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Looks like I have been tagged by considering

So here are my answers...

1. What's your child's favorite book? Baby einstein bard's rhyme time i've also read him tadpole's promise by jeanne willis & tony ross which he liked

2. What's your favorite children's book? enid blyton the faraway tree series & the story of ferdinand by munro leaf

3. What's your child's favorite thing to eat? cooked fruit and ready brek or peeled and seeded tomatoes cooked and mashed in low salt butter, sweet potato and carrot (all mixed together)

4. What's your favorite thing to eat? Chicken breast sunday dinner everytime

5. What's your child's favorite game? mammy making squeeky noises

6. What's your favorite game? i'm not saying ; )

I've tagged 5 other people Once you've posted an entry on your blog with your answers please tag five other members through your minti mail.

I have declined two wonderful looking groups today simply because i'm not on the sit enough to comment on it at the moment and we don't travel anywhere at the moment either just to visit family so on these two groups i felt i didn't have enough to contribute but when i do i hope the offer still stands

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Here we go i am going to be completley truthful here as i haven't logged on for quite a while and a lot has happened, flippin heck where to start!!!!!  firstly Rhys turned 24wks last tuesday i started weaning him late June.

I found this quite difficult, that's not quite true akward maybe, there are so many books out there telling you different things on what you should give at what times etc

the main one i've found is that they expect you to give a bottle aroung 10pm sod that!!!!! Rhys has been in a routine since 2 months he is in bed before 7.15pm and that's that.  He is such a joy , at the moment i am waking him up with the lion king cd, so imagine i get everything ready breakfast, milk, water, dummy.  Walk in he's staring up at me (thinking is it morning yet?) i put his cd on and the circle of life comes on first , i open his curtains and he's there smiling up at me lifting his legs in the air,  oh god i love it, lifting him up saying good morning sweetheart and giving him a big kiss!!!!

for a first time mam weaning is a nightmare as no one really tells you how much to give and how much you reduce the milk by and when etc etc it's hard the last thing i want to do is do the wrong thing, but over worrying is also not good as you should just take your que from your baby and go with the flow. If i give him baby food pots or packets i try and use organic, the same goes for fresh homecooked meals when ever poss i try and buy organic just to give him the best start. (it's just what i've decided to do)

At the moment he is on

7.30am breakfast & 5oz bottle

11.30am Dinner & 5oz bottle

3pm 4oz bottle

5pm tea

6.45 5oz bottle and bed

This is a long blog as i've been away and i'm kind of explaining why,

Things have also been quite stressful with my husband and myself latley, he is in the armed forces as a medic (he doesn't get sent away thank god), but this regiment don't really treat the soldiers and their families with respect for example

We lived on the 16th floor of a tower block and the carpets needed changing from previous tenants and now with a baby i put my foot down, they wouldn't change them so instead moved us to the 29th floor!!! now!! the lifts are constantly breaking down as this building is over 40yrs old and has been badly maintained so 3 times in the last 3weeks i've had to carry Rhys up and down 29 flights of stairs!!! (i am moe angry as i have degenerative discs in my back and wear on my spine, god knows how i've managed to do that but i am now on a concontion of tablets for the rest of my life blah blah) so when i pipe up they take it out on my husband, so he is stressed with everything and comes home in a bad mood and has been snapping at me and blocking me out a lot latley, so that has also been hard.

I have been feeling that i have been plunging myself into being a mammy and trying to do everything and when i ask for help it has been like i have just asked him to cut his leg off.

I love pasha he is a wonderful man and i know this isn't him but untill he talks to someone or me it coontinues to be very srtessful for me oh here we go yes i feel like crying inside but keep a happy smile on the outside as i am now a mammy and i have to.

So there you go haven't had much time to log on and chill out but i'm sure things will get better, that's life isn't it ? shit happens to test you you get through it lots of nice things happen and some shit things but you get through them you have to and hopefully with a smile Don't let the bugars grind you down is what i say!!

I could be setting myself up for a fall here, but hopefully not!! my lo is teething and the only thing that really sooths him when it hurts (which is only occasionally, he's very good really) is his dummy.

Even though he goes to bite things, he doesn't really like to when it's in his mouth, he normally falls to sleep after his milk but now will only fall to sleep on me!! (this is the worry, now he won't fall asleep unless he's being cuddled, i suppose to comfort him.)

I know only too well that this can cause problems later on, but it's so so hard to hear your baby cry and see his little tears and know he will stop if you hold him in your arms, it really pulls at your heart strings.

The other thing i've been finding latley is he is more restless at night now he's teething he wakes without fail around 2/3am then again around 6am but i always try and get him back to sleep until 7am which is sometimes difficult.

It does worry me being a first time parent, as you know what you should do, but putting it into practice when there little faces are looking up at you or they are crying their heart out how can you not respond!? I just really hope it all works out right in the end.

What i'm finding really hard is entertaining him during the day as he hates me not being in the room, which makes it difficult to do anything.  And when i have days were i feel tired i also feel guilty as i'm not talking or playing with him as much (you can't win!!!) BUT I LOVE HIM SO MUCH IT HURTS.

To be honest, i'm ashamed to admit but i have no idea what a blog is!!  I am not very computer minded (wish i was) so i will tell you a few things about myself. Rhys is teething at the moment  he won't bite on anything to ease the discomfort  bless him, he was born on Valentines day 2006 (he knew i hadn't had time to get his daddy a card so arrived 4 days early!) I was doing a diploma to become a hypnotherapist, i did the course but with being heavily pregnant with severe restless leg syndrome i didn't have the concerntration or energy to study and do the exam, which i'm quite disapointed about but i believe things happen for a reason so i'm sure there will be something else around the corner. I am now a full time mammy, as i gave birth to my little angel it's only right that i look after him and not let a stranger bring him up  

My Family

My Husband and baby boy

no pets as husband has allergy to animal hair

Interests

My Husband Pasha and baby boy Rhys

Reading (not that i have much time to read a good book at the moment)

designing and making my own cards (only sent to family and friends on special occasions)

Music

Watching reality tv i'm an addict!