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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> Two naps a day and sleeping through the night. Bedtime around 6:30 PM and she wakes for the morning around 6:30 AM.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Eating:</b> Breastfeeding 4 times/day: morning, after each nap, and before bed. Three meals of solid foods and sometimes an extra snack or two. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month: </b>Done crawling and exclusively walking,<b> </b>more bottom teeth (#3 and #4), signs "more"</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b>Likes carrying around kitchen towels, washcloths, and small clothing items, as well as pulling books off the shelf multiple times a day. Near constant scream communication: usually not angry, she just vocalizes everything in high-pitched squeals and screams! </span></li>
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Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-73347169708079102552018-10-11T21:58:00.000+08:002018-10-11T21:58:52.940+08:00Adelyn: 10 Months<br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> Finally sleeping through the night! Towards the end of this month I finally worked up the gumption to cut her off from night nursing, so one night I decided if she woke up I'd let her cry and go in to comfort and reassure if needed after 10 minutes. On the first night, I never had to go in to her room. She woke a few times and cried for less than 5 minutes each time before settling back down. On the second night she cried more overall than the first, but most wakings she resettled herself within the 10 minute window. I did have to go in one time because she had been crying for 10 minutes. I gave her a drink of water and a cuddle, then put her back in bed and she settled down after that. On the third night, she slept all the way through (perhaps she woke a few times but resettled so quickly I never heard her) and she's been golden ever since. She takes two naps (usually only 40 minutes, but after the nighttime sleep training she's had a few longer ones where she wakes and then re-settles herself into the next sleep cycle). Bedtime is 6-6:30 PM and she wakes for the morning 6-6:30 AM.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Eating:</b> Breastfeeding 4 times/day: morning, after each nap, and before bed. Three meals of solid foods and sometimes an extra snack or two. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month: </b>Walking more and more!!! </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b>Dislikes the loud noise of the blender. Not a new habit this month, but I don't think I've recorded it yet: ever since her top teeth came in she occasionally bites my shoulder or arm when I'm holding her! Usually when she is hungry or wants to nurse...I don't love that. She likes walking and usually looks incredibly pleased after a successful stretch of stepping. Also likes eating, drinking water from her camelbak, reading books, and LOVES her brothers. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Size: </b></span>(At 9 month checkup) Weight: 8.035 kg/ 17.7 lbs (41%ile), Length: 70.5 cm/27.8 inches (52%ile), HC: 42 cm/17.3 inches (53%ile), wearing 9 and 12 month size clothing. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> Upon returning home and conquering jet lag again, I worked on sleep training naps (meaning putting her in bed sleepy but awake, and no rocking, shushing, or nursing to sleep). At first she cried and I'd go in every minute or so to reassure, shush, and lay her back down, but after a few days she figured it out and now typically falls right to sleep on her own for naps (when she's actually in her bed, which, unfortunately, as the third child is not all that often). Two naps a day with bedtime at 6-6:30 PM and she wakes for the morning around 6:30-7:30 AM. She's still waking 1-2 times at night to nurse and I haven't yet attempted to wean her off from those.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Eating:</b> Exclusive breastfeeding every 4 hours during the day and waking once or twice during the night to nurse. 3 meals of solid foods. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month: </b>Developing her pincer grip and can self feed pretty well now, stands for a few seconds unassisted, and began cruising (walking around while holding onto things). And she took her first few steps at the end of this month! (Photo evidence below...she was far more interested in trying to walk than sitting in that silly chair for photos.)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b>Constantly trying to get into the action of whatever her big brothers are doing. Keeps herself busy eating dirt out of potted plants, trying to chew on cords, pulling contents out of drawers, and putting any and every tiny thing I've missed picking up into her mouth and holding it in her cheeks like a squirrel (#facepalm).</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month: </b>All four top teeth, crawling faster and pulling up to standing.<b> </b>Plenty of long car rides, and meeting lots of extended family in Iowa, Minnesota, and Kansas. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b>Considering all the lack of routine this month, she did really well and for the most part is a fairly easygoing traveler. Not a big fan of those long car rides, but likes all the extra attention from Grandma and Grandpa!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month: </b>Rocking on all fours, scooting forward, and her second bottom tooth popped through. First Hari Raya open house and Fourth of July (although we did nothing to celebrate except dress in red, white, and blue and take a picture!) First journey to the U.S. and she crawled on all fours for the first time in Incheon Airport (in Seoul) right before boarding the long haul flight to Chicago. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b>Likes chewing on cords and following her brothers around trying to get in on the action. Commonly looks like she's doing baby yoga and practicing the downward dog pose. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> Wayyyy worse this month, teething and a brutal cold to blame for this. </span>3-4 daytime naps and bedtime/last feed around 7 PM. Waking up 3-5 times per night and wanting to be nursed each time (wouldn't settle with just the paci). She is really close but still can't quite put the paci into her mouth by herself yet (she usually puts the wrong end in). I started solids midway through the month thinking maybe she was waking more frequently because she wasn't getting enough calories during the day, but it didn't help. I really think it was her feeling bad due to cutting teeth and being sick that caused her to wake more often and want comfort feeds. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Eating:</b> Exclusive breastfeeding every 3-4 hours during the day, frequent waking during the night to eat, and started solids in the middle of this month. I was going to hold off until 6 months, but due to her poor sleeping I thought starting solids might help (it didn't). Her first food was cooked carrots which came right out the other end undigested (oops) so I switched to avocado next, which she liked (and digested). After a week or so of avocado once a day I added a rice biscuit into the routine. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> First tooth (not a fan). Sitting up! Scooting involuntarily...while on her tummy she moves side to side and backwards seemingly unintentionally, but hasn't yet mastered the intentional frontward scoot.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b>A consistent tummy sleeper (after a few weeks of side sleeping last month). Likes: smiling and interacting with everyone, quick to laugh (my most social and smiley baby by far). Dislikes: Teething and being sick.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> </span>3-4 daytime naps, bedtime/last feed around 7:30 PM, usually waking only once per night (anywhere from 12-5 AM) and waking up for the morning at 6-7 AM. She's now less able to nap soundly while out and about in her carseat, but has to for the majority of her naps due to the rest of the family's schedule (school, errands, etc.). So she usually has 3 short 40 minute carseat naps in a day, plus a longer nap in the late afternoon when she's able to nap in her bed. Because of no longer being swaddled this month, she requires some assistance to fall asleep with me putting in her paci a few times--with her arms out she tends to pull the paci out, but can't put it back in her mouth by herself yet.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Eating:</b> Exclusive breastfeeding every 3-4 hours during the day, and usually waking one time during the night to eat.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> After I found her rolled onto her tummy during the night on her four month birthday, I started the process of breaking her from the swaddle this month. She slept with one arm out for two weeks, until she rolled again from back to tummy during the night. After that I ditched the swaddle for good and the next day she rolled from back to tummy during daytime floor play. She also started reaching out to purposefully grab toys in front of her, drooling a lot, and chomping on her fingers (beginning teething). I switched her into 6 month size clothing at the end of this month. