Sometimes it goes like this...

Dear Naomi,

You are fed, you are clean and you are dry.  You are not to hot or cold and you have burped. Please stop crying.

Love Mummy

So you know

A few people have pointed out they couldn't comment on the blog, so I have changed the settings so that even anonymous people can comment.  If this results in ridiculous levels of spam I will change it back and if you comment on a post more than 2 weeks old I need to approve it first, but hopefully this should make things more accessible.

Jay

London Baby!!

Yesterday, Naomi and I ventured into London for the day.  We were really going to Bromley so that I could attend the DNA reunion and see loads of people from last year, so Naomi's experience of London proper is mainly of St Pancras railway station and the Victoria line on the underground!

We had a fabulous day and Naomi was (largely) very good.  In the car Naomi is very unhappy when the speed goes below 54mph, in the train she wriggled a lot when we slowed down for stations but didn't cry, I think because she was in the sling.

Here is a photo of her first experience on a train

I had an absolute blast meeting up with old friends and seeing the DNA team again, DNA was such a great experience for me and it was great to revisit that.  Also, I was pregnant by the end of DNA so it was great to be able to introduce Naomi to people!

Unfortunately our precious little girl wasn't quite so happy on the way home and cried most of the way and as such I ended up having to stand from London to Loughborough to try and calm her, I also ended up in the section between carriages so that we didn't end up deafening the other passengers! I was tired by the time we got home but all is forgiven after a god night's sleep!

Thanks for reading!

Growing too fast!

It has occurred to Sandy and I that Naomi is getting close to being too big for her Moses basket and at some point she will need to start putting her in her cot.  To try and ease the transition for her we have starting putting ehr down for naps in the cot so that when it becomes for overnight it isn't quite so scary.  Yesterday was the first day of this new regime and she kept waking up every 20-30 minutes and being unsettled so I would get her up.  This is what I was expecting and it was what I was expecting for today, so imagine my dismay when I went upstairs to find this about 40 minutes after I put her down and about 10 minutes after I wanted to leave the house to go to my Mum's group!

Doesn't she look tiny?

Birthday!

Yesterday was my birthday, my first as a Mum and I had a truly wonderful day.  Thanks to everyone who sent cards presents or well-wishes, they were all lovely to receive.  By the end of the day I was well and truly spoiled, with Sandy having gone into work late so I could have a bit of a long lie while he sorted Naomi and he also brought me tea in bed :-) (I even got to drink it while it was hot!)

Later in the day my very good friend Liz Lynch came to visit, it was lovely to see her again and so I am very pleased she took the time to come from Oxford where she was visiting friends to come and see me and Naomi (and Sandy, but let's face it, he is far less important ;-) ) we even managed to go out for a drink in the evening while she made sure Naomi went to bed and sleep.

Today I have been having a good play on one of my main presents, Sandy got me Wii Fit Plus and today I have been doing a bit of a work out to try and remove that pregnancy weight.  It turns out that Naomi likes it as much as me as I can stick her in the sling and she likes the jiggling motion, although I have to choose the games carefully to make sure she isn't being thrown all over the place! It also means I have some extra weight to carry and so the work out is all the more effective!

Thanks for reading, as your reward you may see a picture of Naomi enjoying her wrist rattle!

D'oh

Question: How does a baby express realisation / disbelief that she's entered a crazy household and that these are the parents she's going to have to handle for the forseeable future?

Answer:

Feet

Currently Jay and Naomi have a cold. Fortunately I seem to have got away without catching it so far! Anyhow, the little one has a proper blocked up nose - it's heartbreaking seeing her sniffing away and getting upset about it as we can't tell her what the problem is. She does however continue to grow and is starting to really look at things now; you can see her following bright objects with her eyes and the other night her dummy fell out and she was peering at it so hard I thought it was going to climb back into her mouth itself...

One of the things we wanted to keep track of is just how tiny she is just now. In the hospital there were adverts for companies who would take imprints of your baby's feet and frame them for you. Of course - to anyone from our corner of Scotland the idea of paying someone to do that is just one step too far, so the other night just before bath time we took some purple paper and white paint and did it ourselves. Here's the results:

Step 1: apply paint...

Step 2: apply paper...

Step 3: observe results...

Just got to put them in a frame or baby book of some sort now.

PS - still more presents arriving! Thank you all for being so generous. We are starting to send propoer thank you letters but it's taking a while...