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

Daddy's gone...

Well we had the BBQ and it was great. Lilli was so well behaved considering she was passed around all night to about 25 different people! Poor little thing. She was getting sick of it all by about 7.30pm - not that I can blame her! :)

This photo is a before photo though, not an after effect. Hahaha...

Lilli, Nana, and her Great Nana Dot

Lilli & Daddy snoozing again!

I love this photo!!! One of my favourites.

On Monday, 23 March 2009, Lilli did big huge smiles at her Daddy!!! I even managed to catch one really huge one on camera! Our gorgeous baby girl is growing so fast!!!

Max, Lilli, and I headed over to Waihi beach on Wednesday night to stay at Helen and Brian's bach. We borrowed the grange from Dad so we were cruising it in style. It was great and we headed down to the beach for a lookie on Thursday morning. Unfortunately we had given the pram to Mum to take up to Auckland when she went on Monday morning after the BBQ so poor Max had to carry the carseat everywhere we went. :) We wrote Lilli's name in the sand and took some cool photos. Then we headed off to Waihi and Whangamata where we came across all the cool cars there for the beach hop. We had lunch in Whanga before heading up through the Kopu Hikuwai to Auckland. We went to the farm on Friday for the weekend and Max and I enjoyed checking out the Avocado orchard and zapping round on the quad bike, which also make a good seat for breastfeeding Lilli! We helped Mum and Willie pick some avos then on Friday night after Lilli went to bed Max and I headed out to Spookers. We had such a good time getting the living daylights scared out of us!!! It was really fantastic. Our first outing without our little monkey!! We got home late and stayed up talking and recapping our escapades at spookers so it was about 1am before we went to sleep. Fortunately (as predicted by Max) our beautiful wee girl slept until 6am so we got a fair amount of sleep. How lucky are we??!!! She really is a good girl. Keren came up on Saturday night as well and enjoyed lots of cuddles with Lilli - when she could get her off Nana that is! Hahaha.

Max giving Lilli one last bath before he left. Yesterday we took Daddy to the airport for his flight home. It was so awful. I just couldn't look when he was saying goodbye to Lilli. I was crying so hard and felt so sorry for him. It's going to be so hard for him, and for me. Fortunately Lilli is too little to notice too much though I think she will miss him. Bye Daddy.... see you soon.

Poos, Wees, Booby, Zzzzzzzzz

Wow how our lives have changed!! We are getting used to handling this tiny wee bundle. She is a wonderful baby who sleeps between 6 and 7 hours straight every night since she was 3 days old!!! She goes down between 8pm and 10pm and wakes between 3am and 5am. Max gets up and changes Lilli's nappy and then brings her in to me. Then he goes back to sleep while I feed her and put her back to bed - usually between 5am and 6.30am and - she will normally sleep for another 1 1/2 to 2 hours. I will get up then and change her, play with her, and feed her again before going to wake up Max. Normally he has her snooze a little in bed with him while I get dressed and get her clothes ready. and againWe have been taking her to the chiropractor to see if it helps with her wind. She has wind and we tried gripe water but it didn't seem to help. We are now using infacol which seems to help but we were told to try a chiropractor as well so we will see if it helps as well. At the very least it is good to know whether her back and neck are good. :) Lilli is already smiling! She is so gorgeous when she does. It's still only a half smile but she's not far off those big ones. Other than that we are planning a BBQ tomorrow in honour of Lilli and for my birthday as well. We have family and a few friends coming so it should be fun. Mmm love that dummy - not! Yum yum.Sleeping in a very comfy looking position! Ohhhh... Lilli loves her carseat - not!!! Hahaha... How she normally is...How we would like her to be normally but alas this is rare (unless we are actually still in the car and moving!) :)How I eat dinner most nights at this stage. :DDaddy giving Lilly a bath in her baby bath. Hmmm... Yeah, love that bottle! It's not booby and it's not milk!!!This is where I want to be! Huh, take that. Hahaha.Lilli loves having baths with Mummy and sometimes we even have family baths with Lilli, Mummy, and Daddy.Lilli getting weighed. 17 March 2009 - 4.3kg Laxin out on her sheepskin.Laxin on the couch with Mummy. :)Check out our little arab. ;)Oooh don't I look good???!!!