E has been limping around the house, limping around the rugby field and walking on his tip-toes for about 6 weeks now. As he has some pretty brilliant melodramatic tendencies we just assumed his complaints were to be taken with a grain of salt. That …
My beautiful baldy baby is now four weeks old. Unbelievable. Though some days/nights have been long the weeks have flown by. The simple fact that we somehow have an 8yo (!!!) reminds me that the years slip away just as quickly as these early weeks …
{Posted 1 week late lol}
I have started so many posts in the last three weeks, trying to convey the wonder of our new baby or the little hardships of life with a newborn…..but they all remain as drafts. There are now so few hours in the day and most of them are spent with a dollop of delicious baby snuggled into my neck. Motivation to blog is still here but doesn’t really seem to stick around long enough to finish a post. And so it goes.
Nix seems to be over his early struggles with feeding which saw us back in the hospital for 3 days last week due to continued weight loss. As much as that sucked, it gave me the opportunity to rest and heal from Nixon’s traumatic arrival (10lb 2oz / 4.59kg, posterior, forceps, vaginal tear, episiotomy, 3rd degree tear). After a fairly standard delivery with Ethan, I was totally unprepared for the horror (truly that is the best word to describe it) of birthing our second son. Unfortunately there will be no lovely birth story posted here, but there is a lovely bubba!
We have had good days and bad days this week. We attempted to head down to the river so E could fish for eels, it took so long to get ready that by the time we tried to leave Nixon was a screaming mess. He was crying, I was crying because I felt so sorry for my big boy who was also crying because I was crying and he felt bad for even suggesting we go in the first place. It was a disaster.
But then, we had a good day. A visit with the boys Great Grandparents, a trip to the barber (with no-one waiting huzzah!), a prescription pick up, icecream, a library visit and a quick peek in the $2 Shop for E. Our confidence was somewhat restored.
Our days are a juxtaposition of slow and hectic. I remember asking two of my girlfriends how they’d lost their baby weight so quickly after their second and third babies and the response was that they were just so damn busy that there was barely time to sit down. They spoke the truth! Between 2 hourly feeds I have to do everything at pace to keep up with life in general, there is a constantly updated to-do list in my head. Standard mummy protocol really.
Nixon you are a delightfully easy baby really. You only cry when you’re hungry (or if you realise I’m no longer holding you!), you sleep like a champ at night, you have big blue eyes which follow me around and focus on stripes and the panda bear beside your changing table. You love to be held and are very happy in your Ergo carrier. Surprisingly our four dogs and their barking don’t bother you at all and you are just as happy being snuggled by Nana as by me.
The best thing about your arrival is seeing you be loved on by your big brother. Ethan is completely enamoured with you and so, so proud.We love you so much.
A couple of weeks ago I popped into the city to visit the Auckland Art & Craft Fair {the next one is 30/11/2013} held at the Aotea Centre. Entry was a gold coin donation and this event was well worth trying to squeeze my big truck …
Everything is measured in 2 hour increments in our house at the moment. Life revolves around our sweet little alarm clock who is always hungry and not too fond of sleeping {or of me putting him down}. I had forgotten how long it can take …
What an amazing, {traumatic}, and very wonderful 10 days our family has had. Baby Hippo finally arrived and we named him Nixon. We are all so in love with him, it’s hard to believe we could be so lucky.
After 5 days in hospital I am loving that we are home. Nix and I are taking it easy as my recovery isn’t going to be particularly swift, but I have no desire to take our precious newborn out in this freezing weather anyway!
So much loving all the lovin’ on his little brother that Ethan is doing. He has surprised me with his complete adoration, patience and concern for Nixon – he has waited so long to be a Big Brother! I have loved this kid for eight years now and somehow I love him even more as he grows into a new role in our family.
LOVE busting out my Maya wrap again! E lived in this wrap until he was too chunky at 18 months old for me to manage him and Nixon loves it too. It was so nice to be mobile {I may indulge my children with cuddles on demand when they are this little and cute!}. Would you just look at that sweet dollop of baby in that sling? I die.
Finally, LOVING this amaze prize from the delight that is Sophie Slim and Ecostore. It’s so awesome to have such beautiful products to use with our teensy little man, thank you so much xx
To console myself over missing out on Fleetwood Mac tickets I have had this cover of Rhiannon on heavy repeat. Love it, Best Coast have done an amazing job with this. Give it a spin.
All the people with all of the places to go have left. Dave has gone to his new office on the second day of his new contract, Mum has gone to work, E has gone to school – excited about the Matinee performance of the …
This is the final hurrah, my last Wardrobe Wednesday in what I’m sure will be a long, long time – measured in kilograms! And perhaps seasons lol. Somehow I have gotten still larger, and somehow despite all predictions to the contrary I am still pregnant, due next Wednesday.
I sat in the salon for 3.5hrs yesterday so don’t fret, those 2.5″ roots are gone, pregnancy definitely sped up my formerly s l o w hair growing ability, quite a shame to have spend so much money on getting my hair done only to have it fall out over the next few weeks!
See you on the other side!
39-ish weeks ago I started a Pinterest board for this room and I have been collecting ever since. The only hard and fast rule was that I didn’t want anything matchy-matchy. Ethan’s nursery in America reeked of co-ordinates and was totally themed floor to ceiling …