Progressing ever so slowly...

2011

• take Lily-Rose to the zoo
• Complete a photo-a-day challenge for at least 1 month.
• Figure out a mental health plan that will work
• go on a baby-free get away with Brentyn (minimum of 4 days long lol)
• Get off fernwoods membership
• Eat healthy for at least 3 months
• Purchase a treadmill (and use it) (got a new gym membership)
• Knit a pram blanket
• Sew a dress that fits me and is flattering.
• Buy a netbook for blogging (alternatives negotiable)
• Give up something important for lent, and stick with it
• Finish our Wedding video
• Finish our Dating Scrapbook
• Do a paid photoshoot for someone I do not know for a decent rate
• Ebay off all my ebay pile of stuff.
• Freecycle anything thats left
• Learn to meditate
• Learn Yoga
• Use WiiFit daily for 1 month
• Lose 5kg
• Lost 10kg
• Lose 15kg!!
• Replace my Learners Permit
• Take 5 Driving Lessons
• Pass my Drivers Test
• Create a "Buy A House" fund
• Join a local playgroup
• Organise a kindergarden or primary school waiting list entry
• Create a decent Casserole in the slow cooker
• Attend at least one session of couples counselling
• Start a "Take Lily-Rose to Disneyland" fund
• Crochet an Amigurumi toy
• Get Carpal Tunnel Release surgery on my left hand
• Get someone to help out while I heal
• See a nutritionist
• Take Multivitamins
• Get a Digital Perm
• Watch a movie that makes me cry with sadness (The Other Woman)
• Watch a movie and makes me so happy I want to leap out of my skin :p
• Take Lily-Rose to Adelaide for a big road trip
• Spend a night in a tent
• Create a Board Game night
• Have a nice Birthday Party for Lily-Rose
• Organise a Christmas get together at our house
• Practise Happiness

Well, I am over half way through the year and I've already knocked off a good amount of that list! NEVER thought I'd get to the point where I have lost 16 kilos either. I've been doing a Keto Diet and going to the gym with my friend Magenta. I seriously don't think I could have lost that much if she didn't encourage me! Fingers crossed I lose some more and don't put it all back on before the end of the year - eep!

 

January 1st. A new beginning?

I have never made a New Years Resolution my whole life. Not one. I managed to get through the whole 26 years of my life while escaping the failed system of false promises.

 

Untill now?

 

I don't really want to set myself unrealistic goals, but I do have some realistic ones. I know how to make sure they get done, too. Nothing like a good old checklist to revisit throughout the year!

Here we go, my resolution todo list 2011.

 

2011

• take Lily-Rose to the zoo
• Complete a photo-a-day challenge for at least 1 month.
• Figure out a mental health plan that will work
• go on a baby-free get away with Brentyn (minimum of 4 days long lol)
• Get off fernwoods membership
• Eat healthy for at least 3 months
• Purchase a treadmill (and use it)
• Knit a pram blanket
• Sew a dress that fits me and is flattering.
• Buy a netbook for blogging (alternatives negotiable)
• Give up something important for lent, and stick with it
• Finish our Wedding video
• Finish our Dating Scrapbook
• Do a paid photoshoot for someone I do not know for a decent rate
• Ebay off all my ebay pile of stuff.
• Freecycle anything thats left
• Learn to meditate
• Learn Yoga
• Use WiiFit daily for 1 month
• Lose 5kg
• Lost 10kg
• Lose 15kg!!
• Replace my Learners Permit
• Take 5 Driving Lessons
• Pass my Drivers Test
• Create a "Buy A House" fund
• Join a local playgroup
• Organise a kindergarden or primary school waiting list entry
• Create a decent Casserole in the slow cooker
• Attend at least one session of couples counselling
• Start a "Take Lily-Rose to Disneyland" fund
• Crochet an Amigurumi toy
• Get Carpal Tunnel Release surgery on my left hand
• Get someone to help out while I heal
• See a nutritionist
• Take Multivitamins
• Get a Digital Perm
• Watch a movie that makes me cry with sadness
• Watch a movi and makes me so happy I want to leap out of my skin :p
• Take Lily-Rose to Adelaide for a big road trip
• Spend a night in a tent
• Create a Board Game night
• Have a nice Birthday Party for Lily-Rose
• Organise a Christmas get together at our house
• Practise Happiness

That should just about do it :p Surely I will have SOMETHING to cross off by the end of the year, haha!

