PROJECT 365 {{WEEK 5}}

29th February 2014 - Cute lil baby bum on some fresh ink

30th February 2014 - Shopping with my boys

31st January 2014 - Lexi's first day of ballet

1st February 2014 - The kids met Wonderwoman and were photobombed
by Daffy at Movieworld!  She gave them an ice cream <3

2nd February 2014 - lathering myself in this after getting badly burned!

3rd February 2014 - Playmat time is exhausting!

4th February 2014 - One week in and she's loving school!

Zavian - 09 February

09 February - Chef in the making

This morning you watched me make vegemite scrolls and asked me if you could help me. You wanted to roll out the dough and you suddenly looked so grown up helping me out in the kitchen with the rolling pin that (what felt like) not long ago you could hardly pick up. Once I had spread the vegemite, you sprinkled the cheese and helped to roll the scrolls up. You couldn't wait to eat them... I've had to move them where you can't get them or poor Lexi won't have any for school!

Zavian - 08 February

08 February - you've got the moves

Today we celebrated Waitangi Day with our Mums Group friends. You spent the afternoon running around, playing on the swings and fort, eating, laughing, and showing off your cool trampoline moves to all the girls ;)

And I can't help but share a couple of extra pics from the evening!

Zavian - 07 February

07 February - Big brother, big helper

When you're older, I can't wait to tell you how helpful and loving you were towards your baby brother.  You love to help mummy with anything you can for Memphis - you will run to get nappies and wipes, you even like to help change his nappy.  You like to cover him up with a blankey, you play with him with his toys and you like helping to bath him.  Tonight was his first night in the big bath and whilst Lexi held on to him you washed his hair and his body and made him smiles by pulling faces at him.  You are such a wonderful big brother <3

Zavian - 06 February

06 February - A moment with a superhero

We spent the morning at Movieworld with Aunty Tammy and cuzzie Tiana. The two of you had so much fun running around, riding the taxi cars and the merry-go-round. You ran through the water fountains and met Wonderwoman, Scooby Doo & Shaggy, Catwoman and Batman! I think Batman liked your shirt ;)

Memphis - 12 weeks old

12 weeks old <3

Wednesday 5th February 2014 - Memphis is 12 weeks old now.  His corrected age is 8 weeks old.
He is 4kg (8.8lbs) and 52cm (20.4 inches) long and finally wearing size 0000 (newborn) clothing.  His eyes are still blue and his hair a light browny colour.

My sweet little guy is becoming more alert and aware of his environment.  He's lifting his head up to look around when on our chests, however is not overly interested in tummy time on his play mat - something we need to work on.

The smiles are here in full force, teamed with coo's and the newly discovered laugh.  He thinks Daddy running a  (clean) nappy over his face and making silly noises.  Seeing himself in videos, and blank walls are apparently pretty funny, too.

Playmat time has become interesting, he smiles at and 'talks' to his toys.  He bats and kicks at the hanging toys and tries to grab at toys however isn't too good at that.

Memphis is starting to explore with his mouth - he pulls blankies, his fists, my clothes, his lovey to his mouth.  He is following people with his eyes, and gazes happily at us.

At 12 weeks he is still such a sleepy baby.  He can self settle most of the time, very rarely cries, smiles often.  He will sleep anywhere, any time.  He feeds approximately every 4 hours at the moment.  I am hoping to start stretching him out more overnight, however he's still a bit snuffly and so wakes himself up when his nose gets blocked.  Feeding him back to sleep is the easiest way for me to get sleep.  As it stands he only does that once, sometimes twice, a night anyway.  So I'm not complaining!

12 weeks in I am still feeling good.  I have my moments, usually tiredness being a factor.  I am enjoying Memphis, in a way I didn't enjoy the other two kids.  I do feel guilty about that, however I know that I can't do anything about the way PND controlled my emotions then.  The health nurse made me do the score thingee for depression (yes I'm aware it has a more technical name) and my score has dropped significantly since I was pregnant.  It's still a number I need to get lower, but it's almost halved (it was pretty bad during pregnancy) and I am happy with that progression, considering I've opted against medication and haven't managed to see the psychologist since before having Memphis (yes, need to get on to that).

12 weeks has passed too quickly, though.  I wish time would slow down.

Who else would you wanna hang out with at 11 weeks old?

Flash and Supergirl will do, too!

12 weeks old

Comparison pic!

Memphis and his elephant lovey (find one at: Swadling's Sweet Things... amber bracelet from: Dragonflies Hollow)

Zavian - 05 February

05 February 2014 - Play time

You love having pets and the boys are your pals. You love feeding them, sneaking them inside and most of all you love to play ball with them. Every day you go out and play with them, throwing and kicking the ball and playing fetch. You have lost every single one of your footies to Floyd, but that doesn't bother you as he does (occasionally) share them!