.....One Large Step.

Both Owen and I have seen it coming for weeks now. And while I've been somewhat dreading it, my wonderful husband has been encouraging her. Miss Kate took her first tentative steps tonight after supper. :0)

Owen took her out of her booster seat after she had finished eating set her on the floor standing up (she mastered standing up on her own over a month ago w/o assistance) and then took a few steps back and said "Come here Kate" and the little monster did, she took 2 full steps before she started to lose her balance and sunk to her knees. Tasha got excited, I got excited and we all cheered for her. It was a bit of an emotional moment for us all. I think more that all of us had witnessed those first steps together, where as with Tasha I saw her walk first and then it was a couple of days before she walked again in front of Owen.

I was able to get her to take a few steps again a few minutes later to come to me, but I don't see her running by next week. :P Her balance is still a bit precarious and I imagine it will be a few weeks before she's mastered her new "talent". No video yet as she's just taking a couple of steps into our arms, but I'll post one as soon as she will walk to one of us that is further away then a couple of feet.

Life will never be the same around her now that little miss mischievous is starting to find her footing. Owen says he sees no difference between this and crawling but I see it differently. She's a fast crawler as it is, I can't imagine how fast I'm going to have to be to keep up with her once she's walking confidently.

Tashee took her first tentative steps exactly 2m after her first birthday and Kate's first steps are exactly 3 days later. Those damn overachieving 2nd born kids. :P

Kate Turns One!

Hard to believe K is One. It's been such an exciting year for us. From her quick arrival (delivered at home in our bed by EMS) to her first smile, laugh, rolling over, crawling...it's so cliche but it really does go so fast! And not just the first year, each year just zooms by! I was just saying to O last night how I could not believe that Tasha starts Kindergarten in the fall.

We just had a small family party for K. I'm thinking about having a 'friend' party in the new year, but with the timing of her birthday (what was it I said to Owen almost 2yrs ago now? I don't care when your child is born, I just want another child. hah) how busy work is for me and how busy it is this time of year for everyone, we decided just to have a family party.

Tasha and I stopped at Michaels on Saturday on our way home from the movies and she picked out the butterfly for Kate's cake. Then on Sunday after supper we sang happy birthday and Kate dove in. You can see from some of the photos that O was holding her back while I tried to get a photo of her with her cake. You can see how successful that was. :P

Her expression as I'm bringing the Cake over to the table;

Owen holding her while I try to take some photos of her with her cake;




Let me at the cake already!


And finally giving her a piece;

One Year Old!

Shocking that my baby girl is a year old! I can't quite believe it myself. A look back at the past year and her affair with the Bunny;

Natasha Turns Four.

Unlike in the past, this year Owen and I decided to keep things a bit more low key for N's birthday. It was a combination of things really. I was just getting over a month of having been really sick (pneumonia, loss of voice, hacking cough for a month), my parents were in town and things were hectic between my work schedule and other things going on. So instead of having a big party, we invited just a few of her friends. I think it all worked out well.

Regardless of size, I think everyone had a great time. I baked gingerbread snowflake cookies for them to decorate (originally I was going to have them paint ornaments but changed my mind hah), I made mini pizzas for supper and of course there was Cake for dessert!

I think everyone had a great time. :0)

The Cake, it was my ingenious idea to buy the Christmas Tree Ornament for the topper. :D





Tash being silly;

And to think my little girl starts Kindergarten next fall!

A Visit with Santa

I had high hopes for a photo with Santa this year with both my girls smiling. The previous weekend we had attended Owen's company Kids' Christmas Party and Kate had no qualms at all about sitting on Santa's lap. Tasha was a little scared but I had been hyping him up all week and getting her to think about what she wanted to ask Santa for Christmas so I thought all would go well.

But after the 10m wait in line and bad timing (Kate woke up earlier than usual that day so was getting tired) K lost it as soon as I handed her over to Santa. And because myself and the photographer were focused on seeing if we could get her to smile, we did not notice Tash was making faces at the camera until the woman who was watching them come up on the computer behind us said something. :P

Ahh well, she faired better with Santa then Tasha did at that age. On to next year. :0)

Month Eleven

Month Ten

Bunny Chronicles - Month Nine

K has definitely kept me on my toes this past month. In the spam of just a few weeks, she mastered crawling, pulling herself up, a bit of cruising and has let go of our hands on several occasions now trying to get her balance. Oh and did I mention the stairs? Little miss has learned how to climb up 3 stairs before she stops and cries for help.

