The Eberhard Family

This is the first time I’ve been on the computer after we’ve moved on Saturday… (well computer was packed on Friday night)

Still settling in… well more like battling with boxes and boxes of crap.. but making good progress so far.

I’m really glad that most o the stuff in the kitchen are unpacked, and bathroom was the easiest place, as we have a tiny bathroom So not much stuff there… same for laundry. But lots of stuff like duvet covers, extra blankets etc etc… we gave out a few sets of stuff and lots of pillows! Afterall, how many pillows do we need at home?

So yeah… the list goes on…

I’m most happy about finally sorted out Emma’s room today. So it’s all nice.. for now… until we get a king single bed, then it’s another battle of trying to fit the bed in there. Although, by then we might just set up the changing and feeding “stations” around the bed, and return the changing table to its original owner

We will see…

Still got lots and lots to do, but we are getting there I’m really happy each time I manage to empty a box
I begin to think.. .yes we can do this!

Oh and I just gave out a box of stuff to my colleague, too! My old collection of letter writing sets. They are all very pretty but I won’t really use them now… so might as well…

Anyways, time for bed

Sally

I’ve been busy!

Before:

After:
My deck was rotting so I replaced all the wood. It took a few days, mainly because I’m soft and struggled to pull out all the nails.

15 wk + 5/7
Just wanted to note that she’s definitely biting on things now, and taking things into her mouth and bite…

I put my finger in her mouth a few times yesterday and noticed that she’s not just using her tongue to push it out or sucking it… she bites it first… chews on it for a bit, then suck it…

Also more and more drooling, too ^^;;;

She’s also doing more and more sit ups now, on the play gym, on the pillow… whenever she can… even in the cot! And the capsule!!

Now she can wiggle herself out of the capsule easily when she’s a bit upset… or maybe she’s just playing, as today she managed to be half in the capsule and half out, didn’t seem too unhappy… So maybe she is trying to work out how to escape out of the thing.

She can escape out of the wraps now and at times the wraps would be over her head causing problems. So we can’t wrap her arms up anymore… *sigh* hopefully this also means she can sleep with her arms free now, otherwise… I will be missing my sleep and starting work all at the same time!

ps. Also noticed that she has darker eye brows now.

Sally

I thought I will note this down..
Thursday evening, first time I had a haircut after Emma was born.. becoz she’s started grabbing things more.. including my hair.

The hairdresser is actually a neighbour. We’ve never tried becoz… what if we don’t like the haircut… felt like it might be a bit weird…
But she’s a lovely lady! One who looks out for neighbours and the neighbourhood! A very nice lady! I kind of regret that we didn’t introduce ourselves earlier and didn’t get to know her earlier.

She made me feel that I should start paying more attention to what’s happening around our house more and look out for the neighbourhood more!

So.. my hair is shorter now… not that anyone had noticed, as it’s always been tied up now

As for showering… yes I do shower regularly, even though sometimes I do forget, as I don’t really go out anyway …

So why noting it down?

Because yesterday, ebs had to work a long day! Left home at 6am and got home just before 9pm. But I showered! For the first time when he is not home after Emma is born. I’ve always worry that, what if she cries when I’m in the shower? So I was never brave enough to shower while she’s sleeping when ebs is not home.

This week, she’s been having her naps regularly during the day, after daycare on Tuesday. So I thought, I will give it a go.

It was rather nice Felt like some achivement even though it is something quite trivial. I guess for me, it’s just another step forward of getting on with life… new life with teh bub, one that I can shower even if it’s just me and her at home!

Although won’t be long though As we are moving to my parents next Sat.

Anyways, still…

Sally

15 weeks + 3/7

This morning when I was feeding her on the boob… she bit me. Normally she would sort of bite a little or chew a little but usually soft… but this was the first time that was a hard bite! Ouch!

Definitely exploring using her mouth more…

Was holding her and she started from my shoulder down to my arm… little patches of slobbers on my clothes…

Later in the day, we had a pot luck.

When uncle Jo was holding her, she said she could feeing her jaws, not just slobbering… she was trying to bite

Oh dear!

This little one hasn’t been eating much these two days.. (today and yesterday)… and after milk, she’d be eating her hands… hmm… and she hasn’t pooed yesterday and today (not yet)…

Wednesday she didn’t poo and Thursday had two poos. So when she didn’t poo yesterday (Friday), I thought maybe she will have two today…. but not yet…

Hmm… weird…

We will see how she does later tonight and tomorrow… before I decide if I need to ring someone to find out if we need to have her checked out! This is unusual!!

Sally

Yesterday after my physio appointment at uni, I had a quick work meeting for 1.5 hours. Then… I went off to Bunnings to pick up something for work.

That’s the start of the “fun trip” of the day… First I got there and decided to park at a spot in the last minute, so I didn’t do a good parking job. Then I tried to correct it but still over the line to the park on the right. I thought, there’s like 100 other parks and also quite a few one next to that anyway.. who cares.

So I went to do my shopping. Came out… another car parked so closed to me (as it was in the lines but I was over the line ) so I had to climb in from the passenger side. Then I found a note on my windscreen calling me an asshole. I was too lazy to climb out to get it.

