Ooooh they like to scare you!

Rio likes scaring me to death!! He must have learnt to stand up with things over night because this morning there was a huge thud, he'd climbed out his cot!! My heart was in my chest, never felt so bad in my life!! He's absolutly fine, just a little graze on his shoulder because the cot bars slowed his fall as he held on.  It was the kind of moment you see happening in slow motion but you dont quite get there in time.

Like my mum says, might be first time of him doing something to hurt hiself when your not looking but it wont be the last.  You really do need eyes in the back of your head. God knows how im gunna put him to bed tonight. He might have to sleep with me & Craig til he's 3 or something now hahaa!

How can a baby grow up so much overnight?? One day he woke up and could sit. Then he woke up and could crawl. Now he's woke up and can stand up with the cot bars, sofa and walker. Please slow down little Rio, your only 8 months old!!

Rio's first christmas

Christmas day was lovely. Craig got me a lovely pricey bridge camera to take constant pictures of Rio with, i've been hinting we need one for so long that when we was in jessops on the 23rd getting screen protecters he announced to the man "and we'd like a camera too"..i was a little shocked. I cant complain a year ago he got me a fujifilm camera, its a great camera but..well who doesnt want to try get all fancy. So now im all the gear no idea. Haha. That was on top of the other things he'd already bought. I got spoilt. But not as much as Rio...oooh no santa had well and truley treated him. Our living room is now a playden and his nursery is a pigsty containing all the other toys and the boxes incase something breaks really quick. Im not even exaggerating..its chaos, and not organised chaos.

Boxing day and beyond is another story that im not going to blog about. Sometimes life doesnt go to plan, no matter how much you want it to. But we'll get there. If Rio has taught me anything, its to fight for the things you love.                                                                

My baba's photogenic

Rio's a terror. He's getting pretty good as scooting around, so good that when you go into the kitchen to pop the kettle on you come back to a card covered floor..those cards 'were' attached to the door! Cheeky child.

It was mad friday yesterday, the world didnt end btw ;) the only thing 'mad' about my friday was the christmas asda shop. Yep food shopping and indian takeaway is as mad as it gets in this house.

Normal Fiance's buy you flowers. I've been asking Craig for ages to get me some, hey if you dont ask you dont get. What did he turn up with the other night? A poinsettia, a bloody christmas plant! Oh well its the thought that counts eh, ungrateful biatch!

It was text santa last night on tele, i got a text santa hat whilst in asda, i tried making Rio pose with it for a photo but he wasnt having none of it. Never the less he says 'text santa' everybody ;)

Ooooh i knew i was forgetting something, only joking and last but no means least!! A collage of some of our family photoshoot photos :)

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"

 

Happy halloween, pumpkin of the year.

Today is halloween. This time last year my Rio was in my belly.. looking at him now i think how the hell did i fit you in my tummy little man? Though of course i didnt give birth to a 16/17lb baby..youch that would be a..urm..miracle.

Obviously he wont be going trick or treating, though in all honesty i think if i pushed him round in a pumpkin outfit or something id have plenty of goodies to munch on but i wont. Instead he's just got a little halloween sleepsuit and bib and we will sit in the house handing out treats to all the other little monsters. Though i am warning you.. if anyone comes to my house dressed as a slutty schoolgirl i will be sending them away. Oohh when did i become so old so young. Haha.

Me and Craig had a pumpkin competition last night, we actually did..maybe theres some youngness in me there somewhere eh? I say he won, he says i did. We've both agreed our 3 year old neices can have the overall title. Lets call it pumpkin of the year shall we?

Annalises..obviously i did the knifing she did the scooping.

  Mine & Craigs

Roll over Rio

Rio has been babbling for soo long, but suddenly he has really found his voice. He's soooo loud and gobby haha!! He's also started staring and observing strangers/other babies. But the main update (which is abit late because i havent had an internet connection as my router decided to pack in - typical).. is that he can finally roll over and back again, when he wants to, which is normally at bedtime.. when he rolls back and forth giggling away to hiself..he's such a little crackpot but you cant help but laugh at him no matter how tired you are.

