More photo's from Iris' photoshoot

Here are a few more photo's of my baby sister from her photoshoot.

Playing with Ben & Jake

Here i am around at Ben's house eating ice cream and sitting on Ben's trampoline, we had quite a lot of fun that day, although quite a few arguments did take place over who was playing with which of Ben's toys at any particular time.

But mostly fun was had.

Daisy x

My little red chinese dress

Here i am in my little red chinese dress that a friend of Auntie Vicky's bought for me, Tracey brought it back from abroad ages ago but it didn't fit me then.


Now it fits me as you can see, and i quite like it.

Daisy x

Colds all round

I have a cold, i keep sneezing, and I am also dribbling even more milk out the side of my mouth when i feed than i usually do.
Boo hoo.

Iris

Something is missing

I'm sure something is missing at home but i can't quite put my finger on it.
Hmmmm, i shall investigate further around the house and keep my eye on mummy and daddy.

Otto & Liberty left with more stuff than they arrived with on Sunday, so maybe they took some of my toys, i'll go and check they are all there.

...

Nope they all seem to be there.

Daisy

Bye bye Gussy the cat.

It was sort of a sad day yesterday, well no tears were shed but it was still sort of a sad day. Gus the cat has gone on a (hopefully rather long) holiday with Ben & Kate & Otto & Liberty. He's sort of on a months trial in case he hates it, but hopefully he'll love it and they will keep him.

Whilst we have loved Gus as our first born child in the eight years we'd had him we had slowly grown apart and it was time to part company in the nicest way possible.

For me the problem was his constant need to sleep on clean washing, beds, cushions, in babies bouncy chair, in cot, bed, buggy, pram, car seat in fact anywhere he could find that wasn't his own wicker basket.
For Marc it was his yowling for food when he already had a bowl full of biscuits. (i think we had spoilt him when he was our one and only son)

We aquired Gus from Caroline and Richard on the 10th May 1998, apparently he was only a kitten, but i'm not so sure cos he seemed quite big from what i remember. Caroline and Richard at the time had lots of cats, maybe 8/9/10 in a one bed flat, so i think Gus was quite relieved to leave the cat house and come to our quiet little flat.

He has been spoilt rotten in the past, we even built him steps in the wall up to our first floor flat which he took too very quickly. Imagine his delight when we moved to a house with a garden, he must have been in his element.
But then Daisy came along and the attention moved from Gus to the little baby, and now little Iris has come along, poor Gus wasn't getting any kind of look in, he was just fed and left, hardly a stroke touched his back from day to day.

So the guilt finally made us do the right thing and find him a better home, a home that would love him like we used to. And that home is Ben & Kate's home, and i know that Otto (5 in Oct) and Liberty (3 in Jan) will give him lots and lots of much needed love & attention.

Bye bye Gus, you will be missed, (perhaps not immediately cos to be honest i'm just relieved that i don't have to worry about you sleeping on the clean washing and making Daisy's ezcema flare up, or even sleeping on baby Iris), but you will definately be missed.

Daisy doesn't really seem to have noticed that he's gone, fingers crossed it stays like that.

(Photo's of Gus from years gone by)

Mummy cowering in the corner

Eek, mummy had better get that dictionary out, and take some lessons in grammar and all that jazz.

I'm a bit poorly today.

Daisy has a cold
and a husky voice
and maybe a headache

She woke up in the night and was all bunged up and her voice was all husky and she was crying and crying.

She is very tired today so she's taken herself off to bed.

Iris's Photoshoot

Today, baby sister had a photoshoot here at home, there were lights and everything.

Rita came round and took some fabulous photographs of Iris, and Iris was mostly quite happy to be photographed but got a bit bored by the end of it.

Iris did a few shots without her nappy on and she did what she loves doing best, weeing as soon as her nappy is off, she wee'd all over the towel.

Here are a few of the photo's.

Mummy says that lots will go up on a website where they can be printed, email her for the link.

Daisy x

Cards & Presents

Daisy is in bed now, so I (mummy) am adding a little entry whilst i get the chance.

