The Park

We are so lucky where we live. Opposite the primary school and nursery, and literally a house distance away from a beautiful big park, with a little play area for the kiddywinks too.

We took both dogs and harry to the park the other day when the hubby was at work, just for a little hour away from the house.
It was the first time I took both dogs of the leads, but I had a little helper who held the leads for me and kept throwing them on the floor, apparently helping me :D. 

I love where we live, and I love my little family. xx

Confidence

Since being a working mum now, I try and take Harry out atleast once a day together, if it's a toddler group, if it's to see a friend or just a walk in the park. I love taking him out, and it's so nice to see him enjoy himself. 

He is so easily amused, even when we walk past a bush and the wind blows the leaves in his face he is in fits of giggles. 

He is getting so much more active and  independant it's so nice to sit down and have a nice chat with someone while I can just let him enjoy himself, playing with all the toys. 

Harry & His Friends

It is so lovely to see the friends that Harry has made, by growing up. He has so much happiness with them all, even if it's the first time they've met, after 10 mins he's his normal self, laughing, bubbling, shouting, walking around things.
I can't wait until he can run around with them all, and then the days will be mentally long!! :D

Born on the same day..:D

10 Whole Months.

Harry is now a whole 10 months old. How quick has that time gone, I really cannot tell you.

I was pregnant for 10 whole months!! That seemed to be foreverrrr. Felt like a whole year, if not more.. (fell pregnant on 15th Jan, had him 16th Oct 2 weeks overdue).

But having him here in the world for 10 months, feels like it's been two months at the most. 

We have learnt so much from having a baby, to then a baby that can sit up, and then learnt to crawl, and now we are walking everywhere around holding onto a walker, on the sofa, climbing absolutely everything possible, climbing out the highchair, out the buggy, onto the windledge, up the stairs. I have eyes in the back of my head, and those cheeky smiles you get when you ask "What are you doing?" just make my heart melt. 

I've been waiting so long for him to be 'on the move', for him to not need me next to him to move him...now if i move around somewhere to do something, i'm trying to hunt him down for the next 5 minutes of where he has disappeared too. 

I've never been a regular to go to all the toddler groups, as much as I would like to, work never worked around the right times; but now Summer has arrived, there is alot more happening in the afternoons, so we are attending them a lot more frequently and Harry is loving them.

He absolutely loves spending time with other children, he seems to just love socialising, and so do I :). 

2 more months until my baby won't be a baby anymore though, he'll be a 1 year old!! 

I am scared for that day he turns 1.. 

I've already started planning, but it's taking time! Presents, all the cakes, the people, the decorations....here we go with the planning again :) .. 

Life.

without my baby boy; 

tomorrow wouldn't be worth the wait, 

and yesterday wouldn't be worth remembering. 

Some days can be tough, some days can be great. 

Some days you can't wait for them to start, and some of them you want bedtime 10 minutes after waking up. 

Some days you can't stop laughing, and some days you can't get that smile out. 

It's amazing how much life changes, this time 2 years ago, I was just a girlfriend, staying at my boyfriends house occasionally, trying to spend everyday possible with him, trying to get days off work to spend time with him; not realising 2 years later, we'd be in our own house, with our own baby being a married couple.

I wouldn't change it for the world :D.

life is better when you're laughing.

the happiest people don't have the best of everything, 

they just make the best of everything. 

<3<3<3

The Toddler Bed x

The baby is growing out of the baby stage now. 

Not an hour goes past that we don't get a whinge if he's not standing up. He loves nothing more than to be on his feet, trying to walk. 

A couple of times he has managed 3 steps at a time, and then a bump on the bottom to the landing on the floor, and the look as if to say "why did that happen Mummy?".

He is getting amazingly clever, and climbing everything! He doesn't stay still anymore either. 

He managed to put his leg over the side of his cot, (when it was on the bottom setting), so we have now got him in a toddler bed. 

Alot earlier than we had hoped, I was atleast hoping until he was walking, and if not about 18 months at a push!! 9 months old, was a lot earlier than I had imagined, but I never thought he would be following his father's footsteps, as he was 10 months, and perfected climbing out the cot and managed to open stair gates! Fortunately, he hasn't managed to figure out the stair gate (Mitch & I are still trying to work it ourselves!)

Having him in the toddler bed has gone execptionally well anyway. 

We haven't had any moments of falling out the bed, any trying to climb out or anything. He sleeps so well in his bed, it is so cute going in to check on him, and he's head it the opposite side to the pillow, or he's all curled up in a ball hugging his teddies. 

He hasn't once tried to get out, and every morning we hear a "Daaaaddd" come from his bedroom, and he's sitting on his bed being as happy and excitable as possible waiting for one of us to come and pick him up. 

For now, it is one of the best desicions I ever done for him :) .