Photoshoot.

I Having two kiddies for a whole week was such a difference. It was so amazing to see how good Harry was with enjoying a beautiful little sister. There was literally no jealousy and he was so excited to show her off to everybody that knocked on the door that came to see her. 

My friend came over to give my kiddies a beautiful Photoshoot so we had the pictures to keep forever. They were the majority of the families Christmas presents & was such a good idea. I'm so happy to hAve so beautiful kiddies xx 

Harry Being A Big Brother

 

Harry has amazed me so much!! With him only being 2 & a month when Lacey joined the family, he was still quite young. 

He has had our undivided attention for the past 2 years and all of a sudden a baby pops up & he has to share his mummy and daddy. We thought he would be so jealous and begin to behave badly. We'd heard so many bad things about newborns and they're 2 year olds acting up. 

....but he loves her!! So much!! 

Whenever he wakes up, he has to see Lacey. He has to have cuddles daily if not hourly. He has to have baths with her, she has to be there for his bedtime story. 

Whenever he goes to nursery or needs to say goodbye, he's always kissing her to say bubye. 

He is so gentle with her! It's like he knew this is what was going to happen. It's shocking tbh!:). 

Don't get me wrong, there have been some bad times & some hard times. 

There has been a few times he's been a bit too rough, or a bit too hyper...or when he decides he's had enough of being good and tests our patience...but what 2 year old is as good as gold every day ??! 

He is the most perfect big brother Lacey could ever wish for & being his mummy I am so proud to be able to say we've made him like that:) x 

He is (normally) a delight to take out & he acts so well...showing off Lacey to every person and dog !:) 

I just hope it lasts when she's taking all his toys away & running around causing arguments !:) xx 

Lacey's welcome into the world :)

Our beautiful Lacey Rose was born at 8.20pm after a long day of constant contractions. 

I woke up at 5am, with contractions, deep down knowing this could finally be it. 6 days overdue & I tried to make it all normal while Harry was just waking up to start his day.

I'd ironed the pile of clothes I had on the side & I did the washing up while I was in pain thinking I had just slept funny. I then had a nice bath which didn't help anything. I kept thinking deep down that It was all false alarms and it's just the beginning of a very long slow labour...my in laws picked Harry

Up for the day as he was due to go to shopping with them...& I rang my mum to come over and keep me company while the hubby went to work!  I ended up going shopping with my mum, matalan, dunelm, pets at home....meanwhile I'm causally having contractions through out the shops. Even going to McDonald's drive thru, not being able to eat properly and jump out of the car because I couldn't eat properly.....after getting home about 4pm, I started to jump up & down on the birthing ball..Mitch came

Home from work and Harry came home from his day out :). Come 5pm I couldn't walk properly & we have the hospital a phone all. So we get told to come up & get checked out..meaning we had to get Harry to the inlaws again & we went up hospital. 

Everything slowed down then...I got checked out & nothing was happening; then the genius husband decided we should randomly do lunges around the birthing room & start bouncing on the birthing ball. I got in the pool as soon as everything started getting that little bit more uncomfortable. .... 8.20pm we welcomed our beautiful 7lb11oz little gorgeous girlie into the world. 

Most perfect day, finished with a most perfect little girl. 

The happenings since last time

It's weird to look back and read about all our last memories. It's crazy to think that it all happened, and it's so lovely to be able to log in and just like that find all the pictures I've managed to lose or end up deleting. 

So since the last time I've been on, my baby boy Harry has turned a big 2! & also became a big beautiful brother to his gorgeous baby sister Lacey! :). We all celebrated Christmas together, the first year we had it at our house with the rest of the family coming over. We celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary which still only feels like months & we are slowly settling down into being a family of 4. 

Preparing for Christmas.

Every year the peperation for Christmas gets earlier and earlier. 
When I lived at home I started shopping in the term break we finished school...in december. When I moved out, It all changed. We started planning our first family Christmas all together so early on. Harry was due start of Oct and our wedding was booked for 12th Dec. We knew it was going to be manic.
So much so,  we put our tree up on 19th November.
Everything was ready before the wedding even took place. We blamed it on having Harry...making excuses that he will want to see the lights at only 10 weeks old when he had his first christmas he didn't know any different.
Last christmas we made it to 1st December. It was still early,  but I have a feeling every year we will be early doing Christmas. 
The lights, the tree, the cosey nights, the dark wrapped up warm walks, the brilliant memories.
Last year we had a 1 year old. Hed just learnt to walk & toddling around. Into everything. It was amazing to see his enjoyment over everything.
This year will be so so different. ... we are hopefully waiting for baby to arrive before putting the tree up. And making harry into a big brother.  It's so exciting to know he will be aware of everything as well as be a little boy and not have a clue really :)...its such an exciting time that we just have no idea what to expect.  :):):). }
I love Christmas & I love making beautiful family memories♡♡♡.

Baby Number 2♡

We also have Baby number 2 on the way!:):).
The day we found out was the weirdest day ever. Went to work like nothing had happened, but was still smiling & was so happy.
After many many lists of planning, many conversations with harry about him becoming a big brother...we had an early scan at 16 weeks to find out the sex of our baby was going to be another beautiful boy:)♡. We went shopping, got all of harrys clothes out of the loft, got the pushchairs ...chairs ...swing ..cot ..moses basket. ..literally everything.  We had planned to not paint the nursery as it is already blue from when we painted it for Harry. We were near enough all ready basically by the 20 week scan.
We went to this scan....to then be told that actually in fact we were expecting a beautiful girl, with long ballerina legs!. I havent been so shocked in my life. The phone call to all the family was fun as nobody believed us!!
We've had 3 more scans due to some complications and all confirming it is indeed a girl we are expecting.
Its so exciting to be able to have 1 of each; a beautiful boy & a beautiful girl.:).
So we've had to go shopping in the girl section of the shops,  we've got new everything even though we were ready for another boy....we had to change it all for pink bits:).
The nursery is the next thing to be painted. ..hopefully before she arrives:).
It feels so surreal that its going to be the first girl in either family for 20 years! !. Its such an amazing feeling...
Now just cant wait for her to arrive ....hopefully sooner than later & not follow her brothers footsteps and be two weeks late!. I cant wait, but every year at the end of the year will be busy as shes due only a month after harrys birthday and a few weeks before christmas :).♡♡♡.
Such exciting times. ♡♡♡

Catch Up Time.

I stopped writing on here for ages.  I stopped trying to update and analyse what I had done that week.
But reading through all my posts last night it made me think its such a lovely thing to do so we can look back at photos and memories that have slid my mind or have possibly got deleted.  Its so lovely to be able to see how Harry has grown up and all the times we have shared & what we've done together:):).

Scarily my beautiful baby boy turns a huge 2 next week.
Hes talking properly, learning new words everyday, making sentences, running around, reading, counting, being obsessed with tractors, cars, bikes; anything with wheels!!.
Im so excited for his mickey mouse birthday party thats half shared with a pirate theme for his cousins 5th birthday the week after:).
He goes to nursery twice a week & hes enjoying it so much. He comes home telling me what hes done. Brings a tear to my eye that he is growing up so quickly. 
We have made some new friends over the past year or so. Its been so lovely watching harry play with children around the same age and he seems so much older than he really is, when hes running around with friends having fun:).
Sometimes it can be a bit too much, & those days spent indoors just Harry & I are sometimes the best.
We play, we run, we colour,  we draw, we have fun & we have a beautiful bond:).