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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Baby girl was sick with fever for 5 long days, and thankfully, she is back to her normal happy self.
We went to Pacifica Festival on saturday and when we get back, she had gotten feverish, fussy and rejected food.
For those five nights, she could not sleep soundly, rather, waking up screaming. i felt so helpless seeing and feeling her pain. Gui and I took turns each night to sleep with baby in the lounge, giving her pamol and trying to feed her constantly. Most of the time, it all came back up.
Now that she's back to normal, she's eating lots again, making noise, crawling everywhere and wanting one of us to pay attention to her!
FRANCE IN JULY
We're booked for France in July, and have been planning how we would spend our 4 weeks. We're hoping to catch up with family and friends, see a few places while we leave Maeva with Granma Jacqui (she doesn't know this yet..heheh). That's the plan so far.
BABY "OMELEX"
Omega is coming in a few weeks to spend the last trimester with us before baby "OMELEX" comes into this world. Of course, that is not the baby's name but Its what ive come up with until he's rocks round. So looking forward to spending time with my sister!!! and my nephew in a few months time!!!

Friday, January 04, 2008

Happy New Year

Hapy New Year for the Beach!!!

Maeva is now 8 months and has learnt to crawl and hold her own bottle (less work for me, yay!!!). She continues to be a pleasant-natured little baby with much enthusiasm and contentment. Over the last few weeks, we have been driving a lot and seeing many people, sleeping in a tent, in friends and family's houses and living rroms and she's taken it all in her stride. As long as she is well rested and well-fed, she's all go.

I have moved shop from hamilton east to Chartwell, which is closer to home (5 minutes drive) but longer hours (its in a Mall). I'm enjoying the challenge but also anxious to give it my all,...I need to prove myself. For my own sake. And it also makes better financial sense to do so.

I don't believe in New Year Resolutions, but I have set some personal goals to aim for this year.
Health/Wellbeing
The health and wellbeing of my family is most pivotal. Eating well is a good step, which we are generally doing, but we will continue to do this.
I also need to do sport again now that I am more settled with work and baby. I will start up the netball team again and get back to tennis as we used to do.
I need to work on losing the baby tummy for good. I have been complacent in recent weeks due to the holidays but I seriously need to get my act together.

Education and Upskilling
-Do more training
-Learn to speak/write French fluently by the end of the year...2009.(not just my 3 year old french lessons)-:

Finances
Be more accountable with finances and be aware of how we're tracking financially. Not to leave it to Gui to some this out but take a more active role in our accounts.
p.s. spend less money on coffee....(shet, thats gonna be a damn tough one to change)

Career
Go for GOLD.
Be more efficient at work. Use time wisely. Diarise. Be assertive. Be frank. Follow up. Be accountable and take responsibility. It's the only way to move forward and UP!

Travel
I guess this is already set to happen (En shala!)
We plan to travel to Marseille in July-August for no less than 4 weeks to see Gui's family. But I will take more advantage of my work perks and do a small trip to Fiji before then or to Brisbane. And and, go to Oman to see Omega, and Austria to see Fleur and and...okay, i better stop here.....because i'm now talking about visions and not realistic goals!!!

Last but not leastBe there for loved ones

All in all, I aspire to make this year count. Make my mark. Be an inspiration. Be inspired.
...Oh yeah, World Peace and Harsher corporal punishment for parole violators.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Maeva's First Christmas

with Santa at Waimauku Settlers for lunch with the Myatts, Cherelle and friends

Maeva still has no teeth and loves eating everything.
We have to be careful now because she is more mobile, she tends to slide and semi-crawl around to reach items on the floor. She loves her pacifier but will quickly drop this for something else if she sees one, like the tv remote, paper, wallet, handbag, paper napkins...everything but toys!!!

Maeva the little man Sometimes i wonder if she was meant to be a boy, heheh. She is always hyped, moving and refuses to be laid down or seated. She prefers to stand, even in her stroller, I have to force her to be seated and then I have to flip the stroller backwards to put her in a lying postion. Lately, she would be very active right before bedtime, and it would take me ages to put her to sleep. So in the end, i pass her to the sleep master, Gui.

pressies pressies everywhere
Again, M at home, on the 28th Dec, when we finally got time to open her pressies at home. We were in Auckland for the rest of the time. She didn't care about what was inside, she just wanted to eat the paper wrapping...wish she'd remain that way for the next 12 years, would save us lots of $$$!

Aztec meets PolynesianMaeva with Aztec singer in Thames a day before Christmas. I bought he this $2.00 hat and glued flowers on it, perfect for a day out in the sunshine!!!

happy campersa rare shot of us three, camping in Miranda by the Hot Pools. Sadly, I didn't have a great time as I was sick with the cold/flu but M had a great time watching the ducks, eating grass, swimming in the mineral hot pools, sleeping in the tent and roughing it a bit...

eating banana using the feeder
Maeva loves to eat.
She now takes solids, 3 meals a day. She eats anything. Everything. I bought this feeder and we put strawberries, banana, mango, pear, kiwifruit in it and she chews until the fruit is reduced to a pulp and her face is sticky with fruit.

Maeva's first Christmas will be remembered by her parents as very exciting, lots of pressies, lots of laughter and too much food.
Maeva has been a very happy camper, very cheerful and enjoying the attention. Thank you to all her family and friends for he gifts, letters and the love...we are thinking of you all this season. We both miss our homes and our loved ones but you are in our prayers and our thoughts.
Most of all, thank you to Cherelle who was with us this Christmas. You have been a great source of ummmm, information (i was gonna say inspiration too) hahah. nah, we missed you (seeing that youre here every other week!!!