Woke up quite early this morning. I have my own alarm clock. Cecilia always wakes me up when she gets bored. Then she starts talking and singing, but as soon as I open my eyes and look at her she smiles. And then I pretend to sleep again and she starts talking and singing hehe. It's like she's saying "Mooooommy, it's boooriiing, wake up!" haha.
We went on a nice long walk with a new friend. Her name is Annika and she lives quite close to me. She has a 6 months old daughter and she is super cute and fun to watch.
After the walk I had a quick lunch and then went to Jakobsberg with my mother again. It's been a lot of those trips lately, but it's fun! I bought some flowers for the balcony for autumn and winter. And then we went to the cake decorating shop where I bought some things I need for the christening cakes for Cecilia's party. I have to start working on all the decorations now. I already finished folding all the napkins, and decorated them a bit, but there are still some things to be fixed. I have to start baking as well. I can put the things in the freezer at my parents place.
I fell asleep while putting Cecilia to bed, so now I'm quite awake, but I'm going to try to sleep now anyway. Hopefully I can. Tomorrow I'm going to the preschool again. Normally we go on Tuesdays, but today it was closed, so we will go tomorrow morning instead!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
My poor baby
Just when I thought it was all over. My cold was getting much better... Cecilia gets a cold as well poor sweetie. She was not happy at all and last night she almost couldn't sleep because her nose was so blocked. And of course I couldn't sleep then either. So today I've been very tired but Cecilia is feeling a little better luckily. Toine bought some baby nose drops for her nose today sohopefully she can breathe better tonight.
Tomorrow I'm going on a walk with a new friend I found on the open preschool and after lunch I'm meeting my mom in Jakobsberg. She has some errands in there and I want to take a look in the cake decorating store again!
Tomorrow I'm going on a walk with a new friend I found on the open preschool and after lunch I'm meeting my mom in Jakobsberg. She has some errands in there and I want to take a look in the cake decorating store again!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Blegh...
I have a cold, And I'm sooo tired. So today I wish I could have a break!
Yesterday was fun though, me and Cecilia were shopping together with my mother, and my dear friend Jenny in Kista shopping center. I bought a birthdat gift for my other good friend Karro (Karolina) becaus today is her birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Today we went to the open pre school and made a plaster cast of Cecilia's hand together with mine. It turned out really beautiful!
I think I'm gonna make steak for dinner...either that, or a large oven pancake. Perhaps dutch style with bacon and cheese in it... I don't have mushrooms at home :(
Yesterday was fun though, me and Cecilia were shopping together with my mother, and my dear friend Jenny in Kista shopping center. I bought a birthdat gift for my other good friend Karro (Karolina) becaus today is her birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Today we went to the open pre school and made a plaster cast of Cecilia's hand together with mine. It turned out really beautiful!
I think I'm gonna make steak for dinner...either that, or a large oven pancake. Perhaps dutch style with bacon and cheese in it... I don't have mushrooms at home :(
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Food and other things
We started giving Cecilia food to taste now, just a teaspoon every day. For a few days now she has been eating potato with a little butter, and breastmilk. Today we are going to try carrot! I hope she likes it! The potato was very strange she thought.
Today I'm getting slightly annoyed with Toine, he refused to change Cecilias diaper because it was a poo diaper... He felt that because he changed the last poo diaper, it was my turn. Not thinking at all about the fact that I have been changing every freaking poo diaper the whole week already... Oh well... So I changed the diaper, and when I was gonna wash my hands, we were out of soap, and the soap started to run out yesterday already and he knew that! But instead of just refilling the soap, he waits for it, then hands me the soap to refill cause I'm already standing there... And I'm like WTF... Why didn't you refill it yesterday? And he goes like "well, you could've done it as well!"
What am I? A freaking octopus with 8 arms? I can't do everything! So out of frustration I put Cecilia down in the babygym, and she gets cranky, and I go to refill the freaking soap. "Where are you going?"... i'm going to refill the freaking soap, and hang up the firealarm (on which the batteries died 3days ago but since I didn't have time to fix it, was still not up yet... Did Toine ever think about the fact that he also has 2 arms that he can use for other things than computer stuff?). And when I say this HE gets angry and for some reason starts cleaning around the apartment to punish me when I want to sit down and finish watching Robinson (survivor) on tv... Then I sort of felt like, fine, why not...let him clean then. But I convinced him to come and finish the program anyway.