In no way shape or form is she anything like her sister in this respect. Tasha was and still is a very timid kid. Something that Kate might take a few lessons from. :p She's adventurous, daring, and has no fear.

Even though she's learning all her new 'tricks' from her big sister faster than Tash did, she's still toothless. As I've mentioned before, Tasha had 4 teeth by six months, K is still all gums. It does not seem to stop her though when it comes to food, she eats anything and everything we do.

Bunny Chronicles - Month Eight

It's been a month full of milestones for Miss Kate.

Early in the month she started to roll front to back and back to front with a lot of regularity. To a point now that no matter if you put her on her tummy or her back she will roll over to the other side. lol Silly girl. With the new found fun of rolling over, she's also started to sleep on her belly with her bum in the air. This is totally bizarre to me because Tasha was never a belly sleeper. She *hated* being on her belly and never really did roll over.

Her other big milestone was trying to crawl. She's half accomplished it, if you put her on the floor she will push herself backward. Also if she's sitting she scoots her bum around to do full circles. She's even scooted on her bum a few feet. Since the start of the month she's went from laying flat on her tummy and pushing backward to just in the last week actually getting up on her knees, so I suspect crawling forward is not far behind. I told Owen that I expected it to happen by the end of the month.

She still has no teeth, but she's taken on solids with a vengeance. She loves mixed veggies, pasta, toast, rice and chicken. Oh and sausage and eggs. :0)

Today I turned around for a minute and when I looked back at her she had pulled herself up on her knees using a storage bin of clothes. She gave me a look like "How the heck did I do this and how do I get back down." LOL

Oh, and she is now saying "Mama" on repeat x10. I'm not quite sure if it's babble or she really knows what she's saying, but I love it when She's with Owen and then suddenly starts going "mama mama mama"!

She's still toothless and she's still about 2lbs and 2" shorter than N was at this age, but nothing I'm concerned about. She's her own little person, which means she will be different in many things than N.

Bunny Chronicles - Month Seven

Time is flying, K is seven months old and exploding with personality. Her adoration of Tash continues to grow and seriously, as soon as Tasha walks in the room, the rest of us are non-existent.

She started eating solids over the last couple of weeks and has taken to 'real' food unlike Tasha ever did. She so far has tried - mixed veggies, pancakes, grapes, blueberries, hot dog (oops!), pasta and rice. She still has no teeth, so it makes it to her mouth, but as she gums it, a lot of it comes back out on a trail of drool. :p At this point Tasha had 4 teeth, her top front two and her bottom front two. Someone told me recently that the longer it takes their teeth to come in, the stronger they are? No idea if there is any truth to that.

She has learned some new things, as of today. She can now roll from her back to her tummy. :0) She's learned to roll tummy to back a month and a bit ago, but since I rarely put her on her tummy, she has not had an opportunity to do it too much.

Today I had her sitting on the bed, turned my back on her for a second and when I looked again she was on her tummy. I figured she "fell" forward. So I sat her back up again. She promptly fell on her back, rolled to her tummy and then, Miss Kate pulled her legs up under her and tried to crawl! Every exciting stuff, but at the same time, I really do not want her crawling yet! I have a feeling she's going to be into everything! Tash did not get into anything and on top of that was not crawling until she was almost 9m old!

I'm excited, but not looking forward to chasing after her. :P Maybe it was just a fluke? Something tells me though, that she wants to be on the move and try to keep up with Tasha. I did get a small video of her on her tummy, but by the time I got the camera she was tired and not putting her legs/knees under her as much to try and move.

Bunny Chronicles - Month Six

Turn six months old has not brought us a lot of milestones for Miss Kate. She sweet, full of personality and adores her big sister. Tasha has also started to really love being a big sister and helping us with Kate. It makes my heart swell to see them play together and when Tasha introduces Kate to people as her little sister.

