at 9.30 this morning and changed him. I expressed and got 110mls and then gave it to him while I got another 2 1/2 hours sleep. And you know what? He didn't sleep that whole time, but he didn't vomit at all either. I topped him up with nipple shielded breast and just got him to sleep and hey presto - he did a huge vomit, any pattern developing here? Just got him changed and topped up again and he pooped! Luckily he dozed in my arms and he finally slept at 1pm. He's still sleeping now and it's nearly 5pm. I have expressed for him already and hopefully that helps with his vomiting.

Wish me luck...

Finley Dahle David 13/01/11

10 minutes old

Having his first feed at 1 hour old

Being weighed

My Dad loves me!

'Look how long I am!'

Snoozing in my basinette with Eeyore and the blanket my Great-great Grandma knitted.

Our little man made his entrance into the world at 10.41am on Thursday 13th of January. He is absolutely gorgeous and it has been lovely seeing his Dad melt with adoration. He weighed 7 pound 5 1/2oz and was 50cm long, head circumference was 34cm. My labour was 9 hours long.

At this stage he is a great little bub. I am still very stiff and sore and noticing my lack of muscles!

Pregnancy

Week 5

I'm sure it's a shock to some that I am already 38 Weeks 4 days pregnant, but to me it seems like such a long time. We found out at 4 weeks along, kept it secret until 12 weeks and I have been uncomfortable since very early along.

Week 12

We are having an above average bub from the doctors accounts, 8 and a half pounds at this stage.

The story so far (in no particular order) - 
I had very little morning sickness, between Weeks 5 - 9 I felt nauseous and it was around this time that I went off dairy. Milk, icecream, butter and including things made with dairy like chocolate, biscuits, cake, lollies and anything else sweet. I survived on savoury and vegemite sandwiches, vegemite and dry biscuits, vegemite and toast and vegemite on muffins! Mind you, dairy has made a comeback and so has my sweet tooth in the 3rd trimester and I can't walk past a cafe or coffee shop without a milkshake or cookies and cream frappa from Gloria Jeans!

Week 15

It was around this time (week 9) that my back and butt started causing some pain and I had to start seeing an osteopath, it turned out that my lower pelvis where it attaches to my lower back had swollen and has remained so for the duration. From Week 12 I saw my friend Tricia for myotherapy treatment and she has been a saviour to me. I have seen her every 2 weeks since then and at the last treatment yesterday she tried some inducement point massage, though it hasn't worked - I'm still here.

I started feeling Little Mac move and kick from 16 weeks which is really early on and he/she hasn't held back on the movements. I also started attending a 'Fit for Birth' classes around that time too. It is run by the Physio Dept here in Wodonga each Wednesday evening from 5-7pm. It is great to chat to other Mum-to-be's, have a whinge and catch up on who has had their bubs or not and a bit of show and tell. The other great thing about this class is the education part at the end of each session, each week there is a different topic from labour to post exercise, baby massage to coping techniques. I am now the next to jump into Motherhood!

Week 20

Week 20

I started to really pop between week Week 19 and 24. At around Week 28 I went to part-time at work working a 4 day week, from 31 weeks I dropped back to 3 days per week.

Week 24

Week 29

Week 27

Week 33

Little Mac's Room

Little Mac's Room

I finished working at the end of the school year at 35 weeks 3 days - I'd had enough by then. Little Mac was moving around like crazy and the Braxton Hicks were getting really bad. Since then we have had a very quiet few weeks, I had my biggest weight gain at the last check up, 2kg in 2 weeks oh my! But that means I am still only 12 kg heavier than my starting weight. The baby room is all set up, hospital bags are ready as they can be, baby bump photos are taken, head is engaged and now it is all up to our Little Mac to make his/her arrival.

Week 38 Day 3

I'm pregnant!

Hello world,

It has been a while, not sure if I visit again for a while, but I thought I would share a little bit of news...

I turned the big 30 last Sunday and I'm preggers!

I am 15 weeks 2days as of today and doing very well. Kane and I are very excited to become parents in January, but I still have a fair way to go yet.

How time flies

A pic of my family at our wedding

How the time has lapsed since our wedding is a fleeting dream. It was such a long build up and 'pfft', it's gone. Kane and I are so glad that it is over though, the wait was excruciating and we are glad to be on the flip side. Since the wedding day we have migrated down to my Mum's in Traralgon for some Xmas R&R and then we will head to Kane Mum's in Bendigo maybe on the 30th for NY's.

