Our first "Proper" smile

Hi all,

Good news!!! Sabrina has learnt to smile. Yippee!

As you can tell I am rather excited about this. It has only taken 7 and a half weeks to achieve. She gave me a pretty good scare last night and decided to sleep for 9 hours straight. I only dozed for the last 3 or so, thinking that she was going to wake up. We will see how we go tonight as to whether it was just a one off or the beginning of a new routine. (Here is hoping- would be very nice to have an uninterrupted sleep for something a bit different!)

Maddie had to go to preschool the other day dressed as a princess. Thought you might like to see.

Hope you are all well. Love Annette

Clinic sister update

Hi all,

As promised in this morning's blog...

We have put on 1.4kg since discharge weight. This is a true measure as it was a bare weight. And our head has grown 1.1cm in 2 weeks. We need to go to the clinic to get the length measured, will try and get there soon.

Love
Annette

Its been one of "those" nights

Hi All,

Well it had to happen. Sabrina has also read the same books that I have on the whole feeding every 2 hour thing. The books warned me that at 6 weeks expect 2 hourly feeding. Guess what today we are 6 weeks. So last night we took to 2 hourly feeding. Mummy NOT happy!!! Hopefully it doesn't last too long. So if this blog is a bit all over the place you know why. Here is a pic of Sabrina whilst I am working on this blog. It would be nice if I could join her! I guess being up a fair amount of the night takes it out of even the littlest of household members. One thing I did discover is that Bronte has taken to sleeping outside our window acting on guard for Sabrina. (She was there every time I got up last night and ran off the minute the light went on - so I wouldn't see her)

Weekly highlights:

On Wednesday we had lunch with Jill, Mon and Fabi. It was good to catch up and do a show and tell. Here is a picture of the cross stitch that Mon did for Sabrina's wall. She did an Angel for Maddie when she was born. Maddie thought that Fabi was simply the best and has been telling anyone who will listen that the next time she sees Fabi that they are going to play dress ups and be fairies.

On Saturday we took ourselves off to the Blacktown City Festival. It has been many, many years since I have been to the show. It hasn't really changed in all this time. We wandered around the street stalls and then watched the parade. Maddie thought the parade was pretty good. Sabrina managed to stay awake for the parade and didn't seem at all worried about the noise.

Yesterday afternoon was another date with our freezer and cooking for it. We are definitely getting the hang of it. After living with the concept for the last couple of weeks can recommend it. It makes the whole dinner thing a lot easier!

The rest of our week has been pretty "normal" in terms of places and people we have seen.

The home visit clinic nurse rang this morning at 11am to tell me that she would be coming sometime between 12 - 2pm today. So much for my take it easy morning. I will post again later with the weigh in results from this visit. Hope you are all keeping well.

Love

Annette