Monday, August 31, 2009
Josh & Daddy
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Photoshoot
Here are just a few of the pictures, I haven't even seen them all yet. Josh totally loved it too and was in a really great mood and so it worked out perfectly. My favourite I think is the one of him laughing.
Anyone who is interested let me know and I'll pass on Donna's details to you.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Josh turns 1!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Bit of an update
In the last week or two he has started every now and then to call me Mummia when he's looking for me or something, and often calls Mike Daddia too, so cute. I call him Bubbia when he does it. He still calls Mika "Ka" and says something that sounds like "Ya Ya" for Taylor, although he hasn't even attempted to say Crystal yet even though he adores her. Often he'll have a go at saying something like Granma if you ask him to and get really close but then won't say it again. He often tries to say Harry "Rarry" which is Granma & Granpa's dog. He says Duck and "kark, kark, kark" for quacking. If he see's a cow he goes "Mmmmmm, Mmmmmm" for mooing. Duck, or Uck for truck. Still Ka, for car as well as Mika. Most often he says "Huh? huh? huh?" when he wants you to do something, look at him or pay attention, or just to join in the conversation. And boy is he a little chatterbox, he just talks away all the time (like his daddy...) in his own little language. Today I was on the computer looking at the screen and he was on my lap and he was talking away and I obviously wasn't paying attention because next thing he's right in front of my face moving his face right up to mine and looking into my eyes trying to get my attention going "Huh? huh? huh?" sooo cute! He understands that Daddy goes off to work in the mornings, and now when Mike comes in before he leaves (usually while Josh is having his morning feed off me) to kiss us goodbye Josh starts to wave because he knows daddy is leaving now. Also he waves when he hears the ute/truck go down the driveway, it's really cute, just lifts his hand and gives a little solemn wave when he hears daddy going. And when daddy gets home, gee, you'd think it was Christmas!
Every day I love our little boy more and more and am so thankful for his precious wee self being in our family.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Solids & Sleep
A couple of weeks after we introduced solids we also decided that getting Josh to sleep at night needed to be addressed as we'd (I'd...) gotten into a bad habit of cuddling Josh in the evenings until he fell asleep, which was ok at first (yeah.. yeah.. I'm a sooky mummy and should never have done it in the first place but I loved it and who knows whether I'll get to have another bubba or not so I'm enjoying every minute I can!) as it was pretty quick and then he was off out for the night (or until his next feed at least) but just before Christmas it started to get ridiculous and a couple of times he was up until like 10pm because he'd just gotten too alert and then overtired etc. And we knew this couldn't continue. He'd never been a really early evening to bed baby but 10pm was getting too late. Anyway after 3 HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE evenings of screaming and me going in intermittently to cuddle/settle him he finally got it and started to cry less and less until finally he went to sleep happily around 7 - 7.30pm without even a cry at all... for a few days... now we are back to big crying again most nights. And I hate it! So does Mike. And what's even worse is that since he started this "self settling" in the evenings, with the exception of the 1st night of the 3 HORRIBLE nights, when he slept soundly from 9pm-ish (after huge crying must have worn him out) until 5am, he has begun to sleep very lightly all evening and wakes at nearly any slightly loud or sudden sound (ie. dishes being done, shower turning on, a bit of cutlery dropping, a creaky floorboard etc) we make until we go to bed or even sometimes wakes even if there is no noise and often goes through the whole crying thing again! Argh! And even worse than that - he is waking so often through the night all night every night that I'm half considering going back to the old way of cuddling him off to sleep to see if he stops all this wakefulness! I even took him to the doctor the other day to make sure he is ok and not allergic to any food or something, but he's fine. And to be honest I don't really think that is the problem at all, I'm guessing it must be teething because he has no teeth yet and is 7.5 months old so they must be pushing their way up surely! We're going to get an amber teething necklace for him and see if that helps. Anyway I'm tired and any of you who feel inclined to pray for me please do! I'm just holding on the the hope that this sleeping part is "just a phase" and will soon be over! But also we wouldn't trade him for the world even with this annoying sleeping bit at the moment because he is such a wonderful, funny and happy little boy and we totally just love him to bits!