I got a phone call this morning from my dad saying my mum was put in hospital last night with a suspected blood clot…

I’m really worried. I wish we were closer… I kept telling her to move - only half joking. I mean,
I want Ellie to be able to see my family often and now this…

I’ve been slack in writing in here, but then I’m not sure anyone reads it anyway.

Ellie’s doing great. Today is the first time she’s slept for more than half an hour in the day! So
exciting going to bed during the day and night is going so much better, too.

Yesterday she reached the three month mark. She’s looking sooo old and she’s got such a cheeky
personality.

We’re on the midst of planning all our Christmas pressies, I am so excited about some of them!!
We plan to go to Bathurst on the 15th of December for the weekend to have an early Christmas
with my family and my dad’s parents. I’m thrilled to have a date, I can’t wait for my brother and grandparents to finally see Ellie for the first time.

I should go and do something while Ellie’s asleep. Before I go, I have been directed to
www.freerice.com by a friend. It’s a site where you are given a word and you guess what that word means, for every word you get right they donate 10 grains of rice through the UN. IF you have some spare time why not got check it out!

Ellie rolled from her belly to her back today - TWICE!

We were playing in her room when she caught sight of her toys off to the side, which were much more interesting than Mummy and her silly noises, thankyou very much! She started wriggling and trying to get to them, she was kind of moving around rather than foward, then suddenly over she went!!

I put her back where she was for her to do it again and she started her wriggling and
grunting in concentration. It was taking some time, she was getting frustrated and whingy
and I was about to pick her up when she did it again, this time I got it on video to show Daddy!!

I’m so proud of her. It seems I am going to her Milestones page every other day to highlight
something new. I can’t believe how much she’s doing. In the last week or so she’s really started to
get interested in her toys, too. It’s too cute to watch her squeezing them, talking to them and looking lovingly at them.

It’s amazing to look at her and see her taking everything in. James and I are becoming more aware of what we’re doing and how we’re doing it because we can tell she’s picking up so much from us and her surroundings. At least she’ll be into cooking and cleaning - she always ‘helps’ me with dinner and making the beds

The Brauer’s Colic Relief we bought has been great - I know just how well it was working now
that we’ve run out and are still waiting on the replacement to come… We’re back to having trouble settling her at night and in the day she’ll only sleep for a decent amount of time if I am holding her whereas I was able to put her in her cot for all her sleeps once we’d started on the medicine and she was much easier to settle. She’s not nearly as bad as she was  a few weeks ago and hopefully our package will arrive before
we get to that.

Anyway, I have finally got her to sleep without having to hold her so I am going to have some lunch, I am sooo hungry.

Oh, before I go, I have put in a Guestbook, I’d love to know who out there is reading here, what you think, if you find my blog interesting and if you have anything you’d like me to address in future entries.

How time is flying, I was looking through some photos of when Ellie was born and she was sooo tiny! Now she’s such a big girl, she’s filled out her clothes nicely and is ready to be on the move! She loves to stand and sit with our help and has great head control. I watch her when she’s having her tummy time and she really looks like she wants to crawl so bad. I love watching her develop and can’t wait for her to crawl - though once she is I am sure I will be wishing for her to stay still!!

We had a shocker of a night last night, possibly because she came down with a gunky eye yesterday. Today it’s looking heaps better and she’s having a nice long nap.

The medicine we got her, Brauer Colic Relief, seems to be doing a good job. She does get a little windy sometimes but she hasn’t had another crying episode like she had at the worst of it.

I can’t really remember what life was like before Ellie, it’s like she’s been a part of everything forever. I knew I would love her and think she was beautiful but nothing can really prepare you for how much you really do love a baby, I don’t think I have ever seen anything as beautiful as my daughter. I’m sure all parents feel like this, but my girl’s the prettiest

I sometimes wonder if you can love a second child as much as your first. I am sure you can, but when I look at Ellie I am so filled with love, joy and pride I can’t really imagine how you can feel all that again. Do people feel guilty when they have a second baby? Guilty that they’re not going to have as much time with the first as you have been having? Guilty that the second won’t get the same attention the first one did?  That’s what I worry about when it comes to having a second. Especially since we hope to have them close together. I don’t want Ellie or her brother or sister to miss out on attention or love.

Anyway, I should be doing something else while she’s still asleep.

Ellie’s having a nice sleep at the moment, she went to bed without a hassle and put herself to sleep. Last night she slept from 8.30pm to 3am I am a happy mum. She’s really doing well. After our horrible Colic experience a little over a week ago we bought some more natural medicine and it seems to be doing the job. After I fed her at 3 this morning she was a little windy, it was keeping her awake but not giving her pain and she was laying in her cot just talking to herself so I went and laid down while she was happy. It was so cute, she was in there laughing and talking away.

This morning we put her on a blanket on the floor while we had breakfast and she entertained
herself, which is such a change, she used to cry and cry anytime I tried to eat. I cleaned the
kitchen while she chatted away to herself.

It’s funny, I have only just realised as I’ve written this that things really have gotten so much better and easier.

Well, she’s awake so this will be a short update :)