What have I been up to lately.....well, there's the usual, taking care of my now 5.5 month old (a true pleasure!) spending time with my wonderful husband (and taking care of him as well, also a pleasure!) and making sure that our house is in order (not as much of a "pleasure".) All in all, it keeps me very very busy.

Once a week, Kira and I go to meet other new mother's in the neighborhood. We all met months ago when the babies were just newly born. The council arranges these groups and you start out meeting at the maternal healthcare center. They talked to us about raising our bubs and how to take care of ourselves. Then were were left to continue the group. Most people have stayed on, a couple have gone back to work but its good, everyone seems to make an effort to come to these weekly get togethers. I've even met some of the mum's outside of the group meetings for coffee and to go for walks.

The one thing that I've learned about new mums is this, they are all pretty competitive.....who knows, maybe I am as well. It seems like whenever you start to talk about how your child is doing the other mother tends to make it seem that their baby is "perfect" or that they are developing so amazingly well! I crave to hear that they have rough moments where their child cries endlessly or that its not all perfect in the household, there are hard times as well. I don't know, it just sometimes seems strange that they go on this way....isn't the whole idea of mother's group to share honest/common experiences?

Our little lady has also started going to Gymbaroo. Its a 45 minute exercise class for babies! We've only gone to one class.....she did pretty well. Really seemed to enjoy the first bit but was a little tired and out of sorts towards the end of it. We'll see....I think that its good for their development....

All in all its good. We leave for our first plane trip together to NYC. A 24 hr trip.....Luckily we're all flying together as a family. I'm hoping that we arrive safe and sound....

until we come back...xxxx