Category Archives: Journal

Jan 23

Learning and learning

The last week or two has been an amazing time of growing and learning, with huge jumps in skills and developments. It is amazing all that Amelynne is learning. First of all…

Drum roll…

Ta dah she sits!!

? All by myself ?

On Monday she sat for ten seconds on her own. By last night she was sitting longer and self correcting more (that’s when this photo was taken). This morning (Friday) she is just sitting and playing and chatting all at once for really long stretches as though she has been doing it for weeks. The progression is amazing! It’s so exciting!

There is also new skills on the floor. Amelynne has been pushing her whole tummy off the floor on straight arms for about a week and this also means that she is shuffling backwards and swinging around as well. So she is covering a lot more area on her mat and sometimes moving right off it.

If I hold still, maybe they won't see me

She’s also practising her camouflage.

Amongst all the physical developments, her vocal skills are also coming along nicely with lots of squealing, raspberries and newly invented words.

Amelynne’s very sweet new skill is very loving, gentle kisses that just melt our hearts.

This is a video of her third attempt on her new jumper. It’s more like delicate dancing and chatting than bouncing so far, but she has fun.

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So phew, what a week, I’m exhausted even if Amelynne isn’t and would rather keep going than sleep. 🙂

PS a bonus very cute photo in her new tshirt.

Geek like her Daddy

Jan 7

Amelynne's First Christmas

Amelynne’s first Christmas was exciting, fun and quite long. She had lots of fun and did so well with all the people and noise and little sleep.

On Christmas Eve she finally got to meet her big cousin Fenella in ‘baby face off round one’.

Baby Face Off!

Careful don’t look away 🙂

Christmas morning opening her first presents with us

Unwrapping

Helping unwrap

Christmas day was spent with the Nunn side of the family

Christmas

Then boxing day was Christmas again with the Howard side of the family.

Christmas The first time all the cousins were together 🙂

Phew! Christmas is exhausting

Tuckered Out

PS a bonus family portrait we took on Christmas night (which actually turned out well!)

A Very Nunn Christmas

Nov 28

Posing, Hacking, Grabbing

It’s been a busy few weeks since last we posted. Amelynne has been learning a lot and is surprising us every day. Her biggest achievement since last time has been learning to grab stuff and put it in her mouth.

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It’s a big developmental thing, ’cause she’s exploring everything this way now.

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Oct 25

The Hat

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Before Amelynne was born Amanda and Myles gave us a huge amount of clothes (thank you so much :)) and amongst them was this cute stripey hat. While I was very pregnant I lovingly washed all her clothes and fiddled with them and dreamt about actually having a baby wearing them. I tried to imagine what she would look like, who she would be and how it would feel. As I was packing my hospital bag I popped the hat in at the last minute for fun. Continue reading »

Sep 5

What a week!

It has been a big week of achievements for Amelynne. She has changed so much this week, from a tiny newborn that just sleeps and eats, to an interacting, strong, interested in everything, little baby.

She is definitely smiling! Lovely big happy smiles. She loves chatting and is joining in the conversations even more, with squeaks and aahs and oohs and smiles. She is also very good at sticking her tongue out and has been trying hard to copy my raspberries.

Her head control has also improved dramatically and she is now very confidently holding her head up all the time and looking around. Which can become a problem when she is meant to be going to sleep :). It is so wonderful to see though and she even followed Josh with her head when he walked out of the room! She is also getting very strong in the arms and is pushing off our chests and off the floor a little.

Kicking around on the change table with no nappy on is still her favourite activity, and combined with an excited conversation who could ask for more. Looking at everything (including a strange fascination with door frames, Josh thinks she will become an architect) and sleeping on our chests both come in as close seconds.

My new achievement for the week has been looking after Amelynne for a whole day and a half on my own for the first time. This has meant learning the best techniques for sneaking in helpful things such as a shower and meals when there is nobody else there to look after her while I do it.

Yay us! What will we learn in the next week!

Aug 30

Nearly one month old!

Tomorrow Amelynne will be one month old! Wow in some ways we can’t believe that she is that old already, and sometimes it feels as though she has been with us for so much longer.

She is becoming more awake and interacting with us more each day. She is making more conversational noises which are just gorgeous and loves to stare at us and wave her arms around. We think that she gave us her first smile last night as it was the first time that she was really looking and interacting with me and then gave me a big grin with flailing arms. I think that we will have to wait for some repeat performances to see if it was the real thing. It’s very exciting though.

She has been feeding like a champ and is putting on weight nicely and last week weighed 3.365kg and had grown another centimetre, we will have to weigh her again next week and see how she is doing. Her other grand achievement was sleeping through from 11.30pm to 6am on Wednesday night! We were very grateful, and both had a good sleep.

We are all settling in together more and more, and I feel as though in the last week particularly we have been getting to know each other a lot better and understanding each other. I can’t believe how much I love her and how much time I can spend every day just looking at her and enjoying being with her.