Wordless Wednesday

Five Months Old

It's been a quiet month for Miss Kate. No really major milestones or exciting happenings. She has rolled over from Tummy to Back a few times, but I'm still doubting that she really realizes what she's doing. I think when she does do it, it mostly has to do with how I put her down, if her arms/hands happen to be in 'just the right' position, then she manages to roll over, but if I set her down and her arms/hands are not, she does not roll over at all.

She did graduate to her jumperoo this past week though. I think at five months on her back and belly was getting boring for her, so this is a nice change, being upright and being able to spin.

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

Miss Kate rolled tummy to back today! The first time she was on the bed and I figured it was just 'fluke' and was due in part to the bunched up duvet. Later on in the day I put her on her tummy on the basement floor and with in a few seconds she rolled tummy to back. I put her on her tummy again and a few minutes after, she rolled again!

Totally shocked that she is rolling! Miss Tasha did not roll until she was around 8 months old. I'm still thinking she is not 'aware' of what she's doing, but I guess if she keeps doing it, she obviously knows what she's doing eh? I just can't believe she's doing it so soon!

Wordless Wednesday

A little update on Natasha

I regretted this later when she had her sugar crash, but I was craving one and did not feel like sharing, so I got her her own. She did not drink the whole thing, so perhaps cream soda is not her favourite?

She's still growing like a weed, full of energy and spunk and learning new things every day. Some things I know are due to pre-school (like how she wants to trade with you if you have something she wants) and some I think are just coming with how she sees those around us interacting.

Pre-school is going well, we had a couple of weeks where she was crying at drop off and some days even crying before we got out the door! It worried me a bit, as it was such a drastic change from how excited she was the first couple of weeks she went there, but things have turned around again and she's enjoying it again. Today was PJ day. All the kids got to wear their PJs, bring a stuffed animal, and they watched Finding Nemo. Not her favourite movie, but one of the top 3 she regularly requests.

Her new love is fairies and anything to do with Sleep Beauty, although I think her biggest love for the movie Sleeping Beauty is because of her love of Fairies. haha If it continues until her Birthday, I am going to try my best to do a fairy themed party. :0) As luck would have it, I actually bought her a fairy wand (plastic/glass? filled with water, sparkles, glitter and stars etc) for her stocking last Christmas. For the first couple of weeks after seeing Sleeping Beauty she was walking around with it pointed to myself or Owen and shouting out PINK! BLUE! PINK! BLUE!

While Kate adores her, Tash is still not showing much interest when it comes to her little sister unless we initiate it. I'm thinking it will change once Kate can move and actually play with her, so at this point I'm not too concerned. One side effect, that I'm positive is direct relation to Kate is that Tash has regressed when it comes to going to the bathroom. She's been good the last couple of days, but mostly because Owen and I are constantly asking her and watching how much liquids she's drinking. But for the past two weeks, she's peed her pants at least once a day.

We know she knows better, so it's frustrating, but at the same time we understand why, so there is not much we can do other than to try and give her extra attention, make her feel just as loved as before, and ask her if she has to go to the bathroom. Hopefully it will pass sooner rather than later.

She has also adopted a favourite number - 7. Anytime she asks for anything (mostly treats) she will ask for 7. "Can I have 7 hearts??" "Is there 7?" *proceeds to count them*. It could be worse, her favourite number could be 20 or something much higher. lol She also seems to love the colour purple or pink. But it seems anything that is purple she gravitates to. Clothes, toys..I just recently noticed it in the last week. I'm sure the fact that her room and the playroom are purple have nothing to do with it at all. /end sarcasm

Yup, I busted out the swimming pool this past week. It came with 3 fish and 2 fishing poles. We spent at least an hour 'fishing'. She loved the purple fish of course and yes, you guessed it, she picked out her top. :p


Thursday was PJ&Movie day at pre-school. She chose these Carter PJs my mom bought in the States. You can't see it in this picture, but there is a bunny on the shirt, which I'm guessing why she chose these ones. And as you can see, her love of Bun Bun is still strong. She informed me yesterday that Bun Bun needed a bath. hehe We bought a 'back-up' Bun Bun a couple of months ago when BB went missing but it was no replacement in her eyes. I showed her, she took it and then handed it back to me by the ear and informed me it was NOT BB. So now it's in Kate's crib. Perhaps she'll adopt Petal.


