All rugged up.

First 'big' bath together

Blog becoming Private

Just a reminder that this blog will becoming a "private" blog on 1 May 2010. If you are a regular reader and would like to keep following us on our journey, can you please let me know so I can send you an invite.

Thanks,
Paula

Painting Mum's face

Blog becoming Private

Hi Guys,

We are about to turn this blog into a private blog, so that only invited people can read it.

If you are currently a reader and would like to continue on our blogging journey, can you please let me know, via the comments button below, so I can add you to our list of allowed readers.

Cheers,
Paula, Sam, Mieks & Jarvis

ps- i just found out that you have to have a google account to be able to view the blog, sorry!

Cuddles on the couch on a cold and frosty morning.

Mieksie squashing all the autumn leaves down.

Jarvis loves gardening, he could watch it all day.

Lazy Sunday morning

Go Saints!

Exhausted after a long week.

Plenty of sleep makes for a happy boy!

Mieke's new art work on the kitchen wall.

"because I didn't like you feeding Jarvy"
- Needless to say, there is no Play School at our house this afternoon -

Toot!

Sunday mornings are fun

The gang

Sound asleep on the floor at Mieksie's swimming lesson.

Mieksie entertaining Jarvis during tummy time

A Jarvis Update

Time for a SuperJarvis update...

• according to the health nurse "a healthy thriving baby boy" - at 5.8kg (Miek was about 6 months old before she weighed that much) he definitely is thriving.

• like his big sister, Jarvis has developmental hip displaysia (DDH). He had an ultra sound in Melbourne on 1 April and we had to go back to Melbourne on 7 April to see the Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon - Mr Gary Nattrass. Mr Nattrass explained that although Jarvis has shallow hip sockets, his hips were not dislocated like Mieke's. At this stage Jarvis is in a DB brace. This holds his hips in place and femoral head to be kept in the correct position whilst the hip socket forms around it. (hope that makes sense) We have to go back to the specialist in 6 weeks to see how his hips are forming.
  

• Jarvis loves having a bath and spends about half an hour splashing around in there at the end of the day. We are lucky that he is able to come out of the brace for his daily bath.
  

• Jarvis is a great sleeper and is sleeping through most nights. He typically goes to bed at 10pm and sleeps through until about 7.30 (although this morning it was 5.30).
  

• Jarvis had a follow up appointment with the audiologist today. He had failed his newborn hearing test in hospital, which is quite common, and had to have follow up testing. He passed with flying colours today which was a relief.

• On Monday Jarvis had his first immunisation. I'm not sure who cried more Jarvis or Mieksie. She hates seeing other kids hurting and gets really upset when they cry. He handled the injections pretty well, but has been terribly unsettled for the rest of the week. He hasn't slept for more than 15 minutes at a time since 11am this morning and he can't have had more than about 2 hours sleep all day. He falls asleep and sleeps soundly for about 10 or 15 minutes and then is awake crying or grizzling or screaming. A lot of the time he has wind (gotta love a colicky baby), but he is having trouble settling again once he is awake and I refuse to rock him to sleep...

• 1st smile 4 March @ 20 days old

• 1st giggle 7 April @ 7.5 weeks old
  

I'm sure there is a lot more to report, but my brain turns to mush about this time of the night and I am desperate to get to bed.

g'nite
p-xx-

A busy weekend.....

Time flies, Jarvis is 8 weeks old already and Mieks will be 3 in about 6 weeks. I haven't done a proper update for such a long time I really don't know where to start......

On Friday night Sam & I went to see Catherine Deveny at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She was hysterical. Feels like ages since I have laughed that hard. After the show we had a few drinks and headed to Chinatown for dinner. We ended up at Gingerboy and had an amazing meal; son-in-law eggs, salt and pepper chicken spare ribs and duck san choi bao, all delicious. Then a share dessert plate - steamed lemon grass pudding with white chocolate and chilli ice cream, raspberry and passionfruit ice cream with mint jelly, cinnamon sugared battered banana fritters with five spice ice cream, tofu cheesecake with pandan jelly, dried mandarin and vietnamese mint, steamed apple and vanilla buns with coconut custard . We were both so full we could hardly walk.

Saturday was a pretty slow day, Sammy had to head out for the afternoon so I managed to sneak in a Nana nap while both the kiddos were asleep.

On Sunday we went on the Steam Trains for Kids. The trains left Castlemaine station and took us to Muckleford Station. about a 20 minute trip. Once we arrived there were a few bits and pieces for the kids to do; a jumping castle, a pig train ride, face painting and a petting zoo. The train only stopped for 20 minutes, so Mieks didn't manage to get her face painted and she was devastated. So to calm her down we agreed to paint her face once we got home. So I painted her face as a tiger and then she painted mine - very attractive! But we had fun being ferocious tigers together.

Hope that everyone is well,
p-xx-

Ferocious tigers

transPORKtation

No....you're cold.....

Watching the world go by

Maldon to Muckleford

Mieks and Dad getting settled in the "First Class" carriage

Mum and Jarvis waving from the platform

Choo choo!

Dessert tasting plate at Gingerboy

Waiting for the Easter Bunny

The day we ate the best apple ever

We waited ages for it to grow on our tree