Yesterday Jorja and Logan came over for the first time since Logan was born. J has been dealing really well with the whole motherhood thing, even though it’s been very tough on her. She’s only 17, no partner, and having a baby isn’t exactly something you’re meant to do on your own! It takes 2 people for a reason I think! Logan wakes every 2-3 hours and she’s doing all feeds so she’s pretty sleep deprived, like all mum’s of newborns! She has so much patience though, she’s perfect for the role. She never gets angry, she never gets frustrated! I am the first to admit I lack patience and I was so lucky to have a partner as helpful as Rob when Hunter was born. He thought nothing of taking him in the middle of every night and settling him. He had a lot of experience and was way more relaxed than I was. It’s easy to get nervous and tense with your first, you’re so desperate to get them back to sleep and I think they sense it somehow, your stress level, lol. J is so calm and level.

She decided to come back for the day, just a visit. She isn’t sure she’s ready to come and stay here the weekend yet which is fine – she doesn’t ever need to come back for the scheduled kids weekend if she doesn’t want to. She can come for day visits, or spend a different night at our house if she wants to come when it’s quieter. We’ve been out to see her several times since she had bub, and taken her out to lunch and this was the first time she’d wanted to come back to ours, which was really really nice! We’ve missed having her around and I’ve missed our little girly chats (bitches!).

Logan is beautiful. A beautiful, beautiful little man. Such big blue eyes (which I’m pretty sure he’s going to keep) and lovely olive skin. The best of his gorgeous mother, it looks like. He’s such a noisy little fella! Forever grunting and snorting and snuffling and waking himself up with these noises! He’s not the best sleeper in the world atm – he wakes the second you put him down in the bassinette or his cradle at home. He likes being cuddled, and will sleep in your arms, but even then he just catnaps! He wakes constantly, shuffling and stretching and grunting and groaning and all of a sudden, you have wide owl-like blue eyes staring at you. And the whole process of getting  him off to sleep begins again! Makes me realise just how much a freak of a baby Hunter was! He slept in 3-4hr shifts every time from about the 2nd or 3rd day home from hospital, day and night. He also did 98% of his sleeping in his bassinette, and then after about 6wks, he had day sleeps in his cot. It makes me very apprehensive for what #2 will be like, because the more I see of other babies, the more I notice that Hunter’s sleeping habits were awesome from the very beginning!

While Rob and Z were betting on Golden Slipper Day, J, Logan and I went into our bedroom to a) try and get Logan to have a bit of a nap! and b) have a good catch up session. We text every day (thank god we both have unlimited texts included in our mobile phone plans because we send each other up to 700 texts a month!) but it’s not the same as actually sitting down in the same room and being able to have a really good chat. It’s been about 5wks since J was last at our house, so we had a little bit to cover!  Logan had a few of his little catnaps in our arms and on our bed and I took a stack of photos of him! I’d been wanting to do a photo shoot with him for ages and today was the first chance I really had to get some pics of him just chilling, laying on our bed and just looking at the world around him.

After about 2hrs we went out into the lounge room and Rob got his turn cuddling and spoiling his grandson. One of J’s friends dropped around to see her – it’s amazing how some of them have made so much effort to see her regularly. Some have dropped off, but the really close friends have been out to see her (1/2hr drive for most of them) multiple times. And these are guys and girls. She’s very lucky to have lots of supportive friends. He stayed until dinner (panchetta and pea risotto, cooked by Rob!). J and I had Logan in shifts over dinner…She held him first while I ate and then when I’d finished I took him so that she could have her dinner. Rob took them home around 8pm, after Logan had a feed. Was the most awesome day having her back, and Logan here as well! Hopefully it’ll be a regular thing.

Today is Easter Sunday and we are off to my mother-in-laws for dinner. The whole extended family is going to be there, so it’s going to be massive, as always! We are taking Hunter, Z and E and J’s mother is driving her, Logan and Rochelle down, as it looks like A is going to be still camping with friends. It’s really good that J, Logan and Rochelle get to go too! Will be taking the camera again.

Some pics from yesterday with Logan: