Nearly Christmas

Christmas is nearly upon us and I can't wait. I love it and this is our first Christmas as parents so that makes it all the more interesting although Henry is not quite old enough to open presents yet.

Well so much has happened since my last post, Henry is cawling properly fulltime now which is good because his clothes aren't getting so dirty. He says mum all the time and can say 'ta', he is very noisy all the time, he stands up at any furniture he can and just yells and kisses, he wants to give me kisses all the time. He is at the most amazing age so far.

We went to the Christmas Tree at playgroup on Saturday which was fun and Henry sat on Santas knee and got a present.

Jacko is still with us, we wont know what to do with ourselves once he leaves on Saturday. We went to the beach on Sunday and took the four wheel motorbike and the Jetski. The boys played with their bigboy toys and towing each other on the biscuit. I lay in the tent reading and Henry ate lots of sand.

Chevy has had his operation and the leg seems to be healing well. I am going to take off his bandages today.

We have had some bush fires near hear the last few days, Damon has been grading some tracks today and yesterday so they can back burn. The fire was beside Ross' although was heading in the other direction.

Well I got my period back on Sunday morning, I forgot what it was like seeing as I haven't had one for a year and a half. We have decided to start trying this month for our second baby. I got pregnant straight away with Henry so we will see what happens this time.

Moving along

I just put Henry down for his afternoon nap, I'm afraid I am getting into a bad habit. I realized the other day that he can hold his own bottle, so I can put him in his cot with his bottle and off to sleep he goes once botbot is finished. I am a little worried that he will become relient on his botbot to get to sleep.

I had planned to get pregnant this month so we could have a September baby. I want to have the kids close in age so this makes for an 18 month age gap. I talked to Damon about it the other night and he wasnt sure that we should start trying just yet, I don't think he thinks he has spent enough time with Henry let along add another child to that. I did remind him that it would be nine months before the next one would be born. He asked did I think we could handle another one, I had to laugh at that.
I introduced the bottle at 6 & half months and he has been slowly weened since then. He has been only breast feeding once a day for the last month and is not really interested anymore. I would have stuck with breast feeding only but I have been planning to get pregnant in December so felt that I needed to wean him in order to get my period back although its not back yet. Not sure what to do about that.

Yesterday we got Henry's first tractor with farm points earned from buying chemical. He is a bit little for it just yet but he will grow into it. Dad loves pushing him around on it. He still comando crawls but he is pulling himself up on the furniture much faster now.

Chevy goes in for his operation tomorrow, they are going to remove 1.5cm of the bone that is not growing, then the bone should grow back longer to replace the removed bone. So hopefully all will be ok after this.