Ami your 8 months

Time is flying by and your growing more each day.

you have your own personality and sense of humour

you love to be around people and especially your family

Daddy loves it when you call him daa daa and would do anything just to please you

you eat and drink loads and love chocolate daddy is proud that you love chocolate

you sleep through the night although the odd night you don't

you like to stand and you love to dance

Your hair is getting thicker and even enough to wear a hair clip

your brother adores you especially when you try and follow him around

your a tough cookie who puts up with being carried round by you brother

you light up a room with your gorgegous smile

you have nearly started crawling your going backwards now

you make me laugh 

you make me smile

i love you Ami

my gorgeous girl!

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Silent sunday

Bit of a sado when he goes!

Today I'm upset nothing too bad, my husband leaves today for three weeks to work at this Christan even called spring harvest! boo! I will really miss him its not fun on the holidays without him! I'm sure we will do lots of fun things without him! we will survive i will miss that extra pair of hands and someone other than the kids to talk to! We will see him next week as we join him for a week but its not the same! least there is no school runs to do hee hee!

Will have to plan to do some things in the holidays if the weather improves, then maybe craft Pants has got to the age (at long last) where he can sit to do some craft so maybe i can persuade him to come of ps3/ipod to do something like that! Every year my husband does spring harvest so I'm used to it! i usually write him letters every day but i forgot and the time came round so quick! how is it Easter already this year if flying by! maybe will have to send an email each day! oh well! When ever he goes away i watch videos of him on you tube (there is a few short films hes made with him self in these)! my mum always says too absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Although we did go out for breakfast so both the boys are happy!

Roll on warmer weather miss the sunshine too :)


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Flash back friday - Broadstairs beach

I love Broadstairs i used to live there for a short time (ok six months); although we lived oveer the winter so didnt get to be there in the lovely sunshine of the summer holidays! Although it snowed one day and after getting Pants we went on the beach to play in the snowy sand!

This day im talking about is set in the Summer a hot day in August 2009 we had gone on the train with my mum, sisters and nephews for Folk week (an annual festiville of folk music and dancing). After looking round the tents in the heat we decided to cool the boys of by letting them play on the beach! they wanted to go swimming which i dont blame them was rather inviting!

 

It was a great day and they have grown up so much from these photos! Pants was 2 in these photos how time flies! 

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Reasons to be cheerful - Week 5

Its that time again, I get to write about the things that make me cheerfull and blessed as usual i have a few!

1- Its one of the best times of year not because of the chocolate (although its a good part) becuase its Easter and were reminded of what was sacrificed for us!

2- Pants now has the time of school so no more school runs for two weeks

3- Me and Ami have an Easter party today at our toddler group and a birthday party busy day but sounds good!

4- My husband goes away for three weeks (a sad moment) but wont be moaned at about housework

5-looking forward to some warmer weather so can get down to the beach! (cant wait)

6- looking forward to hanging out with my children.

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The Gallery - Walks - Southwold peir

Every year at Christmas time all of my husbands family head up to Norfolk to see his mum and dad! Matt is the youngest of 6 and all the six have 2/3 children it gets busy! One of the things we do is go for a walk along Southwold Peir! every year its always cold and rainy! they have an arcades and a vintage machine arcades,  also dont forget the hot chocolate (it is awesome has malteasers and flakes very unhealthy but very good). Nice to be by the sea side its where i feel most at home!

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Last breastfeed for Ami!

Well the time came to give Ami her last feed from me! not sure how I'm feeling weather its happy or sad, Id planned to on feed Ami till she was 16 weeks but the time passed and was still enjoying feeding her! also our summer last year consisted of me and Pants playing ps3 whilst Ami was happily feeding!  Also it was so easy just to feed her and she was gaining weight! with my first i didn't breastfeed as he was always hungry and wanted to be fed! Ami got like this about 5 months and the health visitor suggested feeding her with formula! Ami at one point just to fed every half hour in the day which was exhausting! so finally dropped the feeding!

Recently feeding Ami has started to hurt, and shes not fussed! id only been feeding if she got up at night and in the morning! This morning was the first morning i hadn't fed her! my husband had got up with her and gave her a bottle! was nice not having to feed her but wondering if i will miss this time! i doubt it she used to pull at my hair and grab my face! Good times! So here we are new chapter kids growing fast and life speeding by!


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Thread worms - blighters!!!

