Saturday 26 September 2009

Snot, Snot & more Snot....

When I arrived home yesterday from work, I was greeted with a whingy baby, Oh No! The poor little man is ill! - Runny nose, cough, high temp the works. It seems to have appeared quite quickly as he was fine when I left in the morning....
So, last night wasn't the best... we tucked him up for bed with the recommended dose of calpol, hoping this would help the little man feel a little better. He went off to sleep fine which was good but ended up waking about 3 times, twice before the other half and I went to bed and once at 3.30am :(
I'm not used to the night waking anymore, he's slept through since about 10/12 weeks so it kills me when he does wake in the night now. I won't complain though as he went back to sleep easily once I gave him his dummy :) plus hes got a good excuse, he's ill the poor little thing.

He was good though and then didn't wake till 8.00am for his bottle,and then went back to sleep till 10am! He's a good baby isn't he!

I have to admit I thought we were in for a day of whinging today with him being ill, but hes been such a pleasant little boy, even with the nose full of snot and the cough. Luckily his temp is OK now. The only downside is whatever he has, I've now caught.... my throat is killing, my body was aching this morning, I just hope it passes quickly. I've not been very lucky sickness wise since the little man was born. I was ill about 5 times in the 1st 4 months after he was born, which was not good!

The other half went to the chemist for us though, so were all dosed up on drugs today haha! I just hope they work! I hate being ill! but I hate it even more when the little man is ill. You can't help but feel soooooo sorry for him, poor little thing!

Here's hoping whatever we have passed nice and quickly! :)

Saturday 19 September 2009

Weight Loss! Yay!!!

So during my pregnancy I put on a lovely 3stone! It wasn't a surprise though as I think I ate enough for the whole of Manchester ha ha!

Eating for two...Pah! I was following an eat whatever, whenever rule!

TBH I didn't really worry about my weight during my pregnancy, I decided to enjoy eating and not feeling guilty about eating too much!

Well..OK...I might have worried a little when the stretch marks appeared, but there wasn't much I could do about them by the time they appeared. It was like one day I had none, the next day tonnes appeared on my Legs! NICE! No creams or oils helped them (although I have to admit I only tried them for about a week and gave up haha!)

I think I just tried to remember that the food I was eating was helping my baby to grow and develop, I remember once I woke up with my belly rumbling and I panicked! I was worried that if I was hungry then my baby must have been too, so I just ate and ate instead.

9 Months and about 3 stone later, my little man arrived weighing a healthy 8lb 11oz! I knew he was going to be big, because at all my midwife checks I was continuously measuring big for my dates.

So my little man was out, but my appetite had not changed at all! Eeek!!! I was stuck in maternity clothes still as none of my old clothes would fit!

I couldn't continue to eat as much as I had been doing, there was no baby to take some of it from me. It was so close to Christmas though and I refused to started dieting just before Christmas, I wanted to enjoy it, so that meant eating all the lovely christmassy foods - Yummy yummy :o)

My Plan was to start dieting in the new year! Such a typical new years resolution!

To my surprise when I weighed myself at the beginning of the year I had already lost about 2 stone since the birth, which I'm guessing was mostly baby and fluid...

So my first aim was to try and get to my pre pregnancy weight, which was only about 7lb away.

It took me about 4 weeks to do that by following weight watchers (weight watchers is fab, it really does work!) But I wasn't happy after that, I still couldn't fit in my old clothes despite weighing the same as I had done before...Humph! Whats that all about?!

I then set a new target, I wanted to loose an extra 10-14lbs, so I carried on with weight watchers and over the next 2 weeks I managed to loose an extra 5lbs - Yay!! This is going good!!

So in 6 weeks I managed to loose 12lb, I was very pleased! I hadn't done any exercise, and I find Weight Watchers very easy to follow, but after 6 weeks I got stuck!

That was mid Feb and for the past 6 months I've been losing and gaining the same 2lbs! Grrr! Maybe I'm just meant to be this weight? Or maybe I'm just not trying hard enough! If I'm honest I did stop following weight watchers properly, mainly because I had started weaning the little man and I didn't have time to worry about what I was eating as I was concentrating on giving him a good diet, but I was finding that I was also eating his leftovers, which really wasn't helping, most of the time I'd do it not even realising! Ooops!

Anyway - since I've been back at work I've stopped being the leftover eater ha, which has helped lots as I've now lost a further 4lbs! WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

I'm very very pleased, and its given me motivation again to get to my goal! Only another 5ish lbs to go :o)

I wonder how long it will take me?