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Size: </b>(At 4 month checkup) Weight: 5.77 kg/12.7 lbs (19.1%ile), Length: 61.8 cm/24.3 inches (44.6%ile), HC: 41 cm/16.4 inches (62.7%ile), wearing 3 month size clothing</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> 3-4 daytime naps, bedtime/last feed around 7:30 PM and waking up for the morning at 6-7 AM. Early in the month: waking twice per night: around 11 pm and 3-5 AM. Middle of the month: waking only once per night at 3-5 AM, but a couple times she didn't wake at all during the night. End of the month: back to waking twice per night. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Sits in the Bumbo for up to a few minutes at a time. Lots of interacting: happy screeching and giggling, and she laughs the most at her brothers. First Easter. First trip to Miri, Malaysia and first swim (she loved it). On her 4 month birthday she rolled from back to tummy during the night in her swaddle (scary!) </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b>Likes to interact, screech, laugh and swim. Dislikes the bottle and runny noses (had another cold this month.) </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> Bedtime naturally moved up to a little earlier in the evening, meaning an extra nighttime wake emerged around 10-11 pm. Typically the schedule this month was 4 daytime naps with bedtime/last feed around 7:30-8:30 PM, wake around 11 PM and 3-4 AM to eat, and wake for the morning at 7-8 AM. One random night this month she slept all the way from 10 PM until 8 AM, but didn't repeat it. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> First Valentine's Day. Met Grandma and Grandpa Payne for the first time. Awareness of her own hands and grabbing onto things (mostly involuntarily). Also seemed to become more opinionated and vocal/fussy when unhappy about something. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b>Likes to smile (a lot!) and take baths. Strongly dislikes having the hiccups. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Size: </b>(At 2 month checkup/9 weeks old) Weight: 4.81 kg/10.6 lbs (27%ile), Length: 57.5 cm/22.6 inches (27.3%ile), HC: 40 cm/15.7 inches (87.8%ile)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> My best nighttime sleeper yet! After 5 weeks old, usually taking 4-5 daytime naps with bedtime/last feed around 9-10 PM, a long stretch of sleep until 2-3 AM, and another stretch of sleep until 6 or 7 AM. Sometimes she'd wake for an extra nursing session, but more often than not she'd wake only once to eat during the early morning hours. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month:</b><b style="font-weight: 400;"> S</b>witched from newborn to 0-3 and 3 month size clothes. Cooing and vocalizing. Started rolling from tummy to back at 7 weeks old! </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits:</b> Likes diaper changes (always smiling during them). Dislikes runny noses (suffered her second cold this month).</span></li>
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<li>Born on December 9, 2017 (induced labor one day after due date), weighing 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) and 50 cm (19.7 inches) long, at RIPAS hospital in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. </li>
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<li>Adelyn actually spent more time in the hospital than out during her first month of life, although it was close to a 50/50 split. We spent her first week at RIPAS hospital while she received preventative antibiotics as a precaution and was monitored for signs of GBS infection (since I did not receive IV antibiotics during labor). After we came home a midwife visited us every other day for a week. Then my parents came to meet Adelyn and celebrate Christmas/New Years with us. On the day we picked up my parents from the airport, Cameron had started coughing and was running a fever. Over the next week almost everyone in the house caught Cameron's cold, including Adelyn. On December 30 (3 weeks old), although she didn't have a fever and I was carefully suctioning her nose regularly, we noticed Adelyn's congestion and coughing had gotten much worse to the point that it looked like she was struggling to breathe. We decided around 10 pm that night to take her into the 24 hour clinic and they admitted her to the NICU a little after midnight due to low oxygen saturation. The next day, test results revealed she had RSV. She was in the NICU on oxygen support for 3 days, then transferred to a normal hospital room where we could stay together for another 6 days until she was finally deemed well enough to go home. The next day she turned one month old. So in the end, that month we spent 17 days the hospital and 14 days at home. On the upside it provided me lots of opportunity for postpartum rest and recovery and time to bond with and snuggle Adelyn with no other distractions, but on the downside it was very lonely at times and not easy to watch her suffering.</li>
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<li><b>Size:</b> (At 1 month checkup/5 weeks old) Weight: 3.7 kg/8.2 lbs (14.2%ile), Length: 54.4 cm/21.5 inches (52.4%ile), HC: 38 cm/15 inches (77.4%ile)</li>
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<li><b>Sleeping:</b> During the first 2 weeks she was classically flip flopped and awake frequently during the night and sleepy during the day, breastfeeding every 1-3 hours and sleeping in between. Around 2 weeks she started sleeping for one or two longer stretches at night, up to 4 hours. She settled into a rough schedule of 4-5 daytime naps with bedtime around 10:30 PM, a long stretch of sleep until 2 or 3 AM, and another long stretch of sleep until 6 or 7 AM. Alternatively, sometimes she'd wake for an extra nursing session, so instead she'd be up around midnight-1 AM, 3-4 AM, and 6-7 AM. </li>
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<li><b>Eating:</b> Exclusive breastfeeding, every 1-3 hours round the clock, excluding longer nighttime stretches (up to 4 hours) that developed after the first 2 weeks. Not the easiest transition for me back to nursing, but it also could have been worse. I think she had a bad latch the first few days which caused me quite a lot of pain, but we corrected it. On day 8, the day we came home from the hospital, I started to feel some pain and tenderness and that night and the next day had a high fever. I think it was probably a blocked duct, but it resolved after a few days. I also was concerned about my supply dropping when she went into the NICU because I wasn't allowed to breastfeed her for the first 12 hours after she was admitted. I was completely unprepared to stay that night so didn't have my pump, and they didn't have a pump there that I could use (#wut #expatlife) so I ended up hand expressing into the sink (seriously) and later into a bottle during the early morning hours until Justin was able to bring my pump the next morning. I pumped quite a bit while she was in the NICU, sometimes nursed her directly and sometimes the nurses gave her pumped bottles, and my supply remained adequate.</li>
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<li><b>New This Month: </b>First bath given by the nurse at the hospital on day 2. Met Grandma and Grandpa Olson for the first time. First Christmas. First sickness. Lost all her hair off the top of her head at 3.5 weeks. First smile at 4 weeks + 1 day.</li>
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<li><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits:</b> Likes snuggling with mommy, nursing, and sleeping with a pacifier. Dislikes baths, having her nose suctioned, and being poked by needles (duh).</li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adelyn’s birth story is short and sweet, much like her. (She was a teeny, tiny peanut at birth--the smallest of my babies--weighing only 5 and a half pounds. And of course the sweetest girl you can imagine.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">For my second round of pregnancy and birth abroad, we decided to stick with what we knew and deliver at the government hospital rather than the private one, since</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"> <a href="http://jnpayne.blogspot.com/2015/02/camerons-birth-story.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #bf9000;">the previous time had gone well enough</span></a></span><span style="color: #666666;">. The story begins with the fact that it is this hospital’s policy to not let women with “high risk” pregnancies go overdue at all. I was considered “high risk” due to hypothyroidism, so they scheduled me for an induction one day after my due date, on Saturday, December 9th. I debated about whether or not to argue with them to allow me some more time to go into labor on my own, but in the end I realized that above all other factors I wanted the experience to be marked by peace rather than conflict, so I decided to cooperate with the induction plan. Another motivator for being induced on that day was that the timing worked out perfectly so Justin would get to use his one week of paternity leave during the last week of school before Christmas break (otherwise it would have been forfeited) and we’d be able to make concrete plans in advance with a babysitter for the boys during the delivery time since it would be planned and not a surprise. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">In typical Brunei style (and I say that with mostly sincere affection and only a smidgen of annoyance) I was told by the doctor to check into the ward at 10 AM on Friday for my Saturday induction, but when I arrived the nurses told me, “We don’t have any beds available. Come back tonight, lah.” So Justin dropped me off after dinner that evening and on the second try they admitted me and I settled in for the night.