Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everybody!!

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Lots of love,

Squishy, G and Me

XOXO

First visit to see Santa

Last Wednesday was a very special day...... it was Brooke's first trip to go & see Santa!
I know it's crazy and everybody says don't bother the first year because obviously she has no idea about Santa, or even what's going on at all, but I love Christmas and was determined to get little B in on the action as soon as we could.

We booked to go on the 16th for a couple of reasons. Firstly I thought it would be near enough to Christmas that the atmosphere would be good, but not near enough that it would be crazy busy with all the kids broken up from school. Secondly it was that exact day last year that we did a pregnancy test and found out we were having a baby so being the silly sentimental girl that I am I thought it would be nice to take our baby girl somewhere exciting on that day to sort of mark the occasion.

We went to a garden centre not too far from where we live which I booked a couple of weeks beforehand. I didn't fancy going to a busy shopping centre grotto so this was ideal for a quiet mid-week visit for us.

The grotto area was separate from the main garden centre and had a nice little walkway lined with Christmas trees leading up to it. About 5 other kids came in at the same time as us which was a lovely small group.

We went into a large room with decorations all around it, benches in the middle for us to sit on and Santa in a little stage type area at the front. We all sat down and Santa told all the kids a story which was really sweet and made sure he interacted with each one and asked them questions. Then each child got to go up and see Santa individually, have a chat about what they wanted for Christmas (of course!) and have some photos taken.

We were allowed to take our own photos in the grotto as well which I loved. It's definitely a nice touch and means you don't have to fork out for the pricey professional photos if you don't want to. Obviously with it being Brooke's first Christmas they were obligatory for us!

We were over the moon that Brooke actually seemed to really enjoy herself. She loves all the twinkly lights and Christmas music and was just in the best mood for the entire morning which I was so pleased about. I was a little bit worried she'd be too young and find it all overwhelming and get upset but it was the total opposite. She wasn't too sure what to make of Santa so wasn't her usual smiley self but she wasn't upset about it either. While Santa was telling his story she sat there good as gold, cooing away and seemed quite interested in what was going on! haha 

After we came out of the grotto she was squealing with happiness all the way round the garden centre and shouting chatting at everybody we saw. Strangers always comment on how vocal she is it's so funny, she gets really loud!! 

It was G's birthday last week as well so we ended the day with a trip to Toby Carvery as a treat and B slept the entire time AND the whole way home so all the excitement must have worn her out!

Did you take your little one to see Santa when they were small? We'd love to hear about your experience.

XOXO

Mummy and Me - November 2015

I've just realised I never posted our Mummy & Me post for November! Ooooops. Only half a month behind...

Last month I had two favourite pictures

11.11.15 (11 weeks old)

Brooke first time swimming. We started swimming lessons with Turtle Tots last month so G and I wanted to take Brooke swimming together for the very first time so that neither of us missed out. She loved it! (Despite her face saying otherwise!) 

19.11.15 (12 weeks old)

Poor B! This was sitting in the waiting room of the doctors waiting for the nurse to call us in for her second lot of injections. This little hat is my favourite!! We were wrapped up all warm to go and watch the Christmas lights be turned on afterwards.

XOXO

Mummy and Me - October 2015

18.10.15 (7 weeks old)

06.10.15 (5 weeks old)

Mummy and B hiding from the rain.

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Me and Mine - October 2015

My favourite and actually the only photo of the 3/4 of us this month. This was just a random Sunday at my mum & dads and we thought it'd be nice to have a couple of photos of all of us <3

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Mummy and Me - September 2015

I can see I'm definitely going to have problems just choosing one photo each month....still this month I'm managed to limit it to two so better than August!

This was during the Man Utd v Liverpool match. The little vest is 0-3 months so miles too big for Squish at the moment but we couldn't resist!

12.09.15 (17 days old)

My sleeping baby - possibly the cutest thing ever!!

14.09.15 (19 days old)

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Me and Mine - September 2015

I'm so excited to finally be able to join in this linky properly because photos are something that are so important to me. I don't think there's any better way to capture memories and I'm forever taking hundreds!

Naturally with a newborn we are taking SO many photos at the moment but this is definitely my favourite from this month.

Just Squishy, G and Me!

It was taken at about 2am when we'd just got in from our friends surprise 30th birthday party - the first time I'd left Squish - and I was just so happy to be home with her again (even though she doesn't look quite as thrilled!)

XOXO

Mummy and Me - August 2015

I totally meant to post this a few weeks ago but understandably life has been a little crazy! I'm so pleased it's not too late because I was so excited to join in this month and celebrate my first month (well 5 days of it!) of being a mummy!

Our very very first selfie in the hospital 26.08.15 (0 days old)

Having a lazy day - excuse the lack of makeup in all these pictures!

29.08.15 (3 days old)

Am such a proud mummy! 

29.08.15 (3 days old)

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