Mega Nesting

Today was an extremely busy day for me and Scott. With 2 and a half weeks left before my booked caesarean, I needed to get a few things and I'd wanted to get done a while ago. Here's what we've done today.

- 4 loads of washing

- vacuuming

- changed 2 sets of bed sheets

- hang up some professional portraits

- organised and cleared the spare room

- cleaned out 2 sets of baby car seats

- sweep out the garage and drive way

- cooked dinner

Phew...! Luckily, considering all the stuff that needed to get done, Isabella was a really good girl mostly occupying herself throughout that time. We thought she'd be grumpier due to the lack of attention, but she showed the opposite, proving to us that she is growing up fast. Our little girl is definitely not a baby anymore, especially when you look at her standing up and walking. I love my little girl! She's the cutest, bestest daughter I could ever have wished for! Love you sweetie! Mwah.. mwah.. mwah!

Pushing the boundaries

Isabella isn't 2 yet, but already her cheeky personality has emerged, and she is hard and fast trying to push the boundaries. A few things she is doing at the moment is hiding food next to her legs in her high chair during meal times; throwing food on the floor when she is finished; being more physically retaliative and also trying out the crying game when she doesn't want to sleep.

I think the crying game isn't working for her and she is quickly loosing that battle, as we were quick to wisen and didn't give into it. As for the other things, hmmm.. hopefully, she'll move on from that. The question is, what will she do next and will it be worse?

Ouchie!

Silly me. A few weeks preceding Isabella's birth, I had tripped outside a shopping centre and hurt my pubic symphysis joint. At that time, it felt excruciating like I'd fractured it, eventhough I knew I hadn't. That was an accident.

This time, I was in the city, and crossing the road and the lights had just gone green. I thought Scott was going to run for it, so I did too... except, when I looked back he hadn't, and I wished I'd been smarter and waited too. Why, because eventhough it was only a short dash to cross the road, I'd re-injured my PSJ. After that, I felt I could hardly walk, as each step was excruciating. Still, we had to attend Isabella's allergy appointment, and then walk from there to the car park. Luckily, the pain subsided a bit the more I moved. I also had the pram to bear my weight, as I walked at a snail's pace.

Yeah... talking about slow-movers in the city before. I think I was even slower than that. The people behind us must have been annoyed. Oh well, at least I had good reason. Anyway, I managed to get through enough pain to walk a little further to enjoy some Singapore food at Little Singapore. I'd been to the one at Sunnybank quite a few times, but this one in the city only had a few choices compared to the original one. Still, beggars can't be choosers, and it was nice to have a little taste of Asia. After that, I dragged myself to the carpark to head home. On the return trip, it was I who fell asleep as my husband drove. He thought it was funny that I had fallen asleep before our toddler daughter. Well.. all I can say is .. it was hard work walking (however slowly) with an injured PSJ.

We're off to the city

Today, we are off to the city for a couple of appointments. We don't often go to the city centre these days. The parking is expensive. There is public transport, but it takes almost an hour to get there just one-way. The shopping no better really than the average shopping centre. Pollution is more rampant compared to the suburbs, when you consider the concentrated traffic between the buildings and smokers aplenty! There is talk of the Queen Street Mall going green in the future with more plants, etc and also as far as I know and hope... no smoking.

Now that most places are no smoking indoors in Brisbane, when visiting the city mall, walking through it's walkways has become a dodge-the-smoke and hold-your-breath experience for me whenever I go there. Of course, it has also been a task to dodge the slow movers. There are always slow people in front of you where ever you go, who are clueless to the people behind them who walk with a purpose. And they always seem to be in the middle of everything. Do you think they should create a walking lane/zone just for slow people?

Also, in the city you see some of the less fortunate that aren't quite so obvious when in the suburbs. The homeless in the city, some of them look like rubbish pickers with their fluorescent reflector vests, selling the 'Big Issue' magazine - never really bought one, so not sure what is in it. Usually, we just give them a few dollars here and there when we go pass them. Sometimes we're selective. I know.. I know.. homeless is homeless. But if they look like they are more hardworking, standing up to sell their mags, and appear as if they are more likely to do something positive with the money given rather than splurging it on a pack of 'smokes', I'm more likely to help those people, than those who look like they couldn't be bothered to work to sell their mags and look like they are smokers. But mostly, I just feel sorry for them, try and remember how fortunate and blessed most of us are, and just give without trying to analyse it too much. After all, we want to teach our kids to be kind and giving, and mindful of what they have. We want our kids to grow up with a sense of helping people.

Anyway, what we are really going to the city today is for Scott's work and then after that we have an appointment at the Allergy Pathway clinic for Isabella. As some of you will already be aware, Isabella developed eczema from 3 months of age. After several months of trial and error of different potions and lotions, we finally sought the help of this alternative therapy that strives to manage peoples allergies and intolerances. All sounds a bit hocus-pocus, but of those we have tried, this really seemed to work. After a few months of it, Isabella's eczema continued to improved and now, she only has traces of eczema you can see. I'm not going to go on about it, cause it would take me the whole day and I'm not very good at explaining things, but if you are interested, check it out at Allergy Pathways

We're back!

Hahaha.. I know, it's been such a long time since my last blog. It's clear I'm not a daily blogger. Isabella and my 2nd pregnancy has been keeping me busy. But now that Isabella is getting more independent, I've finally had a bit more time to dedicate here.. I hope. Then again, it might all change in a month's time when baby number 2 arrives.

I know I mentioned in the previous post that I thought Isabella was going to be a walker soon. Well, she certainly took her time. It has only been this week that she has f-i-n-a-l-l-y gained enough confidence to walk by herself. Of course she was walking before, but it has always been with us holding her hand or her walking with her walker. I'm so proud of her. It has been such an achievement for her to finally walk on her own and she is so happy of her new found freedom. We've been walking her around the house and in shopping centres. She just loves it! I'll have to try and capture her walking on video when I get a chance soon.

As for baby number 2, I feel as though I could already pop. But I still have more than 4 weeks to go... sigh. I finally finished packing my hospital bag yesterday. Second time around, much easier. You remember what you needed last time and what you didn't use. I'll also be packing a little present for Isabella from the new baby when she comes to visit us at the hospital. Just a nice little thought to make her feel special and that she hasn't been replaced, but that she is now a big sister!

Ok.. let's see if I can keep this blog going. See you next time!

Crawling

It's been a long time, but Isabella has finally started to master the art of crawling. Whilst she isn't zooming around yet, it won't be long before I start burning some calories running after her. Right now, she is only taking a few knees forward at a time. But I am so proud of her!

All I want for Christ is my 2 front teeth!

And she finally has them! I was playing around with Isabella the other day and had her upside-down. I looked into her mouth and saw these 2 pearly whites shining at me. Yippee! No wonder it hurt so much the other day when she bit my chin! Now she has a grand total of 4 teeth!