TASSIE, TEETH AND TANTRUMS

Hello, I am back! Lots to update you with.

TASSIE - yes, mummy and daddy took me away on my first interstate trip to Tasmania back in mid March. It was also my first aeroplane ride. I was a good girl. I loved touching the person next to me and trying to grab their book or newspaper from them! One of the air stewards loved me so much she kept coming and talking to mummy and me and I think the other staff members were getting a little annoyed. I didn't care, I loved the attention.

Tasmania was a little chilly but the sun did come out a few times. We did a bit of sight seeing, big brekkies at the cafe (well mummy and daddy did anyway - I had fun in the high chair), oh and we went to the chocolate factory and I met Freddo. I loved Freddo, I kept trying to grab him on the face. I wanted to eat him!

I am 8 mths now and have 2 teeth on the bottom. Now mummy can see why I was throwing all those tantrums and waking or not sleeping lots! I only started getting these about mid april. I am also crawling. I am really scooting around the house now. Sometimes I go and look for mummy, but sometimes I find something along the way that distracts me and then I get a fright when mummy comes around the corner telling me off - there are so many things I am not allowed to touch - but it is fun. I love crawling up to mummy, whinging and whining "mummmma, mummmma" and pulling on her leg - I can see mummy secretly loves this and usually she picks me up.

I am getting very bored of my toys and want something new to do about every 5 minutes. This is really challenging mummy - she is giving me all sorts of bits and pieces to keep me occupied - container lids, catalogues, coasters! sometimes even the remote (just to shut me up)!!

Have a look a some photos below to see how much I have grown. I will try not to leave it too long before writing again.

Love Macy xx

My first aeroplane ride.

Daddy and me somewhere in Tassie (mummy can't remember right now)

At Port Arthur.

Yummmmmy, Freddo

My mate Josh, at his birthday party.

I was having so much fun at his party.

Just relaxing with Uncle Eric.

6 mths TODAY!

Hello all,

Sorry for not writing for such a long time, mummy has been very slack lately - nothing to do with me not sleeping at nights, keeping her awake!

Well I am six months old today and haven't I grown. Mummy thinks I am becoming a gorgeous little girl and also getting very heavy too. I am now weighing 6.2kgs and 64 cm long. She recently just packed away the rest of my size 0000 (and thank god for that as my feet were aching being squeezed into those jump suits - all because she was having a hard time giving in to me getting bigger!) and she has even had to pack away a couple of size 000 clothes.

Since my last post, I have started rolling from tummy to back and more recently from back to tummy all by myself. I have started eating like a big person with a spoon. Mummy gives me rice cereal in the morning which i love and some pumpkin at night - i love that too. I have also started taking formula (after mums boobie has been offered first) as I was becoming a bit of a challenge for mummy and wasn't very satisfied on the boobie. I seem to be settling a lot better when given a big bottle of formula mummy thinks, and she really can't be bothered arguing with me as she just wants some peace and sleep! he he.

When I hit four mths of age, I really became a challenge for mummy at nights, so much so that she has booked me into to something called "sleep school" down at Koo Wee Rup. Mummy seems very excited that this date is finally coming up and she keeps telling me just to wait for Wednesday - I am kind of scared, I don't know what I am in for! I just like to wake every hour after about 12.30am to say hello to mummy but she doesn't seem to smile back at me when she walks in the room - well at least not after the third time when she knows I am fed, clean bum but i seem to howl and howl and don't let up, I just can't seem to resettle myself back to sleep. Oh well, I know she still loves me - I hear her say this out loud!

Bye for now.

Christmas Day - I just love my pretty dress, thanks Aunty Kaz xx

Me and Pinky having our afternoon nap.

Using a spoon for the first time and having my rice cereal.

My friend Josh beating me up - Why aren't you helping me Connor??

Now Josh thinks he can plant one on me! - What is wrong with you Connor - why won't you help me??

JUST HANGIN' AT HOME

Not too much going on at the moment as mummy is trying to get me to have better sleeps during the day so she hasn't been carting me off to the shops very much like she used to, or having lattes here there and everywhere! I think I scared her out of these the other week when we went to have one after baby massage class with my friend Isabella and her mummy Katie - I just didn't feel like sitting there for too long (even though I should have been sleeping) so I thought I would scream the place down, nothing would console me - not even mummy's big juicy boobie. Anyway we haven't been for a latte since!

