6 week milestone

Today is Rios 6 week birthday... and to celebrate, she had her immunisations :( She was all smiles in the waiting room, cooing and grinning at everybody. I felt SO bad taking her in to the nurses room and letting them plunge needles in her chubby little thighs! My poor baby! I know the jabs are for her own good, and are far more enjoyable than getting sick... but I still let somebody hurt my little girl! She was very brave though, she made more fuss over getting undressed than she did about the injections - typical! As soon as the injections were done, she was good as gold, had a feed, and fell asleep. Aww!

She was weighed today too, and is now at 5.020kgs, that's 11lbs! WOW! The Dr even said she looks more like a 3 month old than a 6 week old! Bless her, she's such a lovely wee girl :) The past 5 days she has been refusing the bottle too, which means we are back to exclusively breastfeeding - YAY! I am soooo pleased, I really thought I was going to fail breastfeeding again, but it looks like we've overcome the 6 week hurdle and its all going to get better from here on out. Fabulous news!

And... *drumroll please* ...another pregnancy is NOT completely out of the picture! If I can get myself to a high level of fitness through my core, another SPD pregnancy will be alot more managable, and I should be able to do it alot easier (and hopefully not end up disabled!!). Apparently, anyway! LOL! So, who knows what the future holds? Our dreams of a big family may not be crushed after all... :D

In other news, Rune helped me make a casserole this morning, and was most disgusted when I suggested he eat a piece of raw carrot! So, he chewed on a kumura instead, haha - go figure?! Last night there were fireworks going off left right and centre around our house, so I wrapped Rune up in a blanket and we went outside and watched all the fireworks go off, he thought it was brilliant, he absolutely loved it, his eyes were so wide with amazement and excitement. He's such a lovely wee boy! When he woke up this morning he got the blanket and said "wrap up warm, watch the fireworks Mummy!" and kept asking to go out and see the fireworks! Bless! When I dropped him off at pre-school this morning, he ran up to Pip, one of the teachers, and started jumping up and down saying "PIP! The fireworks! BANG! WHIZZ! The green one and the yellow one..." Hehehe it was super cute, he was so excited to tell her all about them, his speech has come on in leaps and bounds and he'll hold a full conversation with people. He even knows the entire Bob The Builder song off by heart, and can recite the alphabet. Clever little monkey!

So all is chugging along just nicely here, the sun is still out and we are having some glorious weather to start the summer (despite the snow down in Dunedin and Otago!!)... we plan on attacking the garden again this weekend, and hopefully having a picnic with some friends if the weather behaves itself. Wish us luck!! xxxx