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Saturday morning they woke me bright and early with the morning prayers (4 AM) for fetal monitoring. At 6 AM they checked my cervix and it was completely closed, then began the induction by inserting a pessary. They instructed me to remain lying down for the next hour, so I went back to sleep. Around 7:30 AM they did another round of fetal monitoring and afterwards instructed me to walk the halls. If labor began, great, if not I would be given another pessary around noon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">So from about 9 until 10:30 AM I walked the halls and listened to podcasts. Another lady was walking at the same time and we gave each other polite smiles every time we passed each other. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Around 10:45 AM I started to feel a few mild contractions and an intense downward pressure within my pelvis as (I assume) baby girl was dropping down. At 11 AM they hooked me up to the fetal monitor again and I ate some lunch around noon. Contractions continued, though still fairly mild. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because I was still in the ward and sharing a room with three other ladies, Justin was not allowed to be with me unless during visiting hours (noon-1:30 PM and 5-9 PM). He stayed at home with the boys all morning and planned to come at noon (but actually didn’t make it until around 2 PM).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Around 1 PM they checked my cervix and said I was dilated to 2-3 cm. They said I wouldn’t need another pessary, since I was already in labor, and advised me to continue bouncing on the birth ball. I inquired about starting IV antibiotics, since I had tested GBS positive and was told by the doctor to remind the nurses I needed it (standard treatment during labor to protect the baby from contracting a GBS infection while passing through the birth canal). The nurses said they would call up the IV antibiotics and move me downstairs to the labor and delivery floor (where Justin could join me) as soon as a bed became available. At this point a nurse turned to the doctor and said, “She will deliver before 10 pm.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">One thing I’ve come to expect about Brunei life is that things move much slower than I’m used to. Efficiency is not as high of a value here as it is in the US. Unfortunately, this did not work out in my favor because my body decided to be extremely efficient from this point on in the labor, but the nurses didn’t quite follow suit. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">From 1-2 PM I bounced on a ball, listened to music, and timed my contractions. By 2 PM my contractions were 3 minutes apart and much stronger so I hobbled out to the nurses station and told them so and asked if I could move downstairs yet. They said not yet because they were still waiting on the IV antibiotics to arrive and told me “Just let us know if it’s getting really strong,” to which I said, “I’m telling you that right now,” and I went back to my room.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next hour got pretty tough. Contractions were strong and I was alone. Justin had arrived on the hospital grounds by this point, but was running administrative errands (changing my misspelled name on my hospital records and booking a private room) and wouldn’t have been allowed in the room with me anyway. I breathed and bounced and listened to music through my headphones and coped. The IV antibiotics never came.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">At 3 PM I was really wanting Justin for support, so slowly I made my way out to the nurses station again and told them the contractions were really strong and could I please move downstairs because I needed my husband. (When telling the story to my mother-in-law she asked, “Why did you have to go out to them for goodness sakes, didn’t they have a call button?” They did, but I didn’t use it...I don’t know why!)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">They said no, still waiting on the antibiotics. A nurse told me “You just need to breathe through the contractions, that’s all you can do” and demonstrated. I nodded while internally rolling my eyes because with this being my third unmedicated labor I was pretty sure I knew how to breathe through a contraction. They shrugged their shoulders and I didn’t go anywhere so they asked did I want them to check my progress? I replied yes I guess so if that’s the only thing that can be done right now. So they checked my cervix and said I was at 5 cm. Yet I noticed I had already started feeling really nauseous with each contraction and shivering/shaking, which is what happened to me during transition (7-10 cm) during my previous labors. After the check as I was re-dressing my lower half I had a strong contraction and vomited up my lunch all over the floor. I came out of the exam room and apologized and told a nurse what had just happened. The vomit finally got their attention. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">In retrospect I think the nurses just didn’t realize things were progressing as quickly as they were, but the vomit clued them in. They started arguing amongst themselves, one saying they needed to get me downstairs since I was obviously very uncomfortable but another saying what about the antibiotics? They decided it was time to move and brought a wheelchair and pushed me down to the delivery room.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once in the delivery room they checked my progress again and said I was at 6, almost 7 cm. They gave me an enema and started to hook me up to a fetal monitor but within those 10 minutes or so I must have gone from 7 to 10 cm dilated because suddenly I felt the urge to push. I let out a huge groan on the first pushing contraction because it caught me by surprise so I didn’t push. The midwife said, “Wait you need to wait until you’re fully dilated before you can push.”. Another pushing contraction came and I yelled “I need to push!” so she checked my cervix and said with a surprised look on her face, “Ok you’re at 10!” </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Justin still wasn’t in the room at this point (!) so a nurse ran to get him. The next contraction they told me, “Wait if you want your husband to witness the birth,” but I couldn’t really stop myself. Justin walked in and his face was priceless--I will remember it forever. He had no idea I was progressed as far as I was and was expecting me to be somewhere in the middle of labor. I had one or two more pushes with Justin in the room and delivered her head. Her cord was wrapped around her neck and she was blue, so on the next contraction they told me to just breathe and not push as they were cutting the cord around her neck. I said, “Is she ok?” because she was quiet and blue and Justin said, “She’s ok,” and then they got the cord off and she breathed and cried and she turned pink. I pushed the rest of her body out and she was here. Birth time was 4:10 PM.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">They put Adelyn straight onto my chest, she had her first feed and pooped all over me. The afterbirth and delivery of placenta was really painful this time around and it took a long time for them to get all the clots out. After they got everything cleaned up they assessed the situation and reported I didn’t tear.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">I felt so different than I had after my previous two births. Rather than feeling like a truck hit me, I felt tired but also energized, kind of like how you feel after a hard workout. Justin asked me pretty shortly after if I could have another delivery like Cameron’s (which had been very long but never extremely painful) or Adelyn’s (intense but really quick) and with the pain fresh in my mind I said probably Cameron’s. But after about an hour or two I had already changed my mind and said I’ll take the short one again for sure because of how much less exhausted I felt after!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, because the nurses never administered IV antibiotics to me during the labor (which the doctor was upset about and I overheard her frustratingly questioning the nurses about it after the delivery) they explained that Adelyn would have to receive a course of antibiotics directly as a preventative precaution. They’d need to insert an IV port into her tiny hand and we’d need to stay at the hospital for 3-7 days while she received the antibiotics and they monitored her for signs of infection. The delivery nurses tried unsuccessfully to insert the IV, then took Adelyn to the NICU to have the nurses there do it. Finally, around 10 PM they transferred us to our private room and Justin went home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">We ended up having to stay in the hospital for a whole week and it was good in some ways, but mostly unpleasant. Justin brought James and Cameron to meet their sister on Sunday morning and we got some beautiful photos taken, but after that they did not allow the boys to come into my room at all because they had rules against children under 12 visiting. I got to see them a few other times during week but had to go out to the public waiting room to do so. I really missed them! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">The nice part was that I got tons of time to rest so I felt my recovery was quicker this time. The bad part was there was no wifi, no hot water and I refused to take a cold shower (ugghhh I still can’t believe that happened, I felt so gross but just couldn’t do it) and I really missed my family and the comforts of being home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">One thing that struck me while writing this, after I went back and re-read my previous birth stories, was the lack of emotion in my telling of Adelyn’s birth. I’m realizing that I did experience her labor and delivery much differently in that way. I viewed it more like a means to an end, something that needed to happen to have my baby in my arms. I wasn’t fearful before or during the process of birth this time, and even as some unideal circumstances unfolded in being alone for most of the labor and not receiving the IV antibiotics I was supposed to be getting, I wasn’t really upset. I see now how 5 years of motherhood and 4 years of cross cultural living have squeezed that tendency out of me. Hard things happen regularly (I expect it now) and I can get through them, finding comfort and strength in Christ. That said, I certainly don’t have perfect peace at all times, nor am I immune from struggling. I actually found the week long hospital stay to be much more trying and I had a complete breakdown on Friday evening after being told on Thursday we could go home the next day, then finding out we weren’t going to be able to after all. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, the following Saturday, one week after Adelyn was born we were allowed to go home. Best day ever! Adelyn is an absolute joy, the answer to many prayers, and we love having her in our family!</span></div>
