Joy Pockets

Wow.  You know, I had planned to post several times this week and totally failed.  Still, this has been because I have been so busy rather than due to anything bad.

This weeks Joy Pockets are:

• Going swimming with the Cub for the first time
• Being asked to Guest Post
• Lots of lovely fluffy nappies arriving in the post
• Finally finishing sorting out the nursery
• Getting started on organising Cub's Naming Ceremony (and the prospect of making lots of invitations)
• Having a fun night with the Girls - totally impromptu!

Be sure to join in the fun over at Bohemian Twilight!

Joy Pockets

Wow.  What a busy, hectic and fun few weeks we have had.  I think I may have left my brain in bed some days but its been good.  You know its bad when you have to check your diary in order to remember what you did.

Ive missed a couple of weeks of Joy Pockets so here is a quick round up of the Joys from a couple of weeks ago:

• Watching the Cub attempt to belly wriggle his way across my bed - he got nowhere fast but had lots of fun
• Getting a new mobile phone - My old phone was regularly freezing me so when we had some spare(!) cash I got a new one. Its black and shiny and helps me send text messages to the wrong people.
• Unexpectedly receiving money we were owed - Its a nice feeling to look at your balance and get a nice surprise for a change.

Joy Pockets for this week are:

• Reconnecting with old friends
• Spending a sunny day in the park with friends
• Making progress with the Naming Day arrangements - we have a venue and a guest list!
• Cub sleeping longer at night again
• Making plans so I can get back to quilting
• Taking a day to ourselves
• Family trips out to the farm (and my best friend showing just how much of a city girl she really is)
• Watching (and helping) the Cub play with a new toy

What are your Joys for this week?

Joy Pockets are a chance to look back over your week and recognise the small joys that life brings us.  This is fun when you have had a good week and picks you up on a bad week.  Join in the fun over at Bohemian Twilight where the lovely and inspiration Mon hosts this meme and explains it all much better than I do.

Joy Pockets

Joy Pockets are a lovely meme which is aimed at getting us to appreciate the moments of joy in our lives and to hang on to those joys and not let them pass us by.  Joy Pockets is hosted by Monica over at Bohemian Twilight. Go and check out her fab blog.  Or, better yet, join in the fun!

Seeing the last Harry Potter film
Eating at the same time as my husband for once
Seeing my baby laugh at his new playgym
Hanging out with really good friends
Finishing a knitting project that has taken four years to complete!
Watching the Cub try to roll over at 7 weeks old
Watching Daddy and the Cub playing together
Having lots of baby cuddles

What are your Joy Pockets this week?

Joy Pockets

This week has just flown by.  We've been a tad busy and social.  We've done Health Visitor visits and Baby activity groups and that was just yesterday!  I find myself sitting and wondering just what happened at the beginning of the week because the rest of the week has filled my tired brain and helped me forget.  With no further ado, here are my Joy Pockets... the ones I remember anyway.

• Seeing medical professional coo over my baby
• Baby's first activity arch/play gym - a bargain and he LOVES it.  Well, as much as a 6 week old can love anything.
• Having to catch my trousers when I sneeze - they are my pre-pregnancy jeans and they are a tad big these days.
• Putting together pictures of the Cub to send to his Great-Grandma.
• Seeing my Cub in his fluffy reusable nappies.  Unfortunately, my camera has vanished so no photo evidence was possible.

Next week we have are leaving Cub with a trusted childminder so hubby and I can go to the cinema.  I'm really looking forward to going out but dreading leaving the Cub.  So, THIS is what separation anxiety feels like.

A Week of Firsts

Wow.  What a week.  I am posting this in place of my usual Joy Pockets as this week has been on of 'First' for the Cub.  There has been a lot of new experiences for us and the baby which, naturally, brings me a lot of joy.  There is a lot of focus from health professionals on milestones like sleeping through the night and how much he is eating.  I think this week has seen some important milestones - just not the medical ones.  So, here for posterity are the firsts for this week.

His first:

• Smile!  It lit up his eyes and made him look sooo adorable and cheeky.  
• Trip to his grandparents (my parents) house.  This in itself created several 'first's.
• Trip in his pushchair.  We are mostly using baby slings to get around town with but this trip we decided to use the pushchair as it is a fairly long walk to my parents house for me and I couldnt carry him that far.
• Trip out without mummy or daddy.  My parents took the baby for a walk to give us a break (I love my parents).  Sure, I spent nearly the whole time he was out thinking about him but I still got some time to be with my hubby alone for the first time since Cub was born.
• Train journey.  He slept the whole way!  He was awake when we boarded and the motion sent him right to asleep.  Now, if I only install a train in the house to send him to sleep all the time.
• Nappy in a larger size.  Cub has now busted out of Size 1 nappies.  He weighed in at 10lb 14oz on Wednesday.  We switched him into the next size up after the mother of all poo explosions.  It was truly impressive how much could come from someone so small.

Also while at his grandparents, we followed up on a family tradition - Granny bathed him is the sink!  He seemed to enjoy it.

Well mostly, anyway. 

This coming week will be some more firsts.  Some good, some not so good.  We have his first set of immunisations.  We have discussed the whole case of immunisations and will be giving him the basic immunisations, however the more controversial immunisations will be missed.  My family has a bad history will some immunisations so they will be avoided.

Also this week, I am planning on switching Cub from disposable nappies to cloth nappies.  We have them all ready, its just a case of putting the disposables down.  We are going to use up nearly all the disposables and then switch.  We have a couple of different types to use so we will see which we like the best as time goes on.  Wish us luck! :)

Joy Pockets

This week we actually left the house!  This is amazing.  Thanks to having a large family, I am pretty good at packing a bag to take a baby out but it was still like planning a military campaign. I started planning at 8am and we left the house 5 hours later with almost everything we needed.

Anyhoo, here are my Joy Pockets for this week

Finally making headway on Cub's colic
Meeting up with friends
Inspiration hitting and being able to write again.

And finally, Cub is a whole month old today!!!

Joy Pockets

This week has been a week of getting used to a new routine and finding a balance of needs.

Here are my Joy Pockets for this week:

• A cold glass of Diet Coke
• The generosity of others
• Team work
• Ignoring housework (You can look at the dust but please don't write in it!)
• Persuading hubby (AKA Tigger) to rest during the day

Joy Pockets

I am restarting taking part in Joy Pockets from Holistic Mama.  The idea is that on a Friday or Saturday you post things that have brought you joy over the past week.  I love this idea.  It's good for reviewing your week in a positive light and is especially good when you have had a bad week.

So, here are my Joy Pockets for this week.

Ice cream on hot days
Being pampered by my husband
Celebrating many birthdays
Gorgeous fluffy reusable nappies being delivered
Finishing craft projects
Colouring in for grown ups

What are your Joy Pockets for this week?