What a year!!

This time last year I was 20 weeks pregnant and was about to go for my 20 week scan. Now we have a 32 week baby!!
Obviously I am entirely biased but he IS the most handsome little dude to be born ever!!!!

Well the festive season is all over and done with, Euan had a pretty good first christmas, even if he didn't have a clue what to do with his presents
He got tons of presents that we haven't even had a chance to explore and find out which ones we prefer yet.

My christmas was pretty good too. I got quite a few books and at the speed I'm reading anything these days I might be lucky to have read one by next christmas!! I got a leather troll bracelet which is going to be more practical for me to wear to work AND I finally got the bead I've been hinting about since May - baby troll.

I also got this fantabulous wallhanging which is already in my kitchen.

It is wisely called 'On any given day' and indeed with a small baby there is barely a day which goes by without my washing machine being on at least once. Although it did have a rest on Christmas Day ....... and then made up for it on Boxing Day!!!

Oh yeah and our little man seems to be turning into an Oompha Lumpha!?!?!

The Countdown has begun

I did tell myself to attempt to blog at least a couple of times a week just to keep track of things around here but at the moment I seem to be lucky if I can blog twice a month!! Oh well nevermind.

Things are kind of all go here just now (pretty much like everyone else at this time of year!). The wee man is coming on leaps and bounds he can now get himself onto his hands and knees and rock but hasn't quite figured out how to do anything other than scoot backwards LOL. The wee soul is trying so hard and he keeps getting frustrated with himself that he can't quite figure out what to do to actually move forward. But his other new skill is this one

Obviously he can't get himself onto his feet but if you stand him up he will hold on for a good minute or so, then unceremoniously lands on his behind!

Slowly we're getting ready for christmas, nearly all of the presents are bought, just one complete present to buy that I just can't think of what to get!! Now I need to wrap everything, planning on doing that tonight accompanied by a small glass of wine (or 2). I've been on my 2 christmas nights out and Pete has finished work for the festive period.

The title is referring to my countdown til I return to work :( Everyone one else can't wait til they stop work for the holidays but all it means for me is that my return to work is coming closer. Only 3 weeks to go now, it's gone past so quickly it's hard to believe I've been off work since April!! And it's not the happiest place to return to at the moment what with the whole single status thing going on and so many people (including me) being faced with a fairly big cut in pay. But hey ho got 3 weeks to enjoy no stress and being with my little dude before reality hits me on 11 January. LOL

Zzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiippppppppppppp!!!!!!!!

That's what has happened to the last 6 months, they have just zipped right by me in a whirl of smile, giggles, wee and poo!!!

This was my wee man at barely 2 hours old


And this is him at exactly 6 months old, sitting up.

He's got 2 teeth, he babbles away at times but most of the time he's a fairly chilled out little dude.

I *heart* schuh

I love going into Schuh and I've just spent a very happy 30 minutes or so drooling over their website at lovely things like this ...

Which are not a tad unsimilar to a pair of very gorgeous boots I used to own.

I was supposed to be looking for 'sensible' boots having slipped on slimy, muddy paths twice in the last 3 days but got sidetracked by pretty boots instead. There are lots of pretty, pretty boots *sigh*

Gnashers

We have teeth!!! Not A tooth, no not just one single tooth, we have 2 teeth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



The first one came through nearly 2 weeks ago on 6 Nov and we only had one night where the wee man woke up crying for about 45 mins and then the second one appeared on yesterday morning, at exactly 25 weeks old! No crying during the night but he was really unsettled and grumpy on Monday afternoon - no wonder! Can't complain though, my wee star is still sleeping through :)