Tight Buns

A whole week has gone by and I haven’t written anything! I’ve been busy busy busy, pureeing meat and fish (yuck!), going to baby swimming and music classes, working my ass off at the gym……God I feel tired just thinking about it. I’ve also been going to bed regularly at 9pm due to a certain someone’s erratic sleeping………….

So here’s what’s been happening.

Bristol and Plymouth last weekend was great fun. The bridesmaid dresses are beautiful-they’re a kind of lettuce green which sounds yuck but it really isn’t. Mine fits like a glove and skims over my baby flab like a dream! The wedding is on 1st June and I can’t wait. I LOVE weddings-great excuse to boogie like a loon and drink the bar dry!

Plymouth, where my inlaws are, was fine as well but Sunday was incredible stressful. William went through a horrendous phase last week of newborn-style sleeping. He was waking every couple of hours through the night and nothing-I mean nothing-could soothe him back to sleep. It was hideous and I felt like a walking zombie. To this day I don’t know what caused it-he’s been through some funny phases in his 7 months-but he’s back to his normal 7pm-5am/6am now, which suits me just fine!  Although getting up at 5am ain’t fun. By the time it’s 9am it feels like it should be lunchtime. Which is very wrong.

Anywhooo, on Sunday the broken nights were really catching up with me and I was irritable and tired. We got to Plymouth and William had clearly forgotten who Mike’s mum and dad were cos he spent the whole afternoon screeeeeeeeeeaaaammmiiinnngg. I honestly couldn’t cope. It so wasn’t like him-he’s such a happy baby! On Monday he was back to his normal smiley self and we even left him with Mike’s mum and dad and went to lunch for a couple of hours! It was bliss!

Crawling-he’s managed to pull himself up on all fours several times now and he’s trying so hard to crawl, bless him. He’s this close to doing it but it could still be ages before he gets the hang of the co-ordination.

My mum & dad came over yesterday and they couldn’t believe how much he was rolling, grabbing at things, examining objects in his chubby little hands, launching himself forward, ‘talking’…..I was very proud.

Work-I’m telling them I’m not coming back on Monday. I feel sick just thinking about it but I’ll be relieved when it’s done.

Childminding-I’m going to do joint childminding with my lovely friend Jen who I met through the course. Just got to get the house ready now and hopefully I’ll be able to start in May. I need to get working ASAP as my money is running out fast and I keep on spending money on silly things-like £70 on developing photos of Sausage. Oooops.

Working my ass off at the gym-Ok slight exaggeration but I’m enjoying it! Never really been a gym bunny and my gym is full of skinny minnies in full make-up showing off their tiny buns in their trendy Nike and Adidas pink gymwear (I sooooo don’t cut it in my baggy Budweiser t-shirt, baggy sweatpants, tomato red face and hair frizzing wildly like a clown)……BUT it gives me a good buzz. I doubt I’m losing weight-I don’t see any difference, and I’m not doing any dieting yet-but I don’t care, that’s not really why I’m doing it.

Tonight my lovely friend Deirdre and her hubby Mike are coming over for drinks and a takeaway. A night with them usually results in me throwing my guts up-they are biiiiiiig drinkers-so let’s hope I can pace myself tonight eh!

I’ll be back later to catch up with all my faves.

Lots of love Cookie xxxxxxxx