March is a big birthday month in the Scott household. And this week saw the first of those. Lydia turned 1 this Friday. Was a very special day. Pete stayed home a bit later in the morning for her to open some presents. Here are a couple of photos of that.
I then took the girls to a Kindergym class at a recreation centre. Naomi loved going to a new place with new games. Lydia sat on my lap for a bit and then wanted to crawl around and join in. She had a big smile on her face the whole time. In the afternoon we took our time and made our way to a place to eat where we were to meet Pete. I had actually not heard great things about it but I wanted to go as it's an American icon. Chuck E. Cheese's. I'd only heard of it on TV so thought I'd check it out. It has lots of games for kids so thought Naomi could be amused whilst we made a fuss of Lydia. Turned out to be mainly video games that you play with tokens. We ordered a pizza and had a bit of a play around. Lydia seemed to enjoy it. She then gave me a good present that night by actually taking a small amount of milk from the bottle. So all in all it was a good 1st birthday.
However, the milk thing has not continued. She's down to just the morning breastfeed now and still refuses to take anything from a bottle during the day or at night (other than on her birthday). She also seems to be having a few teeth coming through. They haven't broken through the surface yet so hopefully when they do she'll cheer up a bit. Her appetite has been down too. But this weekend we've all come out with colds. So who knows what is causing what problem. Are the teeth giving her a runny nose and affecting her appetite or is it a cold that makes her not want to eat. Hopefully she'll sort herself out soon. She's having trouble sleeping tonight as she can't suck her thumb for comfort because she can't breathe. Also it's only just gone dark which is probably throwing her off. Our clocks changed last night so now the sun is setting at about 8 o'clock. I need to get out and buy some black-out curtains otherwise we may find ourselves with 2 little girls who don't want to go to sleep.
Naomi is still having some accidents. The behaviour improved towards the end of the week. But I'm a bit unsure how to get her past these accidents. We're trying the sticker rewards again but I'm not sure they're having the right impact. I'll stick with it and hopefully once she gets back into the swing of school she'll get over this phase. We had a good week with lots of activities to fill our week as school wasn't on (Spring Break). Naomi enjoyed seeing her friends from my mother's group and we had a couple of playdates at home too. I was quite worried about surviving this week but have managed to come through relatively unscathed (and so has she!). So it's just the colds we need to sort out now. We've all had a pretty miserable day today and I can feel my cold only just starting to kick in. Am praying that it won't develop into much as I go into the new week. Not sure if Naomi will be up for school tomorrow as she's pretty grumpy all day. She got her appetite back at the end of the day so perked up a bit. We'll see how she goes overnight and how she feels in the morning.
Pete and I had a lovely night out last night. One of the mum's I've met has also just moved here from Australia and so we went for dinner with her and her husband. We had lots of giggles and some yummy food. It's her 40th birthday as well so we also treated ourselves to a bottle of champagne.
This week holds Naomi's 3rd birthday on Tuesday. I'm really hoping that she is feeling better for it. The big day is really Saturday though when we have 19 kids coming over for a party – what was I thinking when I invited that many people! There are a few friends that have 2 kids so the numbers add up pretty quickly. We'll have some party food, play a few games and eat cake. Hopefully we'll survive the afternoon. And then Sunday is Pete's birthday. Nothing much planned yet except a meal out for Pete and me.
It has now been 6 months since we left Australia. We still feel homesick but are definitely more settled. My last couple of pictures are of Pete in Barrow on his recent trip there. The first is in front of a whale jaw bone, as whaling is a big part of a community like Barrow. The other one he is actually standing on the Arctic Ocean.
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