'a bright little boy'

Hmm i knew i was going to be bad at keeping this thing up, not to mention the fact that Mark has been hogging the pc every evening now that he has found free online multiplayer games.

Firstly Auntie Jan died on Monday evening.

i thought i was pregnant after waiting 6 weeks to come on - madness and a bit of panic.

Kayne has been at Winchcombe Nursery for a week and a half. He seems to have settled in very quickly. He keeps talking about a girl called Lucy. Every day so far they have said thats 'he's a very clever little boy' or 'bright little boy' and today the lady was telling me that he's nearly learnt all his phonics!! She even asked if i was doing them at home with him?! I said no as i didn't know them and she seemed visably shocked! She kinda of hinted (i think) that if he continues at teh rate he's going that he will be moved up. I also think she said that he's been doing simple addition, I said he's done some at home and that we were unsure as to whether he simple remembers things or understands the concept. e.g. does he just repeat '1+1=2' or does he know that if you have on brick and add another brick you have 2 bricks?School report in a few weeks, end of the term on the 20th. I'm excited by this school report, maybe i want confirmation of what i think he might be capable of, or maybe i will be shown that he isn't that different?

Lani is sitting! no wobbles not much intermediate stage, just bolt upright sitting, playing and self correcting. WE've had a week of intensive teething and no teeth. I felt a lump on her gum and then it was gone an hour later. I worked out that she drinks nearly 40z of milk in 12 hours! She's still not really bothered by food. I really want the BLW to work but so far she hasn't eaten (swallowed) anything; although today i'm sure a 1/3 of a sweet potato stick went missing - i guess i'll find out soon enough!). Got our cloth nappies :) they are quite easy really, but she needs some different wraps as the ME airflow are a bit gappy at the moment. I wore her to nursery every morning last week.

Lani sitting

Giggling Lani

Dragging it up to date.

Hello,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6762795.stm
Yay real support of BLW

Lani is now sitting for several minutes by her self. she rolls to her front to get to things better. I think she know that she needs to more her arms and legs to get crawling but hasn't managed anything close to crawling yet and she is getting so frustrated. I don't think she has swallowed anything food wise yet but then her poo has been a bit harder of recent so maybe that is the mushed up biscuit. She loves marmite :)

Kayne has moved nursery to Winchcombe, we just can't afford headstarts any more. He can go back in September but i think we'll just leave him where he is. He seems to have grown a bit but i'm still a little worried about his really slow growth. but he is just as charming as ever.

I've had a good few weeks, I've had one day where i just got so frustrated with everything and i shouted a good few times. We are aiming to move soon to a ground floor maisonette down the road, we are going to view it on wednesday i hope it will be big enough. The i might be able to invite some friends back to my house and won't feel guilty about them having to bring thier buggies up the stairs.
Kirsty now has a bump.
I'm a little worried that i'm pregnant again. well i'll be happy but it will be hard. I'm nearly 2 weeks late but i could just be because my cycle is a little messed up.

We've re-arranged the flat it's all higgledy piggledy, it feels better but it's a bit wierd for people to take. Kaynes in his bed in our room, His room is the living room and the living room is now the 'play room'.

I'm hoping to buy some cloth nappies later this week and reusable wipes :)

A few random pictures:

Just a few pictures to tide me over till i write an update:

Lani learning to hold her bottle

Lani eating a teddy biscuit (her favourite)

Kayne wanting to play on the playstation

Lani happy now her tummy is a bit fuller.

(Not that a bit of biscuit will stop her polishing off a 8oz bottle)

Lani is starting to sit up.

Again as the title says.... pictures...:

'I'm doing it!'

Tried Lani with Broccolli and some more carrot today:

'What is this?!?'

'hmmm, i guess it's not so bad...'

'I still don't like carrot though..'

Kayne and Lani eating together for the first time ever!

The title says it all!

Kayne and Lani eating together.

Lani trying out 'teddy bear biscuits'. That Kayne says she is to 'wittle' for!

Kayne eating a sausage, almost a rare sight at the moment

Next pictures of Lani 'eating'

Tried her again on some bits of carrot the last few days but she's still not interested in them. She doesn't chew just sort of sucks at them so i bought some Organix carrot flavoured corn sticks. We are kind of limited on what she can have as she's not 6 months yet. So on to the fun pictures:

'Umm... yummy'

Lani's first BLW foods

so we have started. I figured that if she isn't developementally ready she wouldn't eat anything so i gave her a carrot stick and took some pictures:

'This looks interesting...'

'Eh? what's this?'

I don't think she ate anything, actually i don't think she liked it but i'll keep trying.