Phew it's been a while since I updated things, we've had a busy time of it lately.
Abby is just crawling, she's been trying to for several weeks, and has just worked out what to do with her hands the last couple of days, hooray! She was getting very frustrated :) Her first 2 teeth are visible in her lower gum too. They don't seem to be giving her too much trouble, a bit of teething gel helps though. And today she started saying "bwah bwah bwah!" - loudly! It's been mostly vowel sounds until now, so we're well on the way to "mum mum mum" hopefully LOL! She will be 6 months old on 4th June!
Hannah is growing and growing. She can dress herself now if she really wants to, right down to socks, although if she's tired she has trouble with it still. She had a patch of not speaking very clearly for a while, partly due to a cold, and partly imitating a new friend, I think. We are very greatful this has passed, it just took a few weeks of deliberately misunderstanding her to make her think about how she was speaking! She is doing a lot of writing at present, and with direction, can write the 3 letters in her name from scratch and it's obvious enough that it's her name! Her mousing skills are also improving, she has taken to answering the telephone and is learning to operate the remote controls - she'll be better at that than Daddy in no time at all LOL! She will be 4 on 29th July.
Kim is still hard at work. He's had some bleeding noses the last week and gets very tired, but still enjoying the farm work. We're looking at knee surgery at the end of the year, the specialist has identified the weakness in the left knee as the anterior cruciate ligament being gone, probably when Abby was a week old and he jumped off the horse a bit awkwardly. So he'll be at home recuperating all of December and January at this stage. We have a holiday on the Gold Coast booked for the last week of January at a very nice resort, one of those cheap deals, and we're very much looking forward to that. Abby should be walking and Hannah will be 4 and a half so it should be a pleasant trip. Here is the site if you'd like to have a look: www.grandefloridaresort.com.au
I am floundering along, learning to manage life with 2 children :) Sometimes I am on top of everything, other times not, but such is life with small children! Abby had some unsettled nights a couple of weeks ago, and I was starting to think that this co-sleeping wasn't all it cracked up to be, and maybe we would all get more sleep if the cot was in another room...then I remembered how sad I was when Hannah moved to her own room and started sleeping all night, so I stroked her head and decided I'd just enjoy the baby snuggles, they don't last forever *sniff sniff*! I have been doing some knitting, some sewing, lots of cleaning and organising (it never ends, does it!). I sort of have my cloth nappy designs worked out, and now have to find some time to sew some "testers" and get them sent off to my volunteers who will try them on a range of different sized babies :)
OK time to upload some photos and get back into it!
Love Nikki xo
