The end of day sleeps???

Since Jett had his tonsils out, he's been such a happy little boy (still a bit whingey but definitely not as much) - he's sleeping beautifully at night and waking up in the morning happy and refreshed (mostly). We think he must be having much better quality sleep now because only a couple of weeks after his operation, he's started not needing his day sleep as much. There's been a few times where he hasn't slept at all (I was most upset) but mostly it's taking him at least an hour to go to sleep and then we wake him up at 3 (otherwise he takes too long to go to sleep at night)....we actually don't mind if he doesn't sleep - as long as he has some 'rest time' in his bedroom and gives us a little bit of a break from his constant questioning/talking/activity :)

The last couple of days we've put him in rest time, we've been sure that he wouldn't sleep because he's taken so many 'treasures' to bed but then we've been very surprised to find him fast asleep on his Thomas lounge. I know the end of day sleeps is near...he is over 3 now afterall but it will be sad for me not to have my daily nana nap :)

Here's a photo I took of Jett today on his Thomas lounge 21 June 2009

A Tribute to our Neighbours......

At the beginning of last year (2008) we were extremely blessed to have the BEST next door neighbours move in.....Paula, Aaron, Phoebe and Leah! Paula was pregnant with her 3rd little girl (Hope....born in September) and I was pregnant with our little Ollie (born in August). I'm calling this post a 'tribute' because they're all moving in 2 weeks and we're going to be extremely sad....even if they are only moving 500 metres down the road.

Paula has become one of my best friends over the last 18 months - we've shared countless cups of tea together, vented our frustrations with eachother (over our children of course....not husbands - ha) and I'm almost positive that having her calming company just next door she has prevented me from going through that lonely post-baby blues period. Jimmy and Aaron get along really well together too and the kids (when Jett's not annoying the girls) get along beautifully - the photo below is of the 3 kids up on Jett's bed just last night - they'd been tearing through the house squealing and laughing and then ended up on Jett's bed playing some sort of funny game. Ollie and Hope sit opposite eachother on the floor - Hope trying to eat Ollie and Ollie trying his hardest to grab Hope :)

20 June 2009

Shower time

Jimmy and I recently worked out that it's much easier to clean the boys at night in the shower with us - rather than running a bath and having to watch closely in case Ollie slips under the water. We block the drain hole up with a facewasher and the boys just love splashing about in the water while we enjoy a lovely shower....it's great becasue when we finish showering we just turn the water off, hop out and dry ourselves, take our time getting dressed and then get Ollie out to dry and dress him.....Jett can stay in there for ages and when he gets out he just dried himself off and brings his PJ's out for us to help him get dressed. It's so cute watching Ollie crawling around the shower and then sitting directly under the stream of water - he seems to love the water going over his head and face - I'm hoping this means swimming lessons will be pretty cruisey because he's so comfortable with water :)

I took this photo on Saturday night - 13 June

Our lil Ollie

It's been over a month since I've posted any photos to the blog and I thought it was about time I put up some new pictures of Ollie.....he's just looking so cute in his little overalls and red t shirt! Ollie's now 9 1/2 months old and I can't believe how quickly that time has gone - what a cliche! He's the most delightful little baby....always smiley and super laid back. He started crawling at 8 months and now he gets around so quickly...he's just started pulling himself up to standing which is a bit scary. He says 'ba ba' all the time and 'da da' and I'm sure he said 'ma ma' the other day but I haven't heard him say it again. He doesn't have any teeth yet but he's got some top teeth that are just about through....any day now which worries me because he's also just started biting me - YOUCH!

We wrapped Ollie in a muslin wrap from birth and weaned him off it at about 4 months, when he started rolling. I unwrapped 1 arm at a time and then just wrapped him around his middle. In the end I'd just give him his wrap to go to sleep.......anyway, he feel so deeply in love with his beloved wrap that we still give it to him to go to sleep. It's just gorgeous when we lie him down in his cot - he gets so excited about seeing his wrap - he grabs it and rubs it over his face and rolls around with it before falling asleep with it clutched in his little hand - I love it!

Ollie loves his bath time with big brother Jett - he gets so excited while we're undressing him - his arms and legs flap about and as we carry him to the bathroom he twists his little head around the corner of each room in anticipation of seeing the bath....with Jett splashing around in it. He sits in the bath, splashing about, having toys snatched off him by Jett and also having cups full of water poured all over him (again, by Jett).

Ollie's favourite toy would have to be some toy eggs that Anney gave Jett - they came in a plastic egg carton and there's 6 eggs that all have a shape on the bottom that fit into the carton. His favourite little game is to wait for us to put all the eggs in the carton and then he flaps his arms about until the eggs are all out, spread around the room in a 5 metre radius!

1 June 2009