From Pumpkin Diary:
List five songs that you are currently digging - it doesn’t matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions and the five songs (with artist) in your blog. Then tag five […]

“Suck your dummy more and cry less. That’s what I learnt, ok?”
Well he stopped crying for a good minute afterward….

One of the most common questions (quickly followed by a laugh) I have asked of me is ‘how are you coping with the nappies?’. The answer? Quite well actually ’cause there really wasn’t much to cope with ’cause he wasn’t pooing.
Yep, 10 days without a poo. Lots of wee, lots of wind but the house […]

Albert went to visit the maternal and child health nurse today for a follow up and we found out that there was even more of him today than there was on Monday. Our boy seems to be putting about 20 grams a day and has grown a full centimetre since birth.
Mum is pretty happy […]

Up until now pretty much everything has been a first.
First car trip, first coffee out, first visit by the health nurse, first trip shopping but I’m in the middle of a very scary first right now - first time it’s just me and him.
Rae has gone to do the shopping and run some errands leaving […]

At the arvo tea, Knack decided to put together a box for presents. Instead of bringing presents, she suggested visitors drop a couple of dollars in the box so that we could buy Albert something that we needed. We put this collection into an ING account that we put together for him, until we discovered […]

What better way is there to spend a Saturday evening than to fill out forms?
Albert has now been registered, enrolled in Medicare and we’ve asked for our Maternity Payment (gimme, gimme, gimme).
Welcome to bureaucracy little man.

Sitting here listening to the boy hiccup over the baby monitor reminds me that I haven?t yet told you about his entry in to this world (six days ago, I can?t believe it). So, here we go?
That Saturday dawned like any other (sorry, always wanted to write that).
Apparently tiny contractions began about 7.00 or so […]

Had a good night last night. Got a good couple hours in between feeds. He’s being a very good boy at the moment.
I’ve picked up a bit of a bug. Phee and I are hacking coughs across the lounge at eachother. Haven’t been sick otherwise, until last night, where my throat began to feel dry […]