IT'S A GIRL!!

Yep,It's a girl,we are so excited.We found out this morning,bub is lovely and healthy with a very fat tum!She's still due around 25 april.We are so happy,our perfect little family.The scan took ages,they checked everything from head to toe,such a relief to know everythings in perfect
working order,It was our first and only scan of her.With jas we had about 4 scans!
Am so looking forward to my first precious cuddle,nothing compares to those first moments together when they are newlyborn,magic!
Girl's now outnumber the boys in the barron family.GIRLPOWER!

Christmas parcels

Received lots of Christmas parcels from Gran Walker in England this morning. Naturally, Jasper was more interested in the brown packaging they came in. Of course we will have to wait till Christmas day till Jasper can see what he got! I can just picture him neck high in wrapping paper on Christmas. Only 27 days to go!
Only a week till Jaspers Gran and Grandpa and Aunty from S.A. get here... Can't wait!

Feeding frenzy

What a lovely day! The weather is that sort that makes you just want to get out and do stuff, needles to say managed to gat quite a bit done around the house today. Jas was in a clingy mood all day, didn't like me to far out of his sight, even "helped" with the lawn mowing (moral support). Have found a cool high chair on trade me, our first time using the site, have sent confirmation that we would like to buy, now are waiting for a return message from the seller, wierdly it is really nerve wracking!
It will be great to have a high chair, Jasper is at that age where he really has got to big for his bouncy chair, aside from the fact that the spoon sways around like a heat seeking missile trying to lock in on its target, what with all the bouncing in between, it has just got really messy. Here's hoping for the best...

Sleep,glorious SLEEP!

Well,Jas is sleeping through the night again.Only thing is ,now he isn't sleeping as much thru the day but I cant expect miracles!!
He has discovered how great his dad is lately.Dad ROCKS-poor dave can't even leave the room without jas grizzling.This morning jas sat on the grass outside for a full hour just so he could watch his daddy mow the lawn-he refused to be inside with me,OH NO! But I'm not jeolous,I'm far too tired and hormonal for that.I relish the chance to have just five minutes to myself. This parenting stuff is incredibly rewarding but also bloody hard work.I think I just need a night out WITHOUT child.Boo hoo
We are trying to get Jas drinking from a sipper cup at the mo .Thank god for non-spill products!.Feeding him is also getting very messy,with food exploding out his nose and mouth(sometimes by way of a sneeze othertimes -and this is his latest trick-by just spitting it out if he doesn't like it)Ah,kids-you gotta' love 'em.We are now searching for a highchair but it's ok because we have discovered Trade me-brilliant stuff.
Am loving seeing all my gorgeous nieces and nephews on the blogsites,they are all so different and all so precious.

boy meets dog

Funny thing today,jasper met a dog for the first time.My friend,claire,has a lovely mut called mia .Mia loves children (claire has a 4-month old,jack) so when we went to vist mia was all slobbery kisses for jas-well, jas was so unfazed by the whole thing ,letting mia lick his hand.Infact my boy is pretty unfazed by most things, on wednesday I took him to rhythm and dance down at old cromwell and he loved it! I kneww he would as he love's music and is always bopping away to himself,but jasper loved all the children and noise and It's great to have such a happy laidback kid.
Jas is starting to get more mobile, exept its in the wrong direction and its when he's on his back! And man is he ACTIVE! Near impossible to dress as he kicks and wriggles around so much! He's also gotten a lot more vocal, with lots of squeals thrown in for good measure.
in conclusion, Jasper is turning out to be a happy, squealy, bouncy, sociable young lad and we love him to bits. Life was so dull before.

boy meets dog

A wee step backwards

We had a very tough night with Jasper last night, are trying to get him to sleep through the night, quite successfully, I thought, and then last night he decided to wake up at 1 am and cry his little heart out for two solid hours. I went in and checked on him every 20 - 30 minutes, a little cuddle, we were so tempted to give him a bottle just to get him off to sleep again but somehow managed not too. Lee agreed that it was the toughest night that we have ever had with him. Eventually he went back to sleep, he woke up in a little later than normal, I had left for work already but Lee reconned he was in a really good mood, no damge done ! Hope that it goes better tonight, he is normally really good, pretty much he has been sleeping through for the last 2 weeks or so. Here's hoping...
Other than that all is well with the Doyle clan. Have got my folks and sister arriving from South Africa on the 10 Dec, are staying for 3 weeks, am really looking forward to it. It is certainly going to be a change for Jas, all those new people to get used to (we also have my aunt, uncle and three cousins arriving for Chrismas, staying for a week or so) Hope his little routine is not too badly affected, it is bound to be but with a little luck he will come right in a few days.
Lee felt the baby move today for the first time. Very exciting! She is 18 weeks at the moment, a really good pregnancy so far. Can't wait to go in for the scan on 1 Dec. Yay!

Sleeping beauties

A very rainy and cold day in Cromwell. Fresh snow on the mountains... ahhh...summer! Jas is all wrapped up warmly, just had a two hour sleep so he is full of beans. Was also full of beans at 5 this morning when he was in our bed. He lay in between us, I looked over at one point and he and his daddy were both asleep...awww. Very cute.

Flippin computer!

It's o.k. for all you computer boffins out there but we have just spent an hour trying to get into our own blogsite; a lot of stress and hair pulling - anyway we made it and here we are...
Our next mission is to try to put photo's on, we will try tomorrow but with our collective computer skills you may only get these next year!
Jasper is much fussed over by the ladies at New World checkout. Today they gave him a couple of balloons to play with. Being only 7 months old he lost interest when they dissapeared from sight. Tied some string on and this worked well, he played with them for ages.
Dave put him in his "broom-broom" box and pushed him around the lounge. He loves that! He is a real daddies boy.
I think he is going to have curly hair like his dad. He still loves his music. There is a movement and rhythm class for babies in Cromwell that I will take him to next week. Will let you know how it goes.
Listened to babies heatbeat. Jasper listened as well, he looked most concerned until I smiled and reasured him. Still hard to believe he's going to be a big brother soon!

Grumpy Boy!!

Hard day with Jasper. He is teething again. Yuck! We think his top two teeth are coming, he is chewing on everything at the moment, including daddy's finger(he drew blood, true) and he is dribbling like a maniac, poor kid. His behaviour has been all over the place, not quite himself. He is still sleeping through the night, a real blessing.

The Doylie Kids

A very exciting day in the Doyle household, we have aquired our very own computer, and now we feel inspired to share with you the progress of Jaspers life so far. So here goes...
Firstly, he is gorgeous, and incredibly patient as we are constantly dragging him from point a-z. Hope the next one is as accomadating as his\her not so big brother. (finding out if it's a girl or boy on the 1 Dec.)
Today was very exhausting. We went to the Cromwell Primary School Fair, pretty cool. They had a dunk the teacher comp, kids doing a demo of samurai karate, a toss the gumboot comp, candy floss and very excellent truffles...YUM! Everybody in Cromwell was there, including Jassie's playgroup friends, wonder if that will be Jaspers future school?
Jas now has two teeth, a lot more hair(slowly going blond), very long Doyle legs and a winning personality, he is also sitting up by himself.
We took him to Plunket recently, he now weighs 9.5kg and is 70 cm long. We are obviously doing something right.
BREAKTHROUGH - as of two nights ago Jasper started sleeping through, bliss.
Will put photos on here for you all when we have figured out how to do it.
Counting down now till Jaspers first Christmas, only 42 days to go!