Last Tuesday, a week ago already, Rebekah and I ventured out for our first walk together. Not quite the first time we've been out (as we've been accompanied by the boys on a couple of other occasions when I've needed to be ferried about in the car), but it was our first excursion as just the girls.
We only walked ten minutes down the road to the local health clinic. My health visitor had given me instruction to find the centre and get Rebekah weighed when she was four weeks old. And it was some well needed freedom from the four walls of my house. Yes, I'm getting a bit stir crazy!
So how is Rebekah? Very well indeed. She'd already reached 9lb 12.5oz (4.44kg) at her weigh in, which means she's put on a whole pound in about 2 weeks. Feeding well and sleeping well at night too. The only fly in the ointment is that she's now found her voice, or rather it's increased in volume by a fair few decibels. Neighbours who hadn't realised before...certainly know there is now a new baby in the neighbourhood.
I was feeling quite wonderful after my walk, and was then planning daily constitutionals until I'm allowed back behind the wheel (next week....yippee!)....then I go and do something really silly. I get a trapped nerve in my hip/pelvis! I cannot believe it. No idea how I have done it, but have been pretty immobile and in a lot of pain this past week.
Also my poor little boy gets the chicken pox. He's been absolutely covered, and I have been close to tears at times when applying cream to his itchy spotty body. I put his eczema creams to good use, which have been much better than using calamine. He's fine now and we just have to wait for the spots to disappear.
Alas no new photos of Rebekah, but here is my little helper watering my little herb garden.
And here the garden, complete with a newly shaped new flowerbed which suddenly appeared over Easter. It's a very large semicircular flowerbed, which will get a mixture of shade, through partial shade to full sun. It needs to be completely cleared of some very old shrubs, to give me a blank canvass and I will have lots of fun planning and planting this space during the summer. Watch this space.
I've just heard the postman, who has delivered my new copy of The Garden...time for a cup of tea before Rebekah's next feed. If I'm quick enough ;-)
