late 11's early 12's

well in 8 days my bubba is 1yr old


so ive got  massive dump (not literally) of info on what's been happening for the last 2 months.  the main reason that I haven't been able to sit and write up what's been happening is we've seen a shift in his sleeping pattern and he was going to bed later and getting up later which in one way was really good as I got to stay in bed but then we don't get a evening to relax.

so what has he been up too well he can safely get on and off the settee which he loves doing, he's now a big fan of walking holding one hand and does this loads!

some other quirkier things he likes doing is going to the drawer with the ipad charger find it then tries to plug it into the wall or he tries to get hold of the key to lock the window and turns it.  hes very clever at working things out and still a bit of a ruffian reminds me of a certain someone
 

so fast forward to today and its an early birthday party


it went really well with maximum organising from the geek wife to pull it off the only thing that could have gone wrong was he ended up with hand foot n mouth a few days before but made a pretty quick recovery.  He slept before the party so was full of energy I'm glad these are only once a year they are knackering.

although its not officially till the 31st but its been a rocky road of ups and downs and lots of shouting and swearing and we finally made it here's to the next year of tears, tantrums ups and downs sprinkled with lots of love n laughter in this bat shit mental family!

10months

So my bubba has just turned 10months old and I have lots of crazy stories already!

so recently he has been learning to walk with his walker and been doing really well.  At the same time he's also taken to climbing everywhere!

so far he's climb up the stairs, climbed up a trampoline ramp and regularly climbs up the back of our settee and hangs on to the radiator and bangs on it.

we also accomplished another first for the bubba he went trampolining, he mainly chased a ball round and clung on to a net and we did some joint bouncing.

he is becoming a boisterous little boy who loves cars and spends his time chasing a green scented ball round the room or pulling telephone on wheels around.

he's very shouty whether its babbling full pelt or screaming/squealing he doesn't shut up unless hes asleep!

he's still very fidgety in the night but now he's started sleep crawling or spends ages holding on to the head rest and bouncing up and down.

he's still quite violent when I cuddle him he opens his mouth says "ah" then starts thrashing his head n head butting me.

so they are some of the random and crazy things my bubba gets up to

9 months

well I've been slightly disorganised with this one! I've missed the official date for his 9 month picture but lots has been happening!



firstly I've ordered some more pictures for my goal to get a full years worth of pictures for him that I can put in an album!  secondly he's become lots more mobile over the past week he's finally learnt how to crawl forwards!

  it was a random Tuesday morning and id sat down on the rug with cinnamon and raisin bagels, which are our favourite bagels!  and he was sat at the other end of the rug and I told him it was breakfast time and he got into the crawling position and instead of going backwards he shot forwards! I wish id have filmed it.

since that happened he's started doing lots of other new things.  For example he wants to climb on everything now and is pulling himself up on the settee or footstool or toys.  and he keeps trying to walk, hell climb up my legs if I'm stood up then if I take his hands he's off.

he also has his 9-12 month assessment soon which I'm not worried about as he's very clever!

first holiday!

in the most British way possible
 

so over the holidays we went on a caravanning holiday! two main points

1 we didn't kill each other
2 the bubba slept relatively well

so  these things made it really enjoyable and we ticked some new things from our list of firsts
the first is the zoo!
   it was really good the only downside was that the bubba is afraid of sheep and pigs and any animal that wasn't small lol baby guinea pigs ducks and rabbits were all winners though!

the beach!
 although is was super windy and cloudy! we did at least manage to get on the front and show him the sea and sand.  it will be much better when we can go and build sand castles and more importantly holes!

so it was a great holiday with lots of pictures! and the first of many!

coping with hospital visits

well at 8months (ish) we had our first official hospital visit apart from when he first popped out!

so he had a temperature of 39 that would go down with calpol but then once it wore off would shoot back up and he did some green slimy poo's (which aren't normal).  so first I phoned 111 for advice (always good idea)  they asked loads of questions to help and point me in the right direction.  so for the next day we carried on doing this and then I arrived home Friday to find him burning up again and he'd got an appointment to see the docs who got him booked in to the hospital.  from their it was a long wait in hospital where the bubba did really well with all the docs he just smiled at them and after a few examinations he started getting into position when they came round.

their was a moment where we had to catch his pee in a plastic bowl which was a piece of cake to catching his pee in a little bottle that we had to hold over his lil wiss.

while it went pretty smoothly over all it was really stressful constantly waiting for results etc  the main thing is that when its all going to pot you stay strong and be positive!

captain textbook!

well at 7months the major thing to happen is you start getting teeth!

yep the first tooth came! like the legend himself no one saw where this post was going! but you can see the effects of the tooth coming through apart from being a grumpy fecker who had a mixture of bonjela and baby cocaine which is a white powder that you put on the tongue and it numbs them just like cocaine! but cheaper!



so aptly armed with bonjela and baby coke we waged a war on keeping the baby happy during this turbulent time.  it didn't last long though until it came through and everything settled down again.  for those babies with sensitive skin its a stressful time so double up on the creams to keep any flare ups down.