4 months

She is nearly 4 months old !!!!! Doesnt time fly when your having fun ........

Still here

We haven't disappeared of the face of the earth . We have been very busy with Yule,Christmas , my birthday (33 eeeek!) new year , tonsilitis , possibly scarlet fever, bronchiolitis , a hospital stay, tears , laughter and quite a bit of driving . Oh and i'm not sure where i've put the camera so we have 1 photo .
Millie is 11 weeks old now , i cant believe how fast the time is going , i want it to stop and keep her this age forever , but then i think that at every age. The little home born baby has stayed in hospital for the first time now , and having stayed there for three days it just confirmed how right it was having her at home.
She is much better now , now if Sonny can just recover from his mystery illness we should have a full bill of health. It seems that we have gone years with out any illness to speak of only to catch everything going in the last few months .booooooo.
Anyway we are still here and full of new years resolutions that haven't quite kicked in yet , to be on time (hhhmmn) to declutter ( desperately needed!) to put things back where they came from ( altogether now!) to eat better ( slipped a bit) to get fitter ( cough) to keep Trash and the Folksy shop updated ( done see link ) and finally to get up earlier ( hahahahahahahah) well a girl should have something to aspire to.....

http://www.folksy.com/shops/MamaTrash

Catch up pics

Well it does seem to have been a long time ! My beautiful little bear is 7 weeks old today. It has gone so quickly yet at the same time so much seems to have happened. Just wanted to share a few pics of what we've been up to . There has been non stop snuggling of nice little babaies.....

meeting our nana's great and small......

wrapping our beautifuls in rainbows.......

taking pics of our slipper with mummy's camera..........

shared Jamies 7th birthday .............

made chocolate mint cake as requested by the birthday boy..........................

marvelled at , trudged through , and played in the snow.........

proved that your never to big for a ride .............

gazed at amazing new things.......................

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and wandered at how beautiful it all is .

Of course it hasn't all just been sunshine and roses, there has been plenty of mess, crying, shouting, chaos, lateness, coughs, sneezes , sleeplessnights ( actually all of the above on a daily basis at the minute!) But being positive is a choice i'm trying to make rather than dwelling on the not so great and when there is so much to be positive about it doesn't seem that hard .

Possibly the loveliest baby you've ever seen ?

Thought so !

Those lovely saucer eyes, that cute nose , that little milky face . Make that a definate !

My baby

She has arrived !! My beautiful little girl Millie fern was born at home on monday morning, and she is just wonderful!

The Birth story

I'd begun having stronger than usual BH on her 'official ' due date on Friday. They weren't strong and regular enough to be 'labour' but were definately the much anticipated twinges that every man and his dog had been enquiring about for the last week or so ! They tailed off after an hour or so with the odd one or two on the Saturday but nothing more. They began again on Sunday evening whilst watching the tv and i was happy enough just to sit through them at this stage. By midnight they were getting stronger and more regular so i decide to have bath no.1 of the evening whilst Martin went to bed. Unable to get comfortable i decided to go downstairs and distract myself with crochet and tv ( of course doesn't everyone?) by this time i think i might have admited to myself that this might be 'it' as i decide to put my birthing necklace on.

An hour or so passed and things began to intensify so after bath no.2 i woke Martin and asked him to ring the midwives, who arrived about half an hour later . By this point i decided to put the hypnobirthing cd on in the room ( this was on continuously for the next 3 hours, i fouund it really helpful not sure anyone else did ;-)

After another hour or so of being supported and back rubbed by Martin i began to feel like i wanted to push , encouraged by the midwives to do whatever my body was telling me i started to push . My waters went in a huge gush whilst kneeling on the floor and things sped up quite quickly . I moved onto the sofa and suddenly there was an imensense feeling of calm in between pushes, after another couple of pushes her head was out followed slowly by her body .

She cried immediately . It was wonderful and joyus and amazing discovering we had another little girl and we laughed out loud that everyones suspicions were right.

Martin woke the children up and they came downstairs to meet their little sister. She is amazing and perfect and brilliant and has completed our family and i am so happy to have such a nice little family .

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I'm really looking forward to it!!!!

The waiting game

It seems to have been weeks since i last updated my blog, during that time i have had a one year blogiversary too! Firstly a massive MASSIVE thankyou to all the lovely ladies who have sent/sending a bead for my birthing necklace. It means so much to have your positive energies with me knowing that i'm not alone and that you've all been there yourselves! Will post some lovely pics when its all threaded up!

And so to all things Autumny....pumpkin soup with plenty of quinoa ( good for iron you know!)
homegrown ( possibly picked a bit early) corn

and a little green hat to keep a little head warm. Hopefully this is the right size, i seem to have real issues with sizing . The first baby hat had to go to Sonny because it was a little too big , then the hat for Jamie ( because why has Sonny got a hat and he hasn't ?!) was WAY too big ( got a bit carried away increasing ) and is now a rather slouchy hat on Mummy. Jamie has now decided he doesn't want a hat after all, poor child probably dreads what he might end up with!

a little found friend for the boy who so loves wildlife and animals, and a lovely spot of geocaching with friends .

And what a specimen ! Autumn is most definately here......now when will that autumn baby make an entrance?