Our beautiful boy is 6 months old now. I cannot believe we have come so far. Like all the cliches, it feels as though he’s been with us forever and for just moments, all at once. What’s amazed me is just how much changing he’s done in the last couple of months. He doesn’t just [...]
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June 1, 2009
finally
Above: Squeak and Mummy after a particularly wakeful day, with a particularly tired boy. All it took was 2 marathon nursing sessions, a 1.5hour walk and Mummy to come home and bounce him for an hour on the yoga ball. The result: A 40 minute nap.
Above: Unbridled bathtime joy. Mummy trying to escape the clutch [...]
May 28, 2009
vice
This blog entry pains me so. You see, for the better part of two years, right through TTC and pregnancy, I was coffee free. Mostly, I was completely caffeine free. The joy of reintroducing coffee and discovering that it didn’t impact my breastfed baby was insurmountable. Strolls to one of the many awesome local cafes [...]
May 25, 2009
void
A cold, a babe who doesn’t sleep and motherhood more broadly has eaten my ability to think creatively, or in fact, rationally, or even coherently. I so want to blog regularly. I want to complain about the all night nursing and the stints of no more than 1 hour of consecutive sleep all night. On [...]
April 28, 2009
Giant babe
Every month, the nurse says to us ‘his growth will start to plateau now’ and every month, he’s put on another kilogram! This month he grew 6cm too. This babe is now just shy of 9 kgs and is 67.5cm long. That’s over 19 pounds and 26 inches.
At 4 months old, Squeak is very [...]
April 2, 2009
so long…
It’s been such a long time since I blogged that I once again considered whether I’d ever bother getting back to it. That I titled this post ’so long’ is meant to reflect the passage of time, it is not a bid to farewell blogland, though given my contemplation of giving up on blogging, perhaps [...]
March 5, 2009
Showers
It’s raining today. It rained yesterday and the day before too. After weeks of high alerts, bushfires and crazy temperatures, autumnal rain has hit – almost on cue with the flipping of the calendar page. Maybe this will be the rain that breaks our awful drought. The heater is on too. It’s 13 degrees [...]
February 16, 2009
oh joy…
Our house was sold today. We had big hopes that an investor would buy it and we could continue to rent it. No such luck. This house has been awesome to us. The location is amazing and it’s by far the nicest house we’ve lived in. Squeak was conceived in this house. And now we’ve [...]
February 15, 2009
8 weeks and bushfires…
One day I’ll write a coherent post…with themes and continuity. Not today though.
8 weeks ago, after an almost 8 hour labour, our son was 8 hours old. Today it’s hard to imagine our world without him in it. At present, he is fast asleep in bed with Ducks and you’ve never seen anything cuter.
I like [...]
February 4, 2009
the shine
I was not the mother I want to be today. In fact, I was not a good mother at all today. Poor little Squeak is going through something (developmental? growth?) and unless extremely engaged, fussed and cried for most of the day. I was feeling particularly tired and not at all patient. What resulted was [...]
