This weekends lucky number is 7!

Yesterday Gareth turned 27 and today James was 7 months old! Yay! So, 7 was our lucky number this weekend. For fun, I compared the weeks/days that Gareth had been alive to the amount of weeks/days that James had been alive, so Gareth has been alive for 1409 weeks and James 30 weeks, Gareth has been alive for 9863 days and James 213 days. If you want to work out how many days, months or weeks old you are, go to www.timeanddate.com

My 7 month old!

My 27 year old!

Does the fairy exist?

I really, really, really want a cleaning fairy. I want one that will come into my house while I am sleeping and clean my kitchen. I am so sick of washing dishes, I just wash them and then they are dirty again........and wash them and they are dirty again.... and then I wash them and they are dirty again. I wish that one morning I could wake up and find that someone else has cleaned my kitchen.... I even bought Fairy Dishwashing liquid, I wonder if I rub the bottle if a she will appear?

The Title was missing......

I forgot a title for my post below, again! Sorry. I think perhaps its because I never actually thought of one.

The school holidays are on their way and I am dreading it. Not because there are going to be kids all over the place getting up to no good, but because for some unknown reason most of my groups stop. I go to Baby groups, i.e. Under One's and Jolly Babies, but yet they stop for the school holidays. So, the only group that still runs is my Breastfeeding group.......its going to be a long few weeks, although the Children's Center will be having drop in's at the park and at the beach, and they are having a few Teddy Bear Picnics.... but still, it breaks our weekly routine.... oh well......you win some, you loose some and you go insane at others..... Watch this space!

The Title was Thank Goodness for Tomy!

Oops, I forgot a title.... here it is.....

(And in case you did not realise it - that is not James in the pictures)

The solution this week to get James to sleep in his cot is this:

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Its called the Tomy Moonlight Dreamshow. We bought it on Saturday for 10 quid and it has been worth every pence. It is voice activated so everytime James moans it switches on. It projects a slideshow of Winne The Pooh characters and bees and butterflies in the ceiling above the cot, it also has a gorgeous tune that sounds like you have just opened a jewellery box. It is very soothing. And James is happy to watch it and put himself back to sleep. He still needs a feed at around midnight and 5am, although the Health Visitor has told us that he should not need to feed at night, so last night I just did 10 minute feeds, tonight I will do 9 minute feeds and tomorrow night I will do a 8 minute feed, etc.

So this is what works for this week, hopefully it will last longer than that.... but he is a baby, so I know that it will just start working and then something will happen and mess it up.... oh well, Yay! for a weeks sleep, I even had 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night......

We have a Dada

James has said his first Dada. He first said it yesterday about 10 minutes before Gareth got home, and then actually said it to Gareth this morning while I was sleeping. And now he keeps saying Dadadadadadada. I know that he is calling everything that right now, but we are very excited. He is getting so big, he can sit unsupported, he is trying to crawl, he knows how to put his bum in the air and his legs under his torso, even how to put his arms up straight, but he can't do them all together, and now we have a Dada too..... soon he is going to be graduating university.....

Look Ma, no Hands!!!