Relaxing in the backyard after we had fished and played in her sandbox for a while;


Last night while supper was cooking she came upstairs, looked out the window at the rain and declared she wanted to go outside. Owen and I were like "Are you sure kid??" hah So in her PJs, raincoat and boots on, she went outside for abut 30 minutes. I love this set, I got it for a steal at TCP a few weeks ago, total cost was $30ish for the boots + raincoat.

And lastly, a video of her playing with her bubble mower the other day. She's much better at pushing it this year so that it produces bubbles then she was last summer. Owen commented that perhaps she could push the real mower this summer. haha Umm yeah I doubt it buddy.

Bunny Chronicles - Month Four

Oh Little Miss, where has the time went? How can my sweet wee little babe be four months old already? I'll admit that I'm being a bit melodramatic about her getting older. So much so that I've noticed friends now saying "Wow Shelley, I'm sorry but she's getting so big!" Probably not a good sign on how I'm handling my baby growing up. hah

According to "the" Baby Centre, Miss Kate should be rolling over front to back or back to front, but I seriously slack when it comes to tummy time and well...Kate prefers to be sitting up in the corner of a chair/sofa or in her bouncy chair, so tummy time is non-existent. I'm not too worried, Tash rolls just fine, so I doubt I'm hurting my kid(s).

She still has an avid hate for soothers and an obsessive love for sucking her fingers. She also loves to chew on Tasha's old receiving blankets. I'm not sure if it's just bc she loves to chew, or because they have her big sister's scent. Either way, she does not chew/suck on the ones I made for her, so I'm more inclined to go with the latter, that it's because the were Tasha's. I put one in her crib with her for bedtime and naps, which may be why she's sleeping better? I can dream right? hah

She also has a deep admiration for her big sister. Any time Tash is near her Kate will turn her head and look up at her, smile and gurgle like crazy. I love how animated she is now. She giggles and smiles so much! I love every second of it.

Sleeping has improved. She is up on average about once a night, around 2.30 and then again around 7. At 7am I bring her into bed with me, she eats, then we go back to sleep for a bit. :0) I can't express how nice it is to sleep for more then 2-3hr intervals! She teased us and was sleeping through the night at around 3m, but it lasted for about 2w before she went back to waking every 3hrs again.

The culprit? I think anyway, is that my baby girl has started to teeth. Not quite sure how I missed it, as all the signs are there, the exact same ones Tash had (diaper rash, red red cheeks, thick drool) but I somehow did. It must have been the lack of sleep. hah

The months in review;

Teething perhaps??

Poor Kate has been teething off and on for about two weeks now. She has the same signature rosey red cheeks Tash got when she teethed, that everyone thought I photoshoped in. :p

Her first Bike!

Just when we thought spring was on it's way, it goes and snows last night. However, it did not deter my plans to go bike shopping with Tash today. :0)

Owen and I have been talking about getting her one since last year. I actually wanted to get her one last summer but Owen felt she was still too young for a bike and had put the kybosh on getting her a balance bike.

So when we started having warmer weather, I brought up the subject again. And once again I broached the subject of getting her a balance bike instead of a bike with pedals.

Owen thought it would be silly to spend that much money on a bike that she'd used for one summer and then we'd have to turn around and buy her another bike the following summer. I thought she'd like it more, being the cautious/timid girl she is.

Anyway, the decision made was that we'd take her to various stores (TRU, CTire, Walmart, Bike Bike) and get her to try out a bike with pedals and a balance bike. Whichever one she liked, that would be the one we'd get.

I headed down South this morning, as I had another errand that way, and knew there was a TRU, Walmart and CTire all beside each other off Macleod. As it turns out, that big huge TRU is now a Visions Canada and a Sportsmart. So I went to Ctire first, with plans to then check out Walmart. I was a bit doubtful, as a couple of friends had taken their kids bike shopping and were having trouble finding one that was short enough for their kids to be able to touch the ground.