Little terror was fun today but so cranky that Daddy wasn't home from lunchtime till 9pm, she kept crying in her cot and refusing to sleep. It was such a long day, I just ended up chilling out by her cot with the iphone, and she was quite happy playing with my toes :)



Allan came around in the arvo which was nice because we all got out of the house for a bit. Lily-Rose was happy to sit in the stroller and cling onto Grumpy bear for the walk down to the bmx tracks, but sadly they were too muddy to have a go on :( boo. It wasn't all a total loss though, the walk was nice and I got to check out the new Leisure Link, looks nice :) I'm going to try and take Lily-Rose there tomorrow, we will see how I go with that...


^Lily-Rose with her grumpy bear, I find it so funny she likes him the best out of all the care bears. It's totally fitting haha.
Later in the night after Allan had left, and Lily-Rose had her bath and bed time bottle, she just flat out refused to sleep. I felt terrible and after trying to settle her for ages I gave up and got her out of bed, she sulked quietly on me for a while and we watched the canonization of Mary Mackillop on TV together. Every time the pope came on the tv she would raise her head up squeal and smile at him, it was so funny haha
She's a real little character. Eventually she went to sleep around 8:30pm. It gave me a tiny bit of time to keep practicing my knitting. I've made some mistakes but I'm doing my best! Its awfully hard with my stupid hands, but I love it too much not to try...



Not sure what it'll be yet, probably a scarf... thats a good place to start! I'm trying a subtle 5 kn, 5 perl... we will see if it doesn't look like a huge mess in a few days!

Location:Burdoo Dr,Grovedale,Australia

She’s so funny!

Sewing Projects

Now when I think about it I seem to pack so much stuff into a day now. So much more than before I had a child!

Had an AWESOME sleep last night, Lily-Rose slept from 6pm – 8am !! That’s better than most adults! I gave her a late dream feed at 11pm though, so that’s probably what did it.

She had a huge dream feed tonight so I’m hoping for some sleep before the dreaded dentist appointment tomorrow :\ My filling in my molar has fallen out, owchies. Hope it’s not another root canal, expensive!

 

I made Lily-Rose a hat today with Japanese Kokka fabric, Little Twin Stars! It’s meant to look like this;

But for some reason it looks a whole lot funnier undone on her, haha;

I’m currently making her a summery jacket, but I need to buy some new buttons before I can finish it. I’m also making her a dress out of Kokka fabric :)
Brentyn did the night time ritual tonight, it helped so much :) He’s agreed to do that every second night through-out the holiday period, I’m really excited and hope I can get more work done in that time.

We spent a lot of today laughing at Lily-Roses new little squeals, she just sings and sings and sings, it’s hilarious. She grabs a toy and yells at it haha.  We had a lot of fun playing with her today, she enjoyed it so much, and she loves that Daddy is on holidays. She’s only little but she loves him so much! They’re so silly :)

She also hit a new milestone today (or at least today was the first time we noticed!) she is easily passing objects from one hand to the other. I’m sure she’s been doing this for a while… but Brentyn only just brought it to my attention today.

Lily-Rose fell asleep on the bottle tonight before Daddy got to ready her some Revolting Nursery Rhymes (booo) but I think Daddy enjoyed the sleepy cuddles :)

Oh and she grabbed a few day time naps today, shocking!! Maybe 2 hours sleep all up?? I’m chuffed!

 

I’m hoping tomorrow, after sending my ebay auctions out and doing to the dentist I can grabs some time to return to the gym again and also get some sewing done, but we will see! I might just take care of Lily-Rose so Brentyn can have a break too, he diserves it after all his hard studying! :) Proud of him…

Sooo sleepy

First “Solids” today! Yeah, she’s only 4.5 month, but she’s been itching for it, take it from me. Everyone (including Brentyn) thinks she’s probably not into it.. but trust me, I’m with her 24/7, this little girl wants to nom!! When I was eating a Banana in Phillip Island last weekend she was grabbing bits on her own and popping them in her mouth, a couple of bits got swallowed, so I thought it must be time for a try at solids.

I was going to give her farex cereal, but I thought banana would be easier since she’d already tried it and didn’t react, plus it’s natural and healthy! I mushed it up and she had a try. She didn’t look very impressed, and she was more interested in eating her new frog bib LOL. She probably ate half a teaspoon, if that, the rest went on her chin, but she was having fun and was happy afterwards. I might try again for breakfast tomorrow, depends if we get some money for bananas…

Oh another big day. I’m utterly *wrecked*! I woke up at 4am to Lily-Rose crying, I decided to go in and settle her without just immediately giving her the bottle by default. After an hour it worked! She slept for one hour after that, then woke up at 6am screaming blue murder! Oh well. Then I got up again and fed her, she went back to sleep then got up again at 8am. I asked Brentyn to do that feed because I was wrecked, he said okay but then groan and rolled his face into the pillow and did nothing. So after listening to her crying for 15 mins and pesting away over and over I just got up myself and did it. Ugh. I did however wake him up at 11am to feed her though, because I needed to clean the kitchen badly.

