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Look what I found drying on our clothesline!

Looks like one of Santa’s elves borrowed our laundry to wash his suit after helping Santa deliver presents to all the little girls and boys this Christmas.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a fun time seeing in the New Year. Happy 2012! Due to zero chance of getting a babysitter on NYE, we stayed home, had a glass of high quality bollinger and watched Pirates of the Carribean 4. Leo woke at 11.30pm and would not resettle. Of course he knew it was almost midnight so we kept him up to watch the Sydney fireworks and then he happily went back to sleep for the rest of the night!

I was a bit sentimental saying goodbye to 2011 – as our first year with our little boy and the year he was born in.

I’m planning to do some more exploring around Melbourne for the remainder of my maternity leave. It will be enjoyable to make the most of the time off and Leo likes seeing new things and meeting new people.

I find it’s actually easier to get out and about than stay at home all day. Leo tends to get grizzly and grumpy when we do that as he’s not overly fond of sleeping during the day in his cot. When we’re out he will sleep in the pram and he likes to look around and smile at anyone we meet.

Last Friday, we caught the train in to visit Cook’s Cottage in the Fitzroy Gardens in the city. It is the cottage of Captain Cook’s parents which was donated to Melbourne and shipped over here in pieces! It is a small brick cottage with the rooms set up as they would have been at the time, a large vegetable garden and a display about Captain Cook’s voyages. It is quite amazing how much of the world he explored.
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I can’t believe it’s almost 6 months since our beautiful little boy was born and consequently that long since I’ve written a post! People aren’t wrong when they say looking after a baby is a full-time job…but that you also wouldn’t have it any other way.

Every day is now full of delightful moments, whether it is amusement at Leo’s funny little expressions and noises (raspberries, gurgles, wind-breaking etc), making him laugh when we’re changing him or watching him kick his legs up and grab the toys on his activity mat. It’s a real thrill when he meets a new milestone (he’s almost sitting up by himself now) and to see how he’s filling out and growing longer.

There have been difficult bits too of course – we had some issues getting his feeding right early on and I wouldn’t say he’s the best day-time sleeper. He’s more of a cat-napper and often takes a while to settle with a fair amount of crying. And in the last couple of weeks he has gone back to waking every 3 hours at night which is hard to take when he was sleeping 12 hours a night for a while. But that’s all in a day’s work and I know it won’t last forever.

Life has definitely changed with the addition of Leo but it’s a wonderful journey that we wouldn’t give up for a second.