SIX MONTHS

S I X M O N T H S || Oh my, how did we get here. I made an entry 3months ago & feel so guilty that I haven’t been so active here, when I promised I would be.

My lil dinosaur is 6months today & I swear every month gets sweeter and sweeter.

He is such a loving and sweet lil human. He loves face to face interaction & the tiny love characters is his best friends.

He kicks his feet whenever I’m about to leave and prefers me over Judz when I’m home. She use to get more smiles and giggles but now we even, he adores her though & put his mouth all over her face like his kissing her, but mostly when she irritates him and won’t stop kissing him. He loves their one on one everyday & gets all the playtime with her. 😀

I am in awe of where we are now. There was a time when I couldn’t wait for these moments where he could interact with us, laugh with or at us, and enjoy things with us. And now that we are here I wish I could freeze time. It feels like we spent a lifetime waiting for him & now that we have him, time is going by so quickly. I cherish every moment so much, and I can’t help but think I have our journey to him to thank for that.

Everyone told me how quickly time goes by but I didn’t realize just how accurate that was until now. It feels like yesterday that we were in the hospital preparing for his arrival.

He is such a sweet, happy boy. Watching him grow has been the greatest blessing. I’m so excited to see where the second half of his first year takes us. Happy Six Month my Sweet Boy. 🦕🦖🧡💛

I have been so active on Instagram that I forgot about my blog. But I vow to be more active on here again. Saying vowing sounds more cooler then I promise, so maybe this time I will 😀

Love

TheCrazyBeautifuls ¥

3months

I can’t believe my squishy tuishy is three months old.

Three months of pure joy and kisses on those chubby cheeks. He don’t like the kisses but he loves to chat and kick his legs.

We have been cooped up for the most of this three months. What else can you do in these times? What I am however grateful for, is even in these scary times with COVID 19, we cautiously and as safely as possible took him to see his grandparents. I am grateful that he is getting to know them and isn’t just with us. Family is so important and they all are so happy and in love with him.

In a months time I will be heading back to work. It’s creeping up on me and I am not ready. At this moment our admin staff is still working from home, so with all of me, I am hoping that will still be the case for the next few months so that I can still be with Rain.

Judz is also still working from home and might be for the rest of the year. My mum will most probably come stay with us to help out while we are working. I just don’t think we will be able to work from home and attend to him 💯, maybe Judz because her work isn’t as demanding as mine, but we will see how things go.

Fun thing, we kept our Christmas in July tradition we started 2years ago. I can’t wait to share all these things with Rainy. Especially when he is bigger and can understand and appreciate the things going on around him.

Think of this Mama heart as she slowly prepares to go back to work.

Love The CrazyBeautifuls ¥

Two Months

This boy turned two months on Saturday. Don’t be fooled by the big boy clothes (bought this outfit for his first Father’s Day with his grandpa) his still a little baby.

We have been patiently waiting for a smile and he started smiling on Thursday. He started with little ones, where you are not sure, was that a smile or just a face pull. But then every day after, the smile got alittle bit bigger until we could see, it’s def a smile. ☺️ Evertime I try to capture it on camera, of course he refuse to smile, but we luckily caught it on video.

This boy does not like his ‘lovetodream’ swaddle, hates being cooked up. And currently we are struggling to have him sleep on his back. He prefers to nap on his tummy or on us. Which means during the night he keeps us up when put on his back, so we just end up having him sleep on one of us.

He however loves worship music & the song ‘You are my sunshine’. His mommy use to sing it to him while he was still in my tummy. And of course he loves his boobies. He started with a perfect latch from birth, we had a really sore latch a few weeks ago for two weeks straight, but it’s all good again.

As I am typing this message, I have him sleeping on his back in his swaddle, keeping my fingers crossed and holding my breath it’ll last.

My heart is so full, I never thought you could love someone this much and more every single day. I love this boy more then the whole wide world & back again.

