5 week old monkey!

Wow where has the time gone?

Well I know where it has gone…it has passed in a blur of nappies and bottles and sleepless nights and tired days and grabbing 5 minutes here and there to do the simple things like getting dressed and eating and checking facebook.

But it has also been a time of wonder and content, laughter and love.

She remains an attached baby, although when she is really asleep – as opposed to that ‘quiet alert’ state when she is really awake with her eyes closed just waiting for me to dare try and put her down – she will sleep happily in her moses basket and still wakes up slowly and peacefully, only now she has begun to smile when greeted with one of us on waking and it lights up my day!

Jessica is a proper little cheeky monkey and has begun to fight sleep like she doesnt want to miss out on anything. Its kinda cute until its been a full half hour of that heartbreaking screeching. I have dealt with her colicky stage by putting infacol in her milk and it has worked wonders…this is pure stubborness! Its only until she cant fight sleep anymore and she eventually falls asleep in my arms (I refuse to leave her to cry it out…I will never do that) about 10 – 11pm and then thats it, I know we can sleep till around 3am. And that is bliss. That is luxury!

There is nothing quite as lovely as a warm squidgy baby pressed up against your chest, alseep, with milky warm breath on your cheek and contented little sighs in your ear and a pudgy little hand clinging on to your finger. It is the most amazing thing in the world and I could stay like that for hours – and quite often do! Whats just as lovely is when Akeel takes over to give me the night off, and I sleep in the other room, but wake up at 6/7am missing her badly so get up and go to our room to find him alseep with her just like that too. To know that he shares those joys in those little things means the world to me.

I am loving every minute

She is coming along so well, weighing 9lb 2 tuesday just gone! She seems so big and heavy now and thats an average birth weight…..I am so pleased she didnt come out as big as she is now or I wouldnt have managed half as well lol!

She is playing on her jungle gym or in her bouncy chair more often and really enjoys it, and seems to be especially fond of a warped mirror that is on the bottom of a toy lady bird that hangs from her gym. She will stare at it – and her warped reflection – kicking her legs and waving her arms with wide eyes in excitement. She cant know its her so I wonder what she does think!

My other 2 daughters came to visit for a few days and it was so lovely to see them! Lou, 17 is an absolute natural with Jessica and she will make a fantastic mother herself someday (not just yet though eh!) and Kasmin, 14, seemed to like her but isnt very confident with babies…I know she too will make a fantastic mother some day though

Here are some pics from the last couple of weeks;

My eldest and my youngest…