Being Momma G: Day 26

Happy Australia Day!

And Happy Birthday to our darling nephew Tommy, who turns 5 today. We can't believe he's 5 already - how time has flown!

The 10.45pm feed last night didn't happen. Jonathan woke me, but I was so not up to feeding. Plus after the 7.45pm feed, I just didn't want to face another hour of trying to wake Sean and keep him awake enough to feed, when I was dead tired and just wanted to sleep.

Both Jonathan and I went to bed. Jonathan had agreed to take Mina today, so he needed to get some sleep so he could play with Mina. Sean woke at 1.15am to feed and didn't fuss too much afterwards, allowing all of us to continue sleeping. Sean woke again at 6am and fed without waking up too much.

Jonathan left around 7.30am to go and collect Mina, and Sean and I continued sleeping until 10am. Sean didn't want to sleep at all after the 10am feed, and insisted on staying up until the next feed at 1pm. I tried almost every trick in the book, but could only manage to get Sean down for 10 minute stretches before he'd wake up again. So we gave up trying to get the little man to sleep, kept him awake till the 1pm feed.

Jonathan and Mina spent the day playing with Lego, after helping around the house with the laundry and bathing Sean. Mina got a few cuddles with Sean throughout the day, when he wasn't being grizzly or feeding. We woke Sean at 4pm for his next feed, just as Jonathan and Mina were getting ready for Mina to go home.

We were just finishing the feed as Jonathan returned home. After changing Sean's nappy, he enjoyed some Daddy time as Jonathan settled him for a short sleep.

It's now just past 7pm, Sean is due for another feed, and while I Feed Sean, Jonathan is going to cook dinner for us. This is how I've spent Australia Day 2011 - feeding a baby, settling a baby, changing nappies, while wearing my pyjamas all day long. I'm going to get off the computer and go wake our son, and hope that he will be a good little monkey moo tonight and sleep like he did last night.