Joel's 8 Month Check Up

Today Joel had his 8 month check up with the child health nurse, this was the first available appointment after Christmas.

he will be 9 months in 6 days and he weighs 8170 gms and is 71.5cm long. So he is now down to the 10% with his weight. The CHN is a little concerned about this so we need to fatten him up or at least get to the stage he has a steady increase in weight gain instead of a plateau.

He is doing all the right things though, getting ready to crawl (I don't think he is any hurry) and chatting away.

I'm not that concerned, look at all the grief I went through with Eloise and he lack of weight gain and she is just a healthy skinny mini...

I'm OK ......really

I have had quite a few phone calls in response to my last post and my tummy ache....

To put everyone's minds at ease, its almost gone. I really think it was a weird tummy bug and yes if I had carried on I was going to make an appointment at the doctor...

Thank you to all that rang, emailed, messaged and SMS :)

On a more exciting note, I had my first official weigh in yesterday morning....

I lost 600gms.....Yay....the day before and today I had lost more but as Monday is the day...Mondays results are it...

Slowly and steady won the race anyway....

Oh and the pip squeak pool guy came and installed the cell and chlorinator yesterday....and the leads DID need replacing...so now we have a pool that works.

The girls will be home tomorrow afternoon so I am looking forward to some time with them before school starts in..................12 days....where have the holidays gone.

Its Hot and I hurt

Wow its hot...

According to the Weather Channel is only 37.4 degrees out there but I know its going to get hotter. The kids and I ducked to Coles early this morning before it got too hot.

The pool guy came out yesterday to collect everything up to fix the pool, obnoxious little tit...He wanted to only take the cell not the whole chlorinator unit. I told him that the reason for the cell failure was due to the wires getting so hot (turning light blue to black) that the plastic around the cell melted causing the leak. He then told me that they are meant to get hot and did I try and "toggle" the leads so that they work. Oh hello the wires are that hot you cant touch them.....

So after a phone call to his boss he took the chlorinator (to be checked out) and will bring them back when every things is ok....

So its the middle of summer, we have a pool but cant swim. The kids are taking it pretty well considering.

For the last few days I have had really bad belly ache and I don't know why. Its not a stretched muscle kind of ache its more of a deep ache inside....its been 24 hours now and no relief....

So anyway I got on the Wii fit this morning for a weigh in, and according to it I have lost 4.8kg since Monday.....not possible so I waited until Darian had finished getting ready for work and weighed my self on our ensuite scales...according to them I am 87.2kg so only a loss of 400gms......I tend to believe the bathroom scales more than the Wii...

So today I have eaten well, I also hopped on the Wii fit and did 20 min of free step....managed 2200 steps and then I did 25 min yoga....

My tummy still hurts but I feel so much better for doing some exercise....

A sitting Duck

I  managed to get a photo of Joel sitting yesterday...he will sit up for a good while now before over balancing and toppling over...

 

Other than that nothing much is happening, we are still waiting on the real estate agents to come and fix the salt cell on the pool. It was been 2 weeks now and no swimming :(

I have been keeping up with the exercise, at least 30 min to an hour a day on the Wii fit...so we will see what happens on my weigh in day on Tuesday.....fingers crossed..

Oh and I forgot to mention, my niece Melissa who is travelling around Europe with her boyfriend Al announced the other day that Al proposed to her at Trevi fountain in Rome....I mean how romantic....I am soooooo excited for them both...

Freecycle...

I just love it, I mainly joined the group to get rid of clutter that has been hanging around our house. You know the stuff that you don't really need, too good to throw away but cant be bothered to sell...

For those who don't know about it, it is part of the yahoo groups network. You join and post to the group something you want to freecycle or something that you want. This then gets sent to everyone on the group and if anyone wants the item or can help you they can email you directly...

Some of the stuff people are giving away is amazing, beds, lounges, fridges, even a spa....

So Darian saw an email regarding someone giving away some playdough toys here in our suburb, I went and picked it up last night and this is what we ended up with

How cool is this....did I mention I LOVE freecycle!

More Cute Photos

Just cant help it, well I was trying different settings on the camera....still not happy.

Joel's new haircut

 

 

Its not a very good photo, in fact I am thinking of getting a new camera. The camera we have takes TERRIBLE photos inside. I have read the instructions and doesn't matter what I do the photo still comes out average.

Anyway back to the gorgeous boy who sat up on his own last night, only for about 10 sec before he toppled but he is getting there...

So for the records Joel officially sat at 8 months and one week...

As for me and the weight loss...well ahem, um...I did nothing all weekend. Darian was watching the cricket so I didn't get on the Wii fit, however he is back at work today so I did an hour...and it did say I had lost 400gms since the last I was on....so better down than up :)

Oh and the girls are back tonight, they have been at their dads since the 27th.....I have missed them so much.

Joel 8 months.

 

 

Joel is now 8 months. He has cut the two front teeth on the top and the two front teeth on the bottom.

Nothing else to report because he is still not sitting up, or crawling or anything really.

Though he now says mum, dad and bub.

I gave him a haircut yesterday as his hair was getting so long....he has now lost all his curls :(    I will have to take some photos of his new hair cut.

Happy New Years....2009....

We had a quiet night, the kids went to bed a 8pm and then Darian and I played bowling on the Wii until it was almost 12. I had a headache so didnt even have a drink....

At Midnight Darian rang his parents in South Africa and then we went to sleep.

The kids slept until 7am and Darian rang his parents again for their New Years...

A nice but quiet New Years....

Hope everyone else has a good one.....

update :

Food - was going good this morn but fell off the wagon this afternoon, ended up eating rubbish during the afternoon. We had a BBQ and salad for dinner.

Exercise - 20 min this morning on Wii Fit (before being kicked off)