How clean is your house?

So Reagan is now fully mobile having mastered the art of crawling and can explore the whole house almost safely…! I say almost, because everyone was right, the level of nice stuff in the house is being raised every time Reagan reaches something and boy does she reach EVERYTHING! I wonder just how amazing everything is now for her because she can get to all the stuff that has surrounded her her whole life and have a darn (yes I did say darn!) good look at it all and find out how it feels and tastes.

We watch her explore the living room and she has a knack of finding the things you don’t want her to have but then you go over and take it off her and she screams as if to say “I found it dad, jeez, why do you always take the good shit off me?”

Then she crawls across the freshly hoovered floor stopping to gently pick up the ONLY bit of fluff or small stone  I missed with the hoover rolling it between her finger and thumb while studying it intently processing the information she is gaining by touch and sight and savours her prize. All this gives you just enough time to say “NO!” whilst dashing to her as her mouth opens intending to use her sense of taste on whatever it is, and take it off her making her scream again through frustration, but we can work on the screaming over the next few weeks!

We also need to work on house cleanliness and by that I am in no way saying it’s dirty but it’s just not good enough to just flick over the floor any more or not move furniture everytime we hoover because CSI Reagan will find it if you miss it. As for valuables put them away for a few years or say goodbye to them cage in the dangerous stuff and the rest scream NO! until she learns hahaha….!

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Mommy’s Birthday

Reagan and I got up and went to wake mommy up so we could sing “Happy Birthday” to her and give her the cards we had written out and the present we bought. Mommy’s big smile when we went in made it all worth it because we could see she was really really happy, so we sat on the bed and watched as she opened her cards and watched her burst into tears when reading her first “To Mommy” birthday card! After opening her present it was time for me to get ready for work and left Reagan playing happilly next to mom on the bed while mom read the bajillion Facebook birthday wishes she’d had on the laptop!

We had also arranged a baby sitter in the form of Auntie Karen who had kindly said yes, so we could go out for a meal after work so we got ready while she fed and off we went to an Italian restaurant in Little Leigh Marco Marco and I have to say the food was excellent the mozzarella was very good the calamari was tender and perfect starters, then the seafood linguine was very tasty and the perfect amount and Jamie had Penne Romeo I think she fancied hot sausage…? Any way she succeeded it made her lips tingle oo er Mrs!

She said it was one of thee best birthday’s ever so that’s something and I’m glad coz me and Reagan wanted mom to be happy

Romantic dinner 
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Being proud…

Jamie and me were talking during Reagan’s bathtime about our day and how it made us feel proud to see our child achieve something. Today as you’ll have seen Reagan began crawling and we were both there to see it happen. For half an hour it seemed like I held my breath watching her and willing her to succeed, and desperately trying not to just gather her up and dance with her held high.

We just had to sit and just smile and encourage her the best thing was we were capturing it on video which feels so special!

That feeling in my tummy and that warm glow, that puffed out chest and that overwhelming urge to burst into tears (which of coarse I never would coz Im northern) I only realised I had, later when sat back and reflected on the day.

I know I do things I’m proud of personally and they make me happy and never think that someone else may be remotely interested in what I do, let alone be as proud as I am for doing it….maybe my mum and dad look at the things I do, however insignificant to others, and maybe they are proud of me sometimes too?

As a parent myself now, I know how it feels to watch my child do something EVERY single person on earth has done before but when Reagan crawled today I was more proud than I have ever been before!

I feel great right now, and on top of the world because my daughter crawled today.

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We are proud to announce forward motion!

We were so lucky this morning to be sat as a family having a lazy Sunday morning when Jamie noticed that Reagan was up on all fours rocking so I got the camera out and just started filming what was happening and we witnessed and got on film Reagan’s first actual proper crawl and the process she did to get there!

If you look and listen to her parents you will see and hear the proudest mom and dad in the whole world!

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Reagan at 8 months and a bit…

I ain’t showin’ me teeth no way!

Don’t make me laugh mom!

Damn…!

Covered again sorted!

Damn me bottom set too

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Be with you in sec dad, but there’s a camera!
OK I know, forward…?

Forward, not backwards!

This is sooo much fun!
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Go to sleep my little one!

“Goodnight Grandma”
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I’m sure the novelty will wear off….

9 loads of washing all dried folded and put away and she’s still as keen as mustard for laundry, if you don’t want it washing don’t take it off? Hahahah I’ll let you know when I have to wash again, can’t imagine it will be long!

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Reagan’s schedule (Cont’d)

At her seven month development appointment although she is over eight months old already the health visitor said going to Reagan when she wakes up is a mistake…not a bad one and certainly one nearly everyone makes, but a mistake all the same. She said that everyone sleeps in cycles of around 90minutes and as adults we don’t actually wake up but come out of deep sleep into light sleep and then back to deep sleep again what Reagan is doing is waking during light sleep and ooh I’m awake its dark if I cry someone will come….and we do!

She said that however hard it is to let her cry it will train her quicker than actually weaning her off being comforted back to sleep each night.

Ironically I was on me own last night and got Reagan down as normal and went downstairs to wash up dishes, I heard her begin to cry but thought I will just finish off the dishes then I will go up to her checked the monitor again after a couple of minutes and it was calming and when Jamie returned 10 minutes later she was asleep again and we never heard her until 08:30 this morning. Jamie even had to go and check on her at around 22:30 because it was so unusual lol!

So from now on “no matter how hard it seems….” 🙁  Reagan will be left to cry it out, tough for both of us but mommy is on her own tonight so I just hope Reagan sleeps through similar to last night

…fingers crossed!

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Reagan’s schedule

When I arrive home from picking Reagan up from me mothers its around 18:00 and I put her in the living room surrounded by toys and CBeebies on TV and she will happily play for 20 mins with just an occasional visit from me to check on her and have a little play too. At 18:30 I check her nappy and then put her into her high chair with some snacks (see Reagan eating fruit, post for an idea of what she does.) while I prepare the family tea. Mommy will arrive around 19:00 and she will shower and then join us for the meal which is usually finished with at 19:40 when we make a bedtime bottle and run a bath.

Reagan’s bedtime is such fun now with lovely warm soapy water loads of toys and some playtime before we bathe her and wrap her up in a towel and take her to the bedroom for drying, moisturising and dressing in nappy, onesy, jamas and sleeping bag all done with relaxing classical music playing quietly in the background. When she’s nice and warm and calm and relaxed one of us sits in the chair and feeds her a bottle which sends her off to sleep every single time, at this point you can pick her up and lay her in the cot switch the lamp off close the door and she will not disturb.

After 45mins to an hour though she will disturb and cry and bawl for no apparent reason so we comfort her for a minute then leave her for 15 until she falls back to sleep once this happens we never hear her again for the rest of the night? It is so difficult to listen to her cry and scream for no reason, we no there is nothing wrong apart from maybe missing mommy and daddy because if you go to her she stops crying immediately sometimes even before you get to her if she hears you on the stairs. For that reason we have to let her cry it out otherwise we will be sat next to her cot all night every night and that is just not practical.

Now she isn’t teething just at the moment she sleeps through to 08:30 even 09:00 some days and in a morning is quite happy to play in her cot until one of us comes for her, the only problem with this is I don’t get any time with her at all in a morning as I leave for work at 08:50 but I know “never to wake a sleeping baby” as we all need sleep and if she sleeps so can we.

Apart from that little blip in the evening her schedule is spot on and she is thriving on it, if it could change we would start bedtime earlier because we know she wants it but it would mean mommy would not see her at all in the evening after work but as it is its working so we’ll carry on as we are unless something happens to change it.

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