Leading Up To The Christening.

With the Christening coming up on Sunday, it's getting very very close and no body can push it away. We have the grandparents down for a week from Loughborough, and we have got rather a few people over to ours on Sunday to celebrate with us. 

Today we sorted out all of the bedrooms, and we also battled with the garden as it was the only dry day we've had since Monday. 

                                                   

15 Things I Love.

15 Things I Love:

I love seeing my baby smile at anything

I love walking into a clean house after a manic day and being able to sit down

I love walks in the park with the dog and the family

I love sitting down and playing old games like Monopoly and feeling like a kid all over again

I love being able to plan parties and special occasions and waiting for whats going to happen

I love my husband, everything he does for me and the memories we make together

I love being able to play with my baby

I love watching my babies facial expressions

I love hot summer days when we get them

I love being able to get into a freshly made bed and get the fresh sheets between my toes

I love being a young mummy

I love surprises

I love happiness

I love to daydream

I love my family and what we get up to everyday is different. :D

Silent Sunday 26.5

 

Catching It All On Camera

With the monster growing up so quickly, I don't know whether to just enjoy the moments or try and sit there every second trying to catch everything new he does on camera. 

He is trying to do everything all at once, but then I cant wait until he is moving about on his own. I know I will regret saying this once he is crawling and then walking, all I'll be saying is sit down, and stop following me. 

But for now, I can't stop trying to help him crawl. 

We have worked out how to move backwards, when he gets annoyed and tries to crawl forward, it doesn't quite work and he goes further back and back every time he tries. It is so cute, but it's strange how frustrated he gets from doing it! 

When we sit there and play with him, we have floor time together, we hold his hands and let him walk with us, and we sit there and read him books and play with his toys and interact with him. It all feels like we should put a camera infront of him and just sit there capturing all the smiles and the noises and all the special moments we are making with him. Then on another hand, we want the memories just us, the ones who made them and shared them, rather than trying to get the whole world involved. 

Monster did his first giggle today, it was the sweetest sound ever. It was so heart warming to hear, all because of our dog sneezing. It was so out of the blue. We weren't trying to make him laugh, we weren't waiting for him to, we weren't encouraging it, it just happened. That's one of the moments we wished we caught on video, but we didn't. It brightened our day up, and now we try with every noise and every funny face we pull at him; we just want that beautiful sound again. 

Does anybody else wish they caught some moments on camera, but didn't get round to? 

Thank you for following. xx 

Changing Me.

I made my first batch of cupcakes today. 

They came out rather nicely..

Caramel Cupcakes with Butter Cream Icing.

I am hoping to make some for Harry's Christening, so I knew practice would be in need. It wasn't as complicated as I thought, but it also wasn't as easy as pie..or cake.

Also today, I received my first set of wages since having a baby and being married. It was so surreal to getting these, it felt like I wasn't just a mum, but a mum doing everything I possibly can for my lilun.
Seeing that name on them, written down for probably the first time since the wedding felt so strange too, as it was printed and it hasnt been like that apart from the wedding certificate when we signed the register on that day. 

It feels like my life might actually be going somewhere, somewhere that I am enjoying it...I'm starting to live it happily, rather than just making it a blur. I am going to remember these days and not let them slip through my fingertips :) 

Ignore The Cleaning & Have Fun.

With a working mummy, a working daddy a dog and a kitten baby harry's life now seems to be go go go..

He is spending every morning with his nan, auntie and cousin that is 9 months older than him. 

When I go to pick him up, he gives me the biggest smile, but you can tell he has enjoyed being there. He is always so wide eyed and so happy. It's so good to be able to leave him in safe hands and know that he will be taken care of without a text having to check up on him.

Working while being a mummy is going so much better than I thought it would. It is time where I can be myself again, have a little peace of mind and  have time to do things my own way in my own time. Baby is 100% always on my mind though. 

I've felt like I've been doing the wrong thing, I know I have to try and provide for him, and that's the main reason why I have started the work, however it feels horrible dropping him off every morning and not spending time with him 24hrs every day. 

Today when I got little man back in my arms, we went home. I left the washing up, I left the television off, I left the washing and the hoovering. We layed on the floor and we covered ourselves in toys. We giggled, we tickled, we rolled, we threw ourselves in the air and we had a day of being just us two and forgetting that I leave him every day now. 

It was so perfect. 

I have so many plans with what to do with him, it's having the time to do it, but I've given up the tidying until he is in bed. 

We are planning on having more fun and games while he is with us in the afternoons now, making life more fun for all of us, rather than just a chore and having to life it....we want to enjoy it.

What games do you all play with your liluns?xx

End of Maternity Leave.

Baby turns 7 months next week. 

I've always thought that after 6 months, baby isn't baby anymore. Being closer to a year old than newborn, it's scary thinking.

We've altered his nursery around too this week, he now has a cot that is lowered, as he now can sit up and pull himself up. The moment I put the cot down to the bottom, I walked back into the room and he was standing up in it.. Such a big boy.

Gone are the days where we get snuggles in the evenings, we get punched, kicked, eyes gauched out and wacked at every angle, but it is so cute to see him grow up.

I started back working today. Only a few hours every morning, while baby is at the Nan-Nans.

It is quite nice, to have that time without thinking about what to do next and to just do it..

But it's mental how much I really missed baby. 

It was a horrible day this morning on the way to work, it was raining and a very cold after such a beautifully sunny week, but I had a gorgeous calm sea view to watch while walking.

Those questions...

So the monkey has now perfected the same sleeping position as daddy. I would happily love to watch him all night long while he is sleeping away. I am sometimes caught during the day, staring away at him when he is peacefully sleeping. wondering all those questions...

how did I make such a beautiful person? 

what are you dreaming about?

what are you going to be like when you grow up?

are you happy being ours?

all of the questions go on and on...

he makes me soo proud to call mine.