Matt's Living Free blog

Check out Matt's "Living Free" blog on the link in the right column under About Us. He has been writing one for the Dorset-Orthopedic website, the place where he got his SAFO from (his blue foot)

Sleep

Our daughter is 6 weeks already. We had her 6 week check up and she is growing well and putting on weight. She has grown 7cms since she was born! I was looking at photos of her yesterday and it is amazing how she has grown in those 6 weeks. She smiles now and coos, she looks adoringly at her daddy and I know his heart just melts. At the moment she is sound asleep on my chest, so angelic and peaceful! We praise the Lord for such a content baby.

Sleep is something that should be treasured I have decided! She isn’t a bad sleeper, only wakes once during the night at the moment, but sleep it is great when it comes.

 Sleep lots!

                Enjoy sleep! 

Love sleep!

Did you know:

 That It's impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.

 A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year – this I can believe!!

Daniella and I are in Harare, Matt went home today to a compost day that was being held at Golden Harvest. He is then going on to Mutare to pick up Daniella’s passport. We went there last Monday to apply for it and paid the 3 day service – and in true Zim style we are getting it a week later. Oh it was ready in 3 days but not delivered!

The application was pretty pain free for Zim standards and we were finished at the office in 3 hours! The funniest part of it was when we handed the guy the photos for her passport. I had had some taken here in Harare which weren’t good at all, but she had started to get a but annoyed being handled and forced to keep her head up, so I went with them. Matt didn’t like them and so took some at home with great difficulty, have you ever tried to keep the head of a 5 week old up! Anyway the guy processing the forms looked at the photos and just says “They are ugly!” I couldn’t believe it. Did he just call our daughter ugly. He changed it to the photos were ugly not the baby, but made us go outside and find a man who was taking photos outside the gate. We found the man and he took us to the public swimming pool where he set up his white board at the front gate and took the photos! Only in Africa will you find a set up like that. The photos were taken and we finished off there.

It’s now 6pm and Matt is back with the passport! Her photo is adorable! Crazy that the passport is valid for 5 years, what she looks like at 5 weeks will be different from 5 years but oh well!!