On Friday 13 July our family welcomed its newwst member - a baby Girl. Born 8.36am, 3.24KG & 52cm long, we named her EMERALD ANNABELLE.

My poor little boy has chicken pox and is covered head to toe in yucky spots.
the ironic things is the doctors appointment i had made for last saturday (where we were told he had chicken pox) was actually made to get his vacination against them.
Along with the chicken pox, my poor little boy also has tonsilitis so he is not a happy little camper.

I am trying to schedule a hospital appointment for my first doctor checkup (at the hospital - i have been seeing my local GP). Because i work full time, i weant to try to get an appointment that will outside of work hours, however the hospital only does appointments from 9am to 3pm. I have asked to have a first thing in the morning appointment and the first they can offer me is 10am, they only offer morning appointments on tow days a week and even though they take appointments from 9am, the doctors dont usually arrive untilll 9.30am.
I have been having regular appointments with my doctor, and ultrasounds and i know my baby is in good health, but i really do feel as though the hospital dont give a rats **** for working mothers. They are trying to make me take the antinatal classes (even though this is my second child and i never took them with my first) which they only offer during the week (or i can pay for them on Saturday mornings - which i cant afford).
My work is not overly happy I am pregnant and is making my life a little hard at the moment (i am not allowed time off for doctors appointment, if i do it has to be unpaid or i have to take annual leave - there isnt anything worng with that except I cant afford not to be paid and i have not annual leave.
The hospital staff was quite rude to me when i told them that i couldnt make a particular mrning because of a work commitment and coulnt understand why i would take unpaid time off.  Once this baby is born we are going to struggle even more financially, and i cant afford to loss my job (which is on the cards if i take any more time off).
Just wanted to have a winge.

Over the weekend I had to take my little by to hospital as he was having an asthma attack, very very scary – the first one my son has had. When he came home we had to monitor him very closely and medicate him every four hours, during the night too. Needless to say I am just surviving on the little sleep I can get, with every cough or strange noise I rush into his room to check he is breathing ok. I took only one day of work to make sure my son was ok and when I got back to work I was made to feel guilty for taking time off. I then ended up crying in the bathroom (been 21 weeks pregnant I am slightly emotional)
I feel so angry at my boss, who up until today I use to get along really well with, I really don’t think I will have much respect for him from now on. I don’t like to cause trouble, nor do I like to make other peoples life difficult but MY SON COMES FIRST, and those who don’t like it can go jump.

I went for my 18-20 week ultrasound the other day. I was really hopeful of finding out if this baby is a boy or a girl, however it seems I have a very modest child – baby crossed their legs the whole time I was getting the ultrasound.

 

I have had three ultrasounds so far, they found a few blood clots earlier on so they wanted to be precautious.  Most of the pictures just look like a blob to me; however I did get one good picture.

                             

Well Hubby, Bub & I are heading off for our first car trip together this weekend. We are driving to Temora (near Wagga Wagga – a 5hour drive for us) for my nephew’s (brother-in-laws child) Christening.

This will be the first time since we have had my son that the three of us will be in a confined space for this period of time, I think up until now we have done only a max of 1hour together. Since my hubby can’t drive at the moment (due to broken arms) all the driving will be up to me (yuck), I don’t usually like driving with hubby in the car – he is such a back seat driver. I guess I will just have to see how it go’s. I hope we all have a good weekend – it will be a very long drive back if we don’t!

Jason and have have discovered that we are expecting Baby number two (a brother or sister for Isaac) due early July 2007.
At first we were a little suprise, we werent planning a second child (and we thought we were been careful), but now that it's happening we are getting use to the idea of our growing family.
Both of our families are excited - everyone hoping for a little girl, but neither Jason or myself mind if its a boy or a girl

Thanks to everyone who helped answer my questions on “How do I deal with naughty behavior in a one year old”.

It looks as though Isaac might finally be getting the point. When he does something naughty now and I catch him doing it, I say No – that’s naughty, Isaac will stop what he’s doing say “Ah Oh” and tap him self on the back of the hand.

It’s quite cute to watch, I just have to be careful not to smile and let him think he can get a way with what ever naughty thing he was doing in the first place.

I got to see the real spirit of Christmas this year through the eyes of my son. Although this was not Isaac’s first Christmas (he was only 3 months last year, so he slept through most of the day) he made me feel like it was mine.

The joy in my sons eyes at seeing all the Christmas decorations, nativity scenes, Christmas Lights, Santa was amazing, he loved it all. Waking up on Christmas morning to find Santa had been and left you a Christmas stocking, playing with the novelty toys inside, the joy of ripping of paper then seeing your child having more fun with the ribbons, paper and boxes then the actual presents, It was great to experience that again. He loved to play Santa at the family tree, handing out the presents (with a little encouragement from us), Christmas crackers and those silly little hats, falling asleep with your new toys under the Christmas tree – he looked so angelic, So much joy for one little boy.

Then came the New Year celebrations - We ventured into Sydney to see the fireworks in the city, the awe on my sons face seeing the pretty colours explode in the sky gave me a new love and appreciation for the fireworks display, the noise didn’t seem to bother him. Isaac tried to make it to midnight, but my tired little boy ended up falling asleep at 11.15pm - too much excitement for one day.

I think both Christmas and New Year this year have to be the best I have had in such a long time. My son showed us the True meaing of the holiday season - Family, Love & appreciation for all that is beautiful.

 

 

Well i have finally managed to book my son in for his first swimming lesson tomorrow morning. I am so excited (despite the fact that i too have to put on a swimming costume).
Isaac was given some swimmers a while a ago for his birthday - i hope they still fit him (over the top of his swimmer nappies of course).