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Hi Internet! I haven't posted on this blog in ages, and Cameron is 2 and a half years old now, but I am a finisher so I am writing Cameron's last 5 updates into one giant finale post. I'm posting these pictures/info here more for my own sake, to have it all in one place on the blog, to get the satisfaction of finishing what I started, and to not fully surrender to the neglect second children often endure in the area of memory preservation. Also I realize this is so outdated that approximately 3 people will be interested in it (me and the grandmas...), but once again, this post is mostly for me (and maybe Cam someday). <br />
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I've missed writing here, and will be back again soon with something more current. :)<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1"><b>Size:</b> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">?? No doctors appointments this month</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">3 naps/day and sleeping through the night, bedtime around 7 pm</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Eating:</b> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Breastfeeding 5 times/day (morning, after each nap, and before bed) and back to 3 solid food meals/day.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Eats A LOT of solids!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month:</b> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Now that he was consistently sleeping through the night Cameron started sharing a room with his big brother, he pulled up to standing all by himself a few days after his ‘7 month’ birthday, and had his first cold.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2 weeks after he started pulling up he was still in the more wobbly than sturdy stage and fell from a pulled up position standing next to the couch onto a lightsaber on the ground and cut his upper lip pretty badly.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(For the rest of his life I suppose he can point to his scar and say it happened during Jedi training…)</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The day he cut his lip and was suffering through his first cold, sleeping and nursing poorly due to a stuffy nose, we decided it was probably the worst day of his life. :’(</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He was not a happy camper but made it through.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mid-month transitioned from 3 to 2 naps/day and sleeping through the night, bedtime around 7 pm</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">Eating:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;">Breastfeeding 3 or 4 times/day and 3 solid food meals/day.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;">Cameron went through a nursing strike this month which made for a challenging week and a half.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m not certain what caused it, but my guess is it stemmed from a strong reaction on my part to him biting. I pumped like crazy, decimated my freezer stash, and when I finally ran out of frozen milk I bought a can of formula. But he absolutely hated the formula, would not drink it, and went back to the breast once that was the only option!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month:</b> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After army crawling/doing the worm/scooting for 3 months, he figured out crawling on all fours this month and was steady and balanced when sitting on his butt.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He also (consistently) uttered his first word: “Wow!” and had his first haircut (I trimmed the back only since it was getting pretty mullet-y).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For a week and a half this month really disliked nursing, but disliked formula even more (see above).</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Liked playing and splashing in the pool.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;">2 naps/day and sleeping through the night, bedtime around 7 pm</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Eating:</b> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Breastfeeding 3 or 4 times/day and 3 solid food meals/day.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">New This Month:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Cut his next two teeth, the top ones next to the front teeth (lateral incisors), and made some cute kissing noises. He started walking forward with the support of an office chair or my hands and standing for a few seconds at a time on his own without support. He also went on his first airplane ride to Bangkok, Thailand for the Asia Championships Finals. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b>Super active, always crawling and trying to climb everywhere. Still a huge fan of splashing in the water and bath time.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2 naps/day and sleeping through the night, bedtime around 7 pm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Eating:</b> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Breastfeeding 3 or 4 times/day and 3 solid food meals/day.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>New This Month:</b> Cut his two front teeth and sustained another facial injury when Mulan the cat ran across his face and scratched his nose, leaving a scar not as noticeable as the one on his upper lip, but still earning him the nickname "Scarface" from one of our gym friends. :( Moved to a new house, took his first unassisted steps, and started full out walking!</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite food: Chicken! Still an active climber, I found him once on top of the dining table after he climbed out of his highchair when I wasn't looking, and a few times standing on top of the toilet seat. Said "wow" frequently and added "ow" to his vocabulary. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Size:</b> (At one year checkup) Weight- 9.8 kg/21.6 lb (55.4 %ile), Height- ?? not recorded </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sleeping:</b> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2 naps/day and sleeping through the night, bedtime around 7 pm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Eating:</b> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Breastfeeding 3 or 4 times/day and 3 solid food meals/day.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">New This Month:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Learned to climb onto and off of the bed and chairs/couch safely by himself, became a more confident walker, and enjoyed eating all the snacks at his first of many Hari Raya open houses. On his first birthday we celebrated with an airplane ride ;) (traveled to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia for the X45 CrossFit competition).</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">Likes/Dislikes/Habits: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">A lot of the same as previous months: a big eater and really active! He also really liked his birthday cupcake! :)</span></li>
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Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-51944228839119311352016-05-11T15:21:00.001+08:002016-05-11T15:21:52.961+08:00The Photo I Decided Not to Post on Instagram(And then posted here instead.)<br />
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Yesterday morning was not one of my finest as a mom. A series of physically demanding, annoying, and unfortunate events occurred, to which I responded with anger and frustration at my kids and husband. I'm not actually going to go into all the details (I'll explain why below), but in a nutshell the morning involved:<br />
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<li>whiteboard marker colored on furniture, clothes and walls</li>
<li>tons of ants in and around my kid's bed that required urgent attention and cleaning</li>
<li>the power going out during mid-day causing a very hot house and cold shower</li>
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None of those things by itself would have been all that earth shattering, but when they occurred all in a row I lost my peace. <br />