We got lucky, because the first bike I had Tash try fit perfectly! I just had to have a sales associate lower the seat. The best thing of all? No Disney Princesses, no Characters what-so-ever! Just a nice solid pretty pink. :0) I did help convince her that it was the 'one' by tellig her it said "Magic Dust" on the side because the Fairies (yay Sleeping Beauty obsession) had sprinkled fairy dust on it just for her. I know, horrible mommy tactics, but she suddenly loved the bike. lol

And best of all, Owen loved it, mostly because it was $63 total, including taxes, less than half the price of the Strider Balance bike that I wanted to get her. We then picked up a helmet (they did have a Tinkerbell + her Fairy friends one, but it was not small enough, so ladybugs it was) and 2 flashing lights, one for each tire. I'm glad I ended up at the South Ctire location, because I forgot to get her a helmet and stopped at the Ctire that is 5m from our house and their selection for girls in the 12" height size bikes was really poor.

She did not quite get the pedals at first, just would rest her feet on them while I pushed her (around the house) but after several tries on it, and me pushing her feet to demonstrate, she has started to get the whole 'turning' the pedals. I'm sure she'll be a pro before long. Hopefully she's less of a clutz than I was and we do not have too many scrapes!

Chatter Chatter Chatter

Just because. It amazes how quickly she's growing. I keep saying to Owen "Tash was not this talkative at 3.5m was she?" "Tash was not grabbing stuff at this age was she??" Time goes by so quickly!

It was too good to be true...

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. First Natasha got sick. No fever, no vomiting, just a nasty cough that sounded like a pack a day smoker's. And then just as she was recovering from that, Kate caught it. She had a nasty cough, but also was phelm-y, rattle-y chest, a bit of a fever. It peeked on day three, was bad on day four and finally by day Five started to taper off by day six and she seemed back to normal by day seven.

So after they both got well again, Kate decided it was a good time to start teething. Call me Mrs. Denial, because while owen is telling me she's teething and the signs were as plain as day, I was whole-heartedly dis-agreeing with him.

I really should have known, she has the exact same signs that Natasha did when she started teething at 7m old - diaper rash (N never got a rash ONCE other than when she was working on a tooth) rosey red cheeks and the crying for no reason. sigh

So of course after she finally started to sleep for more then 2-3hrs at a time, she starts teething. Well the 8pm-6am was sweet while it lasted. hah

A few photos of the girls, taken with my shiny new iPhone, using the cool hipstamatic app.

Natasha's new "Pet".

Bunny Chronicles - Month Three

Three months old, how did that happen??

It was a month of discoveries for Kate. She started reaching/grabbing with a purpose instead of just flailing randomly at objects. Her favourite things to grab right now are the hanging toys on her bouncy chair and my fingers when I feed her a bottle.

She also started to smile, a lot. After naps, night feeds and in the morning when I go to feed her or pick her up, she looks up at me with the biggest of smiles. I love it. I forgot how sweet it is to see those first few smiles. The biggest discovery for her was discovery of how tasty her fingers/fists are. Along with the frustration as to why they won't stay in her mouth. lol

Along with all the new discoveries and changes, she has also picked up her first bad habit. During those first sleep deprived weeks/months we gave Kate her bottle in her crib and from that, it's evolved that she now needs to be drinking her bottle to go to sleep for naps. It does not seem to be an issue for bedtime, just naps. Not a terribly bad habit, but one I'm sure will be fun to break in the future.

The biggest change for Kate this month, and the one that Owen and I are most excited about, is that she finally went from sleeping 2-3hrs at night to 7-9hrs! To say we are over-joyed is an understatement. Having your first child spoil you by sleeping 9hrs at 6w old really sends you for a bender when your 2nd child wakes up every 2-3hrs for the first few months. It seemed a bit never ending for a while. Not only is she sleeping through the night, she also goes to bed the same time as Natasha, so not only are we getting a full night's sleep, we get our evenings kid free together. :0) And we are not too sleep deprived to enjoy each others company.




Memory Lane:

Two Month Vaccinations.

Thursday night we took Miss Kate to the CRHC to get her vacs. I'm a big baby when it comes to this type of thing so always schedule them for the evening when Owen can come along. You see, he's the bad guy, he holds Kate while the Nurse jabs her 3xs with a needle. Yup, 3xs. I thought Tash only got it x2, but she gave K 3 shots. Poor little thing.

