Christmas 2013

Just a few snaps of some of the gifts we received this Christmas. 

The Flood.

If any of you have seen the news this Christmas you will of seen major flooding in parts of the UK and that over 100,000 homes were without electricity. 

We were part of that figure. Unfortunately our Christmas ended up clouded by floods, no heating or light and constant worry about whether our home was going to be under 3ft of water when we got home. 

We had to leave our town on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day because we had no power so couldn't cook, didn't have any heating, lighting, wifi, phone etc. It was awful. Honestly I didn't appreciate electricity enough until it was gone. 

We were fortunate that our home didn't get flooded and that although our Christmas wasn't spent at home we live close to our family and could spend our holiday with then. 

Here are some pictures of our town on Christmas Day. 

This is the main road leading out of our town. 

This was a field before the river burst it's banks. 

This is the access to our train station which was completely flooded also. 

The water levels have dropped a lot now so fingers crossed we can hold off with the rain. 

I hope you have all had a happy Christmas and enjoy the new year celebrations. 

Mia 13 month update

This month Mia is starting to become a little more confident standing unaided. We have started practising walking while she holds our hands. She can now walk just holding one hand rather than two. 

She is loving books this month, the turnig of the pages is what she loves the most haha! She is also starting to play more with we soft toys and dolls. She cuddles them which is so cute! She also loves musical instruments - I wonder if we have a young musician on our hands?! 

She has still got 6 teeth and is now wearing 6-9 month clothes. She's loves anything she's not supposed to have such as iPads and iPhones! Haha! She even knows how to use the middle button on the iPhone!

She's started saying 'oh' a lot and pointing at everything. 

Christmas is coming!

Mia turns one!

So my baby has finally had her 1st birthday and has reached the 1 year mark! 

She had a wonderful birthday party, I will write a separate post showing you the decorations and how we followed the Alice in wonderland theme. 

This month she is trying to free stand more although still not often. She is pulling up on everything and cruising loads! She also now has 6 teeth! 

She eats anything I offer her apart from egg, she's never been keen on egg in whichever form I try, scrambled, omelette, hard boiled etc. It's funny because my mum tells me I didn't like egg under the age of 2 either! 

She loves toys that require her to think and do something to get a reaction such as opening and closing, pressing buttons to make noises, musical instruments, rocking horse, books etc. 

Emotion

My baby is turning one in a couple of days! You may find this post bizarre especially if you don't have your own children but I feel really emotional about Mia turning one! It's like my baby is growing up suddenly. I'm fully aware that she's not going to suddenly be a walking, talking toddler as soon as she hits one it just feels like she won't be a 'baby' anymore. I've been making a lot of the decorations and favours myself for her party which has also been pretty emotional, especially the video compilation. What I will say is since I've been sorting through photos and videos for her party I'm so glad that I was camera happy with Mia because I have A LOT of photos and video footage to loom back on and remind me of all those memories we had of Mia being a newborn, learning to sit up, crawl etc. I would strongly suggest investing in a good camera for capturing family moments. 

Mia's Autumn favourites

                              Gift

                     Argos £19.99

                          Ikea £10

                 Christmas gift 2012 

I know the last one is a Christmas story and we're only in November but I was going through her books the other day and Mia spotted this one and now won't put it down! Haha! She loves looking at all the pictures and laughs her head off each time she turns the page!