On a normal day I change perhaps 5-6 diapers, I start 1-2 dishwashers, I keep Cecilia entertained, I look after the apartment as much as I have time for (this week sadly the kitchen has been suffering a bit but the livingroom and bathroom is nice and tidy). And I pray to god that I have time to cook, and for that matter, eat my lunch while it's still warm, sometimes I don't get to eat until 2pm. And then I make his dinner everyday. So then he comes home, eat dinner, spend about an hour with his own daughter before I have to put her to bed (and usually that hour means watching tv while holding her...)... Sure, he does the laundry once in a week, but is it really too much to ask that he also refills the soap (once every 2 months) and changes the batteries in the firealarm (once every 2 years)? And perhaps changes more than one poo diaper in a week?...
Today I'm getting slightly annoyed with Toine, he refused to change Cecilias diaper because it was a poo diaper... He felt that because he changed the last poo diaper, it was my turn. Not thinking at all about the fact that I have been changing every freaking poo diaper the whole week already... Oh well... So I changed the diaper, and when I was gonna wash my hands, we were out of soap, and the soap started to run out yesterday already and he knew that! But instead of just refilling the soap, he waits for it, then hands me the soap to refill cause I'm already standing there... And I'm like WTF... Why didn't you refill it yesterday? And he goes like "well, you could've done it as well!"
What am I? A freaking octopus with 8 arms? I can't do everything! So out of frustration I put Cecilia down in the babygym, and she gets cranky, and I go to refill the freaking soap. "Where are you going?"... i'm going to refill the freaking soap, and hang up the firealarm (on which the batteries died 3days ago but since I didn't have time to fix it, was still not up yet... Did Toine ever think about the fact that he also has 2 arms that he can use for other things than computer stuff?). And when I say this HE gets angry and for some reason starts cleaning around the apartment to punish me when I want to sit down and finish watching Robinson (survivor) on tv... Then I sort of felt like, fine, why not...let him clean then. But I convinced him to come and finish the program anyway.
On a normal day I change perhaps 5-6 diapers, I start 1-2 dishwashers, I keep Cecilia entertained, I look after the apartment as much as I have time for (this week sadly the kitchen has been suffering a bit but the livingroom and bathroom is nice and tidy). And I pray to god that I have time to cook, and for that matter, eat my lunch while it's still warm, sometimes I don't get to eat until 2pm. And then I make his dinner everyday. So then he comes home, eat dinner, spend about an hour with his own daughter before I have to put her to bed (and usually that hour means watching tv while holding her...)... Sure, he does the laundry once in a week, but is it really too much to ask that he also refills the soap (once every 2 months) and changes the batteries in the firealarm (once every 2 years)? And perhaps changes more than one poo diaper in a week?...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
A good night
Last night she slept 9,5 hours! She went to bed at 20:00 as usual. But this time she didn't wake up for food in the night! She woke up at 5:30 yay! Sadly thats not gonna happen this night again cause she is already awake for her night feeding and its 23:00 now.
Today we went to the open preschool as we do every tuesday. It was fun and we were singing and dancing a little. And I got to talk to other mothers as usual which is always nice!
Today we went to the open preschool as we do every tuesday. It was fun and we were singing and dancing a little. And I got to talk to other mothers as usual which is always nice!
Monday, September 12, 2011
A normal day for Cecilia
We have gotten quite a good routine here at home she and I. She will be 4 months old tomorrow and I thought it would be fun to write about a normal day at home.
Morning starts between 08.00 and 09.00 and I wake up when she starts talking and singing and testing her voice in different ways. We go up, I get dressed first, then i take her to the nursery table in the bathroom to change diaper and get her dressed. I take her out to the kitchen where she sits in a baby sitter while I make breakfast for myself and start the dishwasher. We then go to the livingroom and I put her down on the floor in the baby gym while I eat my breakfast and watch something on tv. After a while she gets bored with the gym, so I pick her up and put her on my lap and play little games with her. Then she gets a little sad, this is somewhere between 10.00 and 11.00 depending on when she woke up. So I change her diaper if it's needed, take her to our bed, breastfeed her, and then she sleeps.
She usually sleeps for an hour, an hour and a half, but she will only sleep if I am next to her in the bed, so I am really glad I have the iPad... But sometimes I sleep too hehe. Anyway, then it's time to wake up and I take her back to the kitchen, to make lunch for myself, then back to the livingroom and put her in the baby gym while I eat lunch and watch something on tv, then she gets bored again and I pick her up, play little games until she is tired again, I go change the diaper and put her om the bed for food, and sleep again, this is about 3 hours after the last feeding so perhaps 14.00.
And after an hour she wakes up, then I usually put her in the baby gym again and sometimes tidy up a bit in the livingroom or I bring the baby gym to the computer room so I can do my farmville for a little hehe. Sometimes I let her stay on our bed and start fixing the laundry, or take her to the kitchen while I clean there. Then time to play a little again when she gets bored to be all by herself. And then time for diaper change, eat and sleep, this would be around 17.00.
When she wakes up around 18.00 I take her to the kitchen to make dinner, or if Toine is home now, he will take her. If he is not home he will take her as soon as he comes home! So when dinner is ready, she gets to play in the babygym again while we eat, and then she gets bored so she gets to sit with her daddy (Toine). About 20.00 she starts to get sad again. So we make her ready for the night. Change the diaper. Put on her sleeping dress which is like a little bag with arms, and an opening for the head of course, you can open and close by the feet to easily change the diaper at night if needed. I put her on our bed, breastfeed her, and she sleeps.
This time I am able to leave the bed without waking her, so now we have some free time together me and Toine. Then before Toine goes to bed (like 23.30 or so, way too late for him hehe) she usually wakes up for food again. But sometimes I wake her up. So she eats, and goes back to sleep, and I carry her over to her own bed.
Sometimes she wakes up again at 02.00 but not often. Most of the time she wakes up for food around 05.00, sometimes 06.00 and then Toine goes to work so when she wakes up I put her in our bed again abd she sleeps again. If ahe wakes up at 05.00 she also wants a little breakfast at 07.00 and sleeps a little more after that, and then at 08.00 - 09.00 the whole procedure starts over again!
Some days we go for a walk, and some days we go to the open pre school. Sometimes we go shopping, but all in all, this schedual works perfect.
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Morning starts between 08.00 and 09.00 and I wake up when she starts talking and singing and testing her voice in different ways. We go up, I get dressed first, then i take her to the nursery table in the bathroom to change diaper and get her dressed. I take her out to the kitchen where she sits in a baby sitter while I make breakfast for myself and start the dishwasher. We then go to the livingroom and I put her down on the floor in the baby gym while I eat my breakfast and watch something on tv. After a while she gets bored with the gym, so I pick her up and put her on my lap and play little games with her. Then she gets a little sad, this is somewhere between 10.00 and 11.00 depending on when she woke up. So I change her diaper if it's needed, take her to our bed, breastfeed her, and then she sleeps.
She usually sleeps for an hour, an hour and a half, but she will only sleep if I am next to her in the bed, so I am really glad I have the iPad... But sometimes I sleep too hehe. Anyway, then it's time to wake up and I take her back to the kitchen, to make lunch for myself, then back to the livingroom and put her in the baby gym while I eat lunch and watch something on tv, then she gets bored again and I pick her up, play little games until she is tired again, I go change the diaper and put her om the bed for food, and sleep again, this is about 3 hours after the last feeding so perhaps 14.00.
And after an hour she wakes up, then I usually put her in the baby gym again and sometimes tidy up a bit in the livingroom or I bring the baby gym to the computer room so I can do my farmville for a little hehe. Sometimes I let her stay on our bed and start fixing the laundry, or take her to the kitchen while I clean there. Then time to play a little again when she gets bored to be all by herself. And then time for diaper change, eat and sleep, this would be around 17.00.
When she wakes up around 18.00 I take her to the kitchen to make dinner, or if Toine is home now, he will take her. If he is not home he will take her as soon as he comes home! So when dinner is ready, she gets to play in the babygym again while we eat, and then she gets bored so she gets to sit with her daddy (Toine). About 20.00 she starts to get sad again. So we make her ready for the night. Change the diaper. Put on her sleeping dress which is like a little bag with arms, and an opening for the head of course, you can open and close by the feet to easily change the diaper at night if needed. I put her on our bed, breastfeed her, and she sleeps.
This time I am able to leave the bed without waking her, so now we have some free time together me and Toine. Then before Toine goes to bed (like 23.30 or so, way too late for him hehe) she usually wakes up for food again. But sometimes I wake her up. So she eats, and goes back to sleep, and I carry her over to her own bed.
Sometimes she wakes up again at 02.00 but not often. Most of the time she wakes up for food around 05.00, sometimes 06.00 and then Toine goes to work so when she wakes up I put her in our bed again abd she sleeps again. If ahe wakes up at 05.00 she also wants a little breakfast at 07.00 and sleeps a little more after that, and then at 08.00 - 09.00 the whole procedure starts over again!
