We are alive, I promise!!

RL has just been a bit either frantic or boring....

There is STILL snot. STILL. I took BG back to the Dr. last week and he says it's just a cold and we kinda have to put up with it. No stress, just working on it day by day. We dispense the relevant items. We're still having serious night waking issues but honestly it seems to be because she is so congested.

In a bit of a rut food wise....need to get braver but need more time and as BG gets more mobile my time and things I can do change yet again. We are still looking for a new vehicle, and although we had a hot lead, it didn't lead anywhere yet.

We started at baby signing and it's fab. We both love it. It seems to come very naturally to me and I hope it will work for BG as well.

So anyway, how've you been?

Spatial Awareness and Chicken.

Hmmm

Not such a good food day today, although more was eaten at breakfast time today than has been eaten then lately. Tonight she had a chicken thing and some fruity stuff from a jar that she particularly likes. As she learns to drop things, we are having to feed her more again, but that's ok. There is also a LOT of snot again, which makes eating and drinking much harder anyway.

Still worrying about a car.

New stuff the last two weeks:
Nodding - not at any particular point, just in general.
Two handed stuff - moving towards waving
Lots of reaching and going for things - can feel her shifting weight around in new ways.

Daddy has been on a half day today so we had lots of fun all together. I did a LOT of sorting out in BG's room today and it's looking a LOT better in here now. A friend brought me two books about sleep - one is the "controlled crying" one, one is the "no cry" sleep solution. We have to transition her out of our room and we have to sort out her sleep/waking nightmare stuff. Hopefully then she will get better and we'll all be saner. Next we need a blackout blind and screening for the shelves and we'll be almost set.

Far, far, faaaaar too complicated for real life....

Ok, so we went to look at a possible car today. It's hard to have Baby Girl Adventures without a suitable vehicle and the one we have now is just too small to get kit in so we can go away from home. And we have trips we need to make. Car was beautiful, very well looked after and all the things we need.

But Baby Girls car seat did not fit in it. And she isn't going to be ready for the next one for some time. She may be 8 months old, but she only weighs about 14lbs, and needs to weigh 20 before she can have a front facing car seat. We may be here some time.... The only other option is to fix her current car seat into the front passenger seat until she gets to that weight..but who knows how long that will take. She's not even double her birth weight yet.

Nor will she be anytime soon if she doesn't eat!! The snot is still present so there hasn't been much eating going on and she's been very bitey today. I think that she's teething busily again and that the ongoing "cold" might be part of that pattern. There's been a lot of dribble. Hmm..perhaps the stuff I gave her isn't stimulating to the gums enough? She ate most of a cold sausage at lunchtime, and bit on the crust of my toast in the morning..... I think we need to start letting her loose with things a bit more foodwise but until I can stop pumping I don't have time to cook the way I would like to for that to happen. She is also very clingy and tired...nights are sucking big time at the moment. The last two none of us have slept that much. I am exhausted, my dh is exhausted too (and has to be at work at 0730 in the morning tomorrow, so I am going to be prepping like a LOON in a minute so that we are ready tonight for tomorrow). I don't know what to do with our precious girl! So many things we need to sort out for her...sleeping arrangements, physical space, need to book development check.... aaaargh!!

We need more time, and the spare hands of anyone available. Thanks!! xxx

Baby Talks like a Pirate..

*L* It is international talk like a pirate day in my kitchen today *L*

Welcome new friends and followers *L*, that sounds funny!!

Well, we've had an ok week. Sleep still a struggle, although there have been some better nights as well. Not full nights, but better ones. Still diong well with foods, still not brave enough to let her loose with the plate. Got cot sheets at last this week but still struggling to have the time and energy and people resources available all at once to get things sorted out in the second bedroom. A whole LOAD of stuff will hopefully be going to some friends for their baby very soon, so that might help, but it might not. I need my Mum to come and help me, or a massive amount of manpower from people who understand how I do things.

And every time I think I have five minutes to do anything, I remember something I haven't done.