Firstly, thank you to everyone who has sent cards and presents, there are too many to mention and i've tried to thank everyone but if i haven't thanked you and your reading this then i'm sorry, i thank you now, they are all lovely.
Oh i know someone i haven't thanked, and that's Dotty Dee, thank you for the lavender, it is right by my pillow and i'm hoping it is helping me sleep when i do get the chance to sleep.

Here is a photograph of a present from Sarah, cos she ordered it online from New Zealand and she hasn't seen it yet, it is an outfit for Daisy and a basket of stuff for Iris: a blanket with satin edging, a teddy, three vests and a babygrow.
It's lovely.

Little Iris on a big bed.

Here is little Iris on mummy and daddy's big bed.

Roni & Ruby

Here is a photograph of the lovely Roni & Ruby who looked after me when mummy went into labour.
This photograph was taken on Tuesday 22nd August which was actually the day that mummies labour started, but she tells me it all stopped a few times so it ended up being really long.
Anyway i was very well looked after but these two lovely girls and by their lovely mummy Ged.

hmmm, i spoke too soon

Last night my baby sister Iris was awake for quite a lot of the night, she woke up at 12pm and stayed awake until about 2.30am and then woke up again at 5am and stayed awake for quite a while again. Mummy ended up sleeping with her in the office to try to keep her asleep which sort of worked but then mummy ends up not getting much sleep.

Naughty Iris, but then i guess she can't help it cos she's only two weeks old.

Iris sleeps for 6 hours

"Not last night but the night before, twenty four robbers came knocking at my door".
mummy says, she used to sing that at school in the playground, did anyone else or was it just mummy all on her own.

I remember the song now, it's a skipping song.

Not last night but the night before my baby sister Iris, slept from about 9pm until 2.45am, mummy didn't know what to do with herself after having that much sleep.

Then last night she woke up only twice which seems to be her routine but there wasn't a six hour gap.

I'm obviously completely oblivious to the whole thing, i'm fast asleep in my big girl bed down the hall.

The rollercoaster pose

Weeeeee, scream if you want to go faster.

Elvis is my new baby sister

Iris is Elvis in disguise.
Check out that sneer, oh and the other pic is just a close up.

Yes Iris does have eyes.

Here is proof that baby Iris does have eyes, i know it appears that she doesn't have eyes, cos they are always shut, but here they are open.
Not for long though.

Drawing on my face

Daddy drew on my face, with the help of Auntie Vicky.

Do i look pretty?

Playing in the playground with Lex

Here i am playing on the climbing frame in the park with Lex, we had lots of fun.

Iris stayed asleep in her pram, which was probably good cos she wouldn't have been able to play on anything, she's far too small, she can't even sit or anything she just lie's there either sleeping or making strange noises.

Good little girls in our baskets

We are good little girls in our baskets.
I think i need a bigger one.

Oh and here is a video of Iris

Iris 4 days old

Both of us in her basket

Here i am holding my baby sister Iris, she liked lying on top of me in her basket and i didnt' want to let go of her.

In her basket

Here is Iris sleeping in her basket, she is very small, much smaller than me, but apparently i used to sleep in this basket when i was that small.

Iris sleeping

She does an awful lot of sleeping my baby sister, she does a bit of crying but not that much and she does a bit of grunting like a little piggy.

My new baby sister

Here is Iris Mathilda, my new baby sister.
Mummy and Daddy tell me that she was born at 3am on Thursday 24th August 2006
She weighed 3.3kg
She has very dark hair

I stayed at Ged's whilst Iris was being born, i had lots and lots of fun with Ged and Ged's girls Roni and Ruby, i even slept over at their house, i was such a big girl

Iris has cried a little bit since i've been back, but not that much, she seems pretty cute.

here is a pic of me holding her with mummy, and another one of her on her own.

Lazy baby

No change
baby still stuck tight.

Although according to my dates, the babies due date is actually around now, rather than Sat, so i'm not officially late until Wed/Thurs.
Try telling that to the midwifes when they talk to me about induction.

baby is still missing

i don't think the baby is in mummies tummy at all, i think she's just eaten too many cakes and chocolate and biscuits.
I think they are waiting for the baby to arrive via the postman, they are always waiting for things to arrive from the postman and they always arrive late, so that's probably where the baby is.

x

Where is my new brother or sister?

