Edward slept through the night on Sunday from midnight to six am 🙂 After a bit of googling I discovered that our hungry/sleepy baby may be experiencing another growth spurt. Growth spurts occur at ten days, six weeks, three months, six months and nine months. I learned that cluster feeding, where the baby is feeding more often, is the first sign of this. Just when I think we are settling into a routine Edward won’t go to bed easily or will be really hungry more often than normal. I’m glad to know there is some kind of reason for it…
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Although we have just returned from a week away with our 11 week old we are starting to think about the next holiday! This year we would like a couple of long weekends away to Bath/Bristol, Dublin and Bruges. Before we went away I read a great post by Tanya about holidaying with small children. There is some good advice about what to pack and be prepared for. Our Cornish bolthole We were fortunate to be staying in a roomy holiday cottage in Cornwall and packed the car full of essentials. However for shorter City breaks it would be nice…
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I’m sure I’m not alone as a new mum feeling exceptionally tired at the moment. A recent holiday and the unsettled weather means the routine Edward and I had is out of the window. He seems constantly hungry and has taken to sleeping for long periods during the day and shorter periods during the night. We have tried to instill a routine where he naps during the day in a light, noisy room. During the night he sleeps in his nursery, or his moses basket in our room, which are both kept dark and quiet. I love Edward dearly but…
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We’re coming to the end of a week spent in Devon and Cornwall. It has been quite an experiencing holidaying with an 11 week old! However, we managed to have a great time and visited Lanhydrock, a monkey sanctuary and the Eden Project, not to mention the picturesque seaside villages of Looe and Polperro. Here is my favourite picture, taken at the Eden Project. I suppose I didn’t really anticipate there being any problems other than a disruption to the nice routine we had going. What I failed to consider were the lack of child-friendly places for an 11 week…
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Yesterday I popped into the Cath Kidston shop in Covent Garden. I’d spotted some goodies in the latest catalogue that I wanted, especially the tin of travel sweets – perfect for our long drive to Cornwall tomorrow. I also picked up laundry and shoe bags and a pillowcase featuring planes which I’m hoping to make into a laundry bag for Edward. Watch this space!
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My hubby treated me to a lovely new Orla Kiely bag so I chose the punched stem rosemary bag. Today I sneaked out of the house and headed to Covent Garden to buy it (and the matching purse too!). Image taken from Orla Kiely website. No visit to Covent Garden is complete without a visit to Cath Kidston where I purchased some lovely goodies for our holiday to Cornwall. I even managed some celeb spotting, Louie Spence from Pineapple Dance Studio, before heading back to my lovely little boy!
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It didn’t take me long to choose a photograph for the theme of this weeks’ gallery. Today I scanned an old photograph album my mum gave me of my early years. I was getting a bit fed up of people saying how much Edward looks like his father so decided to look at some old photos to see if they were right. Anyway, I came across the picture of me and my sister sharing a bath in the 1970s (writing that makes me feel very old!) and I knew it summed up the theme perfectly. I don’t make friends easily.…
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Look what was waiting for me when I returned from the Isle of Wight yesterday – my lovely new Cath Kidston iphone cover. It’s almost perfect, the only part I don’t like is that it’s branded with the Cath Kidston logo on the inside – thankfully it can’t be seen when it’s on!
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I hate being photographed. I’m not sure when it started, but when I was looking through all the photos I’ve taken of Edward since he was born I realised there were only a couple of us together. Over the next few weeks I will rectify this. In honour of the theme of this week’s gallery: self-portrait I’ve chosen the following: a picture of me at the Royal Clarence in Exeter I LOVE photobooth! Me in a very stupid (but necessary) hat on a ferry off the Norwegian coast on honeymoon This post was written for Week 12 of Tara’s Gallery.…