Happy birthday LS :)

Remember our congregational baby quartet of 2008? The first one turned one in January and the second one, i.e. LS, had her birthday bash yesterday - and we were invited. It was great fun to see all four together again and their older siblings, too. The oldest of the bunch is in daycare and we don't get to see her that often anymore. We miss seeing her :). She now walks!

Little miss sparkling brown eyes was our host and the birthday girl.

Before leaving to go to the party little girl apparently felt that it was absolutely necessary to help us clean one of the cd trays...sigh!

Since it was open house again today our weekends are spent cleaning the appartment especially since little girl's way of cleaning lond of adds to the amount of things that need to be done.

After cd clearance it was time to get to the books. Once she had succesfully drawn them all on the floor it was a good time to start reading one of the Moominbooks she was given by her cousins. Our little chatter box doesn't say words, really, but she will repeat after me "mamma" when I say moominmamma and point to her in the book. She also says maa when I show a cat which is her way of saying "miau" :).

The less amusing thing is that I was wrong about feeling myself again. I did, in fact, for a couple of wonderful hours but unfortunately little girl's been waking me up twice a night for a while. First at midnight and then around 4 or 5 am. So, both Husband and I are now in the depths of the worst sleep deprivation yet. We're surviving and the little one is happy and healthy but it would be nice to get some more sleep.

In addition, my upper arm and shoulder has gotten infected because the movement of feeding her isn't very ergonomical. This has to do with the fact that I - weird that I am in this regard - really want to sit facing the door and she ends up sitting on my left rather than right. With ibuprofein the infection was starting to heal until I made the error of not taking it anymore (since the shoulder wasn't hurting that much at all). It seems that the infection hadn't yet cleared by then. Now the arm is pretty sore again and since, like every mom, my arms are needed very often this is not good.

But, in comparison to last Sunday it's a thousand times better now. Because it was so painful then we went to the doctor's on Monday and got the advice to take the ibuprofein. Apparently and fortunately it's been investigated that very little of ibuprofein seeps into mother's milk.