Happy 3 month birthday Lilli!!! :D

We went over to Nana Dots to meet up with my Aunties and Cousins and got to see baby Bella. She is cute as and her and Lilli had a little 'play' together on Lilli's playgym. Hehe.

Here is Bella Ann WilsonBella with her Great Nana DotGranty Helen holding Lilli and Great Nana Dot with BellaLilli & Bella on the playgym. Bella is more interested in the chair leg near her. HahahaAll the Granty's and Nana's gathered aroundNow they are both looking at Bella's Nana Ann - Granty to LilliFinally a shot of them both looking at the playgym Then we headed up to Auckland to stay until we fly out to Germany. It was so sad for us leaving everyone in Rotorua!!! Got lots more goodbyes to say yet as well so I guess there will be a lot of tears shed between now and then.

Nana & I put Lilli in her Jolly Jumper on 21 May - she was so cute in it. Was only for a couple of minutes though as she is still not quite strong enough for longer than that.

A visit to plunket and Mummy went back to the specialist.

Well Lilli and I are nomading it at the moment so she is a little unsettled. We were at Ces & Shell's place from Thursday 07 May until Wednesday 13 May which was awesome. We had lots of fun with Ces & Shell and the kids. Then Wednesday 13 May until now we have been at Toot and Annie's place. We went to Poppa's place for dinner on Wednesday night which was fun. We watched the car racing on the tv and Lilli had a sleep while we did some computer work and set Poppa up on skype so that he and Trish can video call us when we are in Germany.

On Thursday, 14 May, we went to plunket for Lilli's last check up until we get back from Germany. She is doing really well and is above average on all counts. Her length and weight are both above average. Yay!!! My little girl is above average in height! At least that means she should be taller than me. :D She is still suffering a bit of colic and has really learnt how to express when she is not happy by screaming. Haha. It's pretty full on sometimes but we get through it. Little darling. She has a little hissy fit while we were with the plunket nurse and Tany calmed her down with me. She was quite impressed by how worked up Lilli gets herself and how wild she gets. Hahaha. My little feisty daughter. :)

She does look like a little angel in this photo though doesn't she?!

Then we went to town and bought a dress for Mummy to wear to Ulli and Tony's wedding in Germany which is just gorgeous before heading up to the hospital for Mummy's specialist appointment. Unfortunately some of the blood tests came back positive so some more blood tests were taken and we need to see the specialist again when we get back from Germany. It's possible that I have some tissue disease that sounded something like Lupis??? Hopefully all that it will mean in the end is that I will have to take half an aspirin a day during my next pregnancy but I guess if I have got the tissue disease then we will have more to discuss. Anyway we'll find out in September.

I put Lilli on the floor for some tummy time in the afternoon and she kept rolling over. So cute. Check out the photos & video.

Check out this gorgeous sunset from Tony & Annie's deck!

Last night poor Lilli had a sore tummy which would normally just make her a little grisly. But... unfortunately she was also very tired so I'm afraid that her colic got to be a little too much for her and she basically screamed all night. In the end I popped her in the car and drove to town to get some baby Panadol. I gave her a dose before driving back to Tony and Annie's and by the time we got home she was a lot better. We had a nice hot shower and got ready for bed then had another quick scream before going on the boob and falling asleep. Hallelujah! I went to bed pretty much straight after her - I was worn out too after all that screaming. It was awful - if I could have taken her pain and upset for her I would have gladly.

Today has been a good day. Lilli was back to her usual happy self. She had a wee episode this morning but has been lovely tonight after having a good sleep this afternoon. At the moment she is playing with her doting Uncle Toot and her cousin Jack in the lounge. Everyone here is going to miss us soooo much. We will miss them all too.

Lilli's stats as at 14/05/2009:

Weight: 5.98kg Head circ: 40.4cm

We are all tired - moving house is so much work

Lilli is sleeping on Nana at the moment. All 3 of us are buggered! We have been hard out packing up my house and still organising everything else as well. So we went back to the chiropractor and he adjusted Lilli again. She only needed one adjustment this time. We go back in another week. Hopefully we won't need any more before going to Germany. I guess if she does need another session I will have to make a trip back down from Auckland.

