4th morning and it's all becoming a blur

Look at that cheeky face, shouting at her mummy - the latest is pointing at everything, oh and she can now climb in and out of her sandpit and the front door, and best of all - empty mums kitchen cupboards

Well, she is improving at settling - phew, however she is still up sooo early and this am she never went back to sleep. Sadie is much happier playing in mummy daddy bed - so we both went back and had a great big nap in the late morning - felt lazy but needed. Plus it is totally puring down so nowt much to do outside anyways. Sat niht is choclate night = happy mummy xx

morning 3 - scared to say we saw an improvement.....

Well, Sadie missed her aft nap yesterday because we had a lovely day at the beach. So by 7pm she was shattered - fell asleep in own bed on her own - woo hoo...but alas, 8.45 she wakes and isn't a happy bunny. I gave her a big feed and daddy sang her back to sleep - yai hai, she slept until 3.30am!!! but then wouldn't be settled without a feed after much trying caved in at 5am and brought her into my bed - I was shattered. so now I know she can sleep for 6hrs uninterrupted, just have to get the right 6 hrs. She just went down 20mins ago - so fingers crossed for another few hrs....a wee sneaky 11pm sleep and then maybe - 5am? am I asking too much? hmmm i feel a fall coming

morning 2 in the big bed....

The second am - she did no bad, She is however shouting at me from her room as I type this, hatin it (both of us are), got to stay strong. Last night she managed - 10.30pm bf and daddy sang her to sleep - the her usual night wake - again daddy settled her and up at 5.45am for her bf, fell back to sleep with me until 7.30 ....my big girl we can do this baby. xx

tattoo

Finally spoke to the woman tonight about my new tattoo - it was a chance meeting, her shop happened to be open as I left knitwits. I popped into see a friends hats that ar eonsale int eh shop and spoke about the tattoo. So it's agreed - on my wee mans aniversary this year I will finally be getting his memorial tattoo. sad and happy all at once. X

the morning after.....

The beautiful Ms S P WIlliams after her 1st night in her own bed! Well, it took 2 and half hours to get her to sleep, she woke at 11pm for a BF then at 1.30 her dad settled her and then at 5.15am she woke for her am feed - not bad for a 1st go. She has spent her entire life so far sleeping next to the best 24hr cafe in her world........mummy misses her x

sadie sadie pretty lady - 1st bday party

God it's only been just over a week since we had the wee ones party - and it feels like an eternity ago! mainly because the weather feels like a different season.

We made her a yummy cake, which everyone really enjoyed - to my relief. I spent days cooking, I wanted everything to be just right - your only one once and I know no more wee ones are comign along to spoil.

Scones for the tea party, I even made 2 kinds of jam (a new and exciting experience)

I have some weirdo look going on in this photo, but ti's braw to have one of us together.....Archie will have been off knicking some cakes or throwing himsel around on the bouncy castle.

cuteness on my birthday

uncle antony took this lovely photo. i look a wee bit bewildered but im ok really x

sorry guys, just tried this out on my new phone to see how it would work - must learn how to rotate and save photos prior to posting!