Bennett's nursery

Hi peeps!

I thought I would do a quick post on Bennett's nursery today seeing as it is going to become Bennett's AND Brooke's nursery in the next couple of weeks.

Our sleeping arrangements lately are all over the map. It's abit complicated but let me explain. Ryan broke our bed in our master bedroom a few weeks ago. He blames it on the fact it was from Ikea but in an attempt to entertain Brooke, he decided to throw himself onto the bed. Of course the second he landed on the bed, the entire thing fell through and hit the ground below {don't worry Ikea, I know it was Ryan's fault}. No injury's were reported but our poor bed is beyond repair. Since one side is still holding up the mattress, we decided to try and sleep on it the first night by both really quickly getting into bed at the same time. Ryan {as he is heavier} slept on the side that was ok to balance us out. It was horrible.

So the next night we moved into the spare bedroom but I HAAATE the mattress in there. So the following night, we moved the spare mattress into the upstairs hallway and moved our mattress in the spare bedroom. Anyways, long story short, Brooke has been sleeping all by herself in the master bedroom and we are in the spare. There is also the extra mattress blocking half the hallway that the cats have decided to use as a bed.

To add to the chaos, I have decided to take the time to redecorate our bedroom before we move back into it. Plus, Brooke now has proved that she can sleep in her own room so I thought it was a good idea to move her crib into the nursery.

So here are some pictures of Bennett's nursery currently {OK ok, well not at this very second but the last time it was tidy haha}. Looking forward to showing you the new arrangement when Brooke moves in! It will be blob party every night! xxx

The bow collection is Brooke`s, in case you were wondering :)

Late night post...

Hi peeps! I am laying here waiting for my babe to stop crying. Oh god, it's so sad but I have seriously tried everything, she is just over tired. It's so funny because she keeps saying "shit" in her unhappy rambling. I know she doesn't know what it means and before anyone thinks it, I promise I didn't teach her! It's just a sound she has been making lately and I honestly laugh every time it comes out of that sweet mouth.

So here I am, I can't fall asleep with an unhappy baby so I thought I would do a quick bloggy post while I wait for her to dose off. I found Brooke and Bennett playing with my old coffee earlier. There wasn't much left but they had defo taken a sip each, which may be why we are struggling to stay asleep tonight. Actually Bennett loves coffee...and alcohol....we start them young in this house ;) 

Sorry all these jokes are probably going to encourage someone to call parent line on me. I really am a good Mum, I promise!!

I have been so out of body lately! Do you ever feel that way? I do the actions but I am sort of doing them without thinking. It's weird but what evs! I thought meditating might help and I downloaded this app called head space. I made Ryan mediate with me the other day and it was hilarious. He just fell asleep and I ended up starting at my toes and thinking about my poor pedicure job.

Speaking of which, I MUST tell you about my disastrous pedicure. I went out on a "date night" {god I sound so lame} the other day with the husbie. It occurred to me that my feet felt like sand paper so I thought I would splurge {which is SO hard for me to do :) } and get a pedi. It was actually horribly unrelaxing and hurt alot as she cut my nails. I was seriously stifling cries of help...while sucking on their free sweeties they give out. How can I resist?

Anyways, I got through it and went out later that night. My toes looked like perfect red jewels....until the next day. My big toe started to swell up and puss {is that how you spell puss? I don't think I have ever had to type that!}. My sister was the lucky recipient of picture updates as the toe got progressively worse and worse. It was purple, swollen and bleeding. Yuck. So after 2 weeks of this I went to the docs and it's 100% infected. Ryan want's me to go back and tell the salon but I am not into confronting them and having them look at my toe. I just like showing it to my siblings to gross them out :)

So there you have it. I clearly like to ramble on and over share at this wee hour. Brooke is still awake by the way. Ryan got up and brought her into our bedroom which hasn't helped at all. Please remind me never to feed my infant coffee again! Wish me luck! xxx

Blobina is ONE!

September 13th arrived this weekend and my little Blobina officially turned ONE . Now I have two one year olds running around the house until the end of October. And yes, I have been waiting all year to say that :)

Brooke is currently chopped FULL of personality. She is a little fire ball when she is mad {and wow she can get mad} but easily recovers and is the sweetest little monkey! She LOVES to dance, any type of music can come on and she is over in the corner swaying or raising the roof. The other night, Ryan and I were watching a drama where one of the main characters was getting fired. This dramatic {and depressing} music came on the show and Brooke stops what she's doing and starts pumping her hands in the air. It was so funny!

She isn't walking yet but has started to stand by herself for a few seconds! Her crawling is at lightning speed when she is chasing Bennett around, so walking isn't that necessary at the moment.

We had a fun day with her on her birthday. I set up her little pile of pressies for her to wake up to in the morning with a few balloons. I thought she would be so excited to see them but I forgot she hasn't really encountered a balloon before. She was a little apprehensive to say the least.....

  

After getting over the balloons, we brought her new chair and presents over to my sisters and skyped my family in England. They watched her open her presents and got to sing to her for her birthday.

         

 

We had a quiet afternoon while the babies napped. Bennett got a Buzz Lightyear for Brooke's birthday and Brooke got a Jesse doll, so when they got up we put on Toy Story for them.

