Play groups and Tantrums

I have been searching and googling and searching some more for a decent play group in our local town that I could take Bambino to. And I have been searching and attending some god damn awful ones! ones where nobody turns up and ones where about a million people attend...

Is there no happy medium?

3 months after moving here I found one!!

As we arrive for the first time to the "Bouncing Babies" (It's what it's called) I see a note on the door that says

"Please leave all push chairs under the stairs"

As I peer into the pram I see, well heard, Bambino was fast asleep (he snores for Britain!)

Bugger!

So I take the lift, naps are a rarity and I'm not waking him up then have a angry baby for the rest of the day!

But long story short, it was lovely the people where sweet and the people that run it were very helpful and understanding (I was the only person with a buggy ever to enter the room - everybody else usually wakes there babies up or waits.) Pfft! why the hell is there a lift!?

We met some lovely babies Bambino's age the only downer was the other babies...Don't judge me! Don't tell me you have never seen other babies similar ages way wayyyy more advanced! I left determined to get the Bambino clapping his hands and walking more than ever! All Bambino can do is thump his chest like a money and shake his bum (always makes me laugh!) Although it doesn't really bother me... I know he will figure it all out in his own time (Next few days I'm sure...)

When we arrived home all the fun started...

"WAAHHH Wahh ohhh WAHHHHHHHHHHH *Sniff sniff* WWAAHHHHHHHH WAHH WAHH AAAAAARHHHHHHHHHH"

I am pulling my hair out in frustration! Bambino has ate/eat/eaten (Whichever one it is) half of his dinner and is now throwing a tantrum. This is new! What do I do? What would supernanny do?

"That's it!" I grab him and put him in the front room in the dark until he calms himself down, I'm sure I've seen supernanny do that before? 

five minutes later he's stopped! Ha. I'm a genius, back in the highchair he goes... 

"WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH" 

Back in the living room he goes....

And so on, for just over an hour!!

Now I'm almost bald for tearing my hair out, wondering what in the lord's name he could possibly want?

He has that look in his eye, that look that says

"Carry on mum! I can keep this up for hours. Your looking more stressed than me, NaNaNaNaNa"

So I plonk him back in his highcahir get a yogurt out of the fridge and tip it out over his highchair for him to make a mess and finger it about until he gets it into his mouth.

"Hehehe... DaDa...Hehe DaDa"

The little bugger!!

Mummy & Bambino <3

Snippets of our day

Many Things

Baby boys like many things,
Like frogs and bees and bugs with wings.
Trucks and trains and shiny cars
Dinosaurs and twinkling stars.

Dogs and turtles on his clothes,
And smudges of dirt upon his nose
Sweet stuffed bears and robot toys
These are things for baby boys!

What a joy it is to see
His boyish nature come to be.
He'll love to play with mum and dad
There's so much fun now to be had!

by Andra Mccoy

We woke up with a serious bad hair day! Bad start...

 We went to feed the swans, but there wasn't any there. I'm pretty sure they fly off at some point... There was only seaguls, and I wasn't about to feed them a loaf of bread. There almost the size of Bambino, they would probably beat me up once the loaf had gone!

 

Bambino didn't seem pleased...

Bambino showing off his two teeth at lunchtime! You're lucky, he doesn't usually like to show them off to the camera. Didn't think I was ever going to get a photo of them.

I love this photo. Sometimes I just stare at him and wish I could take a photo of him but whenever I get the camera out he turns and looks at it (or tries to eat it) but I managed to take one without him noticing Mwhaha... 

 Snack time! Juicy apples...

 BUBBLES! I love bubbles more than Bambino, he cries... Hence the dummy.

Hope you had a lovely day too

Mummy & Bambino <3

Leveson inquiry

Now I don't think of myself as up to date with current affairs, in fact the only reason I watch the news is because I'm waiting for Eastenders or Hollyoaks to come on. But this morning after having a little scroll through Twitter something caught my eye. The leveson inquiry. I don't know why it did, but it did. So as you do, I googled it.

From what I can work out it is an inquiry over the phone hacking scandal and aloud of other naughty things the public media have been getting away with for so long.

