Finally!!!!!

After nearly six months of watching mummy and daddy eat, and even mummy feed Aleshia Young the other day, yesterday Andrew finally got to eat something other than mummy's milk.

Here he is trying his first taste of pear. Most of it went in. We think he enjoyed it. He will get some more later today.
Yesterday was a day for first as it was also the first time he went in the car in the big carseat and the first time he went to straight to sleep without complaining in the porta cot. This meant mummy and daddy could enjoy a lovely evening with the Davies. 

Grandad and Andrew

Andrew and Grandad had lots of fun together.


 

Andrew's trip to Blenheim

Mummy and Andrew have just come back from Blenheim. We went to lend Grandma and Granddad Harris a hand as Grandma has had an operation on her knee.


Here is Andrew on his first ferry trip. He was a good sailor.


Grandma and Grandad have different toys to play with.


Andrew and Grandma, who is making good recovery from her surgery. She could get Andrew off the floor.

We are pleased to be home now as we both missed Daddy/Stephen. 

Andrew and his tongue

Here is a photo for Andrew when he was in his tongue poking out phase a few weeks ago.

Thanks Grandad Harris for the photo. 

Reflections

Andrew likes smiling at people, and holding hands with other babies. Here he is practising. 

Mischief

Hello!

Andrew had a special visit from Mischief the Clown yesterday:

 

Five Months Old Today

Andrew is five months old today. So I thought I had better post an update.

The photo below is his happy face this afternoon.


His vital statistics as at his five month plunket check last Tuesday
Height: 64.4cm
Weight: 6.82kg
This puts him on the 50% percentile line for height and just below for weight.

Here is another photo taken last week of Andrew's happy face.


We have had a busy month.

Grandma and Grandad Harris came to stay for Great Aunty Mary's wedding. It was then that Andrew started to poke his tongue out when he smiled. He stopped after a week as he couldn't talk with his tongue poking out.

Andrew also got to meet his Great Uncle Alex, Great Uncle Les and Great Aunty Lyn and mummy's cousin Tim as they were all here for the wedding.

Then Mummy's cousin Alexia died. The extended family got together for this incredibly sad event. Grandma and Grandad came back and Aunty Margaret and Uncle David came up for the funeral.

This was the first time Uncle David and Andrew got to meet each other. Here they are deep in discussion. Uncle David is back staying with us at the moment.


Mummy got together with her old school friends Joanne, Nicola, Jenny and Bernie. Andrew got to tag along for part of the time. Andrew stayed home with Daddy when they went out for dinner.

We have also flown up to the Bay of Plenty via Auckland for Daddy's cousin April's wedding. Daddy posted some photos on this the other day.

That accounts for every weekend this month. During the week we still go to SPACE, antenatal coffee group, church mum's group, church, the library, walking etc...

When we aren't traveling around, Andrew is still a reasonable good sleeper during the day and mostly sleeps all night. He likes to lie on the floor and wriggle and squirm while laughing, giggling and gurgling.

He has become uncertain about his bath and sometime likes to see if he can deafen mummy with his screaming. 

Weta

When Andrew gets old enough to help with the firewood, he'll soon find some new friends to play with...
This is a male tree weta. 

April and Donovan's Wedding

Stephen's cousin April married on Saturday in Tauranga. It was the first time Andrew had been at a wedding so he didn't want to sleep in case he missed something, but he was very well behaved.


 

Andrew meets his great grandma

While we were in Whakatane we to Tauranga so Andrew could meet his Great Grandma Gillard, Stephen's mum's mum. This is Andrew's remaining great-grandma. Here are some photos of Andrew and his great-grandma. They are the ones I like.



 

Andrew's trip to Whakatane part two

Here are some photos of Andrew with his grandpa


and Granny
And daddy and mummy
 

Andrew's trip to Whakatane part one

Andrew and his daddy and mummy went to Whakatane to visit granny and grandpa Denne from 2 September to 9 September. We had a great time.

Here is Andrew practicing his standing with Daddy.
Andrew slept really well in the porta cot after the first day. Andrew also got to meet Tara the dog. This was Andrew's first experience of Animals.

Tara was very good at not licking Andrew (and smiling for the camera)

But she did get close enough to have a good sniff of Andrew
 

Four months old today

Andrew is four months old today. So we thought we had better take some pictures.

We can't tell you his vital statistics as he hasn't been measured this month.