Some days we go for a walk, and some days we go to the open pre school. Sometimes we go shopping, but all in all, this schedual works perfect.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
A little shopping
Yesterday I was by myself for the first time since Cecilias birth! Toine took care of her for an evening and I went to the cinema with one of my best friends Karro! We saw Kung Fu Panda 2 (it was funny!) and had dinner at a spanish restaurant. We picked some tapas to eat and had a lot of fun things to talk about. Toine was doing a good job with Cecilia, and when I came home it was bed time for her, so I got to put her to bed.
She sleeps so well during the nights now. She also starts to learn to sleep during the days, but she doesn't sleep long unless I am in the bed with her also. But that's fine by me! It's quite cozy. She goes to sleep really easy in the evenings as well now. Most of the time all I have to do is give her food around 8pm, then she sometimes sleeps at once, but sometimes she likes to play a little with her feet, and then she sleeps.
Today I went with Toine, Cecilia and my mother to a flea market. I'm searching for nice things to use for the christening party. Today I found 2 cute bowls. We also found a jump-swing for Cecilia to use when she gets a little older, for only 30kr. After that we went to a store and I bought 2 moomin bodies for Cecilia, and a scrap-book to use for the christening, and last but not least, a tray for baking cupcakes, which I needed. We had dinner at my parents place, and I finished making some decorations for the party afterwards! Yay! Now I'm gonna go fix my farm, and then sleep. Tomorrow I'm just gonna stay home and rest with Cecilia! Perhaps we will give her a little real food (mashed potato) for the first time in the evening!
She sleeps so well during the nights now. She also starts to learn to sleep during the days, but she doesn't sleep long unless I am in the bed with her also. But that's fine by me! It's quite cozy. She goes to sleep really easy in the evenings as well now. Most of the time all I have to do is give her food around 8pm, then she sometimes sleeps at once, but sometimes she likes to play a little with her feet, and then she sleeps.
Today I went with Toine, Cecilia and my mother to a flea market. I'm searching for nice things to use for the christening party. Today I found 2 cute bowls. We also found a jump-swing for Cecilia to use when she gets a little older, for only 30kr. After that we went to a store and I bought 2 moomin bodies for Cecilia, and a scrap-book to use for the christening, and last but not least, a tray for baking cupcakes, which I needed. We had dinner at my parents place, and I finished making some decorations for the party afterwards! Yay! Now I'm gonna go fix my farm, and then sleep. Tomorrow I'm just gonna stay home and rest with Cecilia! Perhaps we will give her a little real food (mashed potato) for the first time in the evening!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
To be a mom...
Now hiring!
A loving, caring person with a bright smile and never ending patience to care for another human being with a lot of special needs. She is unable to express her urgent needs in any other ways but screams, but can sometimes also communicate with smiles and curious looks. She is seemingly spastic and motor control is poor. Unable to sit without special support and spends most of her time just looking around.
Work hours begin 7am and end 21pm, on-call duty hours from 21pm to 7am, this goes for every day of the week. Breaks are only allowed when your care-taker allows it, this also includes meal-breaks. You are required to sleep in the same room as your care-taker.
Your job includes (but not limited to) care for personal hygiene, help with mobilization, feeding, cure for heart and soul, comfort, help to sleep, physiotherapy and general amusement.
I could sure use a break right now!
Hehe, but seriously... today we visited the choir that my parents goes to, so we could listen to some songs the choir-leader had written. It was good songs, and one I liked immediately and would love to have on the baptism/christening. Today I also heard that the priest now has the texts and a psalm in dutch, yay!
A loving, caring person with a bright smile and never ending patience to care for another human being with a lot of special needs. She is unable to express her urgent needs in any other ways but screams, but can sometimes also communicate with smiles and curious looks. She is seemingly spastic and motor control is poor. Unable to sit without special support and spends most of her time just looking around.
Work hours begin 7am and end 21pm, on-call duty hours from 21pm to 7am, this goes for every day of the week. Breaks are only allowed when your care-taker allows it, this also includes meal-breaks. You are required to sleep in the same room as your care-taker.
Your job includes (but not limited to) care for personal hygiene, help with mobilization, feeding, cure for heart and soul, comfort, help to sleep, physiotherapy and general amusement.
I could sure use a break right now!
Hehe, but seriously... today we visited the choir that my parents goes to, so we could listen to some songs the choir-leader had written. It was good songs, and one I liked immediately and would love to have on the baptism/christening. Today I also heard that the priest now has the texts and a psalm in dutch, yay!
