He's just adorable! He didn't like the bright lights very much though and kept squinting his eyes. Graham had to shield him from the light with his hands.
Ava loved meeting her new baby brother.
Our first family photo.
11/09/2012
Welcome baby Daniel!
Daniel Graham Ball arrived 8 days early on September 10th, 2012 at 11:34am via planned c-section, and weighed 7lbs 15 ounces.
He's just adorable! He didn't like the bright lights very much though and kept squinting his eyes. Graham had to shield him from the light with his hands.
Ava loved meeting her new baby brother.
Our first family photo.
He's just adorable! He didn't like the bright lights very much though and kept squinting his eyes. Graham had to shield him from the light with his hands.
Ava loved meeting her new baby brother.
Our first family photo.
01/08/2012
Future poet? Song writer?
I just had to write this somewhere!
Ava came out with a cute song while she was eating her dinner last night:
"Two little carrots,
sitting in a bowl.
A lot of them got eaten,
and two more to go!"
It made me laugh to hear her sing a little song which pretty much rhymed and she came up with it all on her own.
Ava came out with a cute song while she was eating her dinner last night:
"Two little carrots,
sitting in a bowl.
A lot of them got eaten,
and two more to go!"
It made me laugh to hear her sing a little song which pretty much rhymed and she came up with it all on her own.
30/07/2012
Long time no see!
Oops... really haven't been here in a while!
I'll be 33 weeks pregnant tomorrow and I'm feeling huuuge! It's been a pretty easy pregnancy so far thankfully, but I am starting to look forward to the end of it. I've become very uncomfortable recently with back aches whenever I sit or stand and even laying down isn't great anymore so I'm not sleeping well either.
I don't want to complain about it though because I know I'm lucky to have my baby growing away inside me and I know the discomfort is just because he's doing what he should - getting bigger!
Oh yes, and we found out in May that he's a boy!
Ava wasn't to happy when we told her because she had decided she wanted a little sister, however she has since come around to the idea and loves her baby brother already. (She think's she's like Peppa Pig with her little brother George.)
She thinks we should name him Thomas. Then again, she also thinks we should have named the slug she found in the garden yesterday Thomas as well...
I've been struggling a little bit with sacroiliac joint dysfunction pain in my lower back, mostly on the left. It seems to flare up and then settle down, then flare up again. This week it has been pretty bad and I end up limping around everywhere. I should just sit and relax but I have so much to do and I can't stop myself from cleaning all the time.
Ava turned 3 years old a few weeks ago and we celebrated while we were on a family holiday in France. It was a really nice trip, we went with Laura, Robin, Ellie and Jenni, and then Steve joined us a few days later. We took a ferry across the channel and arrived in the morning on Ava's birthday. Once we disembarked from the ferry, it took us about 3 hours of driving to arrive at the house (it belongs to Robin's mum and dad.) Once we got there Ava was very grumpy and didn't want to get out of the car. I checked her temperature and realised she had a fever so I found some children's ibuprofen for her. No sooner had she swallowed it, than it shot straight back out - along with her breakfast - all over her shirt, teddy bear, car seat, the car, and the driveway! It was horrible, I've never seen her throw up like that... thankfully Graham cleaned up the mess while I rushed her into the house for a bath. We gave her some more ibuprofen and she was bright and cheerful again in no time (that stuff is MAGIC!)
Unfortunately she had a fever on and off for the first two or three days but eventually she was back to her normal self again.
Here are a couple of shots from our time in France.
I'll be 33 weeks pregnant tomorrow and I'm feeling huuuge! It's been a pretty easy pregnancy so far thankfully, but I am starting to look forward to the end of it. I've become very uncomfortable recently with back aches whenever I sit or stand and even laying down isn't great anymore so I'm not sleeping well either.
I don't want to complain about it though because I know I'm lucky to have my baby growing away inside me and I know the discomfort is just because he's doing what he should - getting bigger!
Oh yes, and we found out in May that he's a boy!
Ava wasn't to happy when we told her because she had decided she wanted a little sister, however she has since come around to the idea and loves her baby brother already. (She think's she's like Peppa Pig with her little brother George.)
She thinks we should name him Thomas. Then again, she also thinks we should have named the slug she found in the garden yesterday Thomas as well...
I've been struggling a little bit with sacroiliac joint dysfunction pain in my lower back, mostly on the left. It seems to flare up and then settle down, then flare up again. This week it has been pretty bad and I end up limping around everywhere. I should just sit and relax but I have so much to do and I can't stop myself from cleaning all the time.
Ava turned 3 years old a few weeks ago and we celebrated while we were on a family holiday in France. It was a really nice trip, we went with Laura, Robin, Ellie and Jenni, and then Steve joined us a few days later. We took a ferry across the channel and arrived in the morning on Ava's birthday. Once we disembarked from the ferry, it took us about 3 hours of driving to arrive at the house (it belongs to Robin's mum and dad.) Once we got there Ava was very grumpy and didn't want to get out of the car. I checked her temperature and realised she had a fever so I found some children's ibuprofen for her. No sooner had she swallowed it, than it shot straight back out - along with her breakfast - all over her shirt, teddy bear, car seat, the car, and the driveway! It was horrible, I've never seen her throw up like that... thankfully Graham cleaned up the mess while I rushed her into the house for a bath. We gave her some more ibuprofen and she was bright and cheerful again in no time (that stuff is MAGIC!)
Unfortunately she had a fever on and off for the first two or three days but eventually she was back to her normal self again.
