Preston and Amber

ooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH! Who's got a girlfriend???

Preston is 4 months old! What a big boy!

Hard to believe, but our little baby is growing up so fast. He is now a real little boy! We are having such a fun time hanging out together - he is so smiley and happy. He's currently got a smile-with-tongue poking out thing going (see picture below) that he does when he's being extra cute and pretending to be bashful. I took him into work today while I was working and he was mostly good and of course everyone paid him so much attention, which he loves.

Preston and I are going on a trip to Melbourne in a few weeks! Yippee! We are going for 3 days of shopping and fun. Can't wait!

It's my birthday in a couple of weeks and I am planning a coffee & cake party on Saturday 6th May - if you are going to be around Auckland, let me know and you are most welcome to come :)

I'm 4 months old now! 

We went to a wedding in the weekend, so here we are all dressed up. It was extremely loud so our little guy didn't go to sleep until we got home. Instead we spent the night consoling him - while he spewed up about 20 times all over me. You can't have special clothes when you have a baby - you just have to cope with the fact that everything gets covered in milk (both fresh and digested). 

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Just so you don't think Preston is 100% cute all the time, here is a picture of his alter ego... (ok, he's still cute, but just in a different kind of way!) 

I can grab my feet! This is Preston's latest thing - he sticks his feet in the air and plays with them. He can just about get his foot to his mouth too. Now when he wakes up, instead of screaming because he's lonely, he now plays happily with his feet for quite a while . 

Look - I can roll onto my tummy!  

HEHEHHEHE I am so cheeky!! 

just a quick note...

Thought I'd better clear something up as a few people are concerned about my baby clothes selling enterprise. I will obviously not be selling gifts you've given us, as they are special and sentimental! I'm only selling things I have bought myself and the bulk lots I've been buying that I have no emotional attachment to. All the special things people have so generously given us will be kept for the next little one!! :)

It's been a year since I started this blog

If you want to read the history of Preston, just click on the April 2005 Archives :) Seems funny all that was a year ago now. Guess we'd better start planning the next one!!

Preston has a kitty snuggle sack

Well I made our kitty eat heaps and heaps of yukky whiskas biscuits so she could earn a cute kitty snuggle sack. It arrived this morning, and she took one look at it and decided the cardboard box it came in was a much better place to sleep. SIGH.... so guess who fits in it???

My boys... 

It's Uncle Anda! 

He's about the right height to interact with our cat, but she is really scared of him. Although, she's getting more tolerant and comes over to sniff him occasionally (only if he is really still). 

Cute little shoes....and more pirate clothes! 

He loves playing with his hands - I think this has helped him figure out how to roll over successfully because he can hold them out of the way of his body. 

Preston at 3� months 

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Preston Update

Oops - we've been having so much fun that I've forgotten to blog what we've been doing!

Preston has mastered the art of rolling over, both from tummy to back, and back to tummy, so he spends most of his playtime rolling around the place. He thinks he is SOOO clever when he rolls, and shrieks with delight and his face absolutely beams. What a cutey! Except now we are entering new territory and have to keep things out of the way.

He has also pretty much mastered picking things up and holding onto them extremely tightly (with a whole hand grab). He holds his toys and works out the best position for ultimate slobbering, and grabs other interesting things such as my face and my poor boobs. And OW, what sharp fingernails! So I generally have scratches on my face and chest most of the time now. We have some baby nail clippers, but they grow so fast I have to clip them every couple of days.

Our baby group gets along so well that last weekend we went away to Mangawhai for the weekend! There were 12 parents and 6 babies, and we had a great time. The weather was awful (there was a cyclone apparently), but it didn't matter - we all hung out and played with all the babies and relaxed. The babies are now aware of each other and they chatter away to one another in their baby talk and they seem so interested in what they say, I'm sure they understand it! Some of it was getting quite animated and loud and I think they were having 'My mummy is better than your mummy' battles, heheh.

In a month we are starting baby swimming lessons too :) Since there were so many in our group that want to do it, the swimming school has made a special class just for us. It is so great that all our babies are growing up together and see each other so often (Monday for a walk, Wednesday for cake at a cafe in the sun, and Friday for our official coffee group session at someones house).

And I have started a new online-trading venture in something I hadn't really considered before, but it is so fun :) I'm buying and selling designer baby clothes! Baby fashion is so cute and they grow out of things so quickly that any second hand items are virtually new anyway. I am buying new and hardly used designer clothes from clearance shops and from mothers in the US and UK (winter is ending over there so the clearance places are great), and then reselling the things Preston doesn't want on Trademe and Zillion. I'm getting all kinds of brands, like Gap, Next, Paul Frank, Pumpkin Patch, Tommy Hilfiger etc. So if you ever need anything, just let me know....

I might do a bit of a fashion photo shoot and dress Preston up in some of his new things and post them here :)

He is starting to look a bit different again - his face has filled out and is a bit chubbier, and he is lots bigger too. We went to Plunket nearly two weeks ago and he had put on 610g since the last visit which I thought was great - by now he probably weighs 6kg. And his height was 62cm. He is now on the cusp of a new clothing size (which I think may have been the trigger for my new buying/selling addiction), so some things are too small and others are too big, so we just have a limited selection of fitting items for the next week or two until he grows some more.

That's probably enough I guess. I'll add some pictures soon. My computer died and I got a new one and still have to install all the programs.