We have just been hanging out at home. I love my swing chair as you see in the photo, I usually swing on this for quite a while without making a sound. Mummy has also opened up some of my new toys now that I am a bit older and will enjoy them more.

I am starting to grab things and hold onto them now, like rattles etc. Oh and I did just for the first time last night grab mummy's earing and wouldn't let go, however, I think this was just a coincidence that her ear was in the way of my moving hand! Mummy was quite excited by this though and laughed.

Mummy has also been hasseling me with photo shoots. She was doing a calendar for christmas presents for my grandads and nanna's and she put me in some weird hat and with some big round ball and just kept clicking the camera for ages. I was getting very tired in the end and very grumpy!

That's all for now, talk to you again soon.

Me and my big sis Chloe

Melbourne Cup Day

We went out to mummy's friend Rebecca's house for cup day. It was her birthday and she invited us to come "dressed for the cup" - so of course, mummy put on her creative hat and made me a little fascinator to wear! We walked into the party and all the ladies "oooohhhhhed" and "aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhed" and said didn't i look so cute, mummy was so proud of herself, no one else had thought to do that with their little daughters! Anyway, i didn't mind it to start with because i didn't really know i had it on my head but once it came off and then mummy tried to put it on again i didn't like it and i let her know about it - this was great as she tried to get a good photo of me wearing it and i thought i would play up for her!

The party was ok - I got a feed and then slept through most of it!

Some pics of me - how cute!

As mummy has finally got the hang of using this blog site, she has posted a couple pics of me that she thought were cute so that you can see how i have grown...

Needles, "Coo"ing and other great things

So, I went for my needles last week and I cried a little and dropped my bottom lip (love doing this, makes mummy's heart melt), but I handled it much better on the day than mummy expected. However, it did knock me out, I was zonked, all I wanted to do all day was sleep. Mummy kept checking on me to see if I was ok, if i was still breathing - I am sure I could feel her presence! So, yes I was fine for that day but the following two days i seemed really irritable, especially the Tuesday night. Mummy gave me panadol which worked really well. I slept and feed better then. Anyway, they are done now and I overheard mummy saying i go back for some more in January - great - hopefully I take to them a little better next time.



Mothers group was ok. I thought it would be fun to be centre of attention right at the begining of the session and cry, cry cry really loudly and challenge mummy to settling me right in front of all these other new mums! ha ha - it was great, i had her up and down, swaying to the right, swaying to the left, putting me in this position and that! After a little while, I think she was putting on a brave face but deep down getting a little cross at me so i went to sleep and slept through the whole group thing and woke at the end and grizzled again!



"Coo"ing - yes, I have began to talk - I have started cooing lately and making some other strange funny little sounds from my mouth. Mummy says i am sooo funny and i sound so cute. She loves it when i try and talk to her. I know she doesn't understand me because she starts talking about some other rubbish back to me - doesn't matter, I just keep cooing away, it makes mummy smile anyway.

Long time no write

Hi again! Gee I have been hounding mummy to let me write and keep you all up to date with my happenings but she just kept saying "Not now, maybe later"!!! So I wait and wait..... anyway I am back on again and should not waste any time!
I still cry lots but mummy seems to be coping alot more lately. I try to break her down but she often tells me as she is settling me to sleep "you aren't going to win this time Macy" and keeps singing Twinkle Twinkle over and over with a massive smile on her face, so I just get louder and then she gets louder and louder and in the end I give up and go to sleep (at least then I don't have to hear the same song over again!!)
I am smiling a lot more now. I usually give mummy a big smile as soon as I wake from a big sleep and she loves it, I can see it on her face.
I am starting to sleep more through the day now. I still love my night time sleeps and only wake for one feed around about 2 or 3am.
Last Friday, my friend Isabella and I went to baby massage. We hated it and screamed the room down. There were 3 other babies there, all boys and I don't know why but they laid there in the nude and enjoyed every minute. I don't know why I didn't, I could have been just overtired or a little shy being nude in front of the boys! We go again next week, I will try and like it for mummy's sake.
Tomorrow I am going to the doctors to get my needles. I think mummy is more scared than I am. Tuesday I will meet some other bubs as we are off to mother's group. I hope the girls there are nice for mum and the bubs are fun and good babies like me!

I will write again soon to tell you how it all went.

Macy x