She did not have any adverse reactions though and seems to be doing fine. I dug out Tash's vaccination card and they are a bit different when it comes to size. Kate is just a week short of 3w and when Tash had her 2m vaccinations done, she was just 1w short of 4m old. So they are a month difference but, as it follows, Kate 12lbs 3/4oz & 23 and 5/8" long and Tash at just a few weeks older was 16lbs and 25" long! I'm not surprised, I was telling Owen a week ago that at almost 3m old I was not having as much trouble lugging Kate in the bucket seat as I was with Tash at this age. The Nurse said Kate is in the 50% for weight. I don't remember what precentile she was at birth but she said she was steady and that's all that mattered. I remember Tash for weight and height she was in the 90s at that age!

I also think she is going through a growth spurt. She slept from 8pm until 7:15am last night! Then while I was at a class today, Owen said she napped for 4hrs, woke up, drank 8oz of formula (very unlike her, she drinks 4oz at a time), then napped some more. Oh and before nap she ate 8oz too!

Miss bug is growing up. Too fast if you ask me.

Kate Hamming it up for the Camera

I can't believe how quickly her personality seems to be shinning through!



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Wordless Wednesday

I Feel Spoiled.

Other then her sleeping at night, the only other battle that I've had with Kate (and umm minus the search for the right formula for her, forgot about that!) is her napping in her crib. Now, I know many say you can not teach a young baby a bad habit, so whatever gets you the most sleep, that's what you should do. Whether that be having your baby sleep on you, in a sling/carrier, the swing, the bouncey chair, it does not matter as long as your baby is sleeping.

I personally believe that you can teach a baby a bad habit early on, and with Natasha I tried to avoid doing so. I've learned however since Kate came in to our lives that Tash was one weird/abnormal kid when it came to sleep. :p

I had no problem letting her sleep anywhere when she was very new, because I felt it did not matter and I loved having a sleeping baby on me. But I knew that in a couple of months I'd need to do stuff, play with my other child and get things done, so if my child would not sleep anywhere but on me, it was going to cause some problems. And along the same vein, she was eventually going to outgrow her swing and bouncey chair, so why not just start things off right to begin with then go through a battle later one when she was older and stronger willed. :p

Anywho, the point is, I have been having trouble getting Kate to sleep in her crib for naps. Bedtime? Perfect, no fuss at all. We feed her, put her in her grobag, turn on her mobile and leave the room and she's fine. Nap time however, a completely different story. She fusses which then leads to crying. And then when I finally do get her settled down, she sleeps for a max of 20-30m and then wakes up again. I know there are babies out there that do only nap for 30-45m, but Kate I have learned over the last almost 3m is not one of those babies. If she does not get enough sleep during the day, bedtime is a nightmare!

Yesterday when it came time to put Kate down for her morning nap, Owen came in with me to help. I put my back out yesterday and lifting Kate and numerous other activities are just not doable right now. So I move the grobag out of the way and he sets her down and goes "Why are we not putting her in her grobag?" I stood there a bit stunned and had no words really. I guess I just felt because her room is not cold during the day, there was no need for her to be in it. It never occurred to me that she had fallen into the 'habit' of feed, grobag, mobile, lights out and therefore expected that routine for each time she was put in her crib.

I'm just going to blame this one on sleep deprivation, even though the little monkey is sleeping a lot better now. hah Owen picks her up again, I move the grobag into place, he sets her in, zips her up, turns on her mobile and we leave the room. And you know what? She went to sleep within 5-10m (only coo'n could be heard through the monitor) and slept for 1.5 hrs.

I figured it had to be a fluke, but when naptime came around in the afternoon, same thing, a bit of coo'n but sound asleep for 1.5hrs. And today? Same thing, except this morning after 1hr she pooped and it woke her up, BUT I went in, changed her, gave her a bit more to eat and presto, she was back to sleep for another hour. Afternoon? Yup you guessed it, she is sound asleep.

The only difference is that I was a bit slow reading her cues so when we got up to her room it did take me about 10m to settle her before she'd take her bottle to eat and then go in her crib.

