14 weeks today... awwww

14 weeks young!!! My lil pops blows me away each day.. In 14 weeks she has gone from a totally helpless newborn to holding her head right up when on her tummy, so close to rolling over, chatting away to herself, watching her brother walk/run and dance (sometimes all at once!) around the room, give mummy loads of gummy smiles and the list goes on. What a delight she is. Kai and I spend so much of our day at home chatting away and watching and waiting for Aaleaya to do something else!!! hehehe and we love it!! Tomorrow we go to the Maternal Child Health Nurse (MCHN) so I will be interested to see how much she has put on I thinks its been a month since we have been. I hopped on the scales with her last night and I think she weighed around 6.6 kgs... I had a look in Kai's book and he weighed that much at 10 week!!!! omg!!!! hehe he was a porker!!! After the MCHN we are going to Sorrento for mums group catch up, last week we were in Sorrento also and it was such a nice day we ended up going for a walk out to the back beach and back. Considering I ate Banana Pancakes it was a good move! Aaleaya has slotted right into quite a routine!!! She is having 2 x 2.5 - 3 hour sleeps during the day and I have been expressing and she has a top up bottle b4 bed and then goes down from 8-7am and wakes once during the night. During her wake times she is loving her play gym.. she stays under there for ages no nappy and loves it!!! Here she is watching a babies DVD!! hehe She has finally learnt how to settle herself to sleep and re-settle during her sleep. hooray!! I just am learning to LEAVE her to it!!! hehe and the little miss social butterfly needs to learn how to do it out and about!!! I have been good I am back at Weight Watchers yay, I have been walking every day sometimes twice!! Yesterday I had a HUGE spring clean (a lil early!!) in the kitchen, I pretty much cleared everything and got my Enjo gear working a treat!! Then went and did a big healthy grocery shop!!! Kai has enjoyed the walks too I have been walking him to creche and then I walk to get him in the afternoons it is great.. Tis a bit of a slow walk home but he enjoys it as much as I do!! On the 10th we are going to have Aaleaya's hands and feet set in a mould to be framed, Kai had one when he was a bubs so wanted to get Aaleayas done at the same age...Will b looking forward to getting that back.. I got a new pram last week after doing loads of research I decided on the Phil & Ted's Sports Buggy and it is perfect, so easy to push and no way near as bulky as the Valco was I am in pram heaven!!!! Aaleaya got a special prezzie today from Nana Junie there is a pic below .. its the most gorgeous carousel just beautiful and soo girly!! It is a wind up one and plays a tune. awww Lucky lil pop. Well thats all for now just off to tidy up and tuck away into bed.!! Nite Nite!

11 weeks tomorrow

So we are slowly slotting into a routine!!! The nights are quite good Aaleaya knows that it is night time and if she wakes for a feed it is usually about 3-4am and then she will wake about 7-8am and then go back to sleep in my bed for about an hour in that time I can have brekkie and shower and get Kai semi organised!! During the day we are up in the air some of the time still !! Depends what needs doing but she has a great afternoon sleep usually from 1 till about 4-5ish. At the moment I am totally in love with changing her nappy!!! I know sounds strange but she loves a nappy free kick and we have such a great chat while she kicks and gets soo excited!! I will have to catch a video of it!! We just had Nanny Rea and Pa Rich over from N.Z it was a lovely visit but as usual went too quick!! I was thinking last night, as much as I shouldn't think too much into it!!! what a huge task taking 2 little people to New Zealand when we go next !!!! whew .. what a difference from the days when we packed just ourselves up to go!! hehe On Thursday we went along to mums group, we are now gathering at pubs (haha sounds great) and cafes I am sure we will have them all worked out before long and know where it is easier and nicer to go with babes in tow!! On Tuesday we went for a walk with Lynne and baby Luke (who isn't that much of a baby anymore:-( ) to the plaza from our house, wow it was so nice to be out walking again I feel like I have the bug back. On Wednesday morning Kai wanted to walk to creche so we got out the pram and off we went it was quite nice. Unfortunately we haven't caught a nice morning again. Looking forward to the nicer weather and look out Lynne we'll be doing our huge walks again!!! Aaleaya FINALLY has found her thumb!!! and sometimes can soothe herself with it, U'd think she would like a dummy but NOOO!!! What else, oh she has taken to Kaitiakis old cot comforter!! There is a pic below, she loves it, bundle her up and she will sleep anywhere!!!! Little monkey!! We bought a new car seat which is fab as soon enought she will be out of her capsule I put her in for a pic!! she looked soo tiny!!! hehe Well thats all for now... AND huge Congratulations to Emily and Johnny on the arrival of Kellie Grace ... all these Girls!!! xx