I have a 3 year old eek!

Can't believe Ollie is now three. 

He had an awful week of sickness and diarrhoea but thankfully he was okay by 16th, his birthday. 

We had a family party and a day trip planned originally but had to cancel it all and just had a simple day out to the park, lunch out and a treat of ice cream. 

He seemed to enjoy his day especially as he got a Spider-Man scooter which he loves. The day followed with more treats with family spoiling him with more presents. 

The changing faces of Ollie. 

Since he has turned three though he has become extremely bossy wanting people to do everything for him and he is constantly saying no and refusing to do anything I say. So its out with the terrible twos and in with the troublesome threes.  

My Little Man - 8 Weeks

Another week older and little Joel seems less fragile than he was with his chunky legs and a double chin. He's sleeping less in the day as he's started discovering the world around him but he's still a little piglet and feeds pretty much every two hours unless I'm walking about with him in the sling. Night time sleeping hasn't really changed.

Ollie seems to be a lot better with him lately although now he tries to pick him up which is a bit scary. 
Today I put Joel on his lap so Ollie decided to stroke him and point out his nose, mouth, eyes, tummy which was very sweet. He cried when I took him away bless him.

My Baby Boy is 7 Weeks old

Yet another week has passed where are these weeks going. 

Joel weighed 11lb 14oz on Monday so I must be doing something right although he is a bit of a piglet with feeds as mentioned last week. I think he has had yet another growth spurt this week as I've had many days of hourly feeds again so I hope it starts to die down now.

From last Friday turning 6 weeks his night sleeping has been better as from 10-11pm he can sleep up to 5 hours straight but mostly with me holding him. We had a break through last night I let him fall asleep on me then I put him in a sleeping bag in his Moses basket just before 11pm, he did wake up when I put him down but I used a dummy and a music box from a slumber bear a friend lent me to try as it activates womb sounds. I don't know if it was the sounds, sleeping bag or dummy but he slept until 1.40am in his Moses basket yay!
When he woke up I went to feed him but he fell asleep straight away on me until 4.35am so really that was over 5 hours sleep. I tried putting him back in the moses basket with the music box and he was ok for 5 minutes but got fussy and cried. 
 It's a start though as I can't expect a miracle over night. I'm happy he can sleep 5 hours straight no matter if I'm holding him or not as with Ollie this did not happen until he was at least 5 months old.