Ami you are 2

My Darling girl is 2.

It seems like yesterday I was phoning my husband telling him he needed to come home to take me to hospital. He was out having breakfast with some friends and apparently they had to shove him out the door as he was busy putting up a tv! 

 Time sure does fly.

Ami you are such a blessing, you light up our lives with your funny faces and comedic sayings.

Here is your last year through pictures and memorable moments.

13 months

 You got a new pushchair for your birthday and enjoyed being pushed around in it.

14 months

September was lovely and warm and you enjoyed pointing at things especially dog dogs.

15 months

You went to Denmark and flew on a plane for the first time. You also became a big sister and enjoyed having a little baby around even if you did hit him a few times.

16 months

You enjoyed getting ready for Christmas especially seeing all the pretty lights. You enjoyed kissing your little brother ALOT. You learnt the word stuck which you said every time you were on a chair!

17  months

You learnt the work happy bear which you said about everything. You became very bossing often giving pants a good whack if he did not do what you say.

18 months

you started to love going for long walks, even sitting on the floor when you did not want to walk anymore. You love finding shoes and giving them to the right person.

19 Months

You started to notice strangers and often followed dog walkers wanting to see dog dogs. You learned to jump and climb and nothing is out of reach. You also learnt the word no, argh!

20 months

This was funny, you decided that you liked to jump of the ledge even if it resulted in you ending up head first!

21 months

You told daddy of saying naughty daddy at dinner one night it was very funny. Daddy finally persuaded you to support Arnel (Arsenal). Which you proudly told anyone when they talked about football. 

22 months

You started to copy dance moves and loved doing the actions to nursery rhymes. Also finding a love of Frozen and Mr Tumble. You also developed a love of colouring and sticking.

23 months

You love going to the beach even making sandcastles and decorating with pretty shells and seaweed, then knocking them down super quick. You also got asked what you wanted for your birthday which every time was chicken nuggets or chicken burger!

24 months

 

So here we are our darling girl is now 2.

SO grown up already.

A lover of football, dancing and chocolate.

A girl who knows what she wants.

You really are amazing our Ami  Bear

My Sunday Photo - 3rd of July 2014

Real All Bran 5 day challenge

I don't know if you are anything like me and struggle to even eat 5 pieces of fruit and veg a day, let alone enough fibre. So I signed up to the 5 a day challenge where you monitor your intake of food and how your tummy feels, also offering some different recipes to try to increase intake of high fibre foods. By the end I felt alot less bloated and actually enjoying eating better range of foods that I knew was better for my gut. 

We as a family had these cereals and enjoyed them all, they do not taste all carboardy like some cereals do. Even my toddler ate them and she doesn't usually eat cereal. My personal favorite was the golden crunch and sadly that was the first to go out of the three. Its great eating breakfast every day often I am so busy by the time ive sorted the kids and lunches and everything else its time for me to leave  and I have to grab something like a few biscuits or something equally unhealthy.

The 5 day challenge had been great for us and enjoying adding fresh smoothies and muffins to our diets have been a lovely change to the normal breakfast routine. Also helping fight of those hunger pains I usually get before lunch meaning I eat less snacky foods.

Why not give it a go your self.

“This post is an entry for the Real Mums of All-Bran Linky Challenge, sponsored by Kelloggs

Me and Mine - July

These Summer months for us get ever so busy.

With different events and missionary work we look forward to time spent together.

After a rather rushed pudding of pancakes and ice lollies at a local cafe,

we headed down to the beach to get a few snaps.

The Sunset was glorious that evening and made the perfect back drop.

Its times like this I cherish, 

I may have been a bit stressed but as soon as my feet hit that sand I was fine.

 My hubby put the camera on a ledge and we snapped away.

My eldest son then went of to play volleyball whilst we kept the little ones entertained.

So blessed to live in a beautiful area and by the sea.

Life is so good, made even better when the sun is out. 

This one was my personal fave I just love it alot!

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L is for lazing

All this warm weather lately has been lush (another L, see what I did there). We have thoroughly enjoyed being able to play in paddling pools and spending lots of time outside. So here is Ami and here two little friends enjoying a bit of lazing in the pool. Well to be honest they were so excited one of them took their nappy of and then they all followed suit.

You know your a parent when....

1. You stand Rocking, even if your not holding a baby? Whats with that!
2. You enjoy having a wee in peace. 
3. Counting down the time till dinner time as its close to bedtime.
4. You find yourself buying your child lego and insisting you build it.
5. You Spend the evening watching loom band videos online to be able to teach your child in the morning
6. You cut your toddlers food into funky shapes to find they only throw it on the floor.
7. You get a liking to luke warm tea. 
8. Then you only get to drink half that cup anyway!
9. You manage to break free from the children to find they have stuck a sticker/ stickers on you without you noticing.
10. 7:00am is a big lie-in
11. You buy a sweet treat and keep it hidden from the kids as they will devour it in no time at all (my husband hides Krave in the airing cupboard) 
12. When you find the tap running in the bathroom and wonder how much has been wasted.
13. Looking for the tv controller for hours to find it hidden in a shoe.
14. You secretly hoover up lego/ small toys
15. Your searching in the dark for a dummy trying not to wake the baby even more

Have you any traits you have acquired since becoming a parent? 

My sunday Photo - 27/07/2014