Where is the time going?

Well our little Holly is now 8 weeks old! How did that happen? She has changed so much and yet she is still our little girl! It seems like she has been part of our family forever. She is such a great baby and a really breeze to look after and love.

So we are now under the care of Plunket. We have our second appointment with them tomorrow. I am looking forward to seeing how much she has grown and what she now weighs. Our plunket nurse Brenda is really lovely. She seems to really enjoy her work, which is just fabulous for us! Brenda came to visit us at the farm the first time, however this time we are going to see her. It is a great reason for me to get out of the house or off compound, as we sometimes refer to the farm as!

Holly has had her first lot of immunisation jabs. She had these at 6 weeks and was very brave. She only squaked a bit but was soon satisfied with a feed. The nurses loved her coming to visit and look forward to seeing her at 13 weeks when she has the next lot of jabs. Holly also got the all clear with the GP, who we saw first. No clicky hips, great heart and lung sounds, all the important things, ticking all the right boxes! What a little star she is!

We have also had a photo shoot with a local photographer. This was done way back when she was 2 weeks old. The photos were just amazing and it was so hard to choose which ones we wanted from the selection available to us. We went with a 5 photo package with digital files included. She is just so photogenic, there were so many great shots of her. Anyway we finally managed to get it down to the 5 we liked and man do they look great now that they are printed out. Her Grandad said the other day, that they won't have to worry about doing the wallpaper in the rest of our house as we will be able to plaster the walls with all the photos that we have taken of her!

Holly is getting into routine now which is just great for the amount of sleep that I am getting! We normally go to bed between 930-1030pm and she now sleeps through until about 4am! Then we are up and about for the day about 6-630am. This is so much better than the two hour feeding pattern that we started out with!

Today is another big day for Holly as she is graduating from her bassinett to her cot in her own room! I don't know if I am ready for this step just yet, but she is just getting too big for the bassinett now. As I swaddle her at night, she is almost as long as the bassinett. When I put her in the cot she looks really tiny and way too small to be in there! I think I will start her out in her Merino Go Go Bag tonight too. This means that I don't have to use blankets on her. I think my main concern is that I won't hear her when she wakes, but I know for sure that her lungs work fine and she is able to cry out when she is ready for her feed in the morning. I have got used to hearing her breathing beside my side of the bed, and to not be able to hear that will be strange. I guess on the positive side of things I may get more sleep as babies are noisey littel critters and I hear her every move, burp, fart and wiggle in the bassinett. Not having her in the same room will be strange, but I am sure that it only bothers me and not her!

We have had a couple of episodes that can only be described as "explosive poos"! OMG who would have thought that something so little could create such a huge mess! I would also like to mention at this time that Farmer Brown is yet to change a poo nappy! I guess I am just too easy on him or maybe its just that she seems to decide to do this event when he is out working his bum off! Maybe they are ganging up on me! The first two time she did this she ended up having a bath as that was the easiest way to deal with the clean up! The second time she did it she happened to be having a nap with Farmer Brown in bed, lying ontop of his chest. He woke and brought her out to me saying "clean up in isle 4, clean up in isle 4". Man it had gone everywhere, including all over the sheets in our bed, so guess who had to clean that up too! Last night she decided that in the middle of the family bbq dinner that we were at was the prime time to unload again. It went all through her clothes, and thank goodness I had a change of clothes with me in the nappy bag. However giving her a bath wasn't really an option so half a packet of whipes later, I had her all clean up and sparkling just like new! What a legend my daughter is!

 

She is right now "calling" out to me, or practicing using her lungs as full volume would be another way to describe it! So I must be off, as it would appear that a mothers job is never done!