update on Gwens eyes.

I posted before about Gwens eyes not working quite as they should.  Well here is an update
: we had a initial check over at local hospital yesterday. Unfortunately she didn't say 'there's nothing wrong', but she didn't say it was anything serious and agreed that she can see fine. We do however have to now see a more senior consultant at Torbay hospital to have them checked over more thoroughly. The lady didn't seem to want to suggest much info until Gwen had had further checks. Will update with further news as it happens.

jumperoo bouncing video

She has made some bouncing progress since the last time I posted with the jumperoo. She now has got the hang of the bouncing and making the sounds go off. I dread to think how violent the bouncing will get!

Presents from Ellie

A cute back pack with reigns which she is nibbling, and some swim pants which are modelled on her head. 

4 month changes

1stWell at 4 months old Gwen is really alert and has started to take things in, she looks very intently at things, watches us a lot more and saves her really best smiles for us. We have also, in the last day or two, been getting more giggles out of her. It's lovely to see her becoming a person with a bit of a personality.

Here is a video of her working on her sounds and also shoving a teething chew toy in her gob! Wearing a tasty yellow number knitted by nanna! 

Today I went to the gym for the first time leaving Gwen at Nanna's house, luckily she's quite a calm baby or I probably wouldn't want to inflict the noise onto other people. Don't get me wrong, she can make noise, but it's mainly when she's getting bored and wants your attention, or is tired and just before she finally goes to sleep. She fights the sleep the little monkey. Bedtime is usually about 9pm now, i'm trying to bring it forward, but not sure she's had enough to eat by then to see her through the night so its a routine of feed, try to put on bed, she flips herself over crying which turns to a pretty good yell! and then I feed her some more etc...  I just keep giving her more food til she drops off enough to go in her cot and fall asleep. The thing about breastfeeding is you have no idea how much they are eating?  She normally wakes up at 7/8am ish but lately she's been getting earlier like 4 or 5!! Not so pleasant, I felt really rough for a few days when she did that. She does however fall back to sleep easier when she wakes that early and then sleeps on til 10am!  There is no pattern to her sleeps, this mornings 1st feed was at 6 am and then she went straight back to sleep and stayed asleep til I woke her at 9.

First swim!

On Wednesday just gone we went swimming for the first time. I wasn't sure what Gwen would do in the luke warm water but in fact she was totally fine about it, very cool and  casual. She just laid in my arms silently! 

Gwen is 4 months old and a few days now. It's going so fast!

The new bedroom before and after shots

Here is the room before we started. The paper is quite modern but I wanted something a bit more tranquil to wake up to, and well the walls were all lumpy and bumpy and the finish in the room was dreadful. 

Here is the room once I'd finished stripping the wall paper

Here is the other side of the room with all the plasterers tools in it.

Here is the boarded ceiling, it was a strange artex before with sections missing from where old built in wardrobes used to be. 

Here is the plastered wall from 2 pictures above. Hmm much better.

So then we had to put on a 'miscoat' of watered down paint. It sucked the water in so much, if you don't water it down enough it was a bit of disaster  (as I discovered on a patch of wall). If we have another one plastered we're gonna take much longer preparing the walls as they were still a bit dusty and had a few bobbles on them in places. I tried to do osme with Gwen in the room but she wasn;t really much help. 

Here she is pointing out that i'd 'missed a bit'

First bit of paint called muddy puddle by dulux - rather aptly named I think.

The skirting went on without too much trouble although with the wibbly walls Chris had to screw them on.  Here is the plaster coving going on, Chris had never done this before and he did a great job i my opinion.  He hated the sanded down after bit though as he said it reminded him of an old job he did with spraying cars/ repairs.

Before carpet

After carpet, hmmm lovely.

Here is Chris putting together the ikea wardrobes, that have been sat in our hallway for 2 weeks or so.

And now for the finished result!!! 

Gwen and Me having a little chat video

A sort of chat.