It's been a busy busy week...

Ohhh.

Press ups!!! (sorry it's up the wrong way)

We took it pretty easy on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, just going for walks around the orchard. Max did a bit of lawnmowing on the ride-on mower which he seemed to enjoy and he spent time with Lilli and I. On Sunday night we had a BBQ outside and Max got to see Lilli zooming round on her walker outside and making a run for the gravel to get to the Baa's (sheep).

On Monday Pops and Max went into town to work and Nana and I took Lilli into Pukekohe to buy her christmas present. Pops and Daddy got on the booze on the way home at the club.

Tuesday Max and I went into Pukekohe to register him with Allied Workforce and then we went and bought Lilli's christmas presents from us.

Wednesday was Max's site safe training course so he was gone all day and Nana went down to Te Awamutu to meet up with Granty and Nana Dot so it was just Mummy and Lilli at home. We had a great day playing and going for walks. Then we went into Pukekohe to pick up Max after his course and Lilli had a good sleep in the car.

Today we had a meeting with WINZ which went well and then we went to get Max's NZ licence. They took his Germany licence away as apparently the Germany Government requests that all licences be returned to Germany until the person gets back into the country so we were extremely peeved to find that when we went to get Max's IRD number (tax number) we couldn't as we didn't have his licence for ID!!! Damn it! So all in all this afternoon turned into a stressful pain in the butt. Haha. At least we got some stuff done and Lilli was just an angel. She had a big long sleep in her carseat and then she woke up when Max was in getting his licence. We played for a while in the car and then she had something to eat and a drink of water. After that she had boobie and we played until Max was finally finished. Little darling.

Daddy and Lilli watching tv together - serious stuff.

Lilli is so cute now. She is so grown up. She has a few tanty's but hey, at least she knows what she wants! Haha. She just loves to read and is often reading a book by herself when she's not reading with Nana or me.

Ohh, kiss for the bubba.

When Nana says to her to pull Pops nose she does! Hehe. Now although she still loves zooming around in her walker (see video below) and jumping in her jumper she also loves to walk around (with someone holding her up of course) and has been pulling herself up by holding on to the couch.

All she wants to do now is walk around. Hard on the back or knees. :)

Having fun 'walking'. (sorry it's up the wrong way)

She still has only two teeth but we figure the two tope ones wont be far off because she is teething quite bad again at the moment. Poor little girl.

A favourite toy - Upsey Daisy

Digging into her toy basket.

Papa is here. :)

Max arrived today. It is so great to have him here! It's been so long. Lilli was sooo cute with him. She had huge smiles for him and was happy to go to him as well. They played and laughed all afternoon. Lilli was showing off to him big time - very adorable. Papa played with her toy dog with her and chased her round in her walker with it. It was beautiful to watch. Both my darlings are in bed now having a sleep. Papa reckons he will get back up later but I have my doubts. :)

Nana Dot Visited, Neurolink, Cleaning Cars, busy busy busy.

Lilli's Nana and Pops went to Katikati for an avocado meeting on Saturday and they bought Nana Dot back up with them so we have had her here for a few days. Lilli just adores her and they have a lot of fun together. Mum took her back home to Te Awamutu this afternoon.

On Monday we stayed around here and I pulled both Mum's and my car apart and cleaned them right out and then put everything back in. It took me most of the day and Lilli stayed upstairs and played with her Nana and Nana Dot.

Tuesday we went in to see Eleanor who does Neurolink which is a different form of treatment similar to chiropractory and osteopathy but different. It uses pressure points and special points to connect with the brain and find out what's wrong. Lilli has a virus that she got on the plane coming home and a minor movement motor problem which we are sorting out. This is all in the hope of helping her get back into her sleep mode again. It will take a few days to work and we will have to take her back for a follow up appointment hopefully before Christmas. It's amazing stuff - I just wish I'd thought of it earlier!!! So far so good, but Lilli still woke up last night and didn't want to go back to sleep so I ended up putting her in her stroller and 'walking' her to sleep and then parking it by my bed. Then when she woke I would just lean over and push her back and forth to get her asleep again. This way I managed to get 5 hours sleep. :)

Today Mum took Nana back home as I mentioned previously and Lilli and I made custard, picked plums, did washing, went into the post office, and got dinner partially ready. Max arrives tomorrow and I am excited to see him again. I can't wait to see how Lilli is with him. We will finally be a family together. :D

Lilli's latest achievements:

Get's on to her hands and then goes back to sitting up.

In addition to Baa for sheep, Bir for bird, and Ish for fish Lilli is now saying Boo for boobie, Wo for wowo (dog), Prit for pretty and Moo for Cow.

