Here it is..

the update i predicted a few posts ago. Little Rio has done some over night learning again, last time it was sitting up and this time its crawling. Well one legged snipper crawling but still..super proud mummy right now :) He now has an obsession with crawling upto the bathroom bin and pulling it over though..hmm! Craigs been trying to learn him to stand with the sofa because when you grab his hands he stands hiself up. He does okay for an 8 month old, when he's not bouncing that it! I swear this child isnt going to walk he's going to bounce around everywhere like tigger!

Rio's made me a calendar

I've started taking Rio to 'playgroup', yes he's a little young for most of the activities but nowerdays alot of parents take their babies along to 0-3 groups etc, so i thought id join in. I was quite shy most of my life when it came to meeting new people and making new friends up until i started working in retail, and even having Rio..but being a mum is a talking point! I dont want Rio to be like that, being social is great. So off i went expecting him to only be able to sit there playing with toys but nope!

He had a go at feeling different textures and especially loved the tray of cornflakes and rice crispies (when he wasnt trying to eat them) so im going to go out and buy the cheaper version for him to play with. It encourages him to pick up things with his finger and thumb too. I spotted the older kids playing in glitter paint and making calendars, and the lady in charge of that area spotted me being nosey haha, and asked if id like Rio to make one. He loved his hand painted and sqwelched it about. The aim was to get his first hand print but he wasnt having none of that, ooh no it was far more fun making a mess :) Proud mummy moment. Rio's first picture, aged 8 month.

The week so far..

I know its only thursday and it isnt too long since i last blogged and in all fairness not alot has happend but Rio is playing away happily in the 'im happy without you moddycoddling me mummy mood'..so i thought id use the occasion to sit with a cuppa and blog. I'm not feeling 100% , theres a million and one bugs going around at the moment so im probs getting one of them. Well im hoping so anyway as ive just attempted to cook eggs that go out of date today to use them up. Shitty chef. Roll on half five when my Craigy gets home. 

...Haha, i think because Rio cant see me behind my laptop screen he thinks i cant see him. "Oi mr, get off the shiny baubles!"

He's getting more cuddly and loving lately. He gives me sloppy "kiss kiss", and big cuddles. I knew when he was in my stomach he was going to have stong legs and by eck has he!! Craig has to be careful when changing his nappy else he gets a nice swift kick to the goolies. Mildly entertaining on my part but anywaysss ;)

Speaking of Craig, he went out for a lads night in newcastle for his birthday and Ricky Hatton happend to be there too. Am i spelling happend wrong? the more i look at it the worse it seems. Oooh thankyou mr google i am!! its happened..still looks wrong to me. When he told me and showed me the pictures i think he expected me to be abit more enthusiasic but in all honesty i was just like "thats nice babe" hahaha im such a bitch. If it was the other way round i would of expected jaw drop response. How easily are people amused by so call 'celebs'. Speaking of celebs, the amount of people that hear Rio's name and go "ohh your partner must be a man u fan", yes he is, but no actually i chose his name so im pretty sure that Mr Ferdinand didnt influence it at all!

8 month update

Just got back from our first family photoshoot, so thought id sit down and blog a while so theres not a huge gap, and well...before i forget whats been going on!

Rio was good as gold by the way.. not as smiley as usual so im guessing we may have the majority of the shots him just sitting pleasantly but ohh well, could of been worse. No doubt i will include a few on here when im done. Brighten the boringness up.

He's took a liking to rolling over in the night and sleeping either on his side or his tummy, which at first scared the hell out of me and i was back to checking he was still breathing constantly like i did when he was a newborn.

He says ta, when you say it when passing him something..infact sometimes i put off even saying it because he whispers "ta,ta,ta,ta,ta" over and over..cute, but after a while you go okay Rio, your welcome shhh ;) ... He's also started doing this very cheeky smile where he closes his eyes! Oooh boy its going to be so hard not to laugh when you tell this one off when he's older thats for sure. Little cheekster & the male version of Annalise.  He's trying so hard to crawl now too, i think this time next month i may be posting a update :) maybe i should ask santa for some eyes? you know, for the back of my head ;)

& in a morning i chase Rio's head with the spoon when he turns away, so what does he do? spit it back at me! Seriously mummy, ive had enough

My hand still hurts so bad when i knock it, something isnt right but on the plus side....i have my engagement ring back on :)

Chasing jessie around with a cardboard tube, yeah she pretty much hates that walker!

