The season is almost upon us...

Charlie is eight months old and still will not sit up. He commando crawls all over the place but has no interest what so ever in sitting. I am finding this most inconvenient at bath times as I have to hold him in the bath or put him in the holder which requires more water. Well Im sure soon enough he will be sitting. He is a cheeky little bugger and gives the cutest, biggest grins and is sleeping pretty well now.

Henry is the ruler of the house and I have come to realise that what Henry wants, Henry gets. He is a very determined little boy, I am always finding a sept at the fridge or pantry. He has worked out that if he unlatches the latch at the pantry and then moves the step away the door will open. He doesnt bother to ask for anything, he is independant. He is getting pretty good using the potty, he takes himself off to the potty most of the time and half the time I don't even know he has gone. Although we are still having an accident or two everyday, but Im sure he will have it down pat by christmas (well I'm hoping).

Well christmas is just around the corner and I'm not all that organised just yet, it's more to do with who are and are not buying present for. Henry is getting a bike so that will be exciting, Damon and I both have bikes that have practicely never been used and I would like to get a seat for Charlie to go on one of our bikes. It will be nice to take them all up to Kalbarri next year. For our christmas cards this year I tried to take some xmas photos of the kids but they really were not very interested. So I ended up using one from the family photo shoot earlier in the year so everyone will be getting a family photo rather than one of the boys and I got photo cards made from Snapfish.

There he was standing in a puddle

Charlie is commando crawling flat out all over the place. If he is put down in one spot and you look back a minute later he is on the other side of the room. He still refuses to sit up, I sat him up in the bath the other day and he sat nice and straight for about 30 seconds then he lay back. I try to sit him down but he just falls back onto his back and thinks its a great game.

Last Thursday I bought S26 Formula AR for babies with reflux and Charlie slep all through the night until 4am when I gave him another bottle and he then slept till 7. Then Friday night the same and Saturday night he had his first sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa'a where he woke briefly a couple of times. Sunday night we didn't hear a peep out of him until 5am when he had a bottle and went back to sleep until around 6.30am. Before Thursday we have had a lot of trouble with Charlie waking all through the night with reflux so the formula must work.

We have decided that Henry at 2yrs and 8mths should be using the potty instead of nappies. The other day I walked past the lounge room to see a bare dumb so I asked Henry what he was doing and he said "I've done poos so I'm taking my nappy off". That day he did two wees in the potty. Today I took his nappy off and sat him on the potty and gave him a drink and ran the tap but nothing happened. Later I remembered he had not peed yet so I asked him if he needed a wee and he said he had done one and he led me to the potty and there was a bit wee in the potty, I was very impressed. Later I asked him again if he needed to wee and there he was standing in a little puddle and wet tracky pants.

I'm Back Hopefully

It was October one year that I last wrote here. I plan to keep writing as I would like to keep a record of the kids for later.

I gave birth by emergency caeserian again (I tried to go natural). After seven hours of labour my OB decided I wasn't actually in labour there for I would need a caeser. Although I had been awake all night with strong contractions, I did not feel exhausted as I had with Henry. Charlie Robert was born on the 25th March 2008, at 8.20am weighing 8p 9oz and was 53cm long and he looked just like his brother. An hour later I breast fed him which I was unable to do with Henry due to the drugs causing me to slip in and out of sleep.

I have been so busy lately with a new business my friend Cristen and I started. Its a online childrens clothing and accessories business. We have the website ready for stock to be uploaded and we have done two launches, one out here and one in Albany. On top of this I started doing a Doula course online but have found practically no time for reading. My horse Sav came back to live and I have no time for him let alone for Jip. I should also be doing book work for the farm so I can get a good grasp on how it all works. Hopefully things settle down soon and I will get more time to play with the boys.

Charlie is seven months old and he is comando crawling all over the place although he will not sit up. His reflux seems to be settling down and he is starting to sleep for longer periods. He never use to sleep for longer than 20min at a time during the day and now he sleeps for 2-3 hours in the morn and 1-2 in the arvo. The last few nights he had been only waking once. For the last two weekends I have completed and past my Advanced Ambulance Care Course and Grandma had the boys for all four days. So Charlie had to use a bottle for his feeds, I almost didn't do the course because I didn't really want him using a bottle. I was right to be concerened about the bottle and he has now completely weaned himself off the breat. I chose to give up breat feeding Henry when he was seven months but I wanted to feed charlie until he was one so I was a bit upset that he didn't want to breast feed any longer.

Been a While

Well it has been about ten or eleven weeks since I last blogged. I am feeling great although tired and can saftely say I am over my morning sickness, all day sickness. The feeling of being on the computer just made me feel worse and house work was on the out and out. I am still trying to catch up on all the things that just got left when I was not feeling well. My sickness lasted until about week 13-14 and I am now week 17. The time has gone so fast and March will be here in no time at all.

Henry is growing up so much and it is so exciting yet a bit sad at the same time. He is talking all the time and says so many words and a few sentences as well.

I got a call from my doctor yesterday and my test results have come back. I have tested high for Spina Bifita again. With Henry I had to go straight to Perth for an ultrasound but this time she is going to wait for 19 week scan and see what that says. Henry's ultrasound said everything looks normal so hopefully this one will to.

Pregnant!!!

Well I am pregnant , six weeks tomorrow. I was hoping to get pregnant about seven months ago and have a September baby and an 18 month age gap but a two year ago gap will be fine I'm sure. I found out the other day my brothers girlfriend is eight weeks pregnant so they will have a 18 month ago gap between Jai and the next one.

Henry went to Sophie's 3rd birthday party on Sunday, dressed up as Spot the Dog. Grandma made him a really cool outfit. He had a great time playing with all the kids and eating party food.

He talks so much at the moment, most of it is not words that I understand though. He loves playing with and saying Ball. He says Toaste in the moring if he wants some for breakfast.

Cuddles

Henry wants to cuddle all the time, its so nice as he wraps his arms right around me. I'll be cooking or doing the dishes and he will come up and hug one leg then he says ahah.... I love it....

Yesterday I was cleaning up in the porch and I put a few pairs of shoes that we wear often behind the door.. My gumboots and blundstones didn't really fit so I placed then nicely by a pot plant. Henry must have thought what the boots were doing by the pot plant when they go behind the door, so next time I went into the porch I noticed my boots were gone so I started looking for them. Henry had put them behind the door with the rest of the shoes. Bless him.....

Aunty Prema

We had Aunty Prema and her friend James come for the weekend. Henry loved having them stay and he would show off to them all day.

We went to Bremer Bay for the night on Saturday with a few others and stayed at the caravan park. Henry had his very first stay over at grandmas, she loved it and said Henry was fantastic. She had to go check on him at 5am because she had not heard from him all night and was a bit worried, but I had told her that he goes to bed at 6.30pm and you don't hear a thing from him until 7am. I am very lucky, my next child will probably be a terror (hope not).

Anyway Prema has a Pit Bull dog that she brought with her and it ran away on the second day and was nowhere to be seen for two days. They had to stay another day to find her, anyway she turned up this morning. Prema was so relieved as she thought a farmer may shoot her if she attacked their sheep.