Ella update

 Well it seems as if these last 6 months have flown past in a blink of an eye and where i was cuddling a tiny prem scrap of a baby i now have a bouncing chunk wriggling off my lap wanting to get around and explore her new world.

The first few months were interesting as the first 4 weeks brought sleep for both of us and after devil child Sophie and the ensues of sleep torture i suffered i praised my lucky stars for a sleeping baby.  But all that ended very fast as the word got out from big sister to little sister this wasn't what was supposed to happen and mummy was subjected to only 2 hours sleep in a 24 hour period and they were in 2 separate 1 hour slots no luxury of having them together, boy it really did take its toll on me.  Sleep is still one of those luxuries i am not allowed to have as at 6 months she wakes every hour still and im feeling terribly run down and have caught an infection and was bearly holding myself together.
However this baby seems to ninja sleep all the time so she was getting plenty of sleep her tricks were to sleep on the school run, waiting outside the school gates at the supermarket, anywhere apart from in bed !!!!    

After a month we also got colic and which just added to the misery of sleepless nights and Ella was an incredibly hungry baby always feeding, we think she was trying to catch up with herself for being prem.  The house was full of tears as the pain of tummy aches upset Ella and mummy from shear frustration. After going through this horrendous experience with Sophie getting not a scrap of support i knew what a bumpy ride i was in for and battened down to try and make it through with out going to crazy.  This time though i had added pressure from Sophie needing to go to school gymnastic and needing attention as well as Ella and doing all this on 2 hours sleep too.  I definitely wore my underpants on the outside of my clothes but that was a total mistake and not because i though i was a super hero!!


12 weeks came and i weaned Ella and a few days later goodbye Colic this was the same situation with Sophie when we weaned her too, there must be a link here!! however we still suffered from a few farty moments.  From weaning Ella this just made Ellas appetite even more veracious as her world opened up to new tastes and she wanted it all right now!! and only after 4 weeks of being on baby food she was grabbing the food off of our plates and eating it and she was gobbling up chicken and steak by 5 months as well as cake, i wonder have i finally found my cake buddy !

Ella is all inquisitive just loves chatting mostly to herself in a mirror maybe that baby understands her, i dont know but she is very entertained but that other baby.

Her other best buddy is her big sister, who she has big eyes for and adores no end, trying to copy her, and she watches and listens with huge interest as Sophie plots and plans explaining to her ideas to lead her astray in some mischief hair brained scheme she has. I can see i will have my hands full with some double trouble, and of course they both look like little angels protesting innocents or negotiating their way out of trouble with showers of kisses and cuddles they really are a pair of little buggers when they team up.

Ella is also as we have discovered another technology baby there in something in the genes from mummy and daddy who love their gadgets. Sophie was given an Ipad at 8 months or rather she stole it from daddy who never got it back.  Ella has had exposure to one from 5 months and has stolen that same Ipad and now Sophie in turned has stolen daddies 2nd Ipad he got as a replacement poor daddy.  Ella adores the memory games where she can slap the screen to turn cards till by mistake she finds pairs that make fun noises and she is a budding artist on the drawing apps. we have even caught her surfing for Christmas presents ! Shame it was not another Ipad for daddy.

At 6 months we had a weekend of firsts as her first tooth was cut in and she crawled right across the living room. She can sit by herself for a short while as well as stand for a brief while hanging off furniture, she loves a good conversation and we have a lot of nom noms at dinner time and blow and bow and an almost hello.  before i know it she will be having babies of her own, it sure has gone fast.