We have just had the most wonderful year with her, having Scarlett in our lives has made us become better human beings.

On her birthday morning she came into bed with us and we sang to her and she gave us both lots of cuddles and kisses. I then went for my hair appointment whilst Pete gave her breakfast and then he joined me with Scarlett at the hairdressors for her first hair cut. She looks so grown up :)

Everyone rang her for her birthday and I passed on all their cuddle and kisses!

We then went back home to open up all the presents that had been sent through the mail for Scarlett and she also opened up some of the presents that we brough her. Scarlett was just exhausted and went to bed early and we missed out on giving her her cake. We then spent the night baking and cleaning for her party.

On Saturday we had her birthday party and it was just the most wonderful day, all her friends came and we played Pass the Parcel. She also spent the day just playing outside with her friends or inside playing with more friends. Scarlett was so well behaved, she was happy to get cuddles off everyone and I don't think I saw her cry or get whingy at all. Peter and i tried to keep the party small with just her friends and close family so she would know all the people who attended, even then we had around 40 odd people including kiddies come.

People went above and beyond, which they normally do for Scarlett as she is just so special, and she recieved the most wonderful gifts, afterwards I was looking at all her gifts and I could just tell how much thought people must have put into buying her her gifts as they just suit her to the tee.

So we start the next phase of her life.... TODDLER and I just can't wait. I can't wait for her to start walking, talking and learning more things. People are always so negative about kids growing up and they always try to put kids down by saying "wait until they start talking, you just can't shut them up" etc. I don't know why people are like that, but I feel sorry for them. I am the opposite.... talk to me Scarlett, tell me everything that is going on inside your pretty lil head.

Pete and I are going really well, we are talking about more babies quite seriously, but I still want to lose some more weight before we start trying. I have around 12kg to go until I am at goal weight so I guess we will get the ball rolling when I have about 5kgs to go, so we will be looking mid next year.

Well we have all been sick.... again.... It seems that as soon as we get better, we come into contact with someone sick and catch it all over again.  I will have to be more cautious as to who we are in contact with from now on.

Pete was really sick at the beginning of the week, with a really bad stomach virus, of course I couldn't catch that and lose a few extra kilo's, no, I have to have the flu that drags on for weeks.  At least a tummy bug hits you, knocks you down and leaves just as quickly.

Scarlett has a few more teeth now and is up to 8 teeth, they are really annoying her at the moment and she is biting everything, she is also getting a little tantyish and will bite you if she doesn't get her own way.  I am trying really hard to combat this without biting her back, but I am covered in little teeth marks and they really hurt.  I don't want to smack her or bite her as I don't believe in violence against anyone, especially children, now I just have to teach Scarlett that LOL.

She is walking around the house with the help of chairs or furniture, she just grabs a chair and pushes it around the house and she will walk if you are holding her hands.  She will stand unassisted for a few seconds, but as soon as she realises that she is not holding on she will grab something.  We are not making a big deal of it, and are hoping that she will just forget to hold on.

Her sleeping habits have reverted back to going to bed late and waking up lots.  I have not been able to get her into a routine since she was sick the first time.  Some days she doesn't have any day time sleep at all and I tell you, I am completely exhausted by the end of the day.  We had nearly  full week of her sleeping through the night but as she became better, she started waking and both Pete and I were really sick and we couldn't be stuffed trying to resettle without feeding her.

I am organising her 1st birthday party at the moment and I am really annoyed as I ordered her invitations and spelt her name incorrectly.  I spelt it Scareltt... so I had to re order them today.  I am only inviting immediate family and close friends, Scarlett is getting to the stage when she doesn't like to be around strangers and I figure I should only invite people who have made an effort to get to know her and visit her.  So hopefully we have around 30 people plus kids.  My parties always become bigger than Ben Hur, so I want a small party where I can actually sit down with the guests and have a conversation with them.  I am not doing a party theme as I don't think it is appropriate for 1yr olds and I am just going to do Colours Pink and Purple.  We are going to make the cake and just have smally eats, cup cakes, fruit etc.