All this to say, I can finally see that light at the end of the tunnel. So much so that I want to cry. Natasha was an 'easy' baby (which I was aware of at the time from talking to other mom's) but I did not realize how laid back easy she was until Kate came along. So the fact that she's sleeping for 5hr stretches at night and for 2 days in a row has willingly napped in her crib? I think it's fantastic. The best part of all this? She's so well rested now that when we go to get her after she wakes up from a nap or in the morning we are given several of her sweet little smiles.

The only downside to this is that 2xs a week Tash has pre-school and depending on when Kate wakes in the morning, her morning or afternoon could disrupt things. Where as before I'd pop her in the bucket seat and she'd sleep from the moment we got in the truck until after I picked up Tash and came back home, lately, she's not been doing that. As soon as she's out of the truck, she wakes up. I'm not quite sure what is up with that, but needless to say, I'm not loving it. So the fact that she's adjusted to sleeping in her crib it fabulous.

Natasha doing her favourite summer activity, blowing bubbles!


Kate sharing with me some morning smiles. :0)

Sweet {Dreams}

Dare I hope? Three nights ago, Kate slept from 8pm until 5.30am. It's the first time she's done that and has us as parents asking ourselves "Did we sleep through her crying?" It's the morning where you wake up, realize your child did not wake up through the night and wake your spouse asking "Did you get up?" "No I didn't did you?" "OMG is she dead?!?"

But know our little monkey slept the whole night. It was divine. The couple of nights since then though she's slept 8-1am and then up again at 5.30am and then back to sleep until 9am. Am I complaining that her sleep through was a one off? Nope! I'll take it. Considering up until a little over a week ago she was still waking up every 2-3hrs, so now that she's sleeping 5ish hours at a stretch? I love it. She may be not be like her little sister when it comes to sleep, but the fact that she's improving in that area gives me hope. :0)

I'm also hoping that today is the start of her sleeping better for nap time in her crib. Today, for the first real time she ate, went in her crib, had a bit more and went to sleep when she was done. No tears, crying, freaking out. And most importantly, she's been napping for over 30m. A feat for her. In her crib when I can get her to nap there, she will sleep 20-30m max (and that's after her fussing for 30-45m) and then wake up and I'd have to put her in the swing to get the rest of her needed sleep.

I know some babies only need 30m for a nap, but if Kate does not get enough sleep, she's miserable. She gets over-tired and makes for a bad day for all of us.

Kate's Newborn Session

I finally picked up Kate's images today and thought I'd share them for those that may not have seen the gallery my photographer put up;

Our little Singer

I would never have guessed N's blocks lined up on the floor was a Xylophone. She was very quick to tell me though when I asked her to pick them up. So instead of tidying up my kitchen, we sang some songs instead. Ignore my horrible off-pitch voice.

I'm not sure why she would not sing the whole song herself, I guess she wanted us to duo them. hah






Kate adds to Twinkle Twinkle by sneezing. hah

We did Row Row your boat as well but we forgot the words and had to mumble through it, so I won't post that one. heh

Rainforest Discovery

We've been putting Kate in her bouncey chair since she was born, but it was not until this past week we started putting the bar on it. When I tried a couple of weeks ago she hated it. Since thing, something has clicked and now she loves it!

In fact she got so worked up/excited playing in it this morning that she upset herself. heh

She's Such a Tease

First, if you tired of listening to me talk about Kate's lack of sleep, this is your chance to skip this post.

So it was bliss, sweet wonderful bliss. Thursday night my wonderful daughter slept from 8.30pm until 2am! Then until 6am and was up for the morning at 7am. I told owen I could totally deal with being up at 7am if she slept from 8.30-2am and then until 6/7am each night.

But then the next night she was back to her old tricks of 9pm-12am, and woke up at 3am, 6am and 8.30am as well as repeating the same last night.

We'll see what tonight brings, I felt better the other day reading a blog where the author said her little guy at 10w was just starting to sleep longer then 3-4 hours at night. Now I know I'm not alone, but it always feels better to read how another mom's baby is not sleeping 10hrs a night.

Kate Discovers her fingers/fist

Kate is finally starting to move her hands with more purpose instead of just aimlessly flailing them around. Of course the first thing she does not that she has more control over her limbs is suck on her fingers/fist. lol

Wordless Wednesday