Once a small, tiny
bundle, all you did was sleep
eat and cry - a lot.

Not so anymore!
Ok, so you still sleep, and
eat, and cry, a lot…

but where there was just
“a newborn”, now there’s a boy
who smiles, and giggles.

A little dude who’s
personality is oh
so different.

Different from your
brother. He was born blonde,
you were born so dark.

To say that is how
different you are today
puts it mildly!

The curls - OH those curls!
We’ve taken to calling you
Curly Top - it fits.

You’re such a grumpy
lil man. If you’re not happy
then my goodness

you let everyone
know!! Screams and squeals and shrieking
are your favourites!

Happy nine months my
cute lil guy! Time passes so
quickly. Gone too soon.

The baby… he eats!

We decided to try him with some baby rice milk mush today and he actually seemed to not completely detest it! Had about 6/7 lil spoonfuls of it…

At first he wondered what the heck his mummy was doing.

Then once he knew what was coming he was a bit… wierded out.

He seemed like he wanted to spit it out, but never quite managed it…

It almost seemed like he was getting onto it… really! These pics just happened not to capture the lil grins.

I gave in and stopped feeding him the mush once he gave me that face!

and not long after that, there was something korma-like in his nappy… what can I say - boy got filled up by his first taste of food!

I have like 3 or four half finished posts here in my drafts but I just have no energy to finish any of them at the moment, so you’re getting a filler.

You wanna know why I cba finishing them? It’s because up until last night I’d had roughly 12 hours of very-broken-sleep since last tuesday *sigh*

<<<takes a break to go feed crying baby>>> *sigh* baby wouldn’t take full feed… grr!

ok where was I? oh yes… why you’re getting a filler.

well it seems that Max has been turned by Braden and Amy to the Revolution of not letting us sleep.  His feeding is soooo erratic I just don’t know what the hell do do anymore.  His sleeping has gone from him going to bed at around 8pm, feeding at 11pm ish and him being more-or-less down until 4-5am (I was happy with that!) to going to bed around 8pm, half-waking and needing resettled on and off til 10.30/11pm having a measly amount of milk, and waking at almost 2am on the dot, having another pathetic amount of milk, taking ages to go back to sleep and waking at 5.30am again generally being a crying whingy baby.  I CANNOT TAKE MUCH MORE!!

I am to bloody tired to think straight, I want to hand him to someone else.  Any takers? Free to a good home…

ack there he goes again with the screaming - Oh I didn’t tell you about the constant screaming? The clinginess and the general if-I’m-put-down-I-will-scream-for-hours is also driving me slowly to an early grave I’m telling ya!

So bear with me, the whiny posts, the general crankiness of me over the next few weeks until whatever this damn phase is passes.  Tiredness and a clingy baby is doing my head in!

WARNING: THIS IS A RANT! If you think you may be offended, leave now!

I do the huge majority of Max’s night feeds in our house.  If I’m lucky I can usually persuade J to do one at the weekend.  Now normally I don’t mind this - after all he’s going out 5 days a week doing a job he really isn’t that keen on (although it is a desk job so not physically tiring in the slightest) to bring in the money etc, he’s up earlier to get to work, and *at the moment* the boys seem to have taken to sleeping til about 9am which is amazing, although I doubt it’ll last.

Thing is… the very IDEA that he do the night feeds on the friday AND the saturday night and apparently I’m being unfair.  I don’t think that’s right as he is getting 6 nights a week of proper un-interrupted sleep (i have to thump him awake when he does do the night feed cause he sleeps thru the crying) while I’m living off about 4-5 hours of very broken sleep that whole time and having to run around after a toddler each day, keep up with the housework, and tidy up after said toddler, baby and husband. and to top it all when he actually does the night feed he needs a lie in and a nap to ‘catch up’.  see where I’m going with this??

do you think i should stick to my guns and ask him to do the fri and sat night feeds on a regular basis? or am I being unfair?  please don’t be too mean in your comment if ya think I’m being unfair or I’ll cry!

Wow I really can’t believe that he’s 2 months old already! Not only is he smiling lots he’s also started attempting to laugh… ok so it sounds more like a puppy yelping, but I’m sure it’s a laugh trying to come out - either that or he’s getting REALLY freaked out by the funny faces I keep pulling at him…

He had his first immunizations on thursday last week and was weighed and measured etc so the stats are now

• weight - 11lb 12oz
• length - 57cm
• head circumference - 39cm

which means he’s put on 3lb 4oz since he was born, stretched 6cm, and his head has gotten 4cm larger. Just as well he came out when he did then!

His feeding’s still a bit of a mare, he *should* be having 5 6oz bottles of formula a day, apparently… he won’t take more than 5oz in a feed and that’s only if we’re really lucky, and he refuses to have more than about 3oz in his last feed around 11pm no matter when he last fed, whether awake or as a dream-feed… basically he’s an awkward wee bugger with his food.

Last night went well though… fed at 11.30pm, fast asleep by the time he was back in his bed… next up at…

5AM!!!

I actually went to sleep at a decent hour and had about 5 hrs sleep in a row… god I feel better for it! lol

I don’t know why but I just can’t seem to get into the swing of the Christmas season at the moment, maybe because I’ve left everything to the last minute… I’m not sure. I know that I’m usually much more buoyed up by now than I am this year that’s for sure - got some Christmas songs on and they’re just not moving me at all! Maybe it’ll hit home this weekend when we get the last bits and pieces for pressies etc. I’m hoping to take Zack to meet Santa… I just hope he doesn’t freak out like he did last year - it’d be nice to have a decent pic rather than one of him screaming his face off! lol

I put up our Christmas tree yesterday but the boys decided not to sleep for long at their nap time (i.e. Max screamed his head off which woke up Zack) so at the moment it’s naked apart from the lights and a lil bit of tinsel… they’re both in bed at the moment and I feel like i *should* be putting the baubles etc on but tbh I can’t be arsed. I’d rather just get J to do it when he gets in - I think if I do that he’ll have a heart attack cause normally I’d never let anyone decorate the tree but me!

Just having a can’t be bothered day me thinks. My parents re coming over tomorrow with the Christmas gifts, so I’ll have to do it before they get here or my mum will insist on doing it for us. On second thought… maybe that’s just what I need.