He's now on follow on milk and weaned onto everything he should be. His body needs to get used to it though... i actually was excited to change a full nappy after a week of struggling! Oooh the joys of motherhood.

May aswell include that i got asked for ID for a lucky dip today after horse riding too..dont you have to be 16 for those? i know im a short arse but im bloody 22 next.

The downside of parenthood

What a horrible blogpost title eh? Before this week i would of said "there is no downside of being a parent", me and Craig have never been ones to go out partying, yes sometimes for friends birthdays etc we let our hairdown but were the kind of couple that would prefer to have a natter over a nice meal. Older than our years and all that haha. So there wasnt any kind of 'downside'.

Then this week i got ill. Blergh.The downside to parenthood is that when your ill you've got to soldier on! Yes in between projectile vomitting you've got to soothe your little one and check that their okay, until, if your lucky enough, your OH comes to your rescue and takes over. Luckily for me mine did as my bug left me drained as i stuggle with my iron levels anyway, and with horrible stomach pain for days.

Today he is back at work, it cant be helped their short and we're losing out on money, which since its nearly christmas, jeez louise!! How did that happen? we need so it cant be helped.

Dont get me wrong im still a walking zombie but im putting on a brave smiley face to keep Rio-saurus entertained. Secretly id love to just lay in bed with a hot water bottle and crap daytime tv and snooze but that isnt going to happen. I've trudged on with colds before but Rio was the same so we got to be little nappy lazybums together but this bug malachy is a whole different story!!

Image from weheartit/tumblr

Do you say yum?

I used to think the word 'yum' was pointless, yes sometimes i say "oooh that was yummy" but who actually eats and says "yum"?

 Rio does!! He smacks his lips and goes "mm yum yum". Unless its apricot fromage, then he pulls a face and spits it right back at me. Secretly i dont mind though, as their my favourite and it means i get to eat them.. mwahaha.. but yeah, thanks son!!

I wish my nails grew as fast as his too, any mummies out there will know when they get to the pully hair nipping neck stage nail trimming all the time is a must.. because by eck does it come keen!

Half a year old

They say time flies, and their not babies for long...too right!! Suddenly Rio is 6 months old.. he's half way towards his first birthday. And although ive got hundreds of pictures when i flick through them it doesnt seem anywhere near enough!!! Why didnt i take more pictures of those first precious moments? I'll tell you why.. half a a year ago today i was in a daze. I was just staring at my perfect little bundle, at my new perfect little family and cherishing it.

My little 6lb6oz of perfection is now 16lb7, sitting up with teeth!

 That also means ive been living with Craig for just over half a year. And that just over half a year ago this happened  http://walkingtalkingpollypocket.blogspot.co.uk/p/rios-birth-story.html

Being a parent is amazing, i'd even say i was made for it..haha, as cheesey as that sounds! Its learnt me alot..good and bad. It learnt me who my true friends are.. and sadly thats not alot. But thats their loss not mine.

Ive learnt that poop filled nappies arent that bad, unless its the middle of the night..then by all means try and pie it off on your partner!! haha. That every tom dick and harry will try to interfere and tell you how its done, what you should do..and generally think their in charge of your baby and pass them from pillar to post. Ive learnt to ignore it, as a parent you do things your own way.. there is no right or wrong.  Well you know what i mean. But most of all, ive learnt to stand up for myself and learnt that i was right. Just because im not 30, and married does not mean that i cant be a good parent. I've proved them wrong, i bloody well am!

 

Ive also learnt that i am absolutly rubbish at formatting pictures side by side on my blog!!

This morning Rio woke up with... his second tooth!!

Sit up saurus!

So much has changed since i last blogged. Turns out Rio-saurus' cold was because.. he was getting a tooth! Yep.. my little baby has his first tooth. But something happened before that, he learnt to sit up!. Eeek..in the space of a week he grew up and changed so much. Luckily Craig had the week off and could witness it. Infact he was the one who found the tooth and woke me with the news..to which i replied with the old wives tale/tradition of 'who finds it, buys them something'.

The christmas shopping has started, if you call taking him to a toyshop and picking the ones he seems to like the best that. Sneaky cheating way but without him id be stood there catching flies..clueless!

