mother – Dear Hunter

Stomach bug

Posted on October 4, 2021 by catsirksandperks

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

baby boy

Rainy Days

Posted on September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 by catsirksandperks

Dear Bubba,

Today it was raining from the moment we woke up. The sound of the rain falling off our tiled roof and pounding on the ground created a warm and cosy atmosphere. We could see the misty clouds laying low across the mountains. The air is cold and the bed was so warm and comfortable. I don’t know how your dad managed to get up at 3:30am to leave for work this morning.

I’m so glad I get to wake up to you every morning and take our time getting up. I love waking up before you and just staring at your perfect little face and body. I love seeing you start to roll around and then open your eyes for the first time that day. You give out a big stretch and then once you figure out what’s going on you give me a big cuddle. It’s the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

This morning once we got ourselves out of bed we made some pancakes together, you mainly loved throwing the white soft flour across the room and pounding the pancakes with the spatula.

We then enjoyed our pancakes while we watched the movie Marmaduke. You love animals so much and this was mostly talking dogs in it which your thought was funny.

We then rigged up and adventured outside. Once those doors were opened and you had your shoes on, you were off running around. You had brooms in your hands, rocks, sticks, anything you could grab. You chased the puppies, helped me sow seeds and weed the greenhouse. Your favourite part was squelching the wet soft mud through your fingers and toes. It was everywhere but you had the best time doing it.

I love when we play in the greenhouse and as I pick vegetables out of the garden, you love eating them as we go. Mainly the carrots and tomatoes.

We had too warm baths today and settles in for the night early out of that cold rain. Everyday is an awesome day with you around baby boy. You make the days full of happiness, laughter and adventure.

Just remember you can do anything you want to in this world.

“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right” Confusious

I love you so much xoxox

Love Mum xxx

baby boy

Spring Time

Posted on September 10, 2021 by catsirksandperks

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

baby boy

12 Hour Nursing Shift

Posted on September 8, 2021 by catsirksandperks

Dear Sweet Boy,

Yesterday mummy had her first big shift back in nursing. I was not home for 12 hours. I was lucky that your daddy took the utmost best care of you. I always know you are safe, happy and keeping him busy when you two are together. You get up to lots of mischief.

I love hearing how your day was together when I get home. You were sound asleep when I got home, but your dad absolutely adores you. We can’t stop talking about how cute you are and all the incredible things you do.

You boys enjoyed feeding Weetbix to the chickens out of your hands, you played with the kelpies for hours, you love running after the kelpies and chasing after their sticks and balls, you boys collected mulberries fresh off the trees and were eating them quicker then you could pick them, you both watched your favourite Volvo machine show on YouTube about 10 times and enjoyed lots of yummy foods throughout the day.

I was lucky enough to get a visit from you at the airport where you were able to watch the jets flying over. They were so loud, but you loved it. You love anything in the sky and become mesmerised by it, whether it’s birds, planes, stars or the moon.

You had a breastfeed and you were full of energy again. It made it a lot easier on me to see you and give you lots of cuddles before daddy took you home.

You are the most beautiful, sweet, adventurous loving boy. I’m so lucky to be your mum and watch you grow. Thank you for picking me.

Love Mum xx

baby boy

12 months old and 6 health scares

Posted on September 4, 2021 by catsirksandperks

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 😘

baby boy

Life in your eyes

Posted on August 17, 2021 by catsirksandperks

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