I got to Pak’s Save and read the note.. it said something like…
Thank you for parking so close, next time you should leave a can opener so I can get my car out. Asshole like you should take the bus.

Funny. (it’s one of those printed pads… by the look of it)

Fair enough if the person wasn’t happy… but oh well..

Then half way through shopping, my stomach started to hurt quite a bit, a while later, I think it must had been something I’ve eaten… so… I think I need to speed up the shopping and I did…

Now, the reason I went to Pak’n Save was because the car needs petrol and the only petrol voucher we have is from Pak’n Save fuel, so I thought I will do the shopping first, might get a 6cent off instead of 4.

After I was done, it came to $93.xx, almost $100 but doesn’t matter… or doesn’t it? I saw the big 10 cents off sign. !)@$&*!@! *sigh* Never mind.

Then I spent another 5 mins trying to pop the door for the petrol open.. it was really really annoying and I was not happy at all. Because I was hungry, and need to go to the bathroom and… I can’t just drive off without petrol!! Eventually I opened it by putting the car key in the gap.

Okay, got that part sorted, then I found out that the new Camry’s “petrol hole” is smaller, so you can’t sit the nozzle in it and leave it there!
Worse, then I found out that the petrol thingy at Pak’n Save doesn’t have the hook to keep the petrol coming.. you have to hold it.

It kept clicked off as I wasn’t holding it right… so eventually… I had petrol spit out of the tank… (while an old couple looking rather impatient queuing up behind me)

Man… there’s a reason we have hubbies! Filling up the car is one of them!!

Anyway so finally got my petrol and everything… and I looked at the price of the petrol… after discount… wait, it’s more expensive than Gull without any discount!!!

The stomach started to hurt more now… so I got home, left the shopping in the car…then you can imagine the rest…

Moral of the story?
Sometimes trying to save a few cents ended up costing you more than you think!
*sigh*

Sally

Wednesday morning, Salvation Army came over to pick up some beds…

So, with their van, there was a double bed, a king single bed, a box of CD/Books/Magazines and a box of random household stuff… and yes.. finally, my 31 year old dressing table is gone, too.

The guys came over to pick up the beds were happy with the condition, asking why we are getting rid off them.. they rarely see good condition beds like these given to them. I guess this is when mum’s mattress protector works rather well, eh. Not a single stain on the bed

Anyways, now the house looks more empty… oh well, still got lots to pack, lots to throw out!

Sally

Yesterday as Andrew was watching Emma in the study… she was in the capsule on his desk..

Then, apparently, she grab hold of her dummy and put it in her mouth.

If only this was intentional, then we’d be so thrilled!! Of course this was purely accidental! (doh!)
She basically grabs anything she can get and stick it into her mouth now

Oh well… someday… we won’t have to get up to put the dummy in at night.

She is getting better in the last 3 nights.. so fingers crossed.

Sally

After over a week of not much sleeping, or rather interruptive ones…
Yesterday, after being in the daycare for most of the day… the little one came home happily and was quite well behaved, even during the evening time.

That night, she started her final feed around 7:40pm and was in bed by 8:20pm. We were in bed around 8:30 ish.

I did wake up before midnight I think, but back to sleep straight away… and the first time she cried, was 2:30am… so we had a good 6 hour sleep.

But, the problem was… I think my body was used to not enough sleep, so it was a little wide awake after that… so I was lying in bed for over an hour half sleeping and half awake and just about to fall asleep… she cried. It was 4am.

Before she woke up, the hubby was already up.. he couldn’t sleep either. So he was up making some random noises as he does when he gets up…

But I was quite pleased with Emma. 6 hours, then 1.5 hours…. then again at 4:30 but she needed her feed then.

After the feed, she went back to sleep around 5:10 and only woke after 2 hours for the dummy… still sleeping… for now.

I hope this is a good sign. Maybe this injection wasn’t as bad as the last one? Or maybe they’ve done some magic at the daycare?! Or maybe she’s slowly going to sleep for longer periods of time?

Well, I will take 6 hours non-interruptive sleep for now and wait for even more sleep to come

ps. So the hubby was at work by 6am, busy marking… I tried to stay in bed… but by around 6:15… it was getting harder and harder, so I got up, too.

Sally

Today is the first day Emma starts daycare. She will be in daycare on Tuesday and Thursdays from now.

I also have the person from property management company coming over to take photos of our house for renting at 2pm.

So, I was busy cleaning and tidying up the house while she’s at daycare.

After I got everything done and just got out of the shower, I got a call from the daycare. At first I thought, oh no… but then, they only called to let me know that Emma is okay… just in case I’m wondering but feel bad to call.

So apparently she had her bottle shortly after daddy dropped her off. Then went to sleep for 2.5 hours… Had another 200ml and was playing on the floor when they called me around 12:45.

She told me that Emma is a really easy baby, so far.

Sounds very good! I think she behaves better there!!
At home, sometimes she won’t go to sleep… gets too happy…

Hmm…

At least we know she’s okay in daycare… and mum is okay today, very busy actually!

Sally