Xmas was fairly quiet with my family, and my Step-Dad's Brother family over for lunch at 4pm! Kane almost had a hearnia at 8pm when he hadn't eaten dinner yet, he is such a greyhound! So my Chrissy collection was:

• Just Jeans voucher
• pandora silver braclet
• bath bubbles
• tatts pack
• address book
• monogramed card set
• plus my camera that I bought 1 month ago

I did rather well really. It has been fun showing somse of the pics from the wedding and my ring, that novelty has not rubbed off yet.

We might be looking for a new LCD TV today, but I think I've missed the major price cuts of yesterdays Boxing Day sales. We'll see!

Hope everyone had a fabulous Xmas witht their families and enjoys their NY's

My Wedding Day

A quick peek for my blogger friends! So... who sleeps properly the night before the wedding? Not me! Cold and flu drowsy tablets thank you very much at 2am was my last chance and thank god it worked.

Here are a few pics from our wedding day. Sorry, they are repeats from Facebook. How 3pm

came around so quickly on Saturday I will never know. I had so much fun and smiled the whole day.

I will write more in the next few days, I can't sleep besides being exhausted as yesterday keeps running through my mind!

Christmas Already?

So this time last year we were planning our holiday to Malaysia for Xmas. Thinking this time in 2009 was never going to arrive! Now its here. So with the thought pattern that the next 2 weeks will be a whirl-wind, I went Chrissy shopping today and have bought all but 3 gifts that were planned. I have spent the afternoon wrapping them and putting them in the corner of the lounge and have found the Xmas decorations that are looking a little worse for wear after 3 years of not being used, yes, it has been that long since we had Chrissy decorations in our house! I was slightly looking forward to getting all Christmas-y, and briefly thought about purchasing a big Christmas tree from Target that was on special from $200, down to $99, but resisted the urge and have put our small 30cm tall metal ornament (that is doing a fine job) in a corner with 12 silver balls hanging from the ceiling.

Other news this week is that I have a head cold, and I'm looking on the bright side - At least it came this week and not in 2 weeks time :-) I am struggling big time today though as I have overdone it Kelly style. I am just unable to sit still, even though I am sick and even though I had put on one of my favorite movies, 'The Young Victoria', I paused it and then went back to it and then ignored it and cooked through it as well. I have cleaned the house, gone Christmas shopping, bought fruit and veg, wrapped presents, made 2 batches of buttermilk pancakes to be frozen, made dinner early, bought in the 2 loads of washing, folded it and put it away and gone through wedding planning stuff for like the 10th time this week. All because I can't sit still even though I am feeling so cruddy. I tried to force myself to read my book, but the though of "update your blog, it's another job that needs doing" went off and so here I am! I may try again with another movie, "Pride and Prejudice".

On wedding news, we have handed in the final seating plan and numbers and have the bill... yay! (NOT!) Have edited my speech and timed it - just under 4 minutes. Kane bucks day is today and I haven't heard anything yet, so no news is good news right? Our planned ceremony location is now under construction and so I will have to choose another spot when I go up for a look on Monday - Bugger. But I am not stressing, or maybe I am and don't know it from my not.being.able.to.sit.stillness! Is this an epiphany?

20 days to go

So today I think I have finished the seating plan. There are 9 tables with 6-9 on each table. A good mix of family and friends. We have to give this to the reception venue by this Friday so they can cater for children and special dietary needs. I have everything that I need now, no more buying/spending besides what has already been decided. I so want to try on 'kit' I finally have all of it which is my wedding dress and veil with my shoes and lingerie, but because my dress is a lace up back I needed someone to help me and my mum and bridesmaids live so far away. I don't want to show it to anyone else! - BUGGER!

This week I need to choose some general music for the reception evening and get my one gel nail (a quick fix from an accident) fixed as it is looking lifted and cracked. Also exercise, it has severely lacked this past week due to teaching duties.

A long delayed post

Hi everyone, sorry for the months of not writing I guess I have been uninspired to say the least, (or a lot!).

Since returning from China I guess I figured the ins and outs of my life were unimportant, boring, monotonous, etc. Added onto this was the feeling that no one wants to hear about planning a wedding over and over again or maybe I was just sick of explaining the wedding over and over again. You know when you know people that always talk about the same things over and over again, I guess that's where I have been or am. I am very conscious of not talking about the wedding all the time, even though it feels like my every thought is about it and I am not yet excited even though it is less than a months away. You see, Kane and I have been engaged to over 21 months and both of us have now realised this was way to long for both of us. Neither of us were believing that the day was ever going to come around and I guess we both still have trouble believing that it is about to be here. I am waiting for the moment that the excitement hits. Maybe in the week leading up to the big day, it will start to feel real.