Hmmmm...
mummy tells me there is a baby still in her tummy, but i am not sure i believe her anymore, it has been in there an awful long time and surely the baby is bored in her tummy by now.
It is apparently due today, but i'm told it all kicked off the night before for me and then i was born midday on my due date.




You can see here how big mummies tummy is, you can only just see my head poking around the corner.

I'll keep you posted of any improvements today.

I am allergic to Peanuts

About two months ago i had an allergic reaction to peanut butter, it was a bit scary for mummy and daddy and they ended up taking me A&E but i was absolutely fine by the time we got there, i had already been sick twice so i'd gotten rid of all the nasty stuff in my tummy.
Daddy then took me to the doctors to get me referred for a blood test to see if i am actually allergic to peanuts.

Our appointment was yesterday (Thursday) instead of a blood test i had a skin prick test which is instant and less painful.

Here is a pic of my back taken a few hours later when the redness had gone down, but you can see where they did some drawing on my back, the circle next to the P (for peanut) was where it showed that i was allergic to peanuts, on a scale of 1-6 peanuts came up as a 4.
Ages ago when i had the blood test to see if i am allergic to cats and dogs it came up as a 3 out of 6 which is the half way point so not so serious.

The results are that i am not allergic to nuts themselves, BUT i am allergic to peanuts, and did you know that peanuts are not part of the nut family, they are part of the legume family, mummy didn't know that.
I am probably also allergic to haricot beans seeing as the last two times i've had baked beans i've been sick straight away.

Here is a list of all the things in the legume family:
Legumes: Broad Bean / Horse Bean / Field Bean, Chickpea, Cowpea, Field Pea, Groundnut / Peanut, Haricot / French Bean, Lentil, Lima Bean, Mungbean, Pigeon Pea, Soybean, Vetch / Grass Pea / Chickling Pea.

so far I am not allergic to anything else on this list other than peanuts and haricot, hopefully it will stay that way.

Yoghurt & Ballet & Winnie & Singing

Oh the two go together so well.

Here i am scoffin some yoghurt and here i am doing a ballet pose, they weren't taken on the same day, but mummy has only just downloaded them from her phone.














also, here are two new links to a couple of silly video's.

The first one is Winnie and me in the cafe at clissold Park
Winnie is sweetly swaying and singing a song, whereas i am rifling through Kate's purse, he he.
Daisy & Winnie

The second one is me singing 'row row row'
Row row row
The words usually go:
Row row row your boat
gently down the stream
if you see a crocodile
don't forget to scream
Row row row your boat
gently down to the shore
if you see a lion don't forget to roar

but as you can see i've slightly muddled it up.

Oh where o where can this baby be?

oh where o where can this baby be
oh where o where can it be

as you can probably tell, there is no change whatsoever.

xx

Rachel, Josh, Freya and baby girl.

Here is Rachel the business woman on the phone hours after the birth of her second daughter and she’s already delegated the baby responsibilities to young Freya, classic Hamilton photograph, brilliant.
Freya looks in her element.

Video's of me, hooray

Video's of me:

On the bouncy castle


Little house on the prairie


A message to little Freya out in NZ

I still have a fat tummy

Still no baby

I really must take a photograph of my rather large tummy and post it up here, cos otherwise you won't be able to see it.

As you can gather the baby is still inside it's little prison, but it is getting rather bored in there, as am i.

Expected arrival Sat.

Daisy's nightmare explained

Daisy: "I didn't have a nightmare last night, mummy can explain"

Mummy: "I was putting the rubbish out into the bins out the front of our house and the next door neighbour said hello and asked me how i was etc... (what with only 5 days to go till due date!)
And Daisy came out after me and said, man in bed, man cross.
The family next door moved in about six months ago, they are an asian family who seem really nice, mum & dad with three grown up children who all live there, so it can get quite noisy.

Next door's bathroom is next to Daisy's bedroom, so i imagine the dad (which is who's voice she recognised) must have been in the bathroom talking to someone and sounded cross and was looking for his shoes.

I can only imagine that this is what happened.

If it did, then i really hope they heard Daisy crying, and are a little quieter in the middle of the night, so as not to wake her up.

I've left her a little light on in her room anyway, just in case, and we have explained that if she hears the man again, he isn't in her room, he is next door in his house.