Great thing when your child goes to school/ nursery is that the children share! but this sharing is not allways of the good type...! we have discovered Pants has thread worm! hence why hes been itching so much! oh joy! not sure what to do or how to treat it! ive cut his nails short and now going to do the hygiene method! argh and more house work!  oh well at least my husband will be pleased (with extra housework)

I hope nobody else gets it but i highly doubt it! good times!

has anyone elses kids had threat worm, if so how have you treated it? cheers


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Magic Moments

One Special moment in my life was the day i became a Mum! a whole 6 and a half years a go! i was young and didn't quite know what to expect, Pants was due in September and i remember it being a very hot summer i had got a lot of water retention which i was huge, i had stretch marks all over my legs, tummy and i remember thinking is this what happens in pregnancy! my legs were so huge they used to split the seems of large maternity trousers! So the time came near the due date and the time came and went! a week later I finally went into labour and after 24 hours and Pants popped into the world! with a mighty cry and lots of dark hair!

I remember I didn't feel a rush of love it was more oh crap what am i going to do now! I was in love but suddenly was overwhelmed by the responsibility of being a parent! i was thinking I'm never going to go to the toilet on my own again! but it got better Pants had colic and basically cried for the first 3months and hasn't been quiet since being born (he is allways talking or singing)  I love him to bits and he is extremely funny and tech savvy (more so than me!). That time has gone so fast i cant even remember him as a baby or even a toddler!


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Silent Sunday

Flash back Friday - Love

I found this photo of Me and Matt before we were married! We were at one of Matts friends wedding someone had taken this photo we didnt even know it had been taken! I love this photo we both look so happy (not that we don't now) photos now days at weddings usually exists of me holding a baby Matt holding a camera! Like most weddings we go to people generally panic beforehand and call Matt to film there wedding! We were getting married in three months and excited to start our journey together! I love looking at this it makes me happy especially when Matt is working away! next week he is away for 18 days :( boo!

 

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Photo Friday!

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Whilst most the county seemed to be covered in snow us in the south eastern England tip hardly ever get snow. After school one day equipped with the Cannon and a wide angle lens I decided to try and get a photo for my mum for her birthday of all her grandchildren! This photo is by far the most hilarious my nephew H has the most funniest face! Also at least two of the four were smiling! Ami was not pleased she did not like this swing (or the fact her mum hadn't put socks on her) Maybe if it does snow here then we may go out in the snow (i hate snow), usually persuade my husband to go out!

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Reasons to be cheerful - W4

I always have plently of reasons to be cheerful! i try in life to focus on possitives rather than negatives! I shall pick out the main few i can remember!

1- Have a funny family always keeping me entertained!

2- Pants actually got sent to the headteacher for good work!

3- Ami has started to stand holding on and has developed a new head banging dance!

4- still got three months maternity leave! way hey!

5- we may be moving home soon! (hopefully)!

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The Gallery - Red... Eater

Last summer i was teaching Pants how to crab, this was the biggest we caught! this is a red eater crab! i dont know if this is its actual  name but thats what we called them when we were kids! Its how we spent our summers crabbing so i always thought i was a bit of a pro so was teaching (or trying) Pants my skills! He wasnt impressed! 

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lost tooth and car seat thats how we roll!

So the time has come and Pants has lost a tooth! he didnt want to put it under his pillow as apparently a man comes round and is making somthing with the teeth? anyway this means soon he will have the teeth that are too large for his mouth! from one milestone to another! oh the fun we have..!


We recently purchased a new car seat for Ami! She now weighs over 9kg and it was such a effort to carry in the baby car seat! So after some looking online we decided (well i said the price my husband grunted). I remember before Ami was born we would walk round baby shops my husband would just spend the time going round on his iPhone! so after looking at appearance and reviews we went for the Cosatto moova Car seat in oopsi datsi pattern! looks smart! We got it from Amazon was by far the cheapest price we could find for it online!





So suddenly shes not a baby that eats, sleeps and poops but is growing (definitely growing) and learning every day! its exciting and definitely more interesting now! its funny when there newborn you cant wait to grow up then when they grow up you think where did that go! Looking forward to the next milestone for both of them they are both changing so much .





Me and my Husband were saying how much Pants has changed since having a little sister, hes more grown up (more like a teenager). we used to say i wonder how long Pants will be cute for ha ha! i think were past it you cant call a growing boy cute for one he hates it!

