8 months and crawling

Charlotte was 8 months yesterday. For the last week, she's been practicing her crawling. Now, after a week, she is confident in her crawling and loves her new found freedom. Though she can't walk yet, she has been able to stand for a few months now with assistance. If we stand her in her cot, she can stay standing for 5 minutes or so.

She has a lovely, happy personality. Always smiling, laughing. She is a ray of sunshine. Together, she and Isabella loves playing with each other. Often, there is that special bond between the two of them that makes them both crack up at each other, like no one else can.

Charlotte has also been enjoying a vast range of foods with her 2 well-sprouted bottom teeth. Apart from the mush vegetables, her favorite are icecream and chocolat, cakes, and chips. But most of the time, she eats really well. Sweet potatoes, pumpkin, potatoes, zucchini, avocados. She also loves weetbix! Soon, I'll try oats and see if she likes it.

I finally got my iPad!

Yet! Got my iPad 2 last friday. Been hanging to get it for the last few months, and finally managed to get one on launch day. And if you were one of those ipadaholic people, you would know that scoring one on launch day is pretty difficult. Luckily I rang my local reseller and they were taking down people's names on a list for when it came in. I was only there about 30 minutes before launch, and was second in line! In Sydney, some we lining up outside the apple stores 2 days in advance! Lucky i didn't have to do that. With 2 young kids, it would have been impossible.

Now that I have my iPad, it will make it easier and more convenient to blog.

Other than the iPad, what's been happening you say? Well, Charlotte has finally cut her 2 bottom teeth. Yey! But when you think about the teething, the waking through the night, and the biting during breastfeeding... Hmm, not so yey. I miss my gummy smiles. On a good note, she is starting to eat more solid foods, such as brownies (I know .. Not very responsible baby food, but she likes them.. And it's only a crumb), bread, rice, and icecream. She is also now sitting up all by her self. She stands really well for ages if your stabilizing her. All this, and she's only 7 months! Ok, I might be biased, but I think she's doing really well for her age.

Isabella on the other hand, is talking really well. Her vocabulary is fantastic. She no longer cries when I drop her off at the early learning centre. She actually enjoys being there. In fact, she has taken quite well to one of the little boys there called River. It's River this, River that. It really is quite cute. At her age anyways. We arevsatrting to reduce isabella's dummy use to just during sleeping hours, as she has gotten really dependent on it the last few months. So, for the last week, it has been a little tough with her playing up due to her not having her dummy. I hope it doesn't last too much longer.

Isabella turns 2!

Happy 2nd Birthday to my darling Isabella!

Wow... Tuesday already! How time flies. Saturday, was taken up with a trip to the local shopping mall. Sunday, we enjoy a bbq with friends from 2 families. One of them was a very long time friend of mine whom I've known since I was about 6 or 7. It was great catching up with her and her family. I always jump at the opportunity to meet up, as we live almost an hour away from them, and we both have 2 little ones to look after as well. Except she has two boys, and I have 2 girls. It is nice to have such a long spanning friendship, that has taken us from when we were a little older than our kids to us having our own kids. Next, we'll be having grandchildren together. Hahaha... Hopefully that will take a while yet...At least for my girls. No dating till 21! Just kidding. Maybe no sex till then! Eww.. just the thought of that.

Anyway, like I mentioned in my previous post, Isabella is not going to school on Mondays as well. When I dropped her off yesterday morning, I didn't stay quite as long. I am hoping to make the drop offs shorter and shorter, until, one day when she doesn't cry anymore, and I can just drop and go. She did of course cry again, but apparently she started feeling better at morning tea as opposed to lunch time the week before. She didn't sleep this time, but just rested with the dummy. By the time she slept at night, she was a little naughty as you would imagine with an almost 2 year old who hasn't had any sleep.

This morning, I will take Isabella to her swimming lesson. She has moved up to her new class. Looking forward to seeing what new things she will learn in this level.

Ok.. 2 posts on Wednesday, does that allow me to have Thursday off then? Oh well.. too late. We went to Movieworld yesterday. It was really hot and humid. Not very pleasant, but all in all, we had a pretty good day. Managed to get there and back without much screaming from the kids! Thank God! The trip was really for Isabella and just having a day out with the family. We have VIP card that entitles us unlimited entry to 3 of the theme parks till June 2011, so just making the most of it. Next time we'll go to Seaworld... again. Lol.

Also, today, we were told that there was an extra day at school, if we wanted it for Isabella. The extra spot is currently a Monday, but for now, I have accepted it, and will try and see if I can swap it for a tuesday or thursday if one comes up. I feel a little bad that now there will be 2 days of feeling guilty, but at least Charlotte will have more time with me, and I can get a few more things done.

Wow.. 2 posts in one day? Incredible for me. Just wanted to update. I was told Isabella felt much better after lunch today at school. She seems to like the arts and craft, and reading and listening about animals. She was very happy to see me when I picked her up this afternoon. She was doing some drawing at that time, and continued to draw after giving me a big smile. Guess she is feeling better about being at school.

Tomorrow, we have a big day. We are off to Movieworld. I have packed the drinks and snacks for tomorrow to take with us. Hopefully we won't need to purchase too much junkfood or drinks. And hopefully the weather is dry tomorrow.

God bless and protect all those people in North Queensland who will be encountering Cyclone Yasi tonight. May the cyclone die down or move away. Good nite!

Dropped off Isabella at 'school' this morning, stayed for a few minutes. When I left, she was crying again. Hopefully, she will have a better day this week. My heart still hurts to hear her cry, but it is getting a little easier to manage. Though, it must really be affecting me, because I had a dream the other day that I had to leave her somewhere, and she was crying and I remembered feeling really bad in my dream.

So, now that Isabella is at school, I have the whole day with just Charlotte. The house sounds soooo quiet. I have hubby at the other end of the house in the study room working, and I am at the other end of the house in the bedroom with Charlotte. We will just have a lovely laid back day today. I will do some cooking later on before I fetch Isabella from school.

Tomorrow or Friday, we may go to Movieworld with the whole family. Isabella turns 2 next Thursday, and grandma and grandpa will be coming down the day before that.