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Stomach bug

Dear Hunter,

This long weekend in October 2021, you have been unwell with a stomach bug. The diarrhoea has been going for two days now and you started vomiting this morning.

You love your coconut ice blocks, which have helped you feel better. You’ve been able to keep most fluids down now.

It is the hardest part of being a parent, when you see your baby sick and you can’t do much to make them feel much better. The only thing you can really do is give lots of extra cuddles, keep the fever down with panadol and nurofen to help with muscles aches and pains.

We’ve spent today resting and enjoyed some sunshine but you have been very tired and not your usual full of energy, running around flat out self.

Let’s hope you are all better by the time you wake up tomorrow morning.

At this age (13.5 months) your favourite food is still avocado’s, you love popcorn, coconut ice blocks and peanuts are your favourite. You love playing with the electric toothbrushes. The animals are your favourite, you could chases skips tail around all day snd try riding his back like a pony.

You are the most sweetest boy. Your latest thing is you’ve started to give us kisses if you see us hurt or if you want something that e have said no to, you’ll toddle over and give us the biggest kiss on the lips. It melts my heart and you can get away with anything doing that.

I love being your mum and I love watching you grow. I have never lived like this before and I’ve never been in aww of anyone like I am with you.

You are and always will be perfect to me in every way. I love you so much my sweet baby boy.

Love always,

Your Mum xoxo

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Spring Time

Dear Sweet Hunter,

Spring time is here and the weather is slowly warming up. Most days we start our day with a bunch of cuddles, some breakfast and then a walk to the park and back. You love the park at the moment, mainly for the saw dust flooring to play in, but also for the slippery slide.

For breakfast you are a bit fussy at the moment as you are still having breastmilk a lot of the time, but your favourite foods are popcorn, avocado and peanuts which you sometimes will have for breakfast.

Now with the warmer weather you love having water fights with mummy and the hose. We’ve been establishing vegetables and fruits in the garden which means lots of watering, but you love to help out with the hose as well.

If you are restless in the house all I have to do is go outside and your happy again. Sunshine, the kelpies and the chooks around you and you are in your element.

You’ve become incredible at ball skills. You pick up the soccer ball and throw it a good lob, and you’re able to dribble the ball with your feet. It amazes me how much you can do at 12 months old.

Everything about you excited me baby boy. You’ve got the whole world at your feet and you can do anything you set your mind to. Just look how early you walked, 8 months old. Your determined and will go a long way in this world.

Love Mum xx

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12 months old and 6 health scares

Dear Hunter,

At only 12 months old you have had 6 health scares with mummy and daddy.

You have fallen off the lounge at 3 months old when you had decided to start rolling over early. You bumped your head on the floor and we ended up in the hospital straight away. They reassured us, even though it’s a scary and worrying time, it’s one of the most common admissions into the hospital. We had to monitor you in hospital for 4 hours to make sure you didn’t vomit or get unusually sleepy. You had another fall off the bed as well a few months after, but you were ok with close monitoring.

You’ve been into the hospital for when you stood on a nail. Which luckily healed up nicely and didn’t get infected.

Just recently you had fevers in the night time, but there was no other symptoms that you showed until the next day when you got sleepy and didn’t want to walk much. You ended up having a tick on your back. Luckily we got that one off and you started to feel much better by the next day. tick season is here now that spring is here, so we have to be extra careful.

Once you were carrying around a soda water bottle without the lid on it and you had it in your mouth. You tripped and the rim of the bottle jammed up between your front two teeth and the roof of your mouth. There was lots of blood, but it seemed to heal up quickly and didn’t stop you eating and drinking thank goodness.

Not that long ago you managed to pull open the locked bathroom cupboard door with your strong muscles. You found the tea tree oil bottle which had a lid on it, but it was loose. It leaked a bit in your mouth when you tipped it up. Luckily enough it was only a drizzle. I phoned the poisons hotline and they said to monitor you closely for vomiting or pain, unusual behaviour, but they reassured me that if it was less then 5mls it’s very unlikely to cause any harm.