Love

The CrazyBeautifuls ¥

His Here – RGL

Since I have a lot of catching you guys up & blogging to do since our little miracle boy was born, I am gonna dedicate this post to just pictures of his 7week life, earth side 😊

Meet Rain Grey Leukes
Born: 20 Apr 2020
Time: 08:43
Weight: 3,3kg
Height: 49cm

One week of pure bliss ¥

Two weeks ¥

3weeks & still very much in the baby-moon phase ¥

A whole month of just us & lockdown ¥

5weeks and he had his first road trip to grandma in Robertson ¥

6week checkup & this boy reached all his milestones.

7weeks & cuter then ever ¥

As you can see, being born on 35weeks got nothing on this little boy. He was healthy & didn’t need time in the NICU at all. And ever since his just been growing & ticking off milestones.

He makes the cutest faces but we are yet to see a smile.

For the longest time this blog have just been for myself & those who found it somehow 😀 but I will finally be sharing our complete & raw journey. I know it’s been a min, another few minutes😀 but I’ll def be more consistent in sharing our new journey of him being earth side & the next journey to a sibling or two. Wink wink.

Love

The CrazyBeautifuls ¥

Last Weekend

It’s been a min, a few mins. 😀 And I have been terrible at blogging. Let me tell you guys, this unborn little boy changed my life from the moment he came into existence.

I hardly have time or energy to blog, I do not make time to take pretty pictures with witty captions for Instagram. I became that social media person who just scrolls down 😀 Some (like my wife) would say it’s a good thing, but I’m hopeful when his here I’ll be back in full swing, showing of our little miracle baby.

What have we been up to? Well been growing every week, baby have been doing very well still is. Me on the other hand got preeclampsia and my blood pressure have been up and down. Since last week we were admitted to Hospital 3times. We’re admitted last week Monday, released the Wednesday morning, back admitted the Wednesday night and released the Saturday afternoon. Spend the weekend at home, had our 34weeks check up on the following Tuesday, back admitted to hospital and released the Wednesday morning. All because of my blood pressure & protein in urine increased.

Here we are a few days later after being kept for the one night and got admitted back to hospital yesterday 😀 Story of our life. But this time it’s for our baby’s expectancy into this world. This will be the last weekend me & Judz spent it alone, with just a bump.

Iv been alittle nervous and I think Judz is just excited and ready. Soon we will have alittle “lyfie” in the bassinet above. I am nervously waiting on my life to be changed on Monday.

I can’t promise I will check in soon, but I’ll see how life goes.

Love TheCrazyBeautifuls ¥

It’s a boy

We had the big reveal yesterday & our family and friends found out we are having a big-little boy.

Most of our guest was hoping for a boy and literally only two or three were hoping for a girl. Although this was our third reveal, this was the big official reveal.

A few weeks ago, me and baba went on a Roadtrip with family without Judz. On this trip I decided to do a reveal to my mum, brother and aunt them. I figured they don’t have to wait longer and thought it will be special since it’s just us. Then I also did a reveal for my colleagues, as they were nagging and didn’t wanna wait any longer since I promised I’ll do it before end Feb.

I am just happy all these reveals are over & done with. And so excited for my little man.

Tomorrow this bump will be 29weeks old. We can’t wait to meet this little man, but we want him to stay put until it’s his time to join us in this crazy world.

We love you so much lil R..

Love

The CrazyBeautifuls ¥

20 Weeks

So thankful for 2019. It was a long year with its own challenges, but also the most blessed & rewarding year so far.

We were able to start a new journey with W.ijnland F.ertility C.linic. A new journey with everything new but somewhat same same. A journey that brought us to 20 weeks pregnant.

I am thankful for making it half way through our pregnancy. I am thankful for my crazy beautiful, most supportive & caring wife. My years would have been pretty empty without her.

Those that know me, know I’m no new years resolutions, new me & blah blah blah kinda girl. I am just looking forward to another healthy 20 weeks & cant wait to hold this little rainbow 🌈 baby of ours… forever ¥

Bye Bye 2019 & wishing you all a blessed 2020.

Remember no matter how we plan our years & life, it’s always Gods plan & timing that will take preference.

