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we are moving in a couple of days and i am sooo excited! although it will be a lot of work- packing, moving, unpacking, cleaning, assembling and arranging, it’s all good cos i can’t wait to have our own place. new routines will have to be established, like when the housework and cooking will get done, etc but i’m pretty sure things will work out

tomorrow will be a busy day cos we are getting the moving truck plus buying some stuff at ikea. lucky my in-laws are helping us cos at least there is someone to watch over matt while i get organised. first thing on my list is to organise the kitchen and then the bathroom. so much to do! lol

i can’t wait for the living room to be all set up so matt can start crawling and cruising

matt turned nine months on tuesday and since my last entry matt has done so many things already. a few days after he turned eight months he started sitting unsupported, and last week he started going from a crawling position into the sitting position all by himself! he also loves pulling up to a standing position by holding on to the bed rails. we have to keep an eye on him all the time cos he’s already so malikot.

he’s now eating 3x a day, but he hasn’t eaten a lot of meat yet cos they’re a pain to prepare. i gave him gerber beef a couple of times but i’ve stopped cos he developed really bad eczema on monday and i’ve put him on a bland diet just to help his skin clear up. i don’t think the gerber caused it, but it’s better to be safe than sorry. we’ve been putting sorbolene on him every couple of hours and we’ve also been bathing him using sorbolene.

we’re moving soon and i can’t wait to have our own space. hopefully matt will start cruising soon once the space is all set up.

here are some more pictures from last month:

From Matt's Ninth Month

From Matt's Ninth Month

From Matt's Ninth Month

From Matt's Ninth Month

From Matt's Ninth Month

From Matt's Ninth Month

our weekends have been a bit busy: shopping for things for the apartment, looking for furniture and other moving out related activities. I can’t say I have accomplished much… I haven’t really seriously started packing yet. despite all the stuff we have to do prior to moving I am actually ok with that, I am more daunted by having to finish selecting (only) 150 pictures for our wedding album. I haven’t even started browsing the thousands of pictures since last July! :O I told Butch I will spend next Saturday completing the selections. I think I will have to do it in one sitting cos I will just end up doing other things during weekdays. it’s so hard to focus on the album with Matt around. at least on Saturday Butch can mind him while I concentrate on the album.

matt turned eight months last sunday

in the past month he has experienced his first winter and got his first colds. he seems to have also started recognising faces cos he knows when i am not around and starts to fuss! i love and hate that he always wants me around. i love it because i know he knows who i am, i hate it because it’s hard not being able to take longer breaks.

i bought him an activity center and a travel cot so that he can learn to sit up, crawl and stand up. unfortunately he hates the cot with a passion and the activity center he mainly uses in the morning so that he can poop lol it’s funny cos 99% of the time he will not poop in the morning unless he is sitting on his activity center.

also this month he went on his fourth long haul flight from sydney to LA. he was OK on the trip, although he had a hard time going to sleep because he was too busy trying to get the magazine of the person sitting next to me. that girl was such a pain, she hardly slept at all and kept the light on, which meant matt could not sleep too. oh by the way, at night matt can only sleep if it’s pitch dark so no more late night tv!

i’ve forgotten when it started, but it’s been ages, matt also doesn’t poop through the night anymore. i just realised it a few weeks back when i wasn’t able to change him before he went to bed, so he slept with poop in his nappy LOL poor thing.

i started him on solids last month and he was very keen then, unfortunately after his colds he never really got back to being super interested with eating. he still eats, but only 2-3 spoonfuls at a time. he likes arrowroot biscuits A LOT though.

here are some pictures from the past month:

matt turned seven months yesterday!

so many things happened last month matt went swimming in cebu and batangas, rode another airplane to go back to australia and started eating solids! unfortunately for matt, he got a cold (and still has it) because of the weather here in canberra. he has also started being very bungisngis and more attached to me. he still hates his car seat but he has allen asleep a couple of times on it which is very promising.

thanks to his activity center i am able to get things done even if it’s just the two of us, even taking showers! lol his sleep habits are ok i guess, it’s hard to say cos his being sick has messed up his night sleeps.

some memorable pics from this month: