This and that

Posted on October 22, 2006

Well I new it was going to hap­pen but I couldn’t stop it!! Squidgy­boo is now unable to sleep unless I’m hold­ing her!! In my defense she was in a lot of pain and needed to have pres­sure applied to her tummy or she would scream from the pain. Gas is a hor­ri­ble thing!! So now that her tummy is a bit bet­ter I tried to put her down like I used to do. HA!!! She was hav­ing none of it. She screamed for an hour solid. She screamed her­self hoarse!! She screamed until I wanted to chuck her out the win­dow. SOooo I finally caved and picked her up. BAM!! Asleep in a mat­ter of sec­onds!! So now the hard work begins. I have to retrain her to fall asleep on her own.

I’ve been try­ing to get her to fol­low a some­what struc­tured rou­tine but I haven’t been able to just yet. It’s been really hard w/ her cry­ing ALL THE TIME w/ her tummy. The GP gave my some med­ica­tion to give her that should help her poo. Along w/ the Infa­col I’m giv­ing her she should start to feel bet­ter soon. I’ve started to give her solid food (well baby por­ridge) and this seems to sat­isfy her. She LOVES to eat it. The gen­eral guide­lines here in the UK is that you not intro­duce solids until 6 months. I don’t think I could have held off that long. She was breast­feed­ing a lot and just needed that lit­tle bit extra. I’m hop­ing that she will begin to sleep through the night soon. Again the guide­lines rec­om­mend that she sleep w/ us in our room until 6 months but I think she’ll be going to her room before then. I think we wake each other up. So at the moment I’m putting her to sleep in her room in her cot and when she wakes up the first time for a feed I’m bring­ing her to bed w/ us.

Last night we had a get together of US Expats liv­ing in the Man­ches­ter area. It was a really good time and I was pleas­antly sur­prised. You never now who is going to show up to these types of things but every­one seemed really cool. Hope­fully we’ll be able to do this again and be able to build up a nice net­work of friends.

We all went to church this morn­ing!! It was my first time at a C of E church. It wasn’t as bad as I expected. It’s very plain com­pared to catholic churches but pretty in its own way. Esme was very good and she flirted w/ all the men.

Well I have loads to say but I’ll leave it for another day.

Lindy­loo





We’re baaack!!!

Posted on October 4, 2006

Hello All!! We’re back from our hol­i­day on the won­der­ful sunny island of Sao Miguel in the Azores!! We had a won­der­ful time and the weather was great. Squidgy­boo and I set off early around 6:30AM on the 14th and arrived in Ponta Del­gada around 9:30PM. Squidgy­boo was very tired and so was I!! My par­ents arrived on Sat­ur­day the 16th and we then headed over to Ribeira Quente. Lots to see and loads of fam­ily to be intro­duced to. Every­time I met some­one my mom would tell me it was a cousin!! I’m now con­vinced that I’m related to every­one in the vil­lage. Squidgy­boo was a hit, every­one loved her! I’ll post pho­tos soon. The house is won­der­ful and I’m glad my Dad bought it! It was the house he grew up in and after his par­ents died he decided to buy it from his broth­ers and sis­ter. I think Squidgy­boo is going to love going there dur­ing the sum­mer. Great lit­tle beach in the vil­lage and with lots of fam­ily around very safe! I can’t wait until she’s big enough to really enjoy it.

Squidgy­boo still had a bit of a dodgy tummy the first week we were there. I bought some­thing called babegel to help her poo. It’s magic stuff, you squirt the stuff in her bum and about 2 min­utes later she poo’s!! It made her feel much much better!

Wal­ly­woo arrived after a week from his trip to the USA and we did loads of sight-seeing. Next time we will have to rent a car so we can explore more of the island. We didn’t see nearly enough of it.