Happy birthday Craigy

In the morning its Craigs 22nd birthday. I can guarentee when he was young, or even 2 years back, he didnt think that at 22 he would be a daddy. But he is, a wonderful one!! So i thought id dedicate a post to him, from me & master Rio :)

He's my rock. He does everything for Rio & for me for that matter. And im eternally greatful to him for giving me Rio and..well, just sticking by me..because lets face it, in todays day and age alot of lads dont! And if they do they do it half heartidy. And as my dad would say, anyone daft enough to stick by me anyway is..well, daft!

 Craig is like me, made for parenthood i think. He was worrid at first and wasnt sure about nappy changes etc. But the second he was born  he took to it like a duck out of water, he was a natural.

Watching him next to my hospital bed feeding Rio for the first time, the look in his eyes....even now i get tears in my eyes and butterflies in my belly thinking about it, it was perfect!! And the nappy change worry? Pshhh straight out the window..i think i was ready for him to go back to work after his two week paternity just so i got a go. He was meant to go back to his mums then too, but here he is 7/8 months later.

Even as i type he's shouting "mummy watch this, watch this".. such a proud daddy. 

Him: "Are you blogging about me feeding him his first choccy buttons?" ..Me: "do you want me too?". Him: "yeah"

Okay so right now Rio is chomping away on white buttons, and Craig finds it adorable the way he smacks his lips and opens his mouth for more. He does look pretty cute. Babbling away for more buttons.

"Can i give him a bath while you finish your blog?" ...sure Craigy you do that! :)

Appreciate this post. I'm currently typing keggy one handed, as being the clutz that i am, i've broke the bone off the side off my knuckle and awaiting to see if i need an op. The silly thing is i did it getting up to Rio,which i must of done a gazillion times in the past seven months. His sickyness (im pretending thats a word just go with me) in the last post turned into a two/three day bug so upon hearing him cough in his sleep i immediately thought, shit grab him he's frogging up, and collided sleepily (at the speed of ussain bolt,yes i've once again turned into ussain when he's sicking ;) )  with his cot. Craig thought me shouting "ive broke my finger,ive broke my finger" was hilarious until i noticed my knuckle had disappeared. Who can blame him, i must of told him ive broke my fingers/toes a hundred times before now.

I soldiered on though and went xmas shopping in Leeds after. I must admit though in Harvey Nichols and Victoria Quarters i did feel rather underdressed. We took previously well behaved Annalise with us and by-heck was she a terror!!

I saw the cola advert!! & the iceland adverts must of hypnotised me as i went in for a £1 pudding and came out with £70 worth of food. Rio sat in the normal trolley seat instead of a baby seat :) adorable!!

 

No cheese please!

Rio's sicky, pretty sure cheesey food doesnt agree with him. The smell of sick is vile, but cheesey sick? wowzers!! Inbetween he's still his cheeky little self though, so i cant complain.

We've gave in and got him a baby walker. Originally the health visitor did convince us to not get one as they can cause children to use the wrong muscles and end up having to have insoles etc later in life. But Rio is at that stage where he cant quite crawl, but wants to be up and about. So like a naughty parent i gave in and he absolutly loves it!! Jessie (our dog) doesnt though, Rio is obsessed with her so he follows her about like a little lost sheep. The way i see it is aslong as you dont just dump them in there and use it in moderation its fine.


 By doing this he has also learnt to clap. When he learnt to move it forward we clapped and said "clever boy" so now when we say clever boy he claps hiself. Its pretty adorable.

Weight wise, he's 16lb13oz and 70cm. 7months old & still in 3-6 month clothes..infact alot of them are still to big.

The coca-cola advert was on last night, i didnt watch it.. im going to try put it off abit longer as im not quite feeling the christmas spirit yet. Bah humbug. I did go christmas shopping to meadowhall the other day though but theres nothing jolly about christmas shopping with a pram! Hectic!

^^ "I'ma get you" ... "Noo, come back Jess Jess"