One Month Old! already

Today Liam is one month old. Can you believe that the time has passed this quickly already?!? 

Cause I sure can't. 

Yesterday we went to the Health Nurse and he got weighed and the best news ever is that he has put on a whopping 240gms in the last week. Which may not sound like much but in Liam's case that is excellent. So his total weight is now 2360gms or in the old measurement 5 pounds 3 ounces. So since his birth he has put on a whole pound. I was very excited and walked out one very happy Mama.

Anyway some more photos of him taken today.

Oh yeah I also just want to share some joy I had today about myself. I managed to get back into my jeans! Yea! The last time I was able to wear them I was about 10 weeks pregnant. I grew out of my pants and jeans very fast. 

Poor Tilly!

Tuesday night Tilly thought it'd be fun to go out into her cat run and do whatever cats do in a cat run. Then come back inside with a lovely deep cut on her front leg. Oh and of course she will do it at 10pm when there are no vets open except Murdoch Emergency and they charge you $177 just to get a consult then whatever they do will be charged accordingly on top of that price.

So yes I had a lovely Tuesday night didn't get home till Midnight didn't get into bed till nearly 1am and then had to get up to Liam at 4am for his feed. 

I then had to take her back to my vet this morning where she cost me more as she had to have an operation on said leg to make sure there was no further damage and then they could stitch it up nice and neat. Cause she had to cut it all jagged like not a perfect straight cut just to be difficult. So I'm not going to mention how much it cost but it wasn't cheap and it doesn't help when we are only on the one income but never mind you do what you have to do for the fur children.

While I'm talking about the fur children they have been doing my head in the last few days, well mainly Taj, just trying to get my attention anyway he can which usually consists of him doing anything that gets him into trouble. His main one is going into the home theatre or Liam's room oh and he nearly got on the kitchen bench too. Big no no.

Obviously they are all trying to get my attention as they aren't getting as much as they used too before Liam but I am trying to spread my love around the three of them. 

Which clearly is never enough in the cats eyes.

Some photos of Tilly and her bandaged leg. 

Tilly with her wonderful Elizabethan Collar. 

She really doesn't like this great fashion accessory.

Happy Easter!!

Our gorgeous boy all cute and stuff for Easter!

Wishing everyone a Happy Easter!
Lots of Love
from our Happy Family

A Few Firsts For Liam

First Smile

Hey yeah it may be a wind smile but I was pretty stoked I caught it on camera

First Car Ride in our Car

On his way home from hospital. He hardly fits in the car seat but looks totally cute

First sleep in his bassinet

Atleast we are going to get our moneys worth out of the bassinet

First Nappy Change at Home

First Introduction to the Xbox courtesy of Dad

Liam Nate has arrived!!

I know this is fairly late but better late than never!

Liam Nate arrived on the 8th April 2011 at 7:30am. He was 6 weeks early and in a hurry to get here. He weighed 4pounds 3 ounces or 1900gms and was 44cm long.
I'm not going to give you gory details of the birth or anything gross like that. I will say though that my waters broke on the Tuesday 5th April and we rushed to hospital. They gave me drugs to stop the contractions for 2 days and then on the Thursday night the 7th they induced me as Liam wasn't very happy in there and the doctors were concerned.
I was induced at about 8pm I thought I was handling contractions fairly well but then realised that they were just getting stronger. Rocky ended up telling the midwife to get the epidural. We had discussed things like that before the labour anyway and we had agreed that he would be my voice if I couldn't talk. I was so glad I had the epidural I don't think I could of done it without it.
The funniest bit (funny weird not funny haha) about the whole labour was that shift change was happening when I started to push. The midwife who had been with me all night said I'm not going home till this baby is delivered. She had put in the hard yards with me and I really appreciate that, she was bloody awesome. Because of the shift change there seemed to be alot of people in the room. Rocky thinks about 10 or so people I didn't notice I was preoccupied. Then about half hour of pushing and Liam was here.
We got five or so minutes with him after the doctors had looked over him. I knew it was only going to be short lived as he had to go straight to nursery to be checked over as he was prem. Rocky went with him which was really good.

I didn't do too well after labour. I suffered from post partum pre-eclampsia. It was a bit of a scary day after that hit me. I stayed in the labour ward with doctors all around me checking me out trying to work out what was wrong. That night I had to stay in the ASKU unit I'm not entirely sure what the initials stand for but basically it was intensive care. I didn't get to see Liam and hold him again until about 6pm and that was only cause I begged the midwife to take me down there. She did it without doctors permission but I was so glad she did. I got ten minutes with him and it was the best 10 minutes of my life. It made the whole day and what I had been through worthwhile.

People say its unbelievable how much love you have for that child in an instant is just ridiculous. But its not until it happens to you that you realise in that moment just how much love there is and how you just feel like you will do anything for them at a moments notice.

Eddie Vedder Concert= awesome

Friday night Rocky and I went to Eddie Vedder's solo show. Wow! He was unreal. He sang for over two hours including two encores. He sang a few Pearl Jam songs, a couple of his own songs from Into The Wild soundtrack and the rest were covers. One of the covers he loves to sing is of course Throw Your Arms Around Me by Hunters and Collectors. That song makes me cry whether or not Eddie sings it or Hunters. So yes I cried at his concert but its the lyrics that get me everytime. I tell you all to go and listen to it and you may see what I mean. Or you may not and think I'm just weird. Anyway great concert and I'm glad it was my last concert I'll go to for a long time seeing as once baby's here we may not get the chance to go as often to things like that.

I should mention that baby also loved the concert. He did not stop moving the whole time the concert was on. They do say that babies can hear things so I'd like to think he was doing all the moving cause he loved the music and not trying to make it stop. 

Here are some photos I took of the concert. 

Here is some video of the very last song he performed called Hard Sun its from the Into The Wild soundtrack. He had all the houselights turned up so it was pretty easy to get a clear a picture as I did. 

I hope you can all view it as this is the first video I have put on the blog.

My Last Day at Work

Thursday just gone was my last day at work. I got super spoilt by everyone once again. The good thing is I know I am going to use every single thing that I got so nothing was a waste. I have heaps of nappies and wipes now. Also have heaps of Johnson and Johnson products all really handy. Singlets, clothes in a range of sizes and all little bits and pieces. I love it all!

 

Oh and not to forget to mention the 2 things I got just for me. Jacqui got me a really great cupcake decorating cookbook and Jessica and Barry O for getting me a voucher to not only have 1 facial, shoulder and neck massage but 2. So hopefully I'll be able to squeeze one of them in before baby is here and have the other one after. 

So I would just like to Thank everyone at Bidvest for making my last day awesome and giving me and the baby some really awesome gifts. 

I really appreciate it.

Thank you!