Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Mothers Day 2013

My first Mothers Day with Jack was just wonderful.

It started with cuddles and coffee in bed with Jack

then Eggs Benedict for breakfast made by my big boy Nicholas and hubby Nick.

We had the extended family over for Mothers Day lunch and both big boys looked after it all.

They made Irish Stew that was slow cooked in the wood fired oven

served with freshly baked bread also cooked outside in the wood fired oven

All of the boys took care of the serving and the clean up so us ladies were really spoilt.

The weather was lovely and all in all a fantastic Mothers Day.

If you're a mum I hope your day was just as lovely.

Friday, May 10, 2013

It's not too late

That's right, it's not too late to get your mum a gift from McCarthy Designs & Occasions.

Gift Vouchers are available to purchase for any amount and they can be emailed directly to the recipient.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend

and a great Mothers Day

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Love Always

Love always,

be generous

Believe in yourself,

take chances

try your best

Offer to help

FORGIVE

Put others first

No whining

Available here

Monday, May 6, 2013

New French Market Baskets in Stock

Look what's arrived in store just in time for Mothers Day!

You can find the range of baskets available here

Have a great week

Friday, May 3, 2013

You are the Spring in my Step

Good morning all

Look what has just arrived in store

To check out the range of wall art I have available just click on the link HERE.

Have a great day and a wonderful weekend!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

3 months old already

Wow has the time flown past, its hard to believe that our precious boy is 3 months old already. What a lovely baby he is, we are so blessed to have him in our lives :-)

The colic is settling down and I stopped giving him the drops about a week and a half ago. He doesn't seem to be in pain any more however passing wind is still a bit of a struggle and the downside is that he has started waking up more frequently when he has wind :-( I will give it a week or so and see how he goes if he hasn't gone back to sleeping through the night we may have to do something about it.

We spent two weeks in Coffs Harbour enjoying our long awaited holiday, it was such a lovely time for us as a family, no schedule, minimal house work and beautiful weather. We really relaxed and enjoyed our time away as a family of four.

Two weeks make such a difference in a babies life and Jack really grew and developed new skills while we were away.

His weigh in yesterday was great, he has gained another 800 grams and is now 6.8 kgs as well as stretching another 4.5 cm making him 63.5 cm long. No wonder my arms and back started to ache from carrying him around :-)

Jack has really started to enjoy play time and thankfully spends quite a while absorbed in his jungle gym. I was rather disorganised and had to complete some paperwork on Monday for the government and Jack played on his own for almost three hours in the afternoon on the floor while I "played" with the paper and laptop at my desk. Great kid!

He then got to come with me to his first finance committee meeting that evening and to his credit only fell asleep towards the end of the hour and a half meeting, we may have an accountant in the making.

We have started getting plenty more smiles from Jack provided there is no camera around and today on the way home in the car from lunch Jack discovered his reflection in the baby view mirror and happily gurgled away at himself while I giggled away at him. So cute!

Nicholas is back at school this week and he is a great big brother, he did a wonderful job entertaining Jack in the car on the way to and from Coffs Harbour (a 9 hour plus drive each way).

Being a boy Nicholas doesn't goo and gah over the baby but he does ask faithfully every day when he gets home from school if Jack has done anything new that day :-) His interest does not stretch to nappy changes and he gets quite disgusted when Jack brings up milk and he has to wipe it up (happened a few times through the 18 hours of driving).

I am loving having a baby around and I am really enjoying every minute, I am looking forward to the next three months, seeing more of Jack's personality and watching as he masters a whole lot of new skills.

I have been over in Instagram much more than I have been here and I would love for you to join me, my username is @mccarthydesigns, please let me know so I can follow you too :-)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

10 weeks

It is amazing how fast the last 10 weeks have gone by. In some ways it feels like we only just brought Jack home from the hospital and in others it feels like he has always been here.

We all adore our little boy and I am so pleased to say that his colic has started improving, we still use the Brauer Colic relief drops at the moment but he definitely isn't in as much pain as he used to be.

At 7 weeks Jack stopped screaming every time we changed his nappy or gave him a bath and I can safely say that he actually enjoys his bath now and likes to float around for quite a while before he is ready to come out :-)

We finally got our first responsive smiles at 8 weeks, during his 8th week Jack's colic started improving (probably why we finally got a smile) and he started to pay more attention to things around him not just people. At this time I started putting out the play gym for him daily with a small variety of toys to look at. Jack started to reach out towards the toys hanging off the gym.

On Monday I went back to my first board meeting since I had the cervical stitch placed in October. I expressed milk for Jack (we had practised expressing and feeding from the bottle a few times prior to make sure he would feed ok) and left him in Dad's capable hands. I wasn't sure how well I would cope away from him for the evening but I managed quite well and was even able to concentrate on the meeting :-) Dad also did a great job but has requested that I leave some extra milk next time just in case, it seems that Jack wanted a tad more than I left, it's hard to tell with breastfeeding how much is enough sometimes.

I took Jack in to see the midwife at the chemist yesterday and he now weighs 6.02kg and is 59cm long. He is feeding well and still sleeps well. He seems to be moving towards two big sleeps through the day and we still only get up once through the night for feeds, generally around 3.30am, however he is having more nights where he will sleep for 7 hours and not wake until 5am, yay!

Jack has a very serious little face and doesn't smile often, he seems to study things quite intently and is becoming more and more vocal with his cooing and baby talk, sometimes desperately trying to tell us something.

Our little boy has very strong legs and likes to stand (with help) he also has pretty good neck control and is able to sit up with assistance for quite a while.

It is so lovely to see his little personality emerge and I am enjoying each stage as it happens. We are so very blessed to have this precious baby boy.