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It feels like such a long time ago that LP and Little Man were babies. Any parent will know that sleep doesn’t always come naturally to babies and sometimes you have to work quite hard to establish a good sleeping routine for them over a period of time. That’s definitely how we found LP and Little Man’s early years.
I have, at times, mentioned my mummy tummy on this blog, when talking about my weight loss journey, general dieting and how I feel about myself physically. I don’t think though that I have ever spoken about this new feature of mine negatively. Purely that it’s there, it’s something I have, a fact of my post-baby body.
We often get asked how we chose the children’s names. They’re not the most traditional or common names and so it is usually a topic of conversation. I thought it would be nice to talk about how the children came to have their names and my thoughts around naming babies.
It’s been on the cards for a while but last week Little Man took his first unaided steps and has now been toddling around by himself ever since. Little Man absolutely loves to be on his feet and has surprisingly good balance for a baby that has just learnt to walk – He’s been walking holding onto our hands for a few months but didn’t have the confidence to let go – until now.
It’s only now, that Little Man is a year old, that I can find the words to talk about how hard it has been having two children.
Little Man is coming on leaps and bounds and since learning to stand up and climb up things he has now started to make use of his wooden walker and push it from one end of the room to the other regularly.
Little Man is now a month away from his very first Birthday. A whole 11 months of having him in our lives and it really feels like he’s been here forever.
Little Man had the worst sleep in months whilst we were on holiday. He woke frequently, needed a lot of night feeds and spent long periods of each night crying. It was very unlike him and I’ve put it down to teething and maybe being slightly under the weather. We spent the week exhausted but still managed to have a lovely holiday.
Little Man has been getting steadily bigger and for a couple of months now I haven’t been able to lift Little Man out of the car whilst still in his baby car seat, instead choosing to leave the car seat in the car and just put Little Man in and out. I noticed a few weeks ago that Little Man’s legs were getting long for the seat, his head was getting high up the back of the seat and it was getting very difficult to actually get him into the seat safely. It was time for Little Man to go into his Big Boy car seat.
I did something I never do the other day, and took LP out without a pushchair. We drove to a local town and had a couple of errands to run – Post Office, Asda for a couple of things and had to pick up a blind I’d reserved from Argos.