We have been pretty busy here. Erin spent last week adjusting to kinder and spent 7 hours there. This week she begins full time Kinder for 10 hours. She is loving it. I can't wait to do kinder duty to see what they do all those hours there LOL! Erin has dad's night at kinder coming up which will be fun for them. She is also beginning to get ready for the children doing their own Commonwealth games at end of term (which is only a few weeks away already!)
Nani took Erin and Darcy to the beach last wednesday (Darcy's first trip to the beach) and they had a ball. And of course a trip to the beach is not the same without feeding the seaguls some of your fish and chips for lunch!! Darcy has been a good boy. With Erin doing 2 afternoon sessions at kinder and 1 morning, he doesnt really get a chance to miss her as he is sleeping. He sleeps really well in the quiet too whicis great. He is talking so much more. We are thrilled that he has learnt to say NO and NAH, it has almost turned him into a whole new kid! He is all of a sudden asserting himself in his little community of friends and of course to us. He is still madly in love with his little brother which is nice to see, no jelousy yet. Joss is growing ever so fast! He is now 12 weeks. He visited the health nurse and he is now 5.5kg's which is a gain of 600gms in 2 weeks. So reasuring to know your milk is doing the right thing! He has become quite unsettled during the day. He is not sleeping much during the day and when he does it is only for 20 mins in your arms. We know he gets terrible wind pain and it seems to intensify and wake him in fits of crying during the day. All I can say is thank god he sleeps well at night, otherwise I would be in trouble! He had his first real laugh at his sister who was swinging on the swings out the back at home. I raced inside and was able to capture it on video, so precious!

I went back to work for the first time last Saturday. So much had changed in the almost 5 months I had been away. Luckily it was a nice relaxed shift and I got lots of time to express and ease back into the work load. I begin back at work officially on 1st March. The kids were fine with me away for the whole day and Joss took the bottle no problems. We now just have to work out how much milk satisfies him for each feed. I also am a little more relaxed this time around with his feeds whilst I am at work. Being a whole lot more busier with the children, I dont often get time to express at home, so we will have some little sachets of formula in case he runs out of breast milk whilst I am working. And that about sums up our last week and a bit!