I finished making my mint m&m choc chip cupcakes, but Brentyn decided *after* I made them that he dislikes the “texture” of frosting, so the whole batch is wasted. Meh. I made him sweet and sour pork stir fry yesterday and he complained because he has to buy the groceries, then I forgot eggs so he had to go back and get those, by then he was grumpy as all get out. When the meal arrived he picked out all the pork and left the veggies and rice (lets just say 99% of the meal) and didn’t even say thank you. I asked him what he thought it needed to taste better and he snapped back defensively at me and said it was fine >_>

I don’t know, he must have just got out of the wrong side of the bed. But I’m not too happy with him today, I gave him Lily-Rose to mind while I cleaned the house (and was I ever, I busted my back working frantically!) and he held her with one arm ignoring her while typing on the computer with the other, then kept yelling at her to stop squirming. ugh. Ten mins later he dumped her in the lounge room alone on the floor in her play gym, he didn’t even TELL me, he just left her in the other end of the house alone to cry.

When I heard her crying I figured Brentyn was in there with her so I let it go, I figured he was letting her “cry it out” and was watching her. Suddenly the crying stopped and when I’d finished the dishes I went in to check on them and here’s Lily-Rose lyring fast asleep on the gym mat, lol. It was adorable, but I still was cross with Brentyn. He needs to understand you can’t just leave babies alone like that! Thankfully she’s not mobile yet!

I’m trying to sew Lily-Rose some clothes, I tried to make my own teddy bear hat pattern but it’s not working out, hmmm, I’m not sure about it. I’d love love LOVE to finish my sewing projects, but i can’t because Lily-Rose barely sleeps in the day :( (or the night, now it seems)

Anyway, this entry is a bit of a vent, but I guess it’s fueled by exhaustion!! Must sleep now!

Long time…

I haven’t blogged in so long. In fact the last time I blogged was on my blogger page the day I ended up giving birth.

I guess I caught caught up, y’know, being a Mum and all.

Lillian-Rose Hikari Stafford (Weighing 8 lb 7oz & 52 cm long) was born at 12:33am on Feb 5th 2010.

I don’t have much time to blog tonight, but I never do so I keep putting it off. But lets just say this for now, birth was *a lot* easier than I thought it would be! Labour was 5-6 hours long, and I gave birth 3 hours after arriving at hospital. I wasn’t sure how I’d go so I asked to prepare an epidural (as they take a few hours to organise and I was starting to get mighty uncomfortable) but as soon as I asked my water broke and I needed to push, about 15-30mins later she was born, completely drug free. And really? I was lucky, it didn’t hurt, it just felt uncomfortable. However the pushing part was fast, it DID hurt. It feels exactly like what it is, like pushing a watermelon out of your arse. But the contractions? No biggie :)

Post-natal woes were *a lot* more difficult, I had violent PND & Anxiety 2 hours after giving birth and it has only just started to settle down now. Lily-Rose went to emergency and almost died at 3 days old from dehydration, I had terrible troubles breast feeding her so decided to exclusively express while on Domperidone (medication to bring in milk supply) but I soon realised it took AGES, I was chained to my breast pump and had no damn time to sleep. Getting up at 11pm, 2am, 4am and 7am to pump breasts for an hour a go and not even get enough for a bottle… ugh.
I was also in emergence in the first weeks as they thought I was haemorrhaging, but thankfully I wasn’t. Oh and don’t START me on the night sweats, ew.

Needless to say everyone is happy now, She is 4.5 months old. She’s on S26 Gold formula (was on NAN HA, but after a few weeks she decided to starve herself on it, docs said it was reflux and not to change formula, we ignored them and we ended up correct – phew!)

So anyway, I was going to blog from when she was a newborn till now. but life happens, doesn’t it?

Things have been full on, and it’s so easy to push it aside because you simply don’t have time, are sleep deprived or you are just going plain nuts…. but I thought about it today and I keep forgetting when she did this, or that… and I realise how INSANELY fast she is growing up. It’s scary! As much as I terribly hated the newborn phase (the first 6 weeks were the utter pits, I don’t care what anyone tells you lol) I feel a little sad that she’s already so big, I feel like I’ll blink my eyes and she’ll be moving out.

I came to a sad realisation today. When she took the bottle or breast she’d always stare straight into your soul and grab your glance and never move. Now she’s darting her eyes every which way around the room and no matter how much you call her she won’t look at you. She’s too clever, but I’ll really miss that.

But yeah… I love her so much :) I’m back blogging now, thank goodness – and everyday is always packed with something new and exciting, that’s what I love the most about her, she keeps you on your toes!