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Magic moments - First day at school!

Ive never been a mum who cries at each little milestone or gets overly excited, but i found when Pants started school i was teary! Aston had been in childcare since he was one and had enjoyed nursery but that first day was so special! seeing him in his uniform with his lunch box and book bag! I was more excited than him! I remember before he started they held a meeting for all the parents I was holding back the tears! They called each name out to say which class they were in I had to stay seated for a little other wise would have had a mini melt down (i wasnt the only one). I think its him growing up maybe realised hes not the small loud child that he had always been!

On the walk to school! they started later so they didnt get overwhelmed with all the children! We dropped him in he wasnt fussed! alot of parents were walking out crying! 

Was lovely, wonder if i will be the same when Ami starts school! 

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Weddings and Golf Club captain

So im absolutly shattered im supposed to be doing the online shop but I couldn’t concentrate on ordering the right stuff! Ill end up with loads of cake and biscuits (bit like when my husband does the food shop). This weekend has been very busy with both Saturday and Sunday mapped out with back to back stuff! The best bit was my husband wasn’t playing football so we spent the whole weekend together (a rarity). He was also filming the wedding we went to so was apart for a little!

Saturday started with a women’s collective Community Action event! As a group we have three areas we base our event by they are the church’s values they are worship, community and generosity. We as a group were going out to our local community to clean up some areas that have been neglected! Not a huge turnout but glad some people came!  It was rainy and windy so maybe it put some people of! I then completely forgot pants had a partyL! He hardly gets invited to parties so im actually gutted he didn’t go!  So then we had to go to off to Sidcup for the wedding! A quick half hour to pack an overnight bag and sort Amis food/milk! Very stressful! All laden with cameras, tripods, toys, bottles! It was a lovely wedding although im sorry I didn’t capture any picture s of the happy couple im very rubbish at that when we go to weddings! Or a family shot another thing that doesn’t happen! It was lovely hanging with friends my husband loves to dance so with him on the dance floor Pants in the games room it was just me and Ami in the evening! I didn’t mind she fell asleep on me (I love it when she does that)!  

Sunday equally as busy we went to a church in Sidcup call New Generation that is hosted in cineworld in Bexlyheath, was really good they spoke about being a princess and being released into this and casting of lies that we had about ourselves!  Pants and Ami went off to the kids clubs so me and Matt were sitting on our own! SO a quick dash home to my stepdads golf club where he had a drive in! No I didn’t know what that was either! It is basically where he tees off! My mum had given a joke ball which exploded when he hit it! Was very funny! So we had a lovely meal! The kids played outside! (I got told of by health and safety officer for taking Aston on the course, apparently it’s against the law, we could have been killed etc.) Oh dear! But now sitting down watching a film hoping Ami doesn’t get up at 6 again in the morning! Good times!

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Sunday Snapshot my kids (Again!)

Still trying the new lens for the Camera 35mm mean anything to you (it didnt me all i heard was shallow depth) but with that Im one of those mums that takes 100s of photos, its even got to the stage that Pants hates his photo taken! so to get him to smile for a photo i always great! Ami has been teething all week but can see four teeth ready to pop through the gums so shes been a bit of a grump all week! So here some of the weeks photos ranging from red nose day and chill out after school!

Pants love his sis!

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Silent Sunday

Red nose Day

.. Every time i watch i shed many tears! I cry over peoples situations families living with nothing life being cruel and i cry at the injustice of our world! rich people living next to poor people! some people seem not to care. I know how blessed i am the resources i have and how we live our lives! it shocks me to see how people live there life and have complete compassion for them! i remember someone mentioning something on Facebook about why do programs like comic relief show the videos of people in devastating situations! i was so angry don't know why! I just realised how selfish some people are and how they don't care for other people!


Every minute in Africa a child dies of malaria! its preventable! But a little goes a long way, a little could be the difference between life and death! comic relief over 25 years has helped so much 40 million children going to school and 1.8 billion people access to clean water in Africa and that's just the small amount of what it has done! wowzas!

I do love Comic relief its such a good cause and is also funny! Pants schools theme this year was pants! So i made Pants a Pants top! They also did gangham style dance in assembly! so come on donate lets change poverty! so come on dont watch and please give! www.bbc.co.uk/rednoseday



heres the tshirt i made for pants at school today!








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