We have everything ready for the big day. And next week we start the final meetings to confirm details with the DJ, celebrant and Videographer to begin with on Tues, Wed and Thurs. All our outfits are ready, I only need to get the suits pressed and wedding dress steamed in the last week before. I have my something new, old, borrowed and blue to go and have had the hair and make-up trial last week. I have my last facial next Wednesday though my face has been an explosion zone lately, even Kane commented on it Wednesday night! We have our final numbers, it'll be around 68 adults + kids. Not a huge wedding, but Kane and I wanted only our closest friends and family to be with us. We have worked out our ceremony plan/wording as we will be married by a celebrant in the gardens at the reception venue. My only big job now is to write my speech. I don't know how to write funny, so I may have the most terrible speech ever. It may take a couple of drafts I think. So that is about all I have been doing in terms of the wedding.

I have been working 2-3 days a week average cover teaching, which.I.hate! And I am only doing it for the money. I would prefer to stay at home bored than go to school and be disrespected so often each day. It really makes me think, why I bother being a teacher sometimes.

If you have any pointers on how I can become excited, please pass them on.

Kelly

MIA

I have been missing in action lately from the blog. We have just been so busy with not much to report at all.

I think I am going to take some time out from the blogging as I just am not that into it at the moment.

I'll see you all in a few weeks,

Kelly.

The weekend is here! The weekend is here!

I am so happy it is finally here. Not that Kane and I have many plans.
There is a possibility of football this weekend either in Albury or Dederang, but that's about it! I will prob head downtown for some shopping, clean the house and get groceries. And we might head out to Yackandandah to pick up our bed for the spare room for Jo's.

Pretty boring I know. We had Ty and Zoe around last night and had a delicious Hungarian Pork and Lentil Stew. OMG it was nice and really really easy. I thought it sounded hard in the recipe book, but when I made it, I was stoked. It's a one pot wonder. We all loved it. We played cards after dinner and then we ate a Chocolate Ripple Cake I'd thrown together to dessert.

Have a great weekend and week.

Kelly

Still Sick

Since my last post I haven't managed to recover. I went to the doc on Tuesday and of course she said I was run down and that has let this virus take over with a vengeance and she asked me... 'what do you think you need to do?' so the obvious was rest for a few days. which I have done, but it has only been today that I have started to feel any better. Not even the nose spray could help me breathe, I was that stuffed up. So I am back to work tomorrow, only 1 day to get through though and then 3 more weeks of this job.

Today I cleaned away the boxes from the pergola, I can still see them, but they are not immediately outside the door anymore and I have also moved some stuff around in the shed, which should make my dear Kane happy. He is still not happy about having to share a bit of space in hit shed with me though!

We have a magpie hanging around our house. I think the tenant must have been feeding it. So today I threw out some mince for it. It gobbled it down and then flew off with some. It must have a nest somewhere. It is definitely friendly. I come within 2 meters to get the meat and follows you around the front and back yards. The below picture were taken later in the afternoon when the whole family came back for more mince. There was Mum or Dad up in the tree watching while Mum or Dad and the 3 kids came for a feed.

My friends the magpie family...

See you later.

Kelly

My Birthday

It was my birthday on Saturday. I got a lovely card from Kane before we went to Albury to get the hire truck. We drove to Leeton to put all of our stuff on the truck, had a yummy birthday lunch provided by Mama and Jenny with a carrot cake birthday cake and then high-tailed back to Wodonga and unpacked. Sunday was spent cleaning, especially the mold covered refrigerator!!! Yuck, 2 hours and 1 bottle of exit mold later and it was all good again. We finally have our house looking livable again, but we can't believe how much crap we have to sort through. Bree might get very lucky I think ;)

Ty popped over yesterday arvo to help Kane with the leaky toilet. I think Ty could get credits towards his plumbing trade!


I went into school this morning feeling not so good, so I got the Principal to call in a CRT to cover my class. I feel so tired, and sick. I needed a day off, hopefully tomorrow will be better.

The photo's are of the rooms we got back together on Sunday:

The Bedroom

The kitchen

The dinning room/kitchen

The loungeroom

And the areas still need TLC:

The Pergola

The Spare Bedroom