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And then I turned it around like I always do. By afternoon I had apologized, changed my heart and attitude, handled and sorted out all the weird demands of the morning. My kids were nicer, I was nicer, and we ended the day like normal with snuggles and kisses and all was right with the world.<br />
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And then what did my millennial-mom-self want to do about it? Post a photo of us snuggling and smiling before bed with a caption that started with my laundry list of morning struggles and ended with the sentiment that "This is motherhood- it's hard and messy and tiring but it's all worth it!" But while I was mid-post, my husband asked what I was doing and I told him. He questioned my motivation and asked me why I wanted to complain to the world on social media.<br />
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<i>But I'm not complaining! I'm encouraging other moms! I'm being real and vulnerable! Social media is full of beautiful, unrealistic snippets of life, which in reality is grittier and messier and more complicated and it's good for those posts to be there too. </i><br />
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These were all the initial defensive thoughts that came into my mind and justified my post. <br />
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But then I saw it. My desire to be seen, noticed, affirmed, told "You're doing a great job! You're a good mom! You work so hard!" It was all there, my true motivation, cloaked in the pretense that I wanted to share my struggles to encourage someone else who's struggling. <br />
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There is a place for that kind of sharing, certainly. It can be done in righteousness and I have been encouraged myself many, many times by other moms' posts that send the message, "We don't have it all together, it's hard, but that's ok because there is grace upon grace."<br />
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But this situation has reminded me the importance of thinking twice before I post. To check and double check my heart. Words are powerful and words on the internet are permanent. What is my motivation for posting? <br />
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I don't want to seek affirmation from people through social media (even though that affirmation can be helpful and good!) because that is the wrong place to look to be filled. My desire to be known and seen and loved can only ever be perfectly met by God. Only when I have all my needs met in Him, can I righteously share and encourage on social media, and also receive the blessing and benefits of affirmation by people.<br />
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So that's why I'm sharing this now. It may seem a bit ironic, because I still told you all about my morning full of struggles, but my reason for sharing now is much different. It is no longer a cry for someone to see my hardship and tell me I'm doing a good job. It is a call for all of us to try to stop pretending and repent of the ugly motivations we often have in our hearts. <br />
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There is only one source of life, love, and fullness. He sees. He knows. He cares. He is enough.Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-67075488146141778622016-04-20T10:57:00.000+08:002016-04-20T10:57:54.010+08:00Easter <br />
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As each holiday comes and goes, I'm finding it more and more fun to share in traditions as a family and teach our kids the reasons why we're celebrating as they are more able to understand it. When we celebrated Easter a few weeks ago, it was no exception. Last year, James was far more interested in being pushed around in a toy car outside than participating in the egg hunt. This year was a totally different story, and even Cameron participated a lot since he is at the stage of being way into copying everything his brother does. We colored eggs as a family (with sharpies since there are no egg dying kits to be found here and it seemed like it would be less messy than DIYing it with a 1 and 3 year old?), hunted for Easter baskets and eggs, and gathered with friends for a meal. He is Risen! And we celebrate that victory on Easter and every day!<br />
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Photos by Nicole Payne--all rights reserved.Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-78945465032894851662016-04-05T12:09:00.000+08:002016-04-05T12:09:32.371+08:00USA Trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We were incredibly blessed to be able to travel back to the U.S. for 2 months over Christmas and New Years and reconnect with tons of family and friends we've missed while being away for 2+ years. It's crazy for me to remember that when we first left U.S. soil we were just a family of three with a 10 month old baby and when we returned this time we were a family of four with a 3 year old and 15 month old! Life has changed quite a bit during the time we've been in Brunei!</div>
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I want to share some of my favorite photos from the trip. Every time I look through them I get warm fuzzy feelings! We had an amazing time being back and just soaking up some things we've really missed: family time, delicious American food, killer shopping deals, Christmas cheer, snow, and winter weather. Plus we went on a child-free mini-vacay to Harry Potter World in Florida (which was unfortunately freezing) with the Payne siblings! </div>
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Most photos were taken by me, but a few came from my Mom and sister (Thanks!)<br />
Photos by Nicole Payne--all rights reserved.Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-87700142596326966192016-02-17T17:44:00.001+08:002016-08-02T18:59:59.213+08:00So I'm a photographer now(?)Hi friends. It's been a while. Four months to the day since my last post to be exact.<br />
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My absence from the blog wasn't necessarily planned. I didn't want to do seven baby Cameron update posts in a row (remarkably late), and I ran out of other things to write about so I stopped writing for a season. <br />
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During that time we visited America for 2 months over the holidays which was a welcome respite for my soul. Being away from family, home country, and American culture for over 2 years affected me in many ways, some that I recognized prior to the holiday and some that I only discovered after leaving Brunei. We saw the trip as an opportunity to step out of "real life" for a time, pause, reflect and evaluate, and then move forward again. And in doing so, I decided that I want to officially pursue photography, an idea that I had been throwing around in my mind but shying away from ever since I bought my DSLR over a year ago.<br />
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<b>These are the reasons why I didn't want to do it:</b><br />
1. It's cliche. (I don't mean to offend any of my friends turned photographers, so please give me grace.) Everybody's doing it. Especially Christian, stay at home moms. I've seen so many articles in recent years defending the art of photography from 'amateurs who think they can just pick up a DSLR and call themselves a photographer' and I didn't want to be another one of those.<br />
2. It's intimidating. I like photography and it brings me joy, but don't see myself yet as an incredibly skilled or talented photographer. I struggled with the idea of jumping into the photography world without feeling like a poser.<br />
3. I might fail. It's hard for me to willingly choose to do things I'm not yet very good at because I'm afraid to fail at them. (An issue that I recognize holds me back and I'm constantly working to overcome in many areas of life.)<br />
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<b>These are the reasons I decided to go ahead and try:</b><br />
1. The above reasons are lame and all motivated by fear. I don't want to make decisions in life based on fear.<br />
2. I have learned in my 3 years of full time motherhood that I am a "doer" and I get energy and joy from working on and completing projects I enjoy. Key word being <i>completing</i>. Full-time parenting and home-making doesn't feel like something that can easily be completed on a daily/weekly basis, it is an enormous and long lasting task that stretches over the entire 18 years my children are living at home (and beyond). Justin and I both recognized that I would be happier adding some type of completable work to my days that is both something I really enjoy, and flexible enough to mesh with my first priority- being a wife and mother. <br />
3. I really like photography. I am happy when I am taking and sharing good photographs.<br />
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<i>I'd be honored if you followed along!</i><br />
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Photo by Nicole Payne--all rights reserved.Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-80454786479842662342015-10-18T12:18:00.002+08:002015-10-18T12:18:45.676+08:00Cameron: 7 months<div class="p1">
<i>(Late once again...)</i></div>
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<li><span class="s1"><b>Size</b> (at 6 month checkup): Weight- 7.12 kg/15.66 lb (16 %ile), Length- 68 cm/26.8 inches (55.9 %ile). </span></li>
