Monday, May 24, 2010

Goo Goo, Gaa Gaa, Doo Doo... Dada!!!

It's been a big couple of weeks for Oliver. He is growing so much and so much has been happening. I only hope I can remember most of it.

Firstly, Oliver has started to talk. It literally happened over night. Sure he used to make noises
before but now he talks and babbles and even does what sounds like singing to a tune :O) A couple of weeks ago Oliver by chance said 'Mama' twice. I knew that it was just a fluke but being of 'Mouttet' blood the competitive side got the better of me and I might have said on facebook something along the lines of 'in your face Dada'. Whoops. So of course karma came and kicked me in the butt because Oliver's very favourite thing to say is Dada. And he is always happy when he says Dada, just happily babbling away something along the linkes of da da do da do da da dada! Now thankfully, just to make sure Mum isn't feeling too left out Oliver is also now saying Mama! But unlike the happy babbling of dada that he does he uses mama when he is upset or angry. For example, the other morning we had a bad night where we didn't get much sleep. Craig very kindly took Oliver with him into the living room and played with him so that I could get some sleep. Well this was all good for a while but then Oliver started to get grumpy again and this is when he uses the words mama. It's and angry mmmmmmmmmmMAMA! mmmmMa mmmmMAMA haha but at least he says it right :O)

Oliver has now started the first steps to crawling which is pushing up his bum in the air and pushing backwards. So I can't really say he is commando crawling yet, but it's a great sign of things to come. I did however see the child health nurse last year and she said by no means is he expected the crawl yet and that if he was she would say he is advanced. So that was nice to know. I love the child health nurse, because she always makes me feel like such a good Mum. Always praises me for my efforts with continuing breast feeding through all the troubles that I had. Told me that she fully expected me to give it up, and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside.It's really nice to hear praise when you are a new Mum, especially when most people like to tell give you their advice and tell you what you are doing is wrong.

Oliver has now been moved out of his capsule into the next size car chair. We still have him in a new born seat as I would prefer to keep him facing backwards as long as possible. His seat is so plush. I wish that I was given a seat like that in the car to lie back in and enjoy whilst someone else drives me around. The only down side to this new car seat is, gone are the days where we can take him out of the car in the capsule and click him straight into the pram. If he falls asleep in the car, I have to try and take him out as gently as possible in order not to wake him up, which is not always so easy.

I am in great need of a holiday. I am dreaming of just chilling out in another place, being looked after by a hotel and just relaxing with my family. So just in case we decide to go on a last minute holiday overseas we have started the application for Oliver's passport. And with a passport we need a photo. So this week we got Oliver's first ever passport photo done. It's so cute haha, his cubby face is just gorgeous. He looks like a little baby criminal. Don't we all look like criminals in our passport photos these days? Firstly we had to find somewhere to actually have this photo done. We went to a few different post offices, each one saying the didn't do baby passport photos because they were to hard. Finally after speaking to my friend who had her bub's done recently I found what may be one of the only places that do them. I was warned that it could take up to 15 minutes because there is no exceptions for babies. They also need to be looking straight at the camera, both ear showing, mouth closed and not smiling. So add that on top of how hard it is to get a baby to look at a camera in the first place we prepared ourselves for the worse. Well my angel baby did it on first shot! What a clever boy. Maybe Oliver also wants to go on a holiday.

Well I think that is all for now. Oliver turns 7 months this week. I can't believe just how quickly time flies by when you are having fun. He is just so adorable and makes everything just sooo damn good!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

My First Mother's Day and Other 6 Month Stuff

So in my last post I knew I had forgotten something. I guess the baby brain is still at it's worth. I forgot to write all about Oliver's 6 month weigh in with the child health nurse. Every month I take him to get weighed and measured and here is his statistics for the month:

Weight: 8.05kg! Can't believe how much he has grown. Still everyone always says how big is but truth is he's only 55th percentile for his age. I think that massive head of his gives a little misconception of this.
Height: 68cm - or ma
ybe this is why people thing he is so big. On his height he is in the 78% percentile, pretty sure he's going to be taller than Mummy and Daddy.
Head Circumference: 45cm!!!! Wow he's got a big head, 80th percentile on the chart, coming a long way from his 10th percentile when he was born. It's that Petta head! ;O)