Wednesday 16 September 2009

My Clever Little Man :o)

I'm such a proud Mummy, the little man has achieved another milestone - YAY!!!!

So far he can

  • Roll Over
  • Sit Up
  • Crawl
  • Pull himself up to standing
  • Climb on to the sofas
  • Climb the stairs
  • Wave
  • Clap
  • Walk whilst holding onto something (cruising)
  • Stand alone
  • He has 16 teeth!!!!!
  • He can say Dada, Baba and sort of says hiya (still no mama! Humph!)

There is prob some more, and then today he added walking to the list!!!!

The other half and I finished work early today, so we have just been relaxing for the afternoon with the little man....

It's funny - Just before My Mum left today I said to her I reckon the little man will be walking and saying Mama when you see him again next Tuesday, and I'm feeling so proud to say hes taken 4 unaided steps, which he has done a few time now this afternoon :o) I'm so pleased!

He was just walking along the sofa, the other half was sat on the rug and held his arms out for the little man, and the little man walked to him!!! We were both so shocked, excited and pleased that we were both around to see our precious little boys first steps!!!

I was so worried I would miss milestones like this with working full time, but I saw it all!!

Very proud Mummy moment!

I wonder if he will end up saying Mama too?? If he does then I'll be doing the lottery for sure ha ha ha!

Tuesday 15 September 2009

Oh.... Me thinks that I'm a bit pants at this blogging lark....

OMG - How long has it been? 2 weeks maybe?

God I really am rubbish at keeping my blog upto date aren't I?! But to be fair I have been a very very busy bee!

Take the past few days for example....

Friday I was at work 7am - 6pm and still ended up bringing work home :(
although though I don't mind working late Fridays as I know I have the full weekend to spend with my little man :)

Saturday morning I had a hairdressers appointment, I took the little man with me whilst Daddy enjoyed some 'me time' but he wasn't feeling too well and didn't really get to enjoy his quiet time...

As you can imagine, taking a baby into a hairdressers full of women leads to a lot of attention, and the general comments and questions I always get..

'Oh isn't he a big boy, how old is he?'

'Yes he's a big lad, he's 10 months'

'10 MONTHS!?!, Wow, what was he born?'

'8lb 11oz'

'Oooh, Ouch (followed by a screwed up face)'

'Yep, but I ended up with a section'

This same conversation has been repeated so many times over the past 10 months, amazingly I still don't get bored of it, ha ha, I'm one of those annoying Mums who could talk about their baby all day :)

It's then the usual 'Ooh he's cute', 'Can he walk?' 'Aww give us a smile' etc etc while I sit and respond or proudly beam at the little man.

After we had got back from the hairdressers, the other half and I decided to take the little man to Heaton Park, the weather was beautiful so we decided to make the most of the sun. We had a lovely stroll round the park, and took the little man to see the ducks and the animals, there was some sort of Asian festival going on so lots of music was played. We had a really nice day, apart from me being attacked by wasps and running about like a nutter trying to get away from them.

It's funny to watch if your not the one being attacked, especially me, I'm not discreet, you'll just see a blonde girl waving her arms in the air, screeching 'has it gone, where is it? has is gone?' over and over again whilst running in a circle..the other half usually stands there rolling his eyes and shacking his head at me, and the little man watching, wondering what on earth his Mummy is doing ha ha!

After we got home from Heaton Park,it was time for me to get ready for a night out with the girlies :o) there was suppose to be 7 of us, but over the last week or so some of them dropped out!
It was a good night out though, a good ol' gossip, some boogying & alcohol, a giggle with the girlies and a maccy d's to finish the night off :) Perfect!

Then we get to Sunday, I wake up a tad queasy, not hungover, just a bit queasy (nothing a bit of food didn't sort out he he).... The little man was good to his Mummy and slept til 9am, so I managed to get some sleep. We then got ready to go out with My Dad and Step mum.
We planned to go to Manchester Airport Pub, it has a fab beer garden and you see the planes so close up! There is a bouncy castle, a play area, little kids rides, a stall that sells balloons, food..Well... the works really! So, another good day showing the little man more of the world and just enjoying my time with him and Family.

I then had another long day at work yesterday, 7am - 6pm - So, as you can see I haven't even had time to fart, let alone blog :)

But tomorrow I finish work early, and then I'm not back in until next Tuesday - Yay!!!!

I'm so looking forward to relaxing and spending quality time with the little man, I'm going to pretend I'm on maternity leave again ha ha!