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<li><b>Sleeping:</b> After he started eating solid foods, Cameron started waking up later for his early morning nursing session (4:30 or 5 AM) and then was waking up for the morning (7-7:30 AM) not very interested in nursing since he had just eaten. I guessed that this was an indicator that he was ready to be able to sleep through the night without nursing anymore. So about 3 weeks into solid foods (6.5 months old) I tried clipping his pacifier to his pajamas again and left him to CIO during any night wakings. He made it all the way from bedtime until morning without nursing and was able to put his pacifier back in by himself so I never even heard him wake up or cry at all. From that point on he has slept through the night, although he always uses his pacifier to go to sleep and sometimes wakes one or two times during the night, but falls back asleep within minutes after popping the pacifier back in. </li>
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<li><b>Eating:</b> Breastfeeding every 3-4 hours during the day, solid foods 2-3 times a day. I introduced solid foods the week before Cameron turned 6 months old and he was waaaaaay into it. Like scarfing food down while his eyes asked me, “Where have these bananas been all my life, mama?!” After the first week of eating solids I was feeding him 3 times per day and his early morning nursing session got later and later until he was waking for the morning uninterested in nursing. He also started refusing to nurse sometimes during the day at his usual times so I scaled back to 2 meals per day during the third week of solids, his nursing went back to normal, and he started sleeping through the night. I thought I was going to lean heavily toward a baby lead weaning approach and encourage self-feeding of soft table foods right away, but since he turned out to be acting so hungry and always seemed to be pining for more solid food during meals, I decided to start by mostly spoon feeding mashed foods to make sure he was getting enough to eat.</li>
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<li><b>New This Month:</b> Lots of new solid foods, started sleeping through the night, started to pull up to his knees using baskets and shelves for support and could “sit up” without support on his knees, but still unable to sit well on his butt— too busy to stop moving and sit still to practice!</li>
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Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-46681765473558499662015-10-03T11:40:00.002+08:002015-10-04T17:28:47.601+08:00Spring + Summer Recap: March-SeptemberThe last 7 months have flown by and it's been a long time since I last wrote a monthly recap post! When we moved to our new place at the end of June we were without internet at home for 2ish months (forcing us into a repeat <a href="http://jnpayne.blogspot.com/2013/12/our-four-weeks-of-no-internet.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f1c232;">no internet challenge</span></a>), and blogging went on the back burner. But we've had internet for a month now! And I like doing these recaps mostly because it's fun to go through my pictures and pick out the best ones to share! So here it goes... I'll try to keep the words few and the pictures plentiful. :)<br />
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Said farewell to the Adertons when they moved back the U.S. It was a tough one, as they have been close friends (in proximity and relationally) since we got married. Ultimately we were happy for them and where they were headed next, but at the same time miss them a lot.<br />
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Finished the CrossFit Opens with one of the longest, most brutal WOD's of my life! (Ugh remember guys?! So many thrusters!!) But I finished it! My stellar team, Wednesday Addams (name inspired by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6MHiQjE6fg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f1c232;">this video/dance</span></a>), ended up in first place out of all the Jerudong teams!<br />
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Moved Cameron into James' room so the boys share a bedroom now. If their naps ever overlap during the day they still nap in separate rooms since they get too riled up otherwise, but at night they've learned to share. It's fun to hear them laughing and talking to each other from bed sometimes. It's equally frustrating that Cameron often wakes them both up at 6:30 AM when James could easily sleep past 7:30 or 8 by himself. Pros and cons.<br />
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Easter celebrated with friends! Brunch and Easter Egg hunt at one friends' house in the morning followed by pool party and another Easter Egg hunt in the evening at another friends' house. Definitely miss home and family on holidays especially, but it was a fun way to celebrate here!<br />
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Chopped my hair off! I was totally inspired by <a href="http://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Taylor-Swift-Hair-iHeartRadio-Music-Awards-2015-37182394#photo-37182394" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Taylor Swift's hair at the iHeart Radio Music Awards </span></a>(whyyy do they call it a mullet lob in this article???) and after Justin told me "yeah, your hair doesn't look that good lately anyway" that was all the motivation I needed to take the plunge and go short.<br />
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House Hunting! Worked with a few realtors and spent a few weeks toting the kids around between naps to check out loads of potential rental houses. After a deal on one we liked fell through, we found the house we ended up moving into. More info in <a href="http://jnpayne.blogspot.com/2015/04/house-hunting.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f1c232;">this post</span></a>.<br />
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<b>May:</b><br />
Celebrated CrossFit 673 Jerudong's one year anniversary with a community meal at the gym and a minute-to-win-it game competition. It was really fun to celebrate together how far we've come in the last year!<br />
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Hosted the third Beast of the Southeast Competition where Justin served as head judge. It was Mother's Day weekend and the way the kids' naps worked out that day they alternated sleeping and kept me in 'nap jail' all day long so we didn't make it out to the comp and I actually spent Mother's Day alone with the kids at home. But we celebrated the following weekend!<br />
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Weekend getaway in Miri, Malaysia to celebrate Mother's Day the weekend after. Lots of fun in the sun, it just gets more fun each time we go as the kids get older and enjoy the pool more.<br />
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Traveled to Bangkok, Thailand (Cameron's first flight) for the Asia Championships final competition and Justin again worked as head judge. We stayed at a fun and trendy hotel within walking distance of the venue so while Justin was busy all day, the kids and I spent our time going back and forth between hanging/napping at the hotel and spectating at the competition. It was a super fun weekend!<br />
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Spent the last week of June post-Thailand trip packing up our apartment and moving to our new rental house. We arrived in Brunei with only 7 suitcases of stuff but have expanded in the last almost-2 years and filled an entire (small) truck bed with all our boxes.<br />
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Father's day fell during our Bangkok trip, Justin's birthday and our fourth anniversary came and went during the moving frenzy and none of the occasions were properly celebrated. We said to ourselves, "Well I guess this is what happens sometimes as adults and busy parents of 2 littles." Then we took a night away from the kids (my first ever since James was born!) on my birthday in September and called it good for all the holidays we missed in June.<br />
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<b>July:</b><br />
Hosted a 4th of July BBQ/Housewarming party with gym friends and packed more than 30 people into our little living room. We shared some of our usual Independence Day traditions, favorite picnic foods, and played games together. Fun was had by all!<br />
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As mentioned above we didn't have internet in our new house for the whole month. I didn't really mind for the first couple weeks since I kept busy unpacking, assembling Ikea furniture, and setting up house. But during the last part of the month life felt somewhat slow and disconnected from the rest of the world. <br />
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Hari Raya started! The celebration of the end of Ramadan brings lots of open houses and good food for 3-4 weeks straight! We were happy to join in the festivities more fully this year wearing our matching Baju Malayu's and Baju Kurong (the fabric was chosen and given to us by some sweet friends).<br />
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<b>August + September:</b><br />
Cameron's first birthday on August 21! Had a low key celebration with our family at home and then headed to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia for the X45 Challenge, a CrossFit competition Justin competed in with a team from our gym. A big group of people from the gym went to watch so it was a fun weekend!<br />
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Had to say goodbye to two friends and gym members who moved back to the Philippines, but only after they had given our kids the royal treatment one weekend. We owe the purchase of James' first bike and many great memories to these two. Miss you KC and Hannah! <br />
