My first mothers day

Sunday was my first mothers day :) i think..do you class the one where there in your tummy? probably not, i didnt!

I dont like really obvious gifts & luckily Craig knows me so well that i didnt just end up with 'mum' keepsakes and flowers. Dont get me wrong, flowers are nice sometimes..i just prefer them as a random suprise. Saying that, the last time Craig suprised me with "flowers" it was a poinsettia near christmas.

10 points for spotting the spelling mistake!

He suprises me does my Craigy. I babble to him while im browsing beauty magazines/blogs in bed, thinking he's dozing off and blanking me, but he's secretly memorising everything i want. Apart from the bubble wand. He randomly likes to buy me these himself. Last time he came home with 'the mum'. More fitting for the day, but anyhow..like he says "it goes well with the bath bomb".

1. Id been browsing the Lush website, and said "ooh these have petal in, isnt that a good idea?". Normally i stick to my oldtime two favourites avobath & fizzbanger so i will have to give these a try.

2/3. These are both finds from the latest glamour mag. I've got fine hair but never really bought products designed for it. Since Rio likes to grab handfuls of my hair and snap it off not only did i need a product designed for it..i also needed another to strengthen it. I was getting too tempted to cut it all back off again so along winning louise from sprinkleofglitters straightner competition, this has given me an extra little boost to keep going.

4. As said above this was a little suprise. I think for the money their a little on the pricey side compared to a bottle of bubble bath. But its a little big of girly luxury :) and i love it!

We also went out for carvery, yumyum! & picked a mum shortbread up in asda. It was no cooplands shortbread man (which i buy all the time now i have pushchair in tow and can get away with pretending their for Rio) but we enjoyed it all the same. Blogger on the other hand doesnt like it and wont let me upload the picture!

Rio's first haircut

As much as i loved Rio's curls, they were getting crazy. So we finally gave in and took him for his first hair cut.

Aww nice and neat ^^ the curls were back at the back by bedtime though, much to my delight :)

Happy mothers day everyone, and if like me its your first..an extra special happy to you!!

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 ;)