
The photo of Charlie in the swing is from a week or so ago, when he was 12 days old. In comparison, look at how tiny Noemie was in the swing when she was 8 weeks old!!! It's just still so weird to me that our 2-1/2 week old is already the same size that Noemie was at 3 months old. I wonder just how big he is going to be one day? Things have been going well though a bit hectic. Now that Charlie is coming out of the newborn sleep 23 hours a day stage, we're trying to work out a bit of a routine that works for us. As N is still so young, she needs our help and attention but we also don't want to leave Charlie howling if what N needs is not urgent. We had a nice little routine going but Charlie's having his second growth spurt now so that routine sort of goes out the window for a few days. He usually goes 4 hours between feeds and does around 5-6 hours at night but last night was every 3 hours and today was that, if not shorter periods between milk guzzling. Last time it lasted 2 days so maybe tomorrow will be a repeat and then it will be okay again. From last time I remember the growth spurts are frequent to begin with then slow down quite dramatically and a little routine is a lot easier to manage. Noemie was on a routine of sorts by around 8 weeks I think? Maybe a bit later? Her routine is a bit shot at the moment as we've been sleeping in later than normal which then throws off her morning nap and then the rest of the day. In some ways, Kirk going back to work on Monday will force us back into a bit more of our usual routine which might make life a bit easier. I will really miss having him home though but luckily my MIL comes in tomorrow for a little over 2 weeks to help so I get a bit more time with help. I also need to look into part time help soon too. In any case, Charlie being the second born means he'll have to adapt to Noemie's schedule I suppose. We'll figure it out.
Moving along to scrap talk... the last few weeks I've gone NUTS buying new stash. It's almost like I'm making up for the past year where I bought very little. I did this after I had Noemie as well. I'm going to have to reinstate my "scrap to spend" challenge that I tried a few years ago (and probably failed miserably knowing my spending habits). The problem is I no longer have my own room (or much spare time) so it's been a bit hard to find an easy way to work on stuff. I was going to take over a bookshelf in the living room but having thought about it more, it would make the room cluttered so I've decided to buy the pictured computer hideaway piece to go in a corner in the dining room where I can put my most used items and then use the dining room table as my work table. I like that the cupboard doors close and I can get some childproofing locks or something to stop little fingers from messing around with my stuff. I ordered it today so it will arrive sometime on Monday and I'll put it together and get set up so that whenever I do have a bit of spare time, I can just get to work. I won't need to use up any space for a computer as I'm on a laptop. Hopefully this works out and suits my needs.
In the past few days I've spent some more time on Facebook and a long lost friend from LA found me and in turn I have found some other friends from my LA days. It's been nice to be back in touch with people from that time in my life and makes me "homesick" for LA and a big part of me wishes I still lived out there. I miss the weather, the lifestyle and the people. It was so much friendlier than London. Considering I've been here for nearly 10 years now, own our house, got married here and technically have a life here, I still don't feel like this is home. I doubt it ever will. I shouldn't complain too much though, as who knows what my life might be like if I had never moved here, met Kirk and had Noemie and Charlie. I do love my life, just not where I'm living it but I suppose that's far better than loving where you live yet hating your life?