3/4 of a year!

Ada turned 9 months old on Monday and she sure is having a lot of fun these days.  I’ll let the pictures, and my dorky captions, speak for themselves. Note to self use another camera apart from my phone...

EYES and CHEEKS about sums her up

At One Tree Hill today

First swing

Crawling and getting stuff is amazing

I like to pose for photos more than my cousins

Eating raisins

Crawling in tunnels

My Mum put me in a box

baby blow out

I sit here typing after having eaten perhaps my 15^th cupcake in 3 days. I tried to cut down my cake intake as I will be wearing a rather fitting dress this Saturday as matron of honour at my wonderful friend Jo’s wedding. It's not too urgent, everything fits, I was just trying to reduce the visual cues of my daily 3 pieces of cake habit in my silhouette. All my new found self-control went to custard with all the lollies and sweets about this weekend. We had such fun, actually sounding like a brood of hens cackling away for about 36 hours. The girls kept joking about my baby blow out, referring to going a little crazy after not drinking for so long, I had a rather quick glass of wine after I had pumped milk. I did look rather despo for a drink, after watching everyone else sip away for the afternoon I gulped some down before we headed out to dinner. Pre-loading is what they called it, good to know. I was trying to catch up, I was suffering some FOMO hiding away in the bedroom with the milking device. You will be pleased to know there was only a sugar blow out this weekend.

I left Ada with Cam about lunchtime on Saturday and he looked after her till mid morning Sunday! They had a ball! Cam said he felt like he really earnt his parent stripes with all the one-on-one time. I knew he would be fantastic. Apparently Ada even said Mama a bunch of times after her bath/before bed and then again in the morning when taking her bottle! Amazing! She hasn’t even been making mmmm sounds really and then out she pops with them perhaps when missing me. Aww! She is still a ways off using mama and dada exclusively about or to Cam and I but it is still sooo cute to hear. 

I was pretty distracted by the party planning and didn’t miss Ada too much, except when expressing milk. I would always prefer to feed her over pumping, I find it such a drag! Babies are so much more efficient at getting out the milk that you can become a bit leakier when pumping rather than while feeding. At dinner somehow the topic of baby poo came up, I blame the company. The single girls made the appropriate faces to let me know that it was not acceptable dinner conversation. I still managed to squeeze in a few comments about how cool Ada is without appearing too baby brained! My first night away from her was fine! She was relaxed when I saw her the next morning, basking in the attention from Jo and the girls oooing and ahhing. 

Overall I had a great time with such dear, lovely friends and it was a good training run for next weekend when I will be off matroning. What a heavy word matron is. At least it is paired with honour, still so serious. Wish us all luck!

Ada is 9 months old today!! Whoa! I will do a post about that later in the week.

two thirds of a year!

Man, this has been a big week, let alone a big month!  On Sunday I was quite sick, so then on Monday I was quite tired. 

On Tuesday Ada started crawling! Once she found she could move towards me she hasn’t stopped. 

Wednesday she first demonstrated her knowledge that she and I are not one person and would-not-be-consoled-by-anyone-else, first when left at a friends place, then over dinner and at bath time too.  Poor poppet. 

Thursday saw more adventures in Ada feeding herself, marmite toast is now on the menu! 

Today Ada is 8 months old. Last night she woke every few hours with a blocked nose.  Happy 8 months little lady!  Your present appears to be snot.  Yay!  Ada has been the most content baby for weeks and weeks, this week she upsets easily and won't be distracted.  Her little brain is probably in overload, learning to communicate her likes and dislikes, teething, suffering a cold, clapping, waving, practicing saying dada at the right time and crawling.  I'd want a few more hugs too.

I can’t believe how fast these last 8 months have gone, I’m feeling very lucky to be at home and enjoying my little lady.

Ada and I clash skintones!

This week I have managed to change the colour of Ada’s skin, twice. Motherhood fail. On Sunday the sun was shining in the most glorious way and when Ada woke up Cam and I went for a stroll with her in the front pack. We don’t use the front pack as much as we used to and she loves it! So-much-fun. Unfortunately the strength of the NZ sun at 2.30pm on a winter’s day was no match for her brand new baby skin. Ada has had her first sunburn. Not a milestone I was intending to celebrate.

Also this week in photos of the two of us I have noticed that our skin clashes! In winter I resort to wearing some dark tones that I don’t suit that well and I look all rosy and pale (ruddy and washed out?!). Ada on the other hand has been eating pumpkin and carrot at most lunches/dinners for the past week or more and although she is more olive than me now she has a slightly orange hue. As an adult your palms change colour with a lot of beta-carotene but it seems my babies nose has got the bulk of the colour effect.

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7 months!

Not a lot of blog action this past month.  I guess we have been kinda busy and I haven't had any motherhood revelations. To update everyone on the past few weeks Ada is turning into a very happy baby.  No complaints here!  Our trip to Wellington went off without a hitch, I loved catching up with everyone, having 100 half conversations while being distracted by a baby.  Ada really enjoyed all the people and new places, it was so much fun, thank you all who made it awesome!  I recommend having your baby magically fall asleep on both the way to and away from somewhere. I don't recommend trying to have her sit on the ground in the busy airport while you adjust a baby carrier before she has learnt to sit. Donk. {pick up crying baby and walk away quickly}

Week before last I went to work as a reliever for 5 days in a row. What was I thinking?  DidI not remember that work involves working?  I was relaxed about leaving Ada with family for 4/5 days and with a good friend for the other. Ada was absolutely fine with the switcheroo, just very demanding for some mothers milk when I got home each day.  By the end of the first day I realised I may be over teenagers for a while, was it that I have less patience or that I didn't care for their selfish ways…  Hmm.  Babies are definitely where it is at for me for now.  I am not sure when the next work session will be but it is good to know Ada has it sussed even if I was a little less sure!

Look at how she is growing! If only she could tell us what she is thinking...

I have teeth and soon I will have an Aunty Em in Wellington!

My Mum really likes a good cafe.

I am really, really, really thinking about crawling.

I was so PUMPED to be on this walk. Grin, grin, arm flap, arm flap, grin.

It is hilarious to pretend I play the piano.

All the ladies adore me in black and white, and also in colour.