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You know the rhyme…. Round and round the garden, like a teddy bear, one step, two step, and tickle him under there!
Well, at some point this has become one of our lovely Ordinary Moments. Toby now knows the rhyme so well he starts giggling before I’ve even touched him!
He keeps giggling as he tries to push my hands away. And by the end we are both laughing.
I just love what a happy, smiley, giggly baby I have. The sound of your baby laughing is something to treasure for ever. That pure, unadulterated joy. I hope he keeps hold of that for a long time to come and that to hear him laughing is forever one of our Ordinary Moments.
So, another month gone. Half way through the year. And time for our June Me & Mine photo.
The first two weeks of June we were on holiday in Brittany (and I know I’ve mentioned it a few times but I will get round to writing up a proper post about it eventually). After a week back at home I was away again, off to Britmums Live while my boys had a weekend home alone. This weekend was our first proper weekend at home for the whole month and we made a good start on organising our house. I’d managed to tidy up the garage with a trip to the tip during the week so we could get round to moving my old desk out of the spare room/office and rearranging the furniture to make some more space and to hopefully make it a more appealing place to be so we’ll actually use it! Barry also did some good tidying up in the garden – it was a bit of a jungle after being so busy all month. I really don’t enjoy gardening (and I’m mostly excused due my hayfever!) but I do like to enjoy the fruits of his labour – even if it’s only looking at it out of the kitchen window!
So anyway, to this month’s photo. This one was taken by my dad while we were on holiday. This is in Vannes – a lovely town in south Brittany where we’d just been out for lunch. We’re looking a bit squinty unfortunately (I really must work out where the best place for the light is in a picture to avoid the squinty eye look) but I still like this photo of us on our first family holiday abroad.
I can’t believe we’re on week 26 of The Living Arrows – past the half way point in the year! I couldn’t choose just one picture this week so you’re getting three! I’ve noticed that quite a lot of my photos seem to show Toby in his play pen – I promise he’s not in there all the time but it’s often the only way I can get him to stay in one place long enough to take a photo!
His hair is going a bit bonkers again these days – it’s so fine and fly away (just like mine), it just seems to have a life of its own!
That pesky eighth tooth has finally cut through this week so a good chew on Jemina (I refused to called the giraffe Sophie – we do like to be different!) always helps!
And lastly, I had to include this one. Since Toby learnt to pull himself up to standing on holiday at the beginning of the month this is usually the sight that greets me when I go in to get him up in the morning or after his naps. I can’t believe how big he’s getting though – I swear he’s grown another 10cm in the last month. We’ve dropped his cot right down to the bottom but you can see how far above the rail he is – I wonder how long it will be before he starts trying to climb out?!
I’ve read so many blog posts about the bond mums have with their babies when they’re breastfeeding. How special those milky cuddles are. And I’m not denying that they are special. But for whatever reason they aren’t something that all mums get to share with their baby. But even though we stopped breastfeeding at six weeks (and even then every breastfeed was topped up with formula) I wanted to write about our milky cuddles. It doesn’t matter that Toby is drinking formula and it is coming out of a bottle – we still get to share some special bonding moments together.
Although Toby is nearly one now(!) he still has three bottles a day; one when he gets up, one before his afternoon nap and one before bed. And no matter how crazy he has been just minutes before, wriggling and crawling and standing and bouncing, as soon as he sees that bottle coming his thumb goes in his mouth and as soon as I pick him up he snuggles in. And then we have a quite few minutes where he actually lies still. Usually he’ll play with my ear, or try and put his fingers in my mouth, or play with the cord on my hoody, basically whatever is within reach.
I love these quiet times we have together (during the week I do the morning and afternoon bottles and daddy gets the bedtime one) and I’ll miss them when they’re gone. You read so many stories about the end of breastfeeding being an emotional time (and I’m not for one minute denying that it is) but I think the end of bottle feeding will be sad for me too. I suppose it just means my little boy isn’t a baby any more. For now though I’m going to enjoy our milky cuddles while we still have them.
Linking up with Katie at Mummy Daddy Me for The Ordinary Moments
After recovering from our holiday we’ve had a quiet, back to normal, week at home. At the beginning of the week Toby gave us a couple of wakeful nights but things seem to have settled down now. Whatever was bothering him (probably bloody teeth again!) has stopped for now and we had a good few nights of sleeping through. This weekend though I left Daddy in charge while I went to London for Britmums Live and to visit my brother. Three whole days away from my little boy! I put him to bed on Thursday night and didn’t see him again until this morning! Father and son both survived relatively unscathed though and despite missing them both like crazy I had a lovely few days where I didn’t have to be responsible for anyone except myself.
I couldn’t wait to get back to this giggly monkey though…
We had a lovely holiday in France but I am glad to be back home with reliable wifi and a comfy sofa, and back in our big bed! I’m going to write a post all about our holiday but Toby was a little superstar the whole time we were away, he didn’t seem phased by living in a mobile home for ten days, eating al fresco or anything else. We had lovely weather for the most part too despite how it looks in this week’s Living Arrows photo. This one was taken alongside the harbour in Vannes after a tasty lunch and a wander round the shops.
We’re on holiday in Brittany this week and the campsite wifi is intermittent at best so it’s only a quick post for week 23 of the Living Arrows project. Toby has been a star this holiday, after three days of driving to get here and then lots of late naps and unusual meal times he seems to be coping much better with the changes to his routine than he did when we went to the Lake District last month.
So anyway, here he is, looking like a super cool dude in his new holiday cap!
