Aidan's Due Date Day!

Aidan

• Age: 1 month
  
• Weight: 3.0 kgs (6 lbs 9 oz)
  
• Length: 49.5 cm (19.5 inches)
  
• Average hours of sleep: a lot! Longest stretch is 4/4.5 hours at night
  
• Latest tricks: Feeding, sleeping, pooing, peeing, puking and... growing!

Livia

• Age: 22 months
• Weight: 11.0 kg (24 lbs 4 oz)
• Height: 83 cm (32.7 inches)
  
• Average hours of sleep: 11 at night, a single 2 or sometimes 3 hour nap at lunchtime
• Latest tricks: Finger puppets, doing dishes, watering plants. Saying no... a LOT, and quite a few more back-arching tantrums.

Today is Aidan's due date - and he is 30 days old! I can't quite believe how it all happened, but looking back, I'm very happy at the way things turned out. Thankfully, despite being premature and very small even for a preemie, Aidan didn't have any complications, and is growing fast! He seems so easy to look after, especially compared to a toddler! Also, it seems like he isn't against taking a dummy when he is a bit fussy (unlike his older sister). We try to use it only sparingly, but it's a nice thing to fall back on.

He's still pretty small. Aidan weighed in this morning at 3.0 kg (6 lbs 9 oz)and 49.5cm (19.5 inches). If he had been born today with those stats, he would have been 10th percentile for weight and 40th percentile for height (not unlike his old man I suspect). However, since he competes in the one month old category, he is not even on the charts! Still not quite measuring up to Livia at birth, as you can see (identical onesie in both photos):



Meanwhile Livia just keeps on learning more and more new words. She loves the complicated ones now - abracadabra, happy birthday, and 'wassup! are her new favourites. She has settled really well into daycare, and is out the door so fast on those days (Thursday and Friday). We may drop her down to one day later on, but for now it's nice to have a couple of toddler-free days. It means I can spend more one on one time with Aidan (and the place gets vacuumed!). Livia is now very much in the middle of the 'no' period, so we are learning to rephrase our questions... 'which skirt do you want to wear - this one or this one?', instead of 'do you want to wear this?' or 'shall we get dressed?'.

And as for me, I'm pretty happy not to be pregnant any more! I have so much more energy. We've had so many lovely meals cooked by friends for us, I haven't even had to do much cooking (although we have been having a lot of fun with a new bbq and breadmaker in the house!).

There are tonnes of photos of Aidan and Livia on Picasa and Facebook (see under Links to Photos in right hand column). Best to take a look at them there! From now on, they will be organised by month.