A little shopping
Went to thw childrens care center today to weigh and messure Cecilia! She is now 65,3 cm long and weighs 6172 grams. She is long, but not so chubby but they were not worried. They say it's ok now to start tasting other foods! So for this weekend we are going to try to give her a little bit of mashed potato, only a teaspoon or so. Gonna be so much fun!
My mother, Cecilias grandmother was with me at the care center! And afterwards we went to Jakobsberg for a quick visit at her work. I bought 3 new pairs of pants for Cecilia, and we took a trip past the library, there I gave her some food also. Then it was time for us to have lunch. Yummie wok restaurant. After that we took the bus to Sollentuna center and went to look for some pretty decoration things for the baptism/christening. I didn't really find much though.
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My mother, Cecilias grandmother was with me at the care center! And afterwards we went to Jakobsberg for a quick visit at her work. I bought 3 new pairs of pants for Cecilia, and we took a trip past the library, there I gave her some food also. Then it was time for us to have lunch. Yummie wok restaurant. After that we took the bus to Sollentuna center and went to look for some pretty decoration things for the baptism/christening. I didn't really find much though.
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Monday, September 5, 2011
Svenska hollywoodfruar (swedish hollywood wives)
We have a show on tv here about some swedish women, that are housewives in hollywood and about the glamorous life they live. Usually its a very entertaining show to watch but todays episode made me angry. One of the women, Isabel Adrian, has a 1 year old daughter named Monday Lilly. In this episode she takes her daughter to a piercing studio to get her ears pierced and it just hurt me so much to see how painful it was for that little girl, and that her mother could choose to do that to her at such a young age. She claims she was doing her daughter a favour by getting her ears pierced now, cause then she wouldn't have to feel the pain later when she is older. While she is crying and screaming in pain when the 2 men hold her down very hard so she wouldn't move when they pierce her ears, her mother is just sitting in the back covering her ears, and then leaves the room...
Seriously, getting your ears pierced at such a young age is not good for the child in my opinion. And to say it's better to do it now, than later is just complete bullshit. When she is older she is also mature enough to cope with the pain, I never thought my 8 ear piercings hurt. I choose to get my first piercings when I was 10 I think it was. I was ready for it then. For such a young child, it can only be a traumatic experience!
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Seriously, getting your ears pierced at such a young age is not good for the child in my opinion. And to say it's better to do it now, than later is just complete bullshit. When she is older she is also mature enough to cope with the pain, I never thought my 8 ear piercings hurt. I choose to get my first piercings when I was 10 I think it was. I was ready for it then. For such a young child, it can only be a traumatic experience!
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Laughing!
She made a little laugh for the first time last Friday, but today when she was sitting with her great grandmother in the sofa and playing she was really laughing a lot! It was so much fun to see and hear!
For Toine's birthday today I had made tagliatelle with a chanterelle mushroom cream sauce and pork tenderloin. And for desert I had made a nice dutch apple cake! For my sister I made little cupcakes with apples, and a cinnamon buttercream on top.
For his birthday he got a shaving machine from my family, and a small silver plate with Cecilias name on it for his necklace! I hope he liked it.
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For Toine's birthday today I had made tagliatelle with a chanterelle mushroom cream sauce and pork tenderloin. And for desert I had made a nice dutch apple cake! For my sister I made little cupcakes with apples, and a cinnamon buttercream on top.
For his birthday he got a shaving machine from my family, and a small silver plate with Cecilias name on it for his necklace! I hope he liked it.
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Friday, September 2, 2011
Cupcakes
I baked some cupcakes today to practice for the upcoming party. It's a lemon cupcake with a vanilla butter cream frosting, topped with a blue butter cream rose which I made myself, and some pretty sprinkles!
I got an email yesterday saying that the cards we ordered are on the way, so hopefully we get them on Monday (or Tuesday).
I'm also working on some decorations for the party but I will post some pictures of that when they are done!
Tomorrow we are going to a huge flea market outside IKEA. It's gonna be fun. Toine will be away all day and evening on a kickoff with his work, so I will spend the day at my parents place :) Also baking Toine's birthday cake, cause tomorrow is his birthday!
I got an email yesterday saying that the cards we ordered are on the way, so hopefully we get them on Monday (or Tuesday).
I'm also working on some decorations for the party but I will post some pictures of that when they are done!
Tomorrow we are going to a huge flea market outside IKEA. It's gonna be fun. Toine will be away all day and evening on a kickoff with his work, so I will spend the day at my parents place :) Also baking Toine's birthday cake, cause tomorrow is his birthday!
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