Here are a couple of shots from our time in France.
Ava & Ellie riding in a Mickey Mouse car at the grocery store
My posh little princess
Anyway I'll try and update here more often if I can. It's just difficult to sit down at the computer for long periods of time because of the back pain.
23/05/2012
3d Ultrasound
We went for a private 3D scan and here is our baby boy at 23 weeks!
I took my mom as a mother's day present so she could see the baby :)
I think he looks just like Graham already!
06/04/2012
Number 2
Well, I know I'm way behind in announcing this but we're expecting Baby Ball number two!
I'm just over 16 weeks pregnant now and so far all is well.
Ava is looking forward to being a big sister and she seems to like 'the baby in mummy's tummy.'
I didn't have much morning sickness this time around, just a bit of nausea and fatigue which has passed now. At the moment I'm just very hungry all the time and all I want is McDonalds food all the time!
In fact, it's embarrassing to admit but today I went to McDonalds and bought a Quarter Pounder meal for myself and some chicken nuggets for Ava. I ate my meal and when I looked over at Ava she was asleep in her carseat so I ate her last chicken nugget! Even after all of that, I was still hungry... so I went back to McDonalds and bought a Big Mac. I just couldn't control my hunger!
My tummy has grown much quicker this time and I've been in maternity jeans since before I was 12 weeks.
I've already felt the baby kicking a few times recently, which is always nice :)
We just got a new computer so it doesn't have any photos on it yet. I'll post the scan picture when I get a chance this week.
23/02/2012
Ava's first drawings!
A couple of days ago Ava was bored so I asked her if she wanted to draw. She started to lose interest pretty quickly so I said 'Why don't you draw a picture of mummy?'
I was amazed when I saw what she produced:
She has never drawn a distinguishable picture before! Everything is just squiggles and lines. I was so impressed that I asked her to draw a picture of her daddy.
This is what she came up with:
My little artist!
I was amazed when I saw what she produced:
She has never drawn a distinguishable picture before! Everything is just squiggles and lines. I was so impressed that I asked her to draw a picture of her daddy.
This is what she came up with:
My little artist!
22/02/2012
Recent News
There hasn't been too much to update about recently, we've just been trying to keep warm and stay awake! Ava doesn't seem to care much about sleeping these days so she's awake all day long and wakes up at 6:00am every morning.
Last night we went for dinner at Isabelle, Eric and Cody's house and didn't get home until 9:00pm. I thought Ava would sleep in this morning because of her late night but nope! Wide awake at 6am again. *sigh*
Graham and I are going to bed earlier and earlier every night because we're so tired. He has been working a lot and I think he could use a couple of days off.
Ava and I went to a town called Chichester a few days ago and had a really nice time walking around the shops. I found some new jeans and Ava got some new markers and a colouring book. Graham was flying out of the airport nearby so we drove down with him and walked around while he worked. I drove over to Arundel Castle which was about 10 minutes away and Ava and I looked at it from the outside for a few minutes. She really liked it and she thinks that there's a fairy inside. We'll try and come back when it's open in April, it's such a beautiful castle.
It's not the best picture, the lighting wasn't great because the sun had nearly set. We'll go back and take better pictures another time. :)
Anyway, aside from her poor sleeping habits, Ava has been pretty well behaved recently - with the exception of the day she got ahold of a razor in the bathroom and cut her lip open... it was horrible but luckily it has healed really quickly and there's almost nothing to see now.
She had a bit of a tummy bug the day before yesterday which struck while we were grocery shopping and about as far away from the toilet as possible... amazingly Ava held it in until we got to the toilet and she seemed much better afterward. She had a low fever later that afternoon but has been fine since. Not sure what it was but I'm glad it seems to have passed quickly.
We went for a nice wintery walk the other day after it snowed. It was beautiful in the woods, the sun was shining through the trees and everything was sparkling. Shame the picture didn't capture quite how pretty it was.
Last night we went for dinner at Isabelle, Eric and Cody's house and didn't get home until 9:00pm. I thought Ava would sleep in this morning because of her late night but nope! Wide awake at 6am again. *sigh*
Graham and I are going to bed earlier and earlier every night because we're so tired. He has been working a lot and I think he could use a couple of days off.
Ava and I went to a town called Chichester a few days ago and had a really nice time walking around the shops. I found some new jeans and Ava got some new markers and a colouring book. Graham was flying out of the airport nearby so we drove down with him and walked around while he worked. I drove over to Arundel Castle which was about 10 minutes away and Ava and I looked at it from the outside for a few minutes. She really liked it and she thinks that there's a fairy inside. We'll try and come back when it's open in April, it's such a beautiful castle.
It's not the best picture, the lighting wasn't great because the sun had nearly set. We'll go back and take better pictures another time. :)
Anyway, aside from her poor sleeping habits, Ava has been pretty well behaved recently - with the exception of the day she got ahold of a razor in the bathroom and cut her lip open... it was horrible but luckily it has healed really quickly and there's almost nothing to see now.
She had a bit of a tummy bug the day before yesterday which struck while we were grocery shopping and about as far away from the toilet as possible... amazingly Ava held it in until we got to the toilet and she seemed much better afterward. She had a low fever later that afternoon but has been fine since. Not sure what it was but I'm glad it seems to have passed quickly.
We went for a nice wintery walk the other day after it snowed. It was beautiful in the woods, the sun was shining through the trees and everything was sparkling. Shame the picture didn't capture quite how pretty it was.
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