Well I am behind, as usual. I love my 101 things in 1001 days list- it has been great but I am kind of looking forward to it ending I think. I know I won`t get everything crossed off but it certainly has been a great motivator over the last 2 years. I am still working towards achieving as many things off it as possible…
In May though, sadly, I didn`t get much done.
I continued to maintain my weight loss and still weigh less now than I did when I got pregnant. So 5/6 months done for number 33. One more month and I will be able to cross this off! Yay!
95. Get a credit card.
This is done. I have had a debit card for years (ie, it is a visa but have to have the money IN THE ACCOUNT to use it) and have had credit cards connected to my parents account when I was travelling (emergency use) but have never had MY OWN CREDIT CARD. So I applied for two visa`s- one for me, one for Shun and they arrived. So I am happy I could cross another thing off the list.
I have 16 things left to cross off the list- six of them definitely will not be done, about four are unlikely and about six will be done or are very likely to get done. I guess I better start saving to pay $10 to charity for each uncompleted item. Since I will be in Australia for Christmas I am thinking however many things will remain undone will be money I spend on buying gifts to go under the tree for disadvantaged families/children at my mums local shopping center. Or I will send it to world vision OR the Ronald Macdonald House in South Brisbane.
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As I type this I can hear the fireworks going off at Disneyland. I hear/see them most nights.
Today I spent the day with Shun and Noah and we were home all day. It was nice. I did some cleaning, took some pictures, made some baby food, Shun made dinner and now I am relaxing on the sofa.
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Solids and feeding Noah is going well. He has tried rice cereal, banana, apple, pumpkin and spinach. He likes pumpkin best I think and although he hated banana the first time he likes it mixed with rice cereal. Today I made spinach, carrots, sweet potato mixed with spinach, and sweet potato by itself. I have about 2 weeks worth of frozen baby food since he eats only one ice cube a day…(and rice cereal with some fruit in the mornings usually although sometimes it is just rice cereal). We are on two meals a day- one about 8:00am or 8:30am depending on what time he wakes up and then again about 6pm. He gets excited when he goes into the high chair as he knows what is coming!!!
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This year I have been listing the books I have read each month and sadly, I have to say, I didn`t complete one book in May. I am still working on “Girl with the dragon tattoo” but I did read some of my baby sign booklets from class, some magazines and also some sections out of my baby books. It is very unlike me to NOT complete at least a couple of books/novels each month but honestly I find it a bit hard to concentrate on reading nowadays…
I am also reading “Mothering your nursing toddler” which Mel lent me. I am not sure how long I plan to breastfeed Noah- I guess I had thought I would start to wean him while in Australia around his first birthday. Does anyone have anything they wish to share on this? At the moment he doesn`t drink any formula and I breastfeed him 7-8 times a day including once, sometimes twice overnight (between 7:30pm-7:30 or 8am) and feed him twice a day. I want to continue breastfeeding him. I really feel like I would miss it if I stopped anytime soon but I think by his first birthday I will have wanted to cut him down a lot, if not weaned him completely.
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Big shout out to my good friend Cassie whose birthday is tomorrow! Make sure you stop by her blog to say Happy Birthday!!!
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I am just a twenty something Aussie girl living in Chiba, Japan with my Japanese husband trying to make sense of the crazy Japanese world we live in! We welcomed our first son in December 2009 (Noah) and a second son in January 2011, 2 months premature (Shion). I am working hard at raising them to be confident, bilingual, happy kids!
Well done on your list. At least you are slowly getting things crossed off – and the weight one will be great to tick off next month!
I think I read somewhere that it takes a baby about ten tries to decide whether he likes a new food or not. I could have dreamt that though
There are so many different schools of thought on breastfeeding so you’ll probably get a lot of conflicting advice.
I felt that my babies didn’t need breastmilk after they turned one so I started weaning them at 10 months (I think I wrote about that). Because I didn’t nurse them to sleep, it was easier for me to think of breastmilk as food instead of my only connection to my baby.
Totally unrelated, 10 months is also the easiest time to take away a pacifier which I didn’t do and my oldest ended up using it until she was 4 years old. I learned my lesson!!!!
I’m sure you’ll figure out something that works for you!
thanks darling!
You know I’m just a wee bit jealous of your life, what with the fireworks and Disney and Japan and stuff….?
Well done, that’s quite an amount of accomplishments! Even if you don’t finish them all, WOW! When is your deadline? They xmas gifts idea sounds lovely… in that case, I hope you don’t cross off the last part of the list! XD
Breastfeeding… I’m with Sarah. Missha doesn’t nurse to sleep so I really consider her milk to just be food… now that she eats so much she doesn’t drink all that much and she’s already about 70-80% formula and that’s mostly just before naps (3per day) and bed. I don’t think she’ll need milk at all by 1year. Hope you find something that works for you both. (Btw, I had been planning to exclusively BF until age 1…. up until she was about 8months when it made both our lives easier to do formula, and food instead
) GOOD LUCK <3