She 'reads' her books. She opens one and turns the pages, talking away, telling the story.

She can open and close her cellphone.

Looking over the back of the couch. She loves to stand here and jump! :)

I have to watch that she doesn't go backwards (see video below).

Cute outfit aye!! It was given to her by Monica in Germany.

A weekend of racing. :)

We decided to stay in Rotorua on Friday night as the weather was awful and I was a bit tired as Lilli didn't sleep so well. Plus it was good excuse to spend another night with Tony and Annie and the boys. :)

I took some gorgeous photos and videos of Lilli with the dog (a border collie named Lily) and also some with Jack (her cousin) but unfortunately when I went to copy them to the computer I somehow managed to delete them! Bugger. I am gutted.

Saturday we came back up to Auckland in our new car and after lunch we headed into Pukekohe where my Dad was racing. We spent the afternoon hanging out there and then I gave Lilli her dinner at the track as we had a BBQ dinner/party with the Central Muscle Cars. Lilli and I stayed until about 7.30pm and then headed home. It was great to catch up with all my racing buddies as I hadn't seen them in so long. Lilli was her usual special self, so social and cute, and everybody just adores her.

We went back in today at about 11.30am and spent the day there again supporting Poppa. Lilli was so cute - we were watching from down the end of the track by the pit lane entrance and when the cars started coming into pit lane after the race she would clap her hands. It looked so adorable that all the people around us commented on it and laughed. What a cutie pie!! She would clap when Poppa was racing past as well. Then when it was time for her afternoon nap I walked her around the pits and she went off to sleep even with the racing going on in the background - a true little future racer girl if ever there was one. :)

Anyway because I was so hopeless at deleting the photos and videos and I forgot to take my camera to the racing (I also forgot my phone so couldn't even take a photo with that!!!) there are none to put up on this blog! So... that's all for now.

A trip to Rotorua for Lilli's Plunket visit & Mummy's specialist appointment

Lilli in her cute buzzy bee dress on 01 December.

Yesterday Lilli and I jumped into the car and headed down to Rotorua again. It was a great trip. Lilli woke up about half an hour out of Rotorua but was quite happy to play with her toys and talk and giggle with Mummy. Taking the top cover off the carseat has obviously helped keep her cooler and maybe not feel so closed in. We came down for our appointments and are staying with Uncle Toot and Aunty Annie - and the boys of course. :)

When we got there Tony was home for lunch and he had our new car for us to pick up!!! It's gorgeous. A Nissan Xtrail, 2005, in excellent condition. Lovely to drive. Awesome. :D

Last night we came down to Poppa's to look after Darrin's kids, Brad and Caitlin, while Poppa and Darrin worked on the racecar. I prepared dinner while Lilli played with Caitlin and Brad. She had a ball - she just loves kids, especially little girls like Caitlin who is 7. Soo sweet watching them together. When Poppa came up from the shed he cooked the stirfry and we all sat at the table to eat, including Lilli. Poppa is an amazing cook so the stirfry was yummy!

This morning we went off to our plunket appointment with Tany. Lilli is 73cm long and weighs 9.5kg! She is in the 90th percentile for her height and the 85th for weight. She is a big baby! She is also very intelligent and Tany told me she is really advanced for her age. She is doing stuff that she would expect a 12 month old to be just starting to do and her speech and communications skills are even more advanced. In fact next time I go to see her we have to talk about the future as there will be extra things to take into account due to Lilli being so forward - mainly to do with education.

Tany also said that Lilli is waking at night (the 3am wake up) because she is hungry and that this is perfectly normal for a big baby. The fact that Lilli is so active now means that even more so she will want a feed 6 or 7 hours after going to bed. She said that the fact that Lilli is so advanced is also a factor in her waking up and, of course, the teething. Lilli's top teeth are coming now too, both at once. Hahaha. As for the constipation, Tany said that at this stage of development babies bowels need to learn to change from the milk only function to the solid foods processing. It is a matter of teaching Lilli's bowel to alongate to keep it healthy and not let it widen. Make sense?? Hehe. Basically I just have to watch the signs and get alot of fruit into her and the drops that Aiden (my naturopath) has sent me when she is showing any sign of constipation which will help the process along. Basically though, Lilli is doing extremely well and is a wonderful interactive baby. Tany was well impressed. I feel so much better after her explainations as well. :)

After lunch we went up to the hospital for my specialist follow up appointment to make sure that everything is okay after what happened after Lilli was born and the specialist agreed with my other specialist so I am on aspirin daily and then when we have another baby I will take calcium as well. So nothing new there. All is well.

Lilli in her new chair - given to her by her cousin Jack from when he was a baby.

Playing with the boxes of christmas crackers.