Wednesday 30th December 2009

Nearly the end of the year, and I'm nearly 6 months old already. Hasn't the time flown? Before I know it mummy will be back to work and I'll be going to nursery with Harriet. I'm going to start doing practice sessions in April to prepare me for going full time in June. Anyway Christmas was great fun. I wasn't really sure what was going on, but mainly it involved Harriet opening presents as far as I can gather. On Christmas Eve I was finally feeling a lot better, so we all went off to the Crib Service at the church, and saw a real donkey and a real lamb. I was very well behaved at the service, and didn't really cry at all apart from at the end when I was a bit tired. I think granny and grandpa were impressed. Harriet and I put out a mince pie, sherry and carrots for Father Christmas and the reindeer before we went to bed, and in the morning we discovered they had gone! I was so excited about Christmas that I woke mummy up earlier than usual, but she said it was a good job really, as it gave her enough time to sort the turkey out! An extra surprise was that granny and grandpa were still here in Christmas Day when I got up - and they stayed until Boxing day when we went over to see Auntie Emma, Uncle Philip and our cousins. Granny Judy and Great Anutie Callie came to visit on Sunday, but I didn't see much of them as I spent most of the day up at the hopsital with mummy and daddy. Mummy fell down the stairs and hurt her foot, so we had to go and get it X-rayed. I went along for moral support, and milk! Luckily mummy's foot is in 1 piece, but it is lots of funny colours and very swollen, so mummy is a bit miserable. She and daddy were even more miserable when I got them up twice in the night after her accident screaming and yelling. It's my teeth you see, they were making me feel very upset. Needless to say mummy and daddy were not in the best of moods with me on Monday! Today we're off to Liverpool to see Cousin Cath for New Year. I'm excited about my first New Year's eve, although I suspect I'll sleep right through it. I need my sleep, as I'm getting very active, I'm on the cusp of rolling over. I keep getting myself into funny positions in my cot and on my play mat, by swivelling myself round, so rolling over is my next challenge. I'm also broadening my diet - I've had lots of different things now - today I had broccoli, pea and sweet potato for my lunch - yum! Anyway - Happy New Year to all my followers and see you in 2010!

Sunday 20th December 2009

Only 5 days to go until my first Christmas. How exciting. The tree is up, there are lots of presents under it from friends and family, and now we just have to see what Father Christmas is going to bring. I need to make sure I rest a lot over the coming days. I've been very poorly since Thursday, so I need to make a full recovery by the time Christmas comes. I was okay on Wednesday, mummy even tried to take me swimming, but we drove all the way up to Oxford only to find out that our lesson had been cancelled again - the pool as still too cold. But then on Thursday I woke up feeling really rotten. I was crying a lot becuase my throat hurt so much, and I was finding it difficult to feed because my nose was all blocked. Harriet went off to stay at Granny Judy's house on Friday for the weekend, but I stayed in the warm with mummy and daddy all weekend. That meant that they didn't get to go and have Christmas dinner in Guildford with their friends, because of me being so ill. Anyway, I saw the doctor on Friday, and she said I was okay, so I've just been having lots of calpol, which is making me feel better. It's been hard to eat my puree though, as it hurts my throat to swallow, but I ate a bit of sweet potato and swede for my tea, so I think I'm on the mend. I'm looking forward to Christmas eve, as I'm going to go to church for the first time to the Crib Service, how exciting, then it will be home to put out the mince pie, sherry and carrot for Father Christmas and the reindeer!

Wednesday 9th December 2009

I had a lovely weekend meeting new friends and catching up with old ones! I saw my friends Emilia and Sebastian on Friday. It was lovely to see them. We've all grown a lot since we left the hospital. Then this weekend I met Amy, who is the daughter of one of my 'godmothers to be' Kate. Amy came to stay with her parents, and we went to see Father Christmas in his grotto. It was all very exciting (at least Harriet tells me it was exciting, as I slept through the whole thing in my sling!). Then on Monday mummy and I went to visit Aunty Emma and my cousins to deliver Christmas presents. It was lovely to see them all again. Mummy and I are getting rather frustrated, as swimming was cancelled again today, due to the pool still being broken, but at least it meant I had more time to digest my lunch - that's right I had some lunch! Not just milk from mummy, but real food - well, baby rice actually mixed with mummy's milk. I started having a little bit of rice after my mid morning milk, and it gave me a bit of a shock I can tell you. I really had no idea what mummy was trying to do to me, putting a funny plastic spoon in my mouth. But today I was a bit more prepared, and it wasn't as bad as yesterday! It's very exciting at home preparing for Christmas. The Christmas tree is up, and Harriet's stocking is hanging on the fireplace. Mummy says I'm not old enough to have a stocking this year, but that I can have one next year, but I'm sure Harriet will let me help her open her stocking! I haven't been weighed yet this week, but I'm still growing well, and with all this baby rice I'll get even more podgey. I started wearing my 3-6 month clothes today finally, so I'm really becoming a big girl. My boyfriend Bobby's grandpa is in hospital at the moment. He's just had his kidney taken out. GET WELL SOON BOBBY's GRANDPA, hope you can come home soon.

Wednesday 2nd December 2009

A new month and a new weight. I'm now a whopping 12lb 11oz, and tracking nicely between the 9th and 25th centile on the growth chart. My weight gain is slowing down a bit now, which it's supposed to apparently. Mummy says once we start on solid food I'll start piling on the pounds. That's not far off, we're going to start trying some real food next week when I'll be 5 months old. How exciting - I'll get to try all sorts of different fruit and vegetables, which is all pureed up and waiting in the freezer for me! Granny and Grandpa came to visit on Tuesday to see me and Harriet. We all had a lovely time together with our friends Isobel and Bobby too. I was supposed to have my first swimming lesson today, but the pool was too cold, so the lesson had to be cancelled. Oh well, I'll just have to wait until next week. Mummy and I are starting Buggyfit tomorrow, so I am really looking forward to that, and we did our lovely 'Kindermusik' group on Monday where we did lots of singing and dancing together - I really love it. I am off to see 2 friends on Friday Sebastian and Emilia. Sebastian was born 2 days before me and was with me in Special Care, as he was very little, only 2lb 12oz, and Emilia was born 2 days after me. She was 5lb, so a bit bigger. We are all going to meet up for lunch on Friday, so that will be great fun. I'm getting very good at grabbing things. I grabbed my monkey on my playmat last week and since then I've been really rtrying to grab everything, especially mummy's hair - I think she likes it when I grab her hair, as she makes a very funny face!