At dinner, a few friends and family gathered at our house for a little celebration. Brooke seriously LOVED the attention from everyone. I decorated the kitchen with hearts's and flowers. I also was going to get her a pink flower cake but decided she would enjoy a monster cake so much better. So I had the same cake made that Bennett had for his first birthday called "Harry the Monster". Of course Brooke needed a girl version, so we changed it to pink and aqua and called her "Harriet the Monster". I think she liked it ;)

After dinner she opened all her lovely presents from everyone. I was actually pretty impressed at her opening skills, she did do some of the ripping herself. It was really cute! P.S. I loved how the chair we got her was the perfect present opening chair. I am getting Bennett one for his second birthday and am excited to put all their presents on their chairs every year for their birthday mornings.

Full of sugar and totally exhausted, we gave both babes a bath after everyone left and put them to bed. I couldn't help peeking in on my newest little one year old and found her fast asleep. She is perfection.

Now I still have to do her final stats for this year!

WEIGHT: 23.8 {a little lower than last month but she is moving so much more now}
ROUTINE: She is getting back into a little bit of a routine and going down between 9 or 10 after a bath. She was sick the last week but {knock on wood} slept in her crib the last few nights right through until the morning. I think it might be time to move Brooke into Bennett's room so they can share the nursery!
MILESTONES: She is standing up now for about 10 seconds. Brooke is also engaging Bennett more now like getting his attention and then getting him to chase her. Lastly, her hair is starting to fill in! Let's see if it will be a curly mop like her brothers.

Happy one year my sweet darling, we love you!

and to finish off this mammoth post....the comparison shot!

Bath time

I feel like I need to change this blogs name to "Confessions of a Mediocre Mother". Don't panic peeps, I am not admitting to being a horrible Mother but I am admitting to not being perfect. No one is, so i'm not concerned. No matter how organized I am or how much sleep I have gotten the night before...things are bound to happen.

Last night was one of those nights that I can't get my mind off. As per the routine, we finished dinner and headed upstairs for bath time. The babes LOVE bath time. It's sweet to see their chubby little leg rolls but they are also hyperactive and soak the bathroom in the process. C'est la vie.  They are big enough now for me to pop out of the bathroom to get their pyjamas together so I did exactly that last night. Before I knew it I started to hear instant struggling coming from the tub. Yeah that's always fun. So I ran the five feet back into the bathroom and saw Brooke FULLY SUBMERGED into the water BY HER BROTHER. The funny thing was that he had a big smile on his face and I realized that he was HUGGING her and thought it was the nicest thing ever. I often say that babies have no regard for their bodies, which is true...they fear nothing. Having two babies so close also means that they don't have any regards for the other ones welfare either. Bennett was hugging Brooke, which is so cute right? She just happened to be a slippery seal and slipped under the water while he was hugging her. Anyways, I saved her, performed a little upside down back thumping and got soaked. So when I think back to it now, it was a pretty standard night really :) xxx

Brooke is 11 months old!

NOTE: Sorry for being so behind on this blog. It's be a fun and crazy summer! I am posting this now but I actually wrote it 2 weeks ago haha. So in an attempt to catch up...here is Brooke's 11 month blog!

Brookey is officially 11 months old! My sweet baby is nearly a year...how did that happen?!?! She is currently sleeping in, so I thought I would quickly jot down her 11 month post.

This last month was good, both my sisters are still here from England and she LOVES having her Aunty's around. She has gone back to kissing people and will plant an aggressive kiss on them when they are holding her. Now she has teeth, sometimes she will even include a little love bite! I'm sure they will miss it when they go back to school in England in 10 days ;)

She is still crawling around everywhere. She started out by doing this weird scoot crawl but now only reserves that for catching up with Bennett {as it is surprisingly speedy}. Otherwise, she has started crawling normally.

She has SIX teeth coming through! Four at the top and two at the bottom. Her top two are quite far apart just like Bennett's were....it's SO CUTE! Her pain tolerance seems to be much better than Bennett's ever was. We knew every bit of discomfort with Bennett and he had some hard nights. With Brooke, you would hardly even know that she was teething at all!

Bennett is still her favourite, she is always trying to get his attention. They are such a cute pair, always together and now playing more and more. They are so similar, it's scary to even think about introducing another baby in the future because I feel it would be left out. That's me overthinking of course....as per usual.

          
Bottom Left: She did that to try and get Bennett's attention away from Peppa, it didn't work :)

Anyways, here are her stat's:

WEIGHT: 24 lbs {just over 1 lb bigger than Bennett was!}

ROUTINE: All over the map. It's summer so I don't mind but we will for sure be getting back into one come September.

EATING: Literally anything, she is actually alot better than Bennett. He isn't picky but still has thing's he doesn't like. Brooke, on the other hand, will eat whatever is in front of her {including dirt in the garden}.I hope that it stay's this way!

MILESTONES: Six teeth! She also climbs the stairs everyday now {with supervision} and will go all the way to the top without hesitation. Saying "Hi" and waving!

Here is my little Blobina at 11 months old :)

              

and for the comparison shot!