1 YEAR ON

Wow that year has flown by. It's been hard, thrilling, exciting, loving, emotional, chaotic and lots of other things, but I do love being a Mummy of 2 boys. They are the best thing ever!

I still haven't lost all the baby weight, in fact I got to within 3 lbs of my target and put it all back on again! To say I'm annoyed is an understatement. Not really loving my post Leo body but I hope to be doing something about that very soon.

I haven't done my measurements and I don't think I ever will so that's that.

I still think about Leo's birth a lot and quite often look back at all the old videos and pictures, including the birth itself which I am so pleased we caught on camera. It still amazes me that I did it!

The journey started in August 2008 when we started to try to conceive Dollop. We were very lucky and it took us 2 months. I went from this...

0 weeks

..to this

12 weeks

...then this

20 weeks

...and finally, this.

Then on the 25th May at midday I started to have contractions. (This is me in very early labour at my Mum's house celebrating my 30th birthday!).

We eventually went to the hospital at about 10:30pm and I was soon in active labour. At the point of this picture I had just been told I was 9cm dilated and started pushing 45 minutes later.

Then after an hour of seriously hard pushing my little Leo entered the world at 5:29am on 26th May 2009, my 30th birthday.

Within an hour I had had a bath and Rob dressed Leo.

And we were eventually taken down to the ward.

Not long after Ellis joined us and we were finally a family of 4.

After a week stay at hospital we were home and settling in to the new normal. I took monthly pictures of my growing cutie pie and this is the results of the last 12 months.

This is Ellis at 1.

This is some other 1 year pictures that I took.

I'm so in love with my boys, it's crazy! I never want to forget or miss any moment I have with them. They are my life and always will be.

11 Months

I can't believe it but Leo will be 1 next month! I did a little video diary and of course took some pictures.

Leo at 11 months.

Ellis at 11 months.

The boys.

I have now finished feeding Leo as he just decided he didn't want it any more. I kept trying but had no luck. I have mixed feelings about it really. I always thought I would finish feeding because it was my choice but Leo chose and I didn't make my target of a year but I still did really well anyway.

Life is good. We seem to have settled into a nice routine and things are going well. I hope to be saying that forever.

BAD BLOGGER! - 10 MONTHS 1 WEEK, 5 DAYS

STANDING - 8 MONTHS, 1 WEEK, 5 DAYS

Just walked downstairs from having my lie in to find Leo standing up!!! He was holding a box but he pulled himself up on his own. He then proceeded to head butt the floor but still, he did it! Will try and get video at some point today if he does it again. It's mad!

He has certainly started to become more mobile in the last 2 weeks. I've captured a couple of videos of him moving around and using the walker!





He is still teething and it is really bothering him. The last few nights he has woken up crying so I have had to go into him a few times. I have given him Calpol a couple of times and that seems to help.

If you look carefully in this picture you can see his new tooth, number 7, on the bottom right(his right).



On Saturday Leo started getting himself into the yoga downward dog position and is trying to work out how he can walk, with his hands still on the floor. It's really cute and I managed to get it on video.





He also started clapping today! So much in just one day! He really is changing fast. I'm having to do loads of blogs to keep up with it all or I will miss something.

He wore a really lush outfit today. Comfy trousers and a t-shirt that said Little Brother on it. I love it. I enjoy buying clothes for them. Hopefully one day I will be slim and happy enough to buy myself some new clothes.



Me and my baba.