Ever tried walking a couple of kms with a baby on your boob?!

On Sunday 5 April Mum, Lilli, & I walked to Meadowlands to get the photos redone that were cutoff and had some lunch etc. Then when we were walking home Lilli started screaming for some food so we stopped on a side road andI put her on the boob. I said to Mum that if we just sat there we would be another couple of hours before getting home so I decided to try walking with her on the boob!!! Hahaha. It wasn't too bad, just a bit uncomfortable and a bit hard on the hips, but it was better than sitting around on a side road until she had finished! We walked slowly home and Lilli happily drank under the blanket all the way home. We only had a couple of funny looks - I honestly expected more people to stare but they didn't even notice. You could only see her little feet poking out of the blanket. Hehe. :) Who knew you could get fit while breastfeeding!!!

Lilli has been having sore tummys so we got som naturopathic medicine for her. It seems to be helping and calms her. Mum & I took her for her 6 week check and immunisations on Tuesday 1 April. It was awful! Poor little thing!! Mum held her while they gave her an injection in each little thigh. Poor Lilli screamed in paid and I sat there and cried! Mum had tears in her eyes too. It really was terrible. I put her straight on the boob and she calmed down but she was unsettled that night and the next day, wanting to feed all the time and just take comfort from the boob. It's the first time I've given her pamol (painkiller for babies). On a good not, my cousin Tracey had her baby today! Bella Ann Wilson, 8lb5oz.

We went to Waihi beach for Easter weekend which was great. Lilli went in the wrap and even fell asleep in it! There's hope for me using it on the plane yet. ) She has also now decided to dictate which boob she should be on! She was fidgeting and being a pain on my left boob and kept stopping to cry so Helen said to me that she wanted the other boob. I was like, no she doesn't! I tried swapping her over and wouldn't you know - she drank straight away!! Little bugger. Hahahaha.

Here she is in her wrap.

Four generations together. Nana & LilliIsn't this a cute photo... I was feel really lonely when Lilli goes to bed and am really missing Max! Am keeping busy to try and feel better. Am having dinner at my brothers places and friends about 3 nights a week which helps. Spend a lot of time at Toot and Annies. Miss my darling though.

Drinks with the girls - cluck cluck cluck!!

Mum & I picked out all the photos that we want to print and went down to Meadowlands to get them printed. We have picked about 200 each! While we were there we got Lilli's passport photo done. Poor little girl was sound asleep and we had to wake her up, lie her on a cloth on the floor and try to get a photo with her head straight, eyes open and looking directly into the camera, and have her mouth closed. How ridiculous! She's only 5 weeks old for goodness sakes. Anyway our little angel is fantastic and we managed to get a photo in only about 5 minutes. What a good girl. Only thing was that I had to take her into a back room in the pharmacy and put her on the boob to settle after that episode. Haha. Poor wee girl. I felt terribly mean waking her for the photos.

We picked up Olivia and Jess from school but Lilli was still a bit out of sorts so I had to drive her round and round until Mum came back with the girls. Haha. The girls played with Lilli on her playgym and she loved it. She didn't know who to look at next and her little head was going side to side.

We are getting more and more smiles now and she even burst out with another 'giggle'. She is focusing really intently too. :) We went to pick up the photos on Thursday and found that some of them have been cut off a bit so I will work out which ones need reprinting and take them back to the shop! Gees!!

On Friday all the girls came round to Mums for drinks which was great. Jan even bought Ella and Zena around to see Lilli. Naturally all the girls were cluck clucking around Lilli all night. It was great fun, lots of laughs, and Lilli was fantastic. She smiled and talked the whole time even though she was passed around everyone. Such a good baby. Lucky me!!

Unfortunately on Saturday afternoon after we got back from sorting out Mum & Willie's apartment Lilli was very stroppy and unsettled. Maybe she was just worn out after Friday. She spent the afternoon on the boob basically and wouldn't even go to her nana! Strange. Poor little darling.

Lilli's stats as at 07/04/2009:

Weight: 5.000kg

Head circ: 38cm