Not sure if this will work but fingers crossed."

Baby still put

The baby is still in my tummy, seems to be quite happy in there, i have been imagining all sorts of twinges happening, i even dreamt i was having contractions a couple of nights ago but it was all just in my head.

Hopefully soon.

Baby due on Sat, we'll see if it arrives on time or even before.
Rachel's baby was a week late and still a girl so the european research that states that you have 70% chance of having a boy if you go to 41 weeks is not true in the Bay of Plenty, i'll keep you posted as to whether it's true in Stoke Newington.

Mr Lion

A lady called Barbara (who is a friend of Auntie Vicky's) has bought 'the baby' a present and mummy has opened it, it is a lion with nice hair, i like it quite a lot, but it's not mine apparently it's for 'the baby'
Barbara has also bought me a present but i'm allowed to open it when the baby comes.

Daisy's Nightmare

Daisy woke in the night, crying and crying, when i got to her room, she was out of her bed and standing at her door in the pitch black. I led her back to bed and picked her up and put her back into bed but she wouldn't lie down, she kept asking for a story, but i told her it was night time and we were all asleep so she couldn't have any stories.

I sat with her for a while trying to settle her down, but then she suddenly scared the life out of me, we are sitting there in the pitch black and she suddenly tells me there was a 'man on/in her bed'!

Well i immediately start to think the worse and worry that somebody has broken in the house etc... but then i realise it must be a nightmare. I tell her that there is no man and it might have been a dream but it's gone now.

She settled down a bit so i go back to bed, but she starts up again, so marc goes down to try to settle her, and in the end he gives her a book and leaves the light on a little bit.
The book she asks for is Za Za's baby brother, a book Kate and Ben lent us about getting used to having a new baby in the house, strange.

At around 7am, she wakes up hysterical, screaming and crying, wanting to go downstairs immediately for breakfast, we try coaxing her into our room for a little while but just stands at the top of the stairs by the gate just crying and screaming,

In the end after a few stern words she calms down and comes into our bed sobbing silently into her chicken.
Then she tells us about the man on/in her bed, she tells us:
he was cross,
he wasn't shouting though,
he was looking for his shoes,
he was eating a sandwich
he was old (like a grandad)
he was black
he was wearing blue

and it was like before (she has had this dream before)

It's scary to think that a two year old can conjure up such dreams which obviously terrify her and the fact that she says she has dreamt it before.

Poor little Daisy.

Baby staying put & Freya is now a big sister

The baby is still firmly wedged in my tummy, no signs of it coming out yet.
hmmmm.....
come on baby, come on baby, i'm bored of the fat tummy now.


Rachel & Josh had a second little girl this morning NZ time at 3.16am, she weighed in at 7lb 9oz i believe.
They are all doing fine.
Freya now has a little sister.

xx

The rain rain rain, came down down down

That title is from one of my favourite DVD's 'Winnie The Pooh'

It's raining and raining and raining!
It rained last night lots and then it rained this morning, and then it rained this afternoon as well.

What a change from all the lovely warm weather we had in July.

Mummy says she prefers it a bit cooler, especially seeing as she has such a large tummy.

Here is a photograph of me hogging the big yellow bouncy ball that Shonagh has lent to mummy to sit on whilst she is in labour apparently, don't know what that means, but if i have anything do with it, i'll be sitting on it.

I'm the baby

Just so mummy and daddy know who the baby is (in case this new baby wants in on some of the action) i just wanted to show them that i could actually still fit into the moses basket comfortably.

We seem to have an abundance of sleeping vessels for this new baby :
Mummy's cousin Libby lent her this moses basket in the photo, then Flossie's mummy Lisa lent them a crib which is a bit bigger and is currently set up in their bedroom, and then out of the blue Cindy brought back the original moses basket that i would only sleep in if it was padded with a pillow (i was a fussy sleeper).

So the baby will have lots of places to sleep all over the house, except it won't be sleeping in my moses basket, that is for my chicken and my dolls and myself.

Painting myself

I did painting today, but i decided to paint myself instead of just the paper, it was far more interesting.
Mummy got me to paint my feet so that i could walk over the paper, but then i went and painted my arm too, he he.

Then she sat me in the washing up bowl full of warm water to clean me off.