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One day/night vacation from kids at the Empire hotel nearby for my birthday. So. Much. Fun. It was amazing just being 10 minutes away so in case the kids needed anything it wasn't a big deal (they didn't). It was such a nice getaway to relax and sleep in (!!) and hang by the pool. We came back feeling refreshed and like better parents and spouses after taking a little break to focus on just us for a day.<br />
<br />Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-23228292601520930912015-08-31T16:37:00.000+08:002015-08-31T16:37:22.345+08:00Pinterest, my Frenemy<div>
When we moved to Brunei almost two years ago, I vastly underestimated the personal transformation I would undergo in becoming an expatriate. Yes, I expected to face difficulties while putting down roots in a foreign country--culture shock, language barriers, cultural differences that lead to mistakes and misunderstandings. I also expected to experience positive changes as my horizons expanded and I learned to adapt to and appreciate a new and different people, culture, environment and ways of doing and thinking. But the person I am becoming after living here for this long, I didn't fully anticipate. <br />
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"I am an American, I will stay an American," I thought before I moved here. (I am an American, and have stayed an American, in fact.) But it's more complicated than that. I am not the same kind of American (or person) I would have been, had I lived in the U.S. the past 2 years. Rather, I am an American living in Brunei. An American rooted in two worlds which both feel almost like home, but not quite.<br />
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They call it "Third Culture." As long as we stay here our kids will be "third culture kids," raised outside their parents' birth country and developing into a mixture of American and Bruneian. While living, interacting, playing and learning in a Bruniean environment and context, they are also being parented, instructed and raised within a home environment rooted in American values, norms, and traditions. It's called "third" culture, because a distinct and unique culture develops, different from both the home and host country cultures. In other words, it's likely that our kids will be unable to completely identify or feel like they fit in either Brunei or America.<br />
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I was familiar with the third culture concept in this context and anticipated its implications on our children's lives and cultural identities. But I failed to foresee that I wouldn't be isolated from its effects and underestimated the impact it would have on my own cultural identity as well. I don't feel like I fully fit in here in Brunei (and never can as much as I like living here), and I also no longer fully identify with American life/culture either (my life looks significantly different than the average American's). <br />
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This is a fairly new realization, and I'd like to use it to set the stage to share something I've been learning over the past few months. I don't doubt God would have taught me this lesson eventually if I had stayed in America. He is in the business of making his children more like him, so he would have made a way to expose this problem one way or another. But I believe my unique position as an American expat living overseas expedited the process, exposing a pattern of sin that was making my life here much harder than it needed to be.<br />
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So let me start by painting you Americans a picture of what shopping in Brunei is like for me. <i>(I truly don't mean to dishonor this country in any way here, so please forgive me if I do. I'm trying to write an accurate and unbiased description of my reality here, but don't mean to judge or offend.) </i><br />
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It's very uncommon for me to go to the grocery store and come home with everything on my list. I typically shop at two stores every week, one 5 minutes from my house with better prices but less selection of more Western items I'm usually looking for, one 20 minutes from my house that usually has the things I can't find at the first store, but has inflated enough prices that I don't choose to do all my shopping there. These stores don't carry many items that I'm used to: ranch dressing, most breakfast cereals, real ice cream that's not an imported Ben and Jerry's pint that costs $15 BND, to name a few. They also frequently run out of stock of regular items they typically do carry so I can never be sure I'll come out with what I need for the week. In fact, checking absolutely everything off my grocery list after the two trips once a week is so rare I usually send Justin a celebratory text message when it happens. When Supasave randomly happens to have 3 bags of Tostitos hint of lime tortilla chips on the shelf I buy them all and it's the BEST.DAY.EVER.<br />
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There aren't any clothing stores in the country (that I know of) that carry American brands apart from sports clothes (Nike, Reebok, etc.) and a few other random brands (I've seen Fossil and other designer watches, Kipling bags, Carters baby clothes). But if it is here you can pretty much count on the price being double to triple what you could buy it for in America. I saw a Carter's set of 3 onesies selling for $49BND in one baby boutique. Because of this, I brought a huge stock of kids clothes with me when we moved, my mother-in-law brought more when she visited, and I intend to stock up again next time we're in America. Justin and I basically haven't shopped for clothes for ourselves over the last 2 years (a time frame where I was literally changing sizes monthly being pregnant and post-partum). We have ordered a few items online and shipped them here or had our parents bring them. Even many of our local friends tell us they don't shop for clothes in Brunei, and primarily order online or shop during frequent trips to Singapore, the UK, or other holiday destinations. <br />
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Home stores carrying interior decor that appeals to my American tastes are few and far between. There are two small shops that carry a limited selection of Ikea furniture and items (again, at double to triple the cost of American Ikea). A few other shops I've been to carry modern Western style furniture that is way out of our price range. The majority of stores carry home items in Chinese or Malay style which doesn't suit my personal design taste. We recently bought some throw pillows and bedding I'm finally happy with when we made a special trip to Ikea while we were traveling to Bangkok, Thailand and ordered some Ikea furniture in from Malaysia when we moved a couple months ago.<br />
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Beyond shopping I could go on... limited affordable school options, no church groups, few moms groups, no extended family visits, long lines and inefficient practices at the medical clinics or government offices, local businesses' lack of online presence, different holidays, but you're getting the idea. Though this country is more similar to America than many we could have moved to, it's also very different. <br />
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While that was the reality I was living in, I spent my free time reading American fashion and mommy blogs and browsing Pinterest, where beautiful young women and mothers adorned themselves in designer clothing, shoes, jewelry and bags, filled their homes with easily accessible and affordable, modern and on-trend furniture and decor, and provided their kids with by comparison what seemed like infinite opportunities for play, learning, and social development through commonplace American establishments I used to take for granted like the public library or recreational sports leagues. My social media feeds were filled with my American friends and acquaintances' pictures, constantly reminding me of what life could be like if we lived in the U.S.: visiting their families regularly, lamenting the tantrum their toddler threw in Target that day (TARGET! aka the embodiment of everything America does right), confessing to just ordering Chipotle for dinner after a long day (literally the first thing I want to eat when I get off the plane when we visit).<br />
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Now please hear me, I do not want to judge or complain. I do not want to imply that these good and nice things in American life are inherently bad. I don't want to make you feel bad for enjoying them. America is AWESOME, but removing myself from the awesomeness brought out some bad stuff in me.<br />
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I do want to confess my own sin. I looked at my facebook friends' lives and was filled with envy and jealousy. I started to believe that Pinterest and the blog world should be my normal (it seemed so normal!) so I seethed that I couldn't have all the nice and pretty things. <br />
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After a year and a half, I realized that continually exposing myself to these online worlds was making me sad. I used to find it recreational and fun to browse Pinterest, blogs and social media, but I was becoming sinfully envious seeing lifestyles I identified with, was accustomed to, and felt entitled to as an American but couldn't have in Brunei. So I took a break to change my perspective and get better. I stopped reading blogs for a month. (I already wasn't browsing Pinterest regularly.) I didn't really cut back on social media because it's the universal Bruniean love language, #loveyouguys ;)<br />