Poorly & poppy

I havent blogged in a while for the sheer fact that Rio's cold has came back with a vengance! Poor mite. The english weather cant make its mind up so one minute and wrapping him up and the other he's in a romper!! Well... thats now took its toll on Rio, my nephew Jacob and countless other little banbino's in the area. Coughing through the night to the point he is sicking up his bottles, of which he's only managing to swollow a few ounces because as we found out at the drop in doctors on sunday...his glands are swollen! ..So yeah i havent been blogging because one, him getting my attention and lots of snuggles is my main priority, especially at a time like this. And two, do i really want to read back the same thing over and over in the years to come? Not really.

But look what we found when we popped over to see my sister.

 

Well not 'found' because she'd bought it but you know. Meet Poppy. She's a lab x and i think she's lovely. I doubt my springer spaniel Jessie will think the same, but we are hoping to try and make Poppy Jessies first friend. Fingers crossed we have a breakthrough because theres nothing id like more than see her bombing around the field with a little friend..or urm big friend as it shall be in this case.

 

 

 

15lb11 & a very special happy birthday

I only did a post a few days ago saying how Rio was 15lb5, and now he's 15lb11 already. Growing so fast. By the tightness of my jeans im guessing my binge eating has made me do the same.. time to get back into the fitness routine!!

Its Annalises 3rd birthday today, more proof that time is going too fast. It doesnt seem two minutes since i was my sisters birthing partner and i welcomed the little terror princess into the world!

I got her a bike for her birthday and at first she could only pedal backwards, but after a few minutes of me learning her to "push" her leg weight down to make it turn by standing to get started, she was off! My sister was tearing up. I guess its 'one of those moments' as a parent you dont forget. Finding a helmet for her was a pain in the backside though. Everywhere was sold out and i finally found one for a three year old and it was too big! Infact it fitted me, how big are kids these days? jeez. Anyway i found one called "little madam" rather fitting dont your think?  And i said try this one else we'll have to get you ANOTHER one. Well..she rolled her eyes at that and said "arr bloody hell".  Kids!!!

My little tall baby, 15lb5

Theres no hiding the fact that im a short arse (hense the blog title), and to me Craig is tall but in man terms he's not that tall. Sorry babe. So i was shocked today when Rio was measured to be told he is rather tall. His weighs 15lb5 which is fine for his age, at first she said compared to his height he was 'slight', to which i did the panicky mother thing and said "is that okay?" she assured me that its fine, his weights actually great and he looks really in proportion. Some babies are just small and really chunky arent they? dont get me wrong i love chunky little baba's but Rio just seems to be, well he looks more like a mini little boy, than a baby baby.

Next time i go im dragging Craig along too, im convinced they think he's my invisible friend as he hasnt yet made an appearance, and when they came to the house he was in the shower.

What else?..I got back into the saddle the other say for the first time since i fell pregnant. It went okay, im abit achy and i kinda walk like ive shit myself at the moment but i'll get there :) Being a mum changes it alot too. Yes i love being back around horses, and back in the saddle but theres this new worry there now. When your young your fearless, you bomb around fields on racey ponies without a care in the world. As you get older you realise the dangers abit more. And as you become a parent its not only you you need to think about.


So i may not be uberconfident anymore, but i enjoy what i do do. Theres nothing id like more than for Rio to grow up around horses too. Both me and Craig (im not sure if he wants this to be public knowledge or not) rode as youngsters so im secretly hoping he'd like to try it too. Dont get me wrong im not going to push him into it, just like im going to make sure Craig doesnt just push him into football..he can do what he wants, be what he wants and aslong as he's got that cheeky little smile on his face... im happy!

The horses in the pictures are just random ones next to my mums. If by the randomest chance in the world their yours, then i hope you dont mind me fussing over them when i pass they really are lovely.

He's back in with us.

I've just been commenting on one of my favourite blogs and realised that i havent yet put on here than Rio is back in our room? If i have i cant remember but anyway.

