raising willow… and dexter!

Last night I met up with my best friend form Uni, S. The opening night of the Fringe Festival was on and I was keen to go. A stayed at home with Willow and I took Dexter in. Unfortunately some bright spark though it would be a good idea to have the Clipsal 500 at [...]

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The silver beads say WILLOW MUMMY and DEXTER. I wanted to make an amber teething necklace for Dexter, but I couldn’t find any big chunks of amber. So this is kind of a breastfeeding necklace with a few tiny chips of amber in between the MUMMY beads.

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I posted previously about donating our old pram to a high school in order for it to be given to a student who is continuing her education. I gathered together some of the clothes that Dexter had outgrown and some toys that we had too many of and bundled them all into the car. Someone [...]

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I measured him when I got him up this morning and he is 68cm long – which puts him on roughly the same percentile as his weight.

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That how much Dexter weighs! People keep telling me what a big boy he is, but I had kind of attributed that to ‘boys are big, girls are petite’ societal expectation thing. I had expected him to weigh around 7 kg, but 8.1kg puts him on the 90th percentile. I don’t think Willow ever got [...]

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We have a few things coming up over the next couple of weeks, some of which I am looking forward to. Tomorrow is playgroup again, then a physio appointment for me, then the doctor’s appointment to discuss Willow’s ultrasound. Then on Friday we have a playdate with Willow’s friend from CC. Friday night I am [...]

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I had my exercise class this morning (1 hour) and I walked to CC to pick Willow up (1 hour). Surely that makes up for the big slice of Galaktoboureko I had yesterday?!

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Last Monday, I took Willow to have an ultrasound on her abdomen. Long story short, she had a choledocal cyst which was detected at my 20 week ultrasound and then had surgery at 7 weeks to have it removed. Sadly, not all of it could be removed because it was too intertwined with her gall [...]

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I have just finished reading this: Yummy Mummy’s Ultimate Family Survival Guide.  It was very Bristish, good for a laugh and light enough to cope with, given my current level of sleep deprivation. I read The Glass Menagerie  a little while ago.  I bought it at a second hand bookshop near my physio – mostly [...]

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Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m not a terribly spiritual person.  My Mum and Dad used to be interested in spirituality – in fact, when my Dad’s body was found in bed, he’d been reading a book called ‘Life after death’.  So if anyone was going to provide me with proof of such things [...]

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