Smile :)

A Katy 'first' smile. Check out those dimples.

A Bed Anyone?

One of Ella's favourite pastimes and time waster is making a bed for her doll.  This involves taking a heap of wraps and cots sheets from Katy's drawers, shaking out flat, placing the doll in the middle, shaking another sheet (2 or 3 or 4) over the doll and then sitting next to the doll patting the lump to sleep.

Recently Ella decided to make numerous beds for her many soft toys (except for Tomoki) in the lounge room.  It reminded me of nap time at childcare where all the mats are lined up on the floor - perhaps that is where she got the idea from?

Clear Out Those Cobwebs

Today was a historic day as Pippa and I went for run. Managed the Cook Farmhouse loop with only a small walk at the top of the very steep hill. My base includes not running since last november, gaining 25kg with Katy's pregnancy, losing only half of it so far and having a nearly 6 weeks old. So no wonder why I felt awfully slow, fat and uncoordinated. Got to start somewhere I suppose.

I finished my run at Stacey's playground (named after being closely located to Stacey and Dave's house) where Ella, Katy and Andy were happily playing. It seems my arrival was perfectly timed as Katy had just cracked it in the pram so Andy was jiggling the pram at which point Ella decides to do a number 2 in her underpants - yes underpants.  She decided this morning to be a big girl. It must be noted as another Ella 'first' and I should add Ella was very proud of herself (rambling all the way home - in her own words - "Ella big poo at the park."

Also another Ella 'first' today was no midday sleep which made for an interesting* afternoon to an already trying morning.

* full of tears and tantrums......

Cuddles

Ella loves to give Katy cuddles and her technique as you can see is getting better (and so is Katy's head control!!)

Zzzz - Not in our House!

What's the saying one step forward and two steps back.....I'll say no more on the topic of sleep (or lack of)...just got to keep reminding myself Katy is only 5 weeks old...

Ahh Bliss

If it first you don't succeeded, try and try again. 6 hours of sleep = welcome back mummy  to the land of the living!

The Best Made Plans...

sometime don't work.  Last night we thought we were in for a winner - well I did anyway.  The plan was for Andy to give Katy a bottle feed when she woke up somewhere between 10.30 - midnight while I expressed before going to bed and theoretically could then have nearly a full nights sleep (well I was hoping for 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep). 

Hmmm so the first part was ok - expressing that is - went to bed excited by the prospect of lots of sleep.  Woke myself up just after midnight by coughing too much (been sick for 2 weeks now) and realised Andy was feeding Katy - he hadn't gone to bed. Woke again at 1am to Ella crying - went to investigate as Andy was still feeding/settling Katy.  Ella was unsettled until 4am and she finally fell back asleep after some milk.  Katy meanwhile decided she was hungry at 5.30am so up to feed her then back to sleep until 8am when Ella woke us up.  

Needless to say there were two grumpy adults in Aston Cres today. Lets hope tonight goes a little better....