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And here's what I remembered when my head was clear from all the noise and glamour of the shiny and seductive American dream: I want the life that I'm living. I chose it and I still choose it. I believe that God lead us to Brunei and has plans for us here. I believe that he is working all things together for our family's good, and that our life right now is truly good here. I believe that the sacrifices and hard things are worth it because we're following his plan. When I change my perspective and cultivate a heart of thankfulness, I realize how blessed we are. I remember my life circumstances are infinitely easier than a vast number of less fortunate people in the world. I can stop comparing our life to others' lives that seem more desirable or to what our life could have been had we made different choices.<br />
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I share this with you today because, although God particularly used my life circumstances as an American living overseas to bring my sin into the light, it's so easy to fall into no matter where you live. 'Comparison is the thief of joy' is how the saying goes, right? Especially in today's world of social media self-promotion and the highly edited/perfected realities of Pinterest and the blogosphere, every moment of every day there is an opportunity for envy, jealousy, and greed literally in the palm of our hands. Instead I hope to cultivate thankfulness, trust, and contentedness in its place. <br />
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<b>What are you thankful for today?</b> <br />
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Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-20653537926534936762015-08-09T17:41:00.000+08:002015-08-09T17:41:30.974+08:00Cameron: 4 months<div>
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<li><b>Sleeping:</b> Still taking 4 naps/day with a later bedtime around 9 pm. Near the end of the month our luck with hitting the baby sleep jackpot ran out when falling asleep became much more difficult for Cameron. He needed the pacifier to fall asleep, but spit it out over and over so I would come in and put it back into his mouth infinity times until he fell asleep. This created more difficult wakings at night too. He only wanted to nurse once in the early morning but he often woke up 1-3 other times during the night needing his pacifier replaced. Apparently this is a common occurrence known and feared by many parents as “THE 4 MONTH SLEEP REGRESSION.” I didn’t know about it because my firstborn wasn’t sleeping well enough before he was 4 months old for me to notice any difference when he turned 4 months. At this point I didn’t feel ready to sleep train Cameron so I endured playing the pacifier game for the next month and a half to see if it would work itself out and he would go back to sleeping better. </li>
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<li><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits:</b> Likes being upright, bouncing and standing. Also prefers tummy time to being on his back. At his 3.5 month routine checkup the doctor kept remarking about how happy, interactive, strong, and active Cameron was. She kept saying, “So active!” over and over. She also said she’s never seen a baby acting like he was at his age and that he seemed more like a 6 month old baby than a 3 month old. When I was pregnant with Cameron, as we prayed for him we felt God speaking to us that he would be a driven and dedicated person, a go-getter. I’m not sure how much the doctor was exaggerating or being truthful about his development, but I chalked her remarks up to Cameron’s “driven” personality motivating him to keep up with his big brother. </li>
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Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-6231755815324812622015-04-25T13:00:00.000+08:002016-03-16T12:14:47.248+08:00House HuntingHey y'all. Sorry it's been quiet over here lately! The last month has been busy and I haven't carved out very much time dedicated to writing here. After my last post Justin told me I needed to write something else besides another Cameron update because people don't want to read 7 Cameron updates in a row. ;) I agree, but Cameron updates are quick and easy to write compared to other topics, so I basically just put the whole thing on hold.<br />
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In the meantime I've been spending all my spare time searching for a new place for us to live. Right now our home is a fully furnished, 3 bedroom apartment located on the second floor (that's American speak, Bruneians call it the first floor) above shophouses. So we share a parking lot with a bunch of shops and directly below us is a carpet store. <br />
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This apartment has been a perfect fit for us over the last year and a half, but we are coming up on the end of our lease and before we re-signed here we decided to check out what else is on the market for rent to see if we could find a place that's located closer to the gym, has a little more space, and is in a neighborhood with its own yard so the kids can run around and play outside more easily than me having to drive them 15 minutes to a park. We were also hopefully looking for a place that could save us some money on rent too, since many of our friends have told us we pay too much for a shophouse apartment and we should be able to find a rental house for the same price.<br />
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Many Bruneian businesses seem to favor running a facebook page rather than a website, so that affects the house hunting game quite a bit because some realty agencies don't have websites or do but don't keep their postings very current. Realty agencies in general also work differently than in America-- the buyer/renter doesn't pay for a realtor's services as far as I know, and you don't really search for places, even rental houses, without one since they are the only real way to get accurate information about current listings. Our friend, Elle, helped us (amazingly nice of her!) get in touch with a bunch of realtors and we've both viewed houses all over the place looking for the right one. <br />
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We found one we liked, and then the deal fell through and I was pretty disappointed. Then a few days later we found another we were really excited about and after a few days of negotiations with our current landlord and the homeowner via the realtor we reached an agreement and signed the lease a few days ago. It is a 3 bedroom stilt house, about the same size as our current apartment but has a huge yard and is in a neighborhood closer to the gym. We're set to move July 1!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Stilt houses are fairly common here and were built in the past to protect homes from flooding during the rainy season. Now the extensive drainage system prevents most floods, but new stilt houses are still built today, according to our realtor, because they are less expensive than 2 story houses, but provide the potential for expansion by finishing the ground floor in the future.) </td></tr>
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So now that the house hunt is over, I can get back to spending some of the boys' nap times writing here. That is, after I figure out what to fill this new house with (we need to buy furniture) and pack up our apartment and get it ready to move. And I will be blogging during nap time if and only if I don't need a nap myself first. (Pretty sure I took 2, maybe 3 naps while the boys were sleeping during the past two weeks?!) On second thought, don't get your hopes up. But I will be back again at some point, hopefully soon! :)Nicole Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00453671307603059360noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355718549053079730.post-28159329983362575922015-03-21T20:26:00.002+08:002015-03-21T20:26:40.199+08:00Cameron: 3 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><b>Size</b> (at 2 month checkup): Weight- 5.31 kg/11.7 lb (35.1 %ile), Length- 59.5 cm/23.4 in. (70.3 %ile), Head Circumference- 39.5 cm/15.55 in (62.4 %ile) </li>
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<li><b>Sleeping:</b> Same as last month, 4 naps during the day and a later bedtime around 9 or 10 p.m. Still sometimes sleeping through the night (10 p.m.- 6 a.m.) and sometimes waking up once to nurse around 2-3 a.m. </li>
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<li><b>Eating:</b> Same as last month, exclusive breastfeeding every 3 hours during the day and longer stretches at night. </li>
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<li><b>New This Month:</b> Met Grandma and Grandpa Payne and Auntie Kellie when they came to visit Brunei and became an international traveler during his first mini-vacay to Miri, Malaysia with them. Started drooling and grabbing onto hanging toys. Rolled from tummy to back a few times midway through the month and consistently by the end of the month. </li>
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<li><b>Likes/Dislikes/Habits:</b> Also started laughing this month and turned into a huge giggler! He almost always giggles if you kiss him around the neck- must be extra ticklish there! </li>
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<a href="http://jnpayne.blogspot.com/2015/03/cameron-2-months.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f1c232;">2 months</span></a><br />
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