Here he is lying on his tummy
And playing with his toy. If he is the mood he does pick up toys to play with.

He is also getting a lot more vocal, if only we could understand it all. He likes to laugh and is ticklish so giggles lots when he is being undressed.

Andrew and I have been getting out with friends and enjoying the lovely spring days we have been having laterly. Today is not one of them. On Saturday when Stephen was at church mens camp Andrew and I went to the zoo and yesterday we went to the gardens to see the tulips. Andrew had his first swing, sorry I had to hold on to Andrew so there is no photo of this.

Today it was nice as Daddy came home and had lunch with us.

Andrew seems to enjoy his cot and sleeps all night most nights. He also sleeps in the evenings which has meant mum and dad have time to themselves.

Anyway I think he needs to go to bed so I had better publish this and put him into his bed. 

Jolly Jumper

Andrew has found a new toy that he enjoys, the jolly jumper. Here he is having a bounce in the doorway and it is easier on mummy's arms.  

Andrew's new cot

Andrew is now sleeping in his new cot in his own room.

Stephen and I put the cot together yesterday afternoon and Andrew had his first sleep in it yesterday evening. He didn't sleep all night last night but hopefully tonight he might go back to sleeping 8-9 hours at night. We thought that as his routine was disrupted with being away that it was a good time to move him.

Below is a slightly blurry photo of Andrew asleep this morning. He was in the middle of a sleep that lasted over two hours.

We are still trying to organise the rest of his room.

A typical week for Andrew

I said that I would post places Andrew goes last week, instead here is what Andrew has been up to in the last week. This is a reasonable example of a typical week for Andrew

Saturday: In the morning Andrew stayed home with Daddy while Mummy got her haircut

Sunday: We went to Church in the morning. Andrew often sleeps for part of the service and will have a feed as well. Afterwards we stayed for lunch. We often have lunch with our friend Paul.

Monday: Mummy does housework in the morning while Andrew sleeps, feeds and plays the morning away. In the afternoon we had PIN group. This stands for Plunket in the neighbourhood. It is a coffee group initially organised by Plunket.

Tuesday: We went to visit Ben and his mum Michelle. We walked down to the park, where some of us had our lunch. Andrew waited until we got back to their house before he woke up for his.

Wednesday: In the Morning Andrew and Mummy went shopping to buy Daddy's birthday present. We can't tell you what it is yet as Daddy gets to read this and we don't want him to find out before his birthday. We also went to the library to get some books. Then we went to SPACE. This is a playcentre run group for mums and babies. The mummys have a discussion time on a particular topic, this week eye sight. Then we have a coffee and chat time followed by some singing at the end. Then we came home and Andrew has a sleep.

Thursday: We went to Church for mum's group. In the afternoon we went for a walk with our friend Jenny. Andrew slept in his buggy most of the time.

Friday: Today we are planning to stay home. Mummy is doing house work and getting organised for our trip to Whakatane, we leave tomorrow. Andrew sat outside in his bouncer while mummy was hanging out the washing.

When we are not out and about Andrew likes to:
sleep - he sleeps most nights for 8-9 hours straight and he normally sleeps in the evenings. The disadvantage is that some days he doesn't see much of his daddy as he is back asleep before daddy wakes up and is in bed asleep when Daddy gets home from work. He also has sleeps during the day
Feed - 6-7 times a day
Play - with his playgym, rattles and his horse toy.
Sing - Mummy and Andrew like action songs e.g Heads, shoulder knees and toes, Eencey Weencey spider and five in the bed
Reading with mummy
Exercise his vocal cords, he can even laugh now.
Sitting in his highchair while mummy and daddy are eating or mummy is doing things in the kitchen


Sorry no photo today. :-(

Rolling

Andrew gave his mummy a fright this morning. He was having some no clothes and nappy time in the sun. I put him on his tummy and then he manged to roll on to his back. I rolled him back over to his tummy and he rolled back to his back. I then grabbed the camera, changed it to video mode and put him on his tummy and pushed record. We have two 30 second videos of Andrew wriggling around but he didn't roll over again, so I put his nappy back on and the camera away. 

Three Months Old

Andrew is now three months old and three days old.

Below is a photo of his beautiful smile.


Vital Stats:
(As at last tuesday)
Weight 5.64kg
Height:60cm
Head circumference: 40cm

This equates to being on the 25% line on the plunket graph.

Tomorrow I'll post about places we go and things Andrew does.