So on Sunday I was able to enjoy My very first Mother's Day. Up until now
I didn't REALLY appreciate how much Mum has done for us, well Mum and Dad really. But there is something about those Mothers :O) And now that I am one I really really really appreciate my own. Mums work very very hard!! And yes being a Mother is by far the most rewarding thing in the world, but it's still hard work. So on this day not only did I feel so extremely loved by my beautiful husband and baby but I felt so much extra love towards my own Mother.

Craig and Oliver absolutely spoiled me as well. I got a spa voucher for a head, neck, shoulder and back massage and a facial, and I got New Moon on Blueray. I am really looking forward to my spa package. Craig has said that he will look after Oliver for me, so I am really looking forward to relaxing. I'll probably fall asleep haha.

We had a lovely breakfast as Craig's parents house, and Oliver showed off how he can stand supporting himself on the coffee table and was just showered with so much love as usual. Then back home for us where Oliver, Craig and Myself all had a quick afternoon nap. We then had my family over for a BBQ dinner and it was just so nice having everyone around. And the best thing about it? The whole day was over by 8.00pm so Craig and I had a moment to relax in the evening.

I'm really looking forward to every Mother's Day to come now. It was so special and I felt so loved and so loving. Mother's Day has really taken on a whole new meaning to me this year.

Monday, May 3, 2010

6 Months Old

Our little guy is 6 months old. We can't believe that he has been in our lives that long already, and it's crazy to think that in a short 6 months more he will be celebrating his first birthday. Time really does fly when you have a baby. We are so lucky to be able to enjoy these first beautiful months with Oliver, he has brought so much joy, happiness and love into our family and we look forward to years more to come.

So unfortunately for Oliver he had to celebrate his 6 month birthday with his vaccinations and boy was he not happy about this. One need in each of his arms, and nearly a week later he still has little bruises and welts to show it. Last time he had vaccinations was at 4 months old and he didn't seem to mind too much, but this time around he screamed so much. All I can say is thank goodness we don't have to do this for another 6 months, every 2 months was getting a little upsetting.

This week we also gave Oliver his first rusk to chew on. Thought it would help with his teething as I am sure I can feel a tooth coming through, and the sleeping! Oh my he has turned into an extremely bad sleeper. Anyway gave him the rusk and after a few wrong positioning's with the rusk he finally got it in the mouth, and I have to say... he's not too interested.

Yesterday we had some professional photos taken of Oliver and us with Oliver. We are really looking forward to viewing them and hoping to get a few nice family shots. Of course Oliver tried to sabotage the photo shoot. Firstly by scratching his nose in two different spots two days before the photos were to be taken. I purposely kept cutting his nails all week just to make sure this didn't happen, but he still found a way. And of course our very smiley Oliver, who just needs to look at his Dad or Mum to smile, just would not smile! Oh my gosh, it was so hard, but even though we didn't get any smiley photos, he was very content and hopefully got some nice ones. He was intrigued by the grass and the dirt and kept picking the grass and trying to put it in his mouth. Oliver just loves being outside, I think he might be a gardener when he is older.

With 6 months also comes me hitting a goal that I set for myself. I always said that I wanted to breast feed Oliver for 6 months. Man it was tough!!!! I have to say that this was by far the hardest skill that I have ever had to learn. It hurt for 4 months! I even had the child health nurse telling me "you know, it's ok if you want to give up, we will support you with any decision you make". Well I made it! I am extremely proud of myself and even prouder to say that I haven't stopped yet either. I have dropped one feed and I have to say that the freedom that I get from that feed being forumla is great, and next week I will probably drop one more feed using formula in it's place, but for now with Oliver's crazy sleeping and still waking up in the middle of the night for a feed it's quite convenient not having to warm up a bottle.

Anyway, once again that is it for the week but we are looking forward to the next 6 months...