A few posts back i blogged about the sick in the eyes incident. Well..the next night (i think) he had a coughing fit and i just got in there in time (even though i ran across the landing at pretty much the same speed as ussain bolt :p ) for him to be sick everywhere, i sat him up and he projectiled up the side of our pretty cot. Thankgoodness its cream, only joking i did wipe it all down with antibacterial, im not a tramp. After that i couldnt settle, i was in and out of his room checking on him constantly even though the baby monitors proved he was breathing fine and fast asleep.

The next night i was about to put him in bed and even with the medicine from the doctors his cough was no better (please dont get me started on my doctors, i rang for an appointment and they said is a weeks time okay? for a 4 month old baby!!) so i got out the allen key and took the cot back down, and put it back up at the bottom of our bed..just call me Mrs DIY. Ask Craig, im a pro, he stood back and watched as it must be the third time ive done it now and he was pretty clueless, i mean...he's torn his stomach muscles.

I also put up a bike the next day, yeah..pretty sure i should change my name ;)

So for now, Rio is at the end of my bed, sleeping back through like a good'un. How long for i dont know..they say til their 6 months old anyway so an extra month wont hurt right?

Soon be 5 months

 In a weeks time Rio will be 5 months old. Here i am again saying how fast it is going. He's changed so much this month, he's like a little boy now, not a little baby..though actually he still is a little baby..and will always be my little baby << aww cheese.

He tries is best to sit up now, but he's going through the 'grab toes' stage so that kind of makes him topple over head first. Ive got him one of those toys that turns in to a sit up aid, infact ive got two (see pictures) ..i went to the carboot for the first time and picked them up for £3 & £4..there £40 to buy new so i paid and walked away feeling very very smug. It was a man selling them so no doubt he'll get home to his missus and she'll tell him off. 

The baby walker isnt his, its at my mums house for my nephew.. i know i know 'your not meant to use them now they use the wrong muscles' but he cant reach the floor yet so for now i'll let him sit and play away neer.

He loves his porridge so much he's now on a fruit one, and he's getting independant with his bottles, tries holding them on his own by shoving your hands off, and will drag the bottle back to his mouth if he wants more ..and vice versa, terror!! Ive just bought some brocolli & colli cheese so will have to try that out..though i have a feeling it will stink horrible!! Why must baby food stink? Even when my sister makes hers up herself out of her own food suddenly it stinks when it becomes baby food? Blergh. I make Craig do the cooling test on his lip with the porridge, he says it disgusting. Rio loves it, so who cares :p

0-3 are getting too small, but 3-6 are too big. Next upto 3 months sleepsuits fit him perfectly atm but im guessing in the next 2 weeks he'll be out of them too.

Awww he's currently laid having tummy time but he's gave up trying to roll over or get away and has just snugged up watching me type..hang on i'll take a picture on the crappy webcam.

Voila..arrr wait!

That didnt take long did it.

 

 

Its raining its pouring, the little babies snoring

Its basically torrential rain outside, and Rio is having the nap of all naps so what better way to pass the time than upload a few pikkies? The poor mite projectiled everywhere everytime he coughed last night trying to get the phlem up. Seems alot better now, he's just sleeping it off so hopefully it has done the trick. I'd be lying if i said i wasnt knakard, even though it was Craigs night to do the feeds. Though we havent actually done 'feeds' for a long time. I ended up putting Rio in our room and watching him like a hawk while he slept. So yeah.. ready for beddy bies tonight. And Craig has just informed me his work (for once) isnt opening for bank holiday on monday..happy days.

So where was I? Oh yeah..pikkies!!

"no daddy, you cant get in bed..im starfished"

                                                  His favourite chill spot

    

                                      Heavily edited, purely for the fact that i'd just got out the bath and were both in our oneseys. Much to Craigs distaste (he hates them)

Sick in his eyes

Yep, you read the title right.. last night i heard Rio coughing on the baby monitor so i went into his room to check he was okay. Just in time to see him cough once more and projectile vomit..in his eyes!!

Okay when i saw him i had a little eek moment. Me and Craig were both like "how the hell do you get sick out of eyes?" i mean.. have you seen that one in the baby book anywhere? nope, neither have I. Instinct just kicked in and i wet a burp cloth with some luke warm water and rinsed them out the same as i would if i got shampoo in mine. Im new to this crazyness.