So you certainly keep us on our toes. I love you so much and want to keep you so safe. But you are an inquisitive little boy and I love watching you discover and learn. Please no more scares now bubba.

Your going to be an incredible human adult one day little munchkin. I love your sweet adventurous nature.

I love you so much.

Love Mum xoxo 😘

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Your 1 years old

Dear Hunter,

You are officially now a one year old. Yesterday on your first birthday we had so much fun. I made 2 cakes for you, one for eating and one for you to smash.

I made you a white cow with rainbow layers inside. You started off poking it and eventually you were ripping it open and stomping on the buttercream icing. We hosed you off and you kept running around in the sunshine.

The sun was so lovely and warm all day. We did a lot of sunbaking and too much eating. The chocolate machinery cake I made you was mus cale and very rich.

We also had fun under the sprinkler, you rode the horsey, mowed lawns, played with your toys and balloons. You smiled and laughed all day. I think you were on a sugar high from all the cake as well. You skipped your nap today with all the excitements but then you slept for 12 hours.

We are so lucky to be your mum and dad Hunter King. You are loved by many people. You received gifts in the mail, messages on Facebook and lots of virtual reality cuddles were sent.

I love getting to watching you grow, explore, discover and process the world. You amaze me in every way. Too clever for your mummy. Sweet dreams my dear boy.

Love Mum xx

1 years old. You love brooms and mops. What a perfect gift on your birthday from Aunty Leecie.
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Life in your eyes

Dear Hunter,

Today we went and collected some hens to add to our chicken coop. It was a bit tricky for us to find them as we are in the covid pandemic world, where restrictions are tight and many people want to become self sufficient.

Watching you get excited when we opened the box and let them roam free in their pen was priceless. Your face lit up and all you wanted to do was hold them. You love their feathery tails and red crowns.

I love how you squeal when you’re excited.

You have so much life that shines through your eyes. Everything is a new and even better adventure then the previous one.

You look at the animals with such a happy grin. I love watching you watch the cockatoos fly over head, the horses wander in the distance, you spot the moon when it’s out at anytime of the day and you moo when you spot a cow.

You’re constantly looking around and seeing every part of this life that you can, absorbing, processing and translating. You amaze me. All those deep thoughts, satisfied emotions, you my sweet boy are going to do great things in this world. You are going to do exactly what you want to do and I hope it brings you the utmost happiness as you deserve it. You’re the most strong willed, clever little person I’ve ever seen. I’m going to be right here with you along the whole way. When ever you need me I’ll be there.

Never change bubba. I love you to the moon and back.

Love Mum xoxo

Those cheeks. I could kiss them for days 😍
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Due date

Dear Hunter,

Today was your due date 1 year ago. 14/8/2020. I was all belly in my pregnancy with you. I loved every feeling of being pregnant. Just knowing that you were with me everywhere I went made me feel the utmost content. Besides your daddy, I’d never had anyone love or understand me like him and you. I already knew you were special the first time I saw you on that first ultrasound at 9 weeks.

Every kick made me smile. You made everyday exciting. When I was working as a nurse in theatres in Coffs Harbour, each day I would stop and just feel you moving, or I’d listen to your heartbeat with a stethoscope.

This time one year ago I was so excited to meet you, everyday I was waking up wondering if today would be the day. I still didn’t know if you were a boy or a girl yet, although I did have a big feeling I knew you were a boy. I craved way too much protein and meat through your pregnancy.

You held in there until the 20th of August. Only 6 days late. Who could blame you, it’s so warm inside my belly.

Fun fact: before pregnancy I’d eat 2 avocados a day. During pregnancy I couldn’t eat them, as the smell would make me feel sick. But you actually love avocados, it’s your favourite food at the moment which I’m glad as I thought you might have been turned off them.