2 Months - Life goes on

Excuse the lack of posting but we have been having a really trying time dealing with Anna Janes reflux, I'll get to that in a minute. Firstly Anna Jane is 2 months old! where did that time go? I guess when you are dealing with a screaming baby and little sleep, time accelerates. Her development already amazes us. We are finally being rewarded with smiles and other expressions and she is a lot more verbal than Abigail was at the same age. She is enjoying periods of wakefulness on the playmat where she is already bating at her swinging toys. She is not too keen on being in seated positions (Bouncer chair, car seat, propped on pillows) but she does like lying out in her bed. She has always done a reasonable job at night, usually waking to feed just once, getting her back to sleep can be difficult sometimes. However, before we could get to that point we had a struggle. She has been continuing on the Carobel and for a while we also began giving her infant Gaviscon, this seemed to help for a time but then the unsettled screaming began again and the vomiting was as bad as ever. We finally started pushing for something else to try and after a very difficult week and a terrible weekend we started this past week with Adult Gaviscon. So far it seems to be helping but it is early days, She is still vomiting but it does not seem to cause her as much pain as before. We have had a really good week with her and in fact had 3 nights where she slept from between 10:30/11:30 until 8:30 am! She has just had her first round of vaccinations and will get more in about a months time.

Abigail is doing well considering we seem to be entering the terrible twos as well as coping with a baby sister and tiredness. She has not been sleeping as well lately and will lying awake for a few hours at night before falling asleep. She has done this before but not for such a prolonged period. At first I was putting it down to her schedule being disrupted (she is very much a creature of habit), then I thought is could be due to her back molars beginning to push through, then I wondered if it was from not getting out as much as we had been in previous weeks. Now I am wondering if it is due to her nap in the afternoon being too long but it is hard to wake her when you are finally enjoying a few minutes peace and are too tired to get up. We are having some real obedience issues with her at the moment. However, she can be so funny. She loves to dance around to her music with her duster in hand. She has some fantastic turns of phrase - We wash our clothes with "soap, beweach and snofner", when she is pretending to talk on a phone because there is no voice on the other side she says "he's not talking today". We have been working on manors, we have always insisted on please, thank you, excuse me but now we are expanding to may I have ...... please. She is doing well but we get "I may have ......... please". She is so sweet with Anna Jane always putting her passie/soother/dummy in if she cries. and she is always interested in her if she is awake. Some very exciting news is that Abby has done 2 pee pee's and one small poop in the potty over the last few days. We have not officially started potty training yet but are laying some of the ground work. She has a Dora potty book and we bought a trainer seat that goes on top of the toilet seat. Basically she knows what the potty is for and if she asks to use it we put her on it. I am not sure when we will actually start we will see, we have enough to deal with at the moment.

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Other news - we had David's cousin Sarah and her husband Chad from Oregon with us for the first week in August. We had the best visit with them and enjoyed every minute. Abby loved her Uncle Chad and they were a great help to us in dealing with Anna Jane during one of her worst weeks. Sarah did all of the cooking and everything was delicious including the baking that was to die for. I don't think they will ever know how much we loved having them with us or how much we appreciate all they did for us. They were a great encouragement to us during a difficult time and we want to say a huge public "THANK YOU!" to them.

We had a terrific visit with John Anthony, Kristen and their boys on Thursday/Friday. Brennan and Abby had a great time playing together. They seemed to form a wee book club and pretended to read books together and it looked like they were discussing them. They played cars and ran laps around our house while pretending to talk on mobile phones. Not to mention the fun of bouncing on our big bed! We grown ups got time talk on Thursday night when the kids were in bed. We got to talking and before we knew it 4am had rolled around! We were tired the next day but we were so glad we had the time together. I have photos and video of the events but I will post some of them later (there is a reason for this - to be disclosed later).

One of the items that I had wanted to post on but never got the time was that we have switched to washable/reusable nappies/diapers for the girls. I had a woman who came to the house and was able to talk me through the nappy choices that are out there and show me some of the products. We bought a brand called lollipop and are not finding them any worse than disposables.
We have had a few leaks, in Abby's case it was because we forgot to change her more often than with the disposables and with Anna Jane we are not sure why it is happening yet. We hope it will save us from the huge financial drain that disposables are. We actually only got them for Anna Jane but Abby was so excited about them that she started wearing them too. Here are the girls sporting their new nappies....




That is about all I can think of, it is so difficult to remember when you don't get the chance to update regularly.

I was going to upload and post more pictures and video along with this but I have not had time and as it has taken me 3 days to get this far I will just post it as is. Pictures later.