1 Year Old!

Holly Baby is 1 year old, can you believe it?! I certainly can't, it's been the fastest year of my life that's for sure. It has been amazing watching Holly grow and develop over the past year from a helpless newborn to quite an independant wee girl.

So yesterday we had a quiet family day. We got up in the morning and let Holly open her mountain of presents!! She really didn't know what was going on and it took some time!

Holly got lots of lovely presents, thank you so much to everyone. I will write proper thank you notes after Christmas though. Here she is playing with her Rattle and Ride Winnie The Pooh.

After a shorter than usual morning nap we went out to Brewsters for our lunch, it was such a miserable day that we needed somewhere indoors she could play. Here is Holly choosing what she wanted for lunch....

Holly had a proper meal off the menu for the first time, Cottage Pie, which didn't go down too well, but she has been off her food for several days.

In the afternoon we just played with all her new toys. Then at night Poor Holly wasn't well and was very sick about 8.30pm, all over Mummy. She hasn't been right for a few days and I think she has had this bug thing that the rest of us have. It took us ages to get her to sleep but she had a good night and is OK so far this morning. What a shame for my poor baby on her first birthday.

So that was Holly's Birthday, I think she had a nice time even though she wasn't well.

Finally here is a photo of the picture that we bought Holly for her 1st Birthday, it is really lovely and will hopefully be something she keeps forever....

Well that is it for now, we all wish everyone a fantastic Christmas and hope Santa is very good to you all.....

Bye for now,

Hannah, Ian, Holly and the bump XX

Party Girl!!

Hello Everyone, long time no blog again!! So as the title suggests, Holly has been partying this week!! On Friday it was her Art Class Christmas Party, you can see her above in front of the Christmas Tree. It was great fun, there was music, party food and even Santa!! He was a bit of a scary Santa, but Holly didn't mind and even had her photo taken with him. Santa gave her an early present too, a puzzle.

The weather had been pretty bad since Friday, here is Holly and Talia looking out at the snow on Saturday morning....

So Sunday was a very special day for Holly, her first Birthday Party!! We decided just to have quite a small one for lots of reasons, so just had our close family and friends over in the afternoon. Here is the 3 of us before the party and Holly looking gorgeous in her party frock...

Kory and Matthew were at Holly's party, here they are, Kory was the only one who would wear his party hat....

Holly's cake had the 'Fimbles' on it, from her favourite TV programme.....

Here is a photo of the Mummies and Babies.......

And Holly with our friends, Kathryn and Steven who came along later on...

So that was the party, it was great fun, and thank you to everyone who came along to share Holly's special day. Also big thanks to my Mum, Granny Forbes, who helped us get organised in the morning, she was a BIG help.

Holly and I have just been up to our usual stuff since then, I haven't been feeling very well (quite a lot of us has been struck by a mystery bug since the party). We went up to see Kory and Julie yesterday and we were mean Mummies and dressed them in their Christmas outfits to get a photo!! How cute....

I had the midwife yesterday and everything is fine with the bump, it was kicking away and not letting us hear it's hearbeat, Ian reckons it is going to be a boy it kicks so much! I also took Holly to clinic for her 1 year check up, she was 28lbs 4 ozs and 78.5cm, a big girl!!

I will post another entry later, as today is Holly's actual birthday, but that's it for now...

Hannah XX

Christmas and Birthdays!

Hello Everyone, sorry I have been slow in updating the blog again, just busy busy as I am sure everyone is at this time of year. So I can hardly remember what we have done in the past week, but I will try and update you all!

Last week we were just up to our usual stuff, Baby Group, Town with Julie and Kory, then more shopping with Angela and Matthew! On Friday we went up to Lossie for the weekend, Holly and I went in the morning and Ian came later in the day on the train. We were staying with Granny and Grandpa Forbes and as usual Holly had a great time!! We caught up with everyone over the weekend and went out for Granda Stewart's Birthday lunch on Sunday, which was lovely. Here are some photos from the weekend....

So on to this week, on Monday we had Julie and Kory over for half an hour or so, then went to Asda in the afternoon, where Holly got a lovely new dress for her birthday. On Tuesday Baby Group went out for lunch to Brewster's to celebrate Holly's Birthday (early I know!). Here Holly is having fun in the play area....

Yesterday we just went out to a few more shops. I am trying to get organised for Holly's Birthday, we are having a small party on Sunday afternoon but even that is quite stressful! Of course there is Christmas to get ready for too, but I am pretty prepared for that now.

Holly is still coming on leaps and bounds, she had another tooth (number 6), is walking heaps with her baby walker now (she would only do a few steps before then realise she could crawl quicker!) and is a wee parrot trying to say everything we do, she can say 'Bye' (and wave) and has started saying 'Daddy' properly. I cannot believe she will be 1 next week, time has just flown past.

The bump is doing fine too, very active and getting big. My back has been holding out OK this week, thank goodness with so much to do!

Well that's it for now, we will update you after the party on Sunday.

Bye

Hannah X

It's a ......

.......Baby!!!

Well today was our 20 week scan of the new baby, and everything was fine! Thank goodness! It was a bit of a nightmare as the little thing had it's arms and knees covering it's chest so they couldn't see the heart, but after a 20 minute break it had moved and they saw what they needed to. We didn't find out what sex it is. As some of you know I have been very undecided about finding out this time, and was just going to see what happened when we were in the scan, but I didn't ask. I don't regret not asking either, it will be a nice surprise in April (although I am sure it's a Girl now as there were no obvious boys bits!) So above is a photo from today, the scan was really clear and the little thing was wriggling about SO much, it was really amazing.

Well apart from that we haven't had a great week or so. My back was still causing me a lot of problems last week, but luckily it has got better for now. Then on Tuesday afternoon Holly started being sick and it appeared she had caught this horrible stomach bug that is going about. Then in the middle of the night Ian and I both got it, what a nightmare!! Luckily Holly was ok on Wednesday so we managed whilst we were both really ill, then she got worse again, but was on the up by the weekend, and is fine now.

We just had a quiet day on Saturday and yesterday my Mum came through, which was great, Holly was so glad to see another face!! Ian and I took advantage of the babysitter and went out for dinner and to the pictures last night, and Holly had a great time with her Granny.

Sorry I honestly can't remember what we have done since the last blog entry, but I am sure it has just been our usual stuff! And I haven't been taking any photos (shock horror!) but here is one of Holly this morning with her cheeky face on!

Well that's it for now, I have to go to work soon!

Hannah X