A mind of its own...

I've been told by a couple of moms on a few occasions that they have "hair envy" when they see Lily.  She was born with a mop of black hair which has continued to grow (except for the usual bald sleep spot at the back of the head) and I'm lucky enough to be able to play around with hair clips and garters.  It's cute and it's fun, however, lately, her hair seems to have gained a mind of its own and is now completely unruly!

No matter how much brushing I do during the day, her hair refuses to lie flat.  I cannot distinguish in which direction to even begin brushing it.  So for now I've decided to resign myself to the fact that I'm not going to win this one and will let nature do as it pleases.

See below for the evidence:

Exhaustion 101!

From as early as those precious few weeks at home, Lily was a good sleeper.  I've heard people describing the first 6 weeks with your newborn as challenging, exhausting, life-changing and scary.  Well, all I could agree with in my first 6 weeks is the most amazing life-changing emotions you're engulfed with as I was obviously one of the very few lucky ones who was blessed with an easy child...

Well, I shouldn't have held my breath at the thought, as now, at 4 months old, Lily has decided that she no longer enjoys her 6pm-6am sleep routine and she would like to show her mommy what other exhausted moms are going through!  I cannot begin to describe the absolute exhaustion I am currently feeling.  The last few nights have been extremely draining with Lily disturbing, but not actually waking up, just enough to get me out of bed, into her room to redeposit her dummy into her mouth.  This she is doing on an almost 2 hourly basis until she eventually wakes up for one early mid-morning feed with mom almost dozing off with her still attached to the boob!  She then goes back to sleep and is awake at 6am for a feed and to start her day, much to the shattered nerves of mom who's secretly hoping and praying that she'll go back to sleep for at least another hour... but no such luck!

So to all the other exhausted moms out there, I'm starting to comprehend how you are feeling.  I just hope that next season's new trends include dark bags... The ones you wear under your eyes!

New Mommy!

I had all great intentions to start a blog when I first found out I was pregnant, but for some reason, going totally against my organised personality, I never got around to starting one.  I wish I had.  I wish I had documented all the ups and downs of pregnancy (not that there were many "downs"), all the incredible "firsts" and of course, the indescribable, most amazing experience of finally meeting my precious daughter.  I never knew life could deal an individual such an incredible experience - an experience that words can never describe.  The absolute unconditional love you feel for this little person is truly out of this world.

So be it as it may, I am now going to try start this blog that I had so intended on doing about a year ago!

On the 28th April this year, I met my beautiful daughter Lily.  My husband and I hadn't found out the sex of our baby, but I think somewhere deep down I knew we were having a little girl.  If people asked me what gender I would have preferred for our first born I always said it didn't matter to us and that as long as our baby was healthy, we would be happy.  Of course that was the truth, but secretly, if I was given the choice of choosing a gender, I definitely leaned towards pink!

So out came Lily, a petite 3kg on the dot with a mop of black hair and the most perfectly shaped little eyebrows.  I couldn't stop staring at her perfect little features and how, even at a few hours old, she had the same big toe as her mom and granny - a feature I will have to apologise for passing on to her when she's a little older!

Today Lily is a couple of days over 4 months old and it truly has been the most incredible 4 months of my life.

Here is a picture of my cute little angel at 1 day old.