My Mummy went on a work night out...

...and all i got was this subway ticket! But actually i quite like it.

Mummy's first day at work

Mummy started her lovely new job today, so Matthew was with Gran all day. Lucky Gran... He was very well behaved and enjoyed his trip to Rhyme Time, where Karen gave him his first Christmas card that was just for him. After lunch, he went to nursery and behaved very well. Mummy had a good day too, and everyone at work was very nice.

Full-time Mummy

Mummy is now officially unemployed. She's now desperately looking for something else to do rather than be in the house all day with Matthew - lovely as he is.

HELP!!!

Tomorrow - it's only a day away

It's been a pretty rubbish day today. Nothing bad happened but for some reason we've all just had a really bad one. Nobody knows why but everybody is counting the minutes until it's over.

Tomorrow, the Health Visitor is coming to weigh Matthew again. He's had some pretty good days since the last time, but some pretty rubbish days as well. Having said that, since Monday he's been eating like a horse, so we all hope he's climbed a centile or two. Fingers crossed.

Mummy won't be there for the Health Visitor because she's going to have a typing test. She's not going back to her old job so she needs to find a new one, and this is part of it. She's hoping it goes well because the job she's testing for is a really good one. The interview itself is on Tuesday. Gran's going to look after Matthew and see the Health Visitor instead of Mummy.

The annoying, nasal ginger-haired little girl was right though. Tomorrow - it's only a day away.

Brushing my teeth!

Sign of things to come

Matthew did his first sign today! This wasn't a picture of it, obviously. He signed, "more" three times at dinner to let us know he was still hungry. We think he might have signed "milk" earlier as well and waved but we weren't convinced at the time. Tonight's was definite though and in context so well done Matthew!
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Mummy found out last night that the standard way to give a baby barium is to "just mix some in his bottle." Wonderful. And if he's breastfed and doesn't get a bottle? Nobody asked Mummy to bring expressed milk so she can only assume they intended to give Matthew formula for the first time since he was born. Not a chance. If he gets an appointment at a time that suits it's just as well that we found that out or we'd have had to leave anyway after we arrived because we've got by without feeding him formula so far and there's no way he's starting now. They - supposedly - promote breastfeeding and then assume nobody does it. It drives Mummy mental.

Health visitor came this afternoon and Matthew has gained 5 ounces this week. Thank goodness for that! She agreed that 6 hours is very excessive for fasting a baby, so she is going to phone his consultant at the RAH to see if they'll refer him to another, more child-friendly, hospital such as Yorkhill, who are more likely to be able to give us a morning appointment so that at least he is only one milk feed and breakfast. She's earning her pay this month!
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Mummy has an interview at work next week on Thursday and after last week's trip being a bit tricky, Matthew is now coming too. That means Gran's coming as well to watch him for the one hour that Mummy won't be there. And this is easier how?!
ROAD TRIP!

Mummy's in a pool

Not this one, incidentally. Bad luck. (If you don't get it you're not meant to, but you will later.)

At least my coffee cup loves me

Mummy's on her way to a meeting for work. The meeting's tomorrow but we're all travelling down this afternoon. It's probably not going to be a fun meeting but at least my cup loves me. Apparently we're booked into a nice hotel though. That's something.

Busy week to come - no pictures today :(

Well, Matthew is off to the Panda Centre at the RAH tomorrow for another check by the paediatrician because of that little spell where he didn't gain weight again. Mummy wishes that she'd taken Matthew to the GP today to weigh him in the baby room, so that she had an idea of what would happen at the hospital. Not to worry; we all love surprises, don't we?

Talking of surprises, Mummy was invited to a work meeting down near Head Office next Tuesday. The whole team is invited, in fact. Hmm, we wonder what that could be about(!) because she's not been invited to any of the other ones while she's been off. Of course, we have no idea, do we Matthew?! Update next week on that one once it's all out in the open and we have something to talk about, maybe.

That means that Mummy is driving down on Monday afternoon, after we finish moving Uncle Markie into his new room at his new house. He's off work sick this week so hopefully it means that he'll have managed to box up all of his stuff so it goes smoothly and quickly. Mummy will then be able to leave nice and early to get there in time for dinner and a catch-up with everyone who's had to do all of her work while she's been off. To be fair, they probably did some of it before she went off as well... She'll not come back until Tuesday night so Matthew will be having an afternoon and a sleepover at Gran's house on Monday and then partying all day on Tuesday. Mummy will miss him, but she'll have a REALLY GOOD TIME despite the meeting.

Due to the formal meeting and important people parking in the same car park as Mummy, she will be taking the car for a valet on Sunday afternoon.

Saturday will be busy too because Matthew is going for sing-songs wtih Mummy as usual in the morning, but after that he's going to see the Baby Bee exhibition at Paisley Museum. It's meant to be really good. We think Jack's coming too, as long as he's better and allowed to leave the house because apparently he's not been well.

So... along with all the other things we cram into a regular week, it's going to be manic for a wee while. Fun fun!