Current Read

This is what I'm currently reading, its about a woman called Sheena Byrom. Its a story about her dedicated completion of her nursing qualifications and her training to become a midwife in Burnley. She has never once looked back enjoying her 35 year career working in the NHS.

Heart Shaped Potato :)

The title says it all :)

Weymouth Beach and Fireworks on a Bank Holiday Monday!

Monday 26th August was Bank Holiday Monday. We had arranged a day out with my husbands sister and her family a few weeks back. We decided to go to Weymouth Beach and then watch the fireworks in the evening. The older two had a fab time in and out of the sea. The middle two stayed a bit closer and were paddling in a shallow bit of water and Olivia sat with us filling her bucket with sand and stones! 

After we finished on the beach we went for a short wander along the harbour side. Managed to get a picture of the 4 older ones and a picture of the Condour Ferry!

About 6ish we headed back to the cars that were parked in the park and ride car park. We then drove over to Bowleaze which is a beach caravan holiday park. There the kids had a chippy tea and went climbing on the rocks. We even saw the Ferry go back out!

 We then headed back over to Weymouth about 8ish and sat on the seafront to wait for the fireworks to start at 9.30!

We had a fabulous day and we were late getting home. All 3 kids were in bed pretty quick and were soon fast asleep!!  We soon followed suit haha!

Day Trip :)

Yesterday (24th August 2013), we went on a day trip to Monkey World. Its an Ape Rescue centre not to far from here .. takes roughly half an hour to get there from home.

http://www.monkeyworld.org/home.php

I have been before as a child .. I think I was about 10/11 at the time, so a fair few years ago now. Have been wanting to take the kids for a while now. So we decided to go and we also invited Chloe's friend Isobel and her family along to join us.
We had really lovely day and there was a lot of different monkey's to see. All of the kids enjoyed it and it was lovely for Chloe and Isobel to see each other before school starts in September!
We spent around 5 hours at Monkey World and it was just nice to amble around, watch the different monkey's for a little while and let the kids play in the various play parks we came across.
The only nuisance of the day was the amount of wasps buzzing around!

Heres a few monkey pics!!!

So many different types of monkey's to look at, it was really good and had changed a fair bit form the time I went as a child. Lovely day out and was very enjoyable all round! 

Well .. here we are again!!!! I really do suck at this whole blog thing!!! Last time according to my last entry I was 24 weeks pregnant with my third baby. Well .. she currently is 21 months!!! Olivia was born on the 1st November 2011 weighing 7lb !! She was the smallest out of the 3 pregnancies. She is our last baby .. so i've had a tough time watching her grow up into the gorgeous little girly toddler she is today. She was breastfed for 14 months when she self weaned much to my disappointment .. I was absolutely gutted when she showed signs of doing so. I tried for a week to keep her at the boob but she was having none of it .. so had to accept our breastfeeding journey was over. I loved every minute of breastfeeding her and will cherish those moments forever.
At 21 months she is very carefree and has no sense of danger at all. She loves to climb and jump off low surfaces if she thinks she can do it! She adores her older siblings and loves trying to join in with what they are doing .. even if sometimes they really don't want her to! Shes rather bossy and doesn't think twice in telling them off or shouting at them if they have done something wrong. She is our nightmare sleeper and in her 21 months of life can count on one hand the amount of times she has slept through the night. Thankfully when she woke it was just a case of feeding her and putting her back to bed and she'd go back to sleep!!
Shes a proper little chatterbox and understands so much! I love talking to her and listening to her talk back. Shes our best talker, all 3 of mine were good talkers .. but she is something else, her speech is so clear and she knows alot! She surprises us sometimes with what she comes out with! I will finish off with a most recent picture of Olivia :)

Update on the older 2 .. Ryan is now 9 and will be going into his 5th year of school in September. He loves going to school and does very well in his subjects. Hes very good at making sure his homework is done and we make a point of him doing homework and reading every evening. Hes getting to the age now where he wants to go out and play with his friends that are in the local area. We do let him .. but for no more than an hour or so and will only let him do so once or twice a week. Hes pretty good at keeping an eye on the time with his watch and will arrive back home at the time we state for him to come home.
I think he enjoys being an older brother to two sisters .. although he has moments when they do get on his nerves. But I know he adores them and he wouldn't have them any other way.

Chloe ... she is now 4 and is currently super excited at starting school in September. We made a special trip to go buy all her school uniform so she was pleased at that. She loved her time at pre-school and has made some wonderful little friends there and also made some wonderful bonds with the pre-school teachers. She is very pleased that her best friend from pre-school will be in the same class as her at school.
She is becoming so independant and loves to be a little helper at meal times or doing washing or any household chores.
She gets very excited over the littlest things which I absolutely adore about her. My dad says I used to do exactly the same thing as a child :)

I am very proud of my 3 children and watching them grow into 3 amazing little people. I certianly couldn't imagine my life without them and my husband!!!

24 weeks!!

Well I am 24 weeks today!!! And wow is it a hot day !!! Very hot! Me and Chloe walked onto town to get some more elastic as I have more material to make more nappies!!! This is becoming slightly addictive!!! I have made one more nappy which is pictured below .. quite impressed really and managed to make the wings crossover!!

Both kids are enjoying the hot weather .. out in the garden most of the day .. we went to Warminster Park yesterday which I will do as another post and add some pictures to it! Anyway since its so hot I am gonna leave it here and find a way to cool down .. heat is not good for this pregnant lady!

Nappies I made!

Heres the nappies I made .. the green one being the first attempt!! Not bad really .. I didn't have any white thread so thats hy you can see the stitching on the velcro .. the first one took a little whicle because was trying towork out the sewing machine and get it all right .. but now have figured it .. the red one took a matter of hours stopping and starting as had Chloe to see to while doing it!!! But yes .. I am quite pleased with them :) I have ordered 3 different fabrics which are waterproof and also a big lot of fleece from ebay to make some more!!! I am enjoying this nappy making thing!!!