All cleaned up i put him down and he started whining a little..he never whines..so i picked him up and he instantly snuggled into me. Turned and did the biggest cheesey grin at Craig, then snuggled back again. Cheeky little sausage. Craig said "he's not silly is he". To which i put him back down and he fell back to sleep til 7 this morning without another murmer. Bliss.

Mr Rio has his second cold. Last time it was just a little 2 day thing. This time he's all snuffly and snotty and wakes up in the night coughing and forgetting that he can actually breathe through his mouth too. Feel so sorry for him because obviously he doesnt know how to blow his nose yet. Last night was the first night in months ive had to do night feeds. Ooh i havent missed them at all.

Then when his nose had finally cleared abit and he'd settled i was awoken by the sound of him filling his nappy through the baby monitor..lovely! Me and the OH just looked at each other and giggled abit before i dived under the covers and announced i was "asleep" ;) worked a treat. Naughty mummy.

^^ Rio making the most of Craigs Grandpa's carpet. Think its time we ditched our laminate.

Splish splash does your baby like the bath?

Some babies like the bath. Some babies hate the bath. With Rio you never know which your going to get.. he changes his mind constantly. Sometimes he's so content your convinced he could lay there for hours and turn into a little prune. Others, well your washing him at the speed of light..shouting at your other half to "just fetch me a towel".

Today was a good day. Quickly snapped these pictures before he'd pulled the towel off and turned it into a toy. Thats another of his little things.. he loves playing with his bib, sleepsuit etc. Craig put the washing next to him the other day and he was on it like sonic. He doesnt have a dummy but ive got a little gut instinct that he may want to trail a comfort blanket around with him later in life. Hmmm!!

Don't get me wrong, minus the baths he is the most content baby in the world..never cries or gets grumpy..we're pretty lucky and people comment on it all the time.

Bathed, blogged, bed!

Memories

The sun has disappeared today, suprise suprise. Rio is having a MEGA nap,so i thought id kill the time by reading back through my blog..ive been meaning to for a while now. All i can say is im sat here smiling..im so glad i decided to start blogging!! Complaining of heartburn, losing my plug. saying it will be weeks then bam! The next post is my birth story.

Still in the mood to reminisce (yes i may of googled that spelling) i got Rio's keepsake box out of the nursery and had a look through.

  My little box of memories.

Oohh its a glamorous life

So.. Rio has been sleeping through since when? 2 months was it? Content baba. At first it was 9-4.30 but for the last few weeks it has turned into 9-7 or later. Slap my wrists if you want, as its recommended that you put them in their own room at 6 months.. but i disturb him to go to the loo in the night. GLAMOROUS! So i thought ive got these fansy spansy under the mattress monitors etc why not give it a try? (though secretly i was thinking, how will i sleep without my baby,haha)

I took down the cot, and put it up.. again! Remember the last time when i put it up in the nursery because i wanted it to look pretty only to realise that it would need to be next to my bed for some months once he'd outgrew the moses basket? So anyways.. cot up, monitors ready, baby ready.

I head to my room, can hear Rio self settling off, doing his sleepy nodding off murmer..then silence. At first i thought, wowzers that was fast little man.. then i realise..nope theyve bloody stopped. So i pressed a random button and they started again..then they stopped. I messed around for a while and they kept doing the same. At this point Rio was asleep (id walked down the hall to check on him) and feeling poorly i wanted to do the same. Fansy spansy monitors my ass! I ended up sleeping on the nursery floor all night. Helloooo mr backache!

..Oh and ive spent the last 3 hours in the bathroom with a bug and a migraine with Rio in his swing (yes i dragged that blinking thing in there with me too) because the OH is away on a delivery and wont be home til half 5. Once again..the GLAMOROUS life of a mummy.

Who am i kidding? I wouldnt change it for the world!

Craig changed the carseat from our silvercross ventura one to the britax birth to four years one, and shouted me to come see Rio test it out. This is what i was greeted with. I think he likes it. Cheeky little devil ;)