It's Christmas Eve, and I thought it would be the perfect time to reflect upon the year gone by. I'm kinda gutted that I didn't mark SC's big moments and there's no point trying now as the year has been has sleep deprived haze!
The sleeping has never really improved, the expressing came to nothing and I think I can probably count on one hand the number of nights sleep I've had since she burst into our lives. SC has to this point never had a drink from a cup or bottle and is still completely reliant upon me for all her liquid needs - so you can work out from that that she hasn't been away from me for more than a couple of hours at a time. No complaints - my job for the last year has to be a mum and that I have.
From only wanting to be on her feet at a young age, she has gone to doing anything in her power to not place them on the ground. Her core strength must be phenomenal with the ease at which she lifts her legs up in front of her when you attempt to get her up standing! Crawling however has been well and truly mastered, and she does a great 'monkey shuffle' using one foot to propel herself forwards when she wants to get somewhere from sitting.
Weaning was a nightmare, the first few weeks had her reject most things put into her mouth, but I was way more chilled about it this time, if she didn't eat it just got put away until the next meal time. She's still not wonderful and a few textured foods will just be spat out, but we'll get there.
She has come to love her Water Babies classes and is so relaxed when she gets dunked, she spends most of the time in the pool squealing with delight and splashing everyone around her as she whacks her arms around. We also started Tiny Talk which has done a great job of teaching me some sign language - her not so much! She does love going and the songs though, but fear she's the bully of the class as she loves to just crawl right up to the other babies and snatch their toys from them. Slightly embarrassing!
The poor toot is under the weather and has been running a fever for the past few days. It comes down with Calpol so the doc reckons it's viral and there's not much we can do except keep her fluids up and keep her cool, so she's been latched onto me most of the time. It's been lovely having snuggles from her as she's not normally a cuddly baby (she fidgets too much) but not great that it takes her being sick to get them.
The rest of the mob have had a pretty good year. CC headed off to school this August and has been charming everyone there in his usual manner. He is a ridiculously happy kid and frequently has us chuckling with his ways and enthusiasm for life! He is proving to be a pretty bright cookie and think he'll follow in his brothers shoes (if not outgrow them!). He was picked up as having a slight squint in his pre-school eye test and it turns out that he is actually pretty blind in one eye and not much better in the other. He now sports a very stylish pair of specs and an eyepatch for 6 hours a day. He loves it though and rocks the look. Rather amusingly one day at school when they had a new teacher in he asked her if she thought that he only had one eye, before dramatically whipping off the patch to reveal the other one with an enthusiastic 'ta-daaaaa'
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