Passports, Home Invasions and Strawberry Sweaters!

Posted on August 17, 2006

Lots to tell since last post! Squidgy­boo con­tin­ues to grow cuter by the day! We are work­ing on get­ting her a pass­port so that we can go on our hol­i­day to the Azores. We have an appoint­ment at the Amer­i­can Embassy in Lon­don, Sept 7.

Scary thing hap­pened to us last Thurs­day, we had a home inva­sion. 4 men wear­ing ski masks kicked our door in look­ing for the keys to the car. Wal­ly­woo fought them off!! Who would have thought he had it in him. He has a black eye, bruised ribs and was taken to the hos­pi­tal just as a pre­cau­tion. I screamed my head off and am com­pletely trau­ma­tized by the entire inci­dent!! Appar­ently these types of inci­dents are more and more com­mon. With secu­rity on the cars being bet­ter the theives need the keys in order to steal it. So what do they do?? They just bust down your door and expect you to be too shocked to resist. I haven’t slept a wink since it hap­pened, I keep think­ing they’re going to come back!! Wal­ly­woo and are were plan­ning on mov­ing but this is just speed­ing up the process. I’m hop­ing to be in a new place by Christ­mas, I fear this is wish­ful think­ing! I’ll keep every­one posted if they catch the bas­tards!! We had the car taken away and dusted for fin­ger­prints, hope­fully they found something.

We spent the week­end in Shrews­bury with Wallywoo’s old col­lege friend and his fam­ily. We had a vey good time and Squidgy­boo was very good. We went into the vil­lage to watch fire­works and she slept through the entire thing! Of course she woke up as soon as they were orver! She’s able to keep her head up more and has a lot more con­trol of it. She looks like a lit­tle tur­tle some­times. I’ll post some more pic­tures when I have a sec­ond!! She’ll be 2 months in a few days. I can’t believe how quickly time is passing.

Here’s a pic­ture of Squidgy­boo wear­ing her new straw­berry sweater sent to her by her Madrinha Maryann!! It’s just a lit­tle BIG!!!!





Is it love??

Posted on August 3, 2006

I’m fas­ci­nated by Squidgy­boo and her farts! You can hear them from the other room! She has these explo­sive sound­ing farts which make me stop in my tracks. If I’m hold­ing her when she farts I just laugh myself silly! It must be love when a fart can make you feel this way!! Of course after the fart is usu­ally the poo, not so fas­ci­nated by that!!

In my quest to meet new peo­ple and make friends here in Man­ches­ter I posted my bio on netmums.com. I’ve had a cou­ple of replies but had been a bit weary of reply­ing but finally decided to take the plunge. And wouldn’t you know it the per­son I replied to is also an Amer­i­can liv­ing in Man­ches­ter!! We decided to meet and yes­ter­day I went w/ Squidgy­boo to meet her and her son L. I was really ner­vous about meet­ing her which is strange because I’m not a shy per­son and haven’t ever had any prob­lems meet­ing new peo­ple. Well it went very well. Squidgy­boo was a star and behaved very well allow­ing me to chat and drink my cof­fee. We exchanged tele­phone num­bers and are plan­ning on meet­ing again in a cou­ple of weeks. Could it be that I’m actu­ally mak­ing my first friend in England???

This after­noon Squidgy­boo and I went for a walk into the vil­lage, the weather was per­fect and I enjoyed get­ting some exer­cise. I stopped off at the fish­mon­gers and bought some fresh tune for din­ner. Squidgy­boo started to cry while I was at M&S so I changed her nappy and we went to park for lunch. It’s amaz­ing how quickly you get used to breast­feed­ing in pub­lic. I put down a blan­ket set out my lunch got Squidgy­boo eat­ing and the two of us enjoyed eat­ing our lunch.

I received a phone call from Aqua babies!! Yay!! Squidgy­boo and I are booked into the Sep­tem­ber ses­sion and we (I) are very excited!! This is the class where you teach the babies to swim http://www.aquababies.co.uk/index.htm . I hope Squidgy­boo enjoys it because I’d love to have her learn to swim and enjoy water from a young age. I’ll keep you posted!!





Photos

Posted on August 1, 2006

A photo of me 3 days before I gave birth!!
A photo of Squidgy­boo a few min­utes after being born 25 June 2006
Here I am try­ing to breast­feed Squidgy­boo for the first time w/ my Mom look­ing on. I look like I’ve been through hell but it was soo worth it!! I was really glad to have my Mom there with me! Squidgy­boo and Wal­ly­woo hav­ing a lit­tle nap!
My Mom and Squidgy­boo shar­ing a moment.





Breastfeeding

Posted on August 1, 2006

A photo of Squidgy­boo taken today, look­ing rather adorable!

So I decided I was going to breast­feed. I was told it was dif­fi­cult but very reward­ing and that the first 7 days were the most dif­fi­cult. They didn’t lie!! But I decided I would do it for at least 7 days, 5 weeks later and I’m still at it. I thought the other day that I alone have been keep­ing this lit­tle baby alive and she’s doing alright. It was a very weird feel­ing. She’s get­ting big­ger, devel­op­ing a per­son­al­ity and she’s thriv­ing on what my body pro­vides her. They didn’t tell you how much that was going to affect you.

That’s not to say that it still isn’t dif­fi­cult. She’s going through a bit of a growth spurt at the moment. That trans­lates into she wants to feed all the time. It’s dif­fi­cult because it not like any­one else can do it. In the end I’m glad I stuck with it. I know it’s the best thing for her. I sup­pose I’ll get used to smelling of spoiled milk and hav­ing my boobs leak all the time!!