I haven't been able to go to the gym since I have been sick and now I have to wait until Scarlett is completely better before I put her in the Creche.  I hate her being around snotty kids so I can't bitch about it and then put her in the Creche with a snotty nose. I am still around the 9kg loss mark so I haven't put on any weight, I might just have to bite the bullet and go of an evening.  I hate going at night, when all the skinny people are there, I tend to just sit on a bike and ride for an hour.  Pete is working from home for the next few weeks so I might be able to get up at a sparrows and go before he goes to work..... ah yes that's an idea.

Well I will try to update more often.  Oh is anyone on Facebook, I just joined, it is amazing, it is keeping me very busy.

KT

YAY, I am now a SAHM (stay at home mum) for another 12 months as the Navy have approve my request for another 12mths leave without pay.  I am really happy, it means that I am covered medically so if anything happens to me I am still covered.

I haven't posted for a while as I have been really sick.  I thought i was dying and because I am still breastfeeding I can not take anything for it. Panadol just doesn't' cut it when your throat is on fire and a stuffed head and nose. 

Peter caught it as well and we thought Scarlett was safe from the lurgy but she was ill for a couple of days as well.  Last Friday I was feeling so ill I brought Scarlett to bed with me so I could get some sleep.  Now that she is crawling around it is really hard to have her in bed with me because she crawls off the end of the bed.  The only time she would sleep was when she was curled up in my arms and I never noticed her get really hot, maybe because I had a fever as well, but Pete came home early and got her out of bed and stripped her off and gave her some panadol.  I got up a few hours later and took her temp and it was 39.3, my pool little lamb was so hot.  She was still laughing and playing but just real hot.  We decided not to ring the hospital and to see how she went, we gave her lots of fluids and took her temp again 30 mins later and she was in the 38s and by the time she was due for her next lot of panadol she was back in the 36s.  After a cool bath and another breastfeed we put her to bed and that has been the last of it for her.  No more snotty nose and no fever.

Me on the other hand, have taken two full weeks to get over it.  I finally went to the gym today and I just did 20km on the bike, I just took my time and it took around 45min (I can usually do it in less than 40min) so I guess I have lost some fitness.

Pete had to take a day off work and has been affected by sinus since.  We don't normally get sick, so it was like we were in a daze.  When you are just a couple and you get sick, you can spend days in bed getting better and if you miss meals and only get out of bed to shower and grab more cold and flu tablets it is OK.  Doesn't it change when you have the responsibility of a child.  Scarlett still needed 3 meals, two snacks, breastfeeds, nappy changes, mummy play time and a bath a day.  OMG the last two weeks have been the hardest days in the last 10mths.  I don't know how people with serious illnesses cope when they have children.

I found a lump on my back the other day.  I got Pete to check it out, it is not blemished, just a lump, it feels like I have a pea under my skin.  I have started the whole 'cancer' freak out thing and asked Pete what he would do if I had cancer.  He hasn't taken me seriously (someone needs to keep their head) and has told me to go to the Dr's and get it checked out.  Of course I am talking about biopsies, and he is talking about just getting it looked at. 

I have a very extreme and dramatic personality (if you haven't already guessed) so it is generally all or nothing for me.

I will let you know how the lump goes.... I am sure it is nothing :)

Well I have hit the mighty 8kg mark, I have now lost what Scarlett weighs.  I guess when I put it into that perspective I feel really proud of my achievement.

I have had a few injuries of late (sciatica / quad muscle) and I have been only able to do cardio at the gym.  I did light weights today and my back feels real good so I will go back to my normal routine on Monday (cardio/abs/weights)  the weather had been pretty bad so I haven't gone for many walks and I really miss the walks around the neighbourhood.  We always stop off to feed the ducks and at the moment a duck at the pond has about 6 ducklings which is real sweet.

Pete is losing weight as well because if I am not eating crap than nor is he and last night I made him a coffee and only put in one sugar (which I have been doing since he got back from Switzerland) and he finally noticed, he nearly spat it out and then proceeded to put in a number of spoonfuls of sugar to make up for lost sugar :D

I try to get to the gym everyday during the week and then once on the weekend, I am just loving it.

Yesterday and today were the first two times that Scarlett didn't cry when she saw me, she kept playing with the toys and the childcare workers told me that she just crawls after the bigger kids.  It is a load of my mind to know that she is really enjoying the creche