Love

The CrazyBeautifuls ¥

Girl or Boy?

Two weeks ago we found out the gender off our lil baba. Or actually I found out & did a gender reveal for Judz a few hours later.

No I didn’t go to the scan alone, our Dr just asked Judz to close her eyes when he showed me the gender 😀 she actually did close her eyes and didn’t peak.

Judz made a video, like she normally does at all our scans. So after our scan I had to foward the video to me, delete it on her phone and WhatsApp to make sure she doesn’t look later. I knew I wanted to do a reveal to her but I literally didn’t plan anything and she said she is giving me one day to reveal to her.

My mum & lil god child was visiting, so I thought the evening won’t work with them there ( because we are not telling anyone until the gender reveal party) so I acted quick, drove to Bunches for Africa and got a gender reveal balloon. Drove to Judz work on my way to mine and had her pop three balloons. 🖤🖤🖤

It was literally the most amazing feeling & we are both so happy with our baba. It never mattered what the gender would be to us.

Love

TheCrazyBeautifuls (momstobe)

A Black Friday

We are on week 15 & will be 16weeks in 3days. Judz is not so patiently waiting on week 17 when we get to see our little peanut again.

It’s literally been alittle black friday for us as I was in a very little little car accident. Rest assured me & baba is okay as well as my other baby (car).

Traffic was crazy and slow as most days. There were a few dead break stops that everyone in our lane had to make, on the last one I couldn’t stop in time & my car bumped the car infront of me. On my side with a big car it just felt like a push but I’m sure for the smaller car infront of me it was like a bump. (No pun intended) Because my car had no scratch at all but theirs had a big dent. But most importantly the family in the car was okay.

This also comes after I scratched the car on Monday when stopping at home. My coordination was a little off. I think it’s safe to say, this hot momma with a SUV should not be behind the wheel till after baby Leukes is earth side 😀

On a more happier note, Judz & I who never ever do Black Friday shopping decided to brave the shops an hour before closing to buy something for baba. This babe got his/her very first sleeping pod & nappy disposal bin. It’s nothing big but to us it’s the first big things we bought. It’s more and more becoming to feel real.

At what time do you start buying nursery furniture? We started looking online, but this might take awhile because Judz is all about saving & I am all about quality.

We are about to go brave the shops some more this morning, because there’s still a few things we hope to find.

Love a very pregnant momma ¥

The CrazyBeautifuls ¥

13 Weeks & Admitted

Judz & I had our 13weeks + 1day scan on Wednesday 13.11.19. I was secretly alittle stressed about this scan, as this was the scan testing for down syndrome (A genetic chromosome 21 disorder causing developmental and intellectual delays).

Dr Venter explained everything so well to us & literary 3mins into the scan I completely forgot about being stressed. It was so amazing seeing every little detail of our little human inside my tummy. Baba is pretty perfect. So busy though, he/she did not wanna lay still for Dr Venter. No doubt it’s my child.

Judz were very excited because the sister told us we can see the gender of the baby. Of course the plan is still I alone will find out & then I have two days to do a reveal for Judz. But this baba are very well mannered the Dr said because he/she would not open their legs. Which is great for me, they should keep those legs closed until they are 40.

The Down syndrome score was 1/31200 which was really low risk. But then we were confronted with me scoring very high risk for pre-eclampsia 1/4. Totally unexpected as I felt fine didn’t even realize my blood pressure were high. Of which it was very high.

I immediately got admitted to Hosp & had to spend the night. Not to get into too much detail of my stay, but I got discharged yesterday afternoon & had to go on a high blood pressure pill. 😞

My blood pressure is still alittle high & was very up & down in the Hosp. I need to go for a check up next week again & are really praying that it’s better & I can go off the pill.

In other good news, we are celebrating my CrazyBeautiful wife’s birthday today. A close call & we almost spend it in the Hosp like with my birthday 5months ago. 😀 According to her I am trying to get her back for spending mine in Hosp lol

I’ll send some cake.

Love

The CrazyBeautifuls ¥