Now I'm the first to admit I'm a bit of a sucker when it comes to newspapers and magazines. I believe every word even though deep down inside I know it's all a load of rubbish! But I just can't help myself from buying them and reading them and ultimately judging people (not just celebrities) on things that some sweaty old journalist more than likely just made up.

So after a little research of my own (Thanks Google) I started to read Hugh Grants Witness statement part 1 and have copied this paragraph for your viewing pleasure. It made me chuckle! And thought it summed up the media industry well.

"It is also very important to remember that when the person DOES do an interview with a paper or magazine they are doing it by consent. It is a form of barter the paper gets what it hopes will be a boost in sales, and the person gets what he hopes will be some helpful noise about his forthcoming project. It is like bartering 12 eggs for a bale of hay. Or like me selling you a pint of milk for 50p. When the deal is done, it's done. You wouldn't then say "You sold me your milk, you slut. I'm now entitled to help myself to your milk for ever afterwards".

If you want to read the statement the link is

http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Witness-Statement-of-Hugh-Grant.pdf

It is actually quite an interesting read, certainly not something I thought would interest me but has.

Or if you can't be bothered to read his entire witness statement there's a short video footage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/21/leveson-inquiry-hugh-grant-testimony

Now once Bambino has gone to bed I may start on the Dowler Statement?

We Shall see...

Mummy & Bambino <3

Christmas wish list.

"You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last." 

I am currently listening to Christmas songs on the radio. Also after watching Home Alone 2 last night I am currently feeling rather festive. So I thought it is about time I wrote my Christmas wish list to Santa.  

Santa if you are reading this I have a few ideas of what I would like for Christmas this year! As I never usually have a clue as what I want I will leave you a short list

• Uggs- Bailey button grey OR Triplet OR Roxy Short Cinnamon
• ipad 2
• Clarins beauty flash balm
• Clarins Toning Lotion with Iris
• Benefit High Beam
• Kimono (White or cream with a nice small flower print) - refer to previous blog

• Theres a nice bathroom set in Matalan too (Bright colours)

I don't expect any of this, just in case you need something to refer to if your stuck that's all. Please and thank you!

Heels or no heels? Red lipstick or no red lipstick? Push up bra or t-shirt bra? 

Bloody hell anyone would be thinking I was going out for a night on the tiles, not going to sit in a pitch black room with a bunch of other vampire loving losers!

I ended up in flats a t-shirt and pink lipstick (if you were wondering!) Pink lipstick was essential because I was going for a drink first and a girl can't sip a glass of wine without a bit of colour on her lips! FACT!

Yes... If you haven't already guessed I'm talking about Thursday night... The night I have been waiting for for months, my date with Breaking Dawn (My heart flutters just thinking about it!)

It was amazing it was everything I expected and more. It was, beautiful, romantic, passionate, sexy, skin tingling! And that was just the sex scenes. I loved it that much I'm taking the Fiance to go see it tonight night. God I'm truly obsessed.

Yesterday however I felt the pain of going to a midnight showing and only having 4 hours sleep before the Bambino woke up and wanted entertaining all day! The days of me rolling in at 3am and being able to spend the next day watching TV, sleeping and eating junk are behind me...

But to be fair neither of us got dressed all day! we both smelt and had a few naps and it was lovely.

So as I mentioned me and the Fiance are having a "Date Night" Tonight. A night all to ourselves, we try and have a night to ourselves once a month but we usually go out partt-ay-ing! and end up passed out up the bar (Just me!) but not tonight oh-no! So we are shipping Bambino off to Nanny and Grandads for the night and going to enjoy some time in each others company.

Mummy & Bambino <3



Home Alone

The Fiance has left me...No not completely left me. Just left me to go away for 1 night for a managers course. Nobody else thinks this is a big deal, and really it isn't. But in the past 3 years I can only remember one occasion when we didn't sleep in the same bed together, sad? Probably!

I used to be the kind of person that loved being alone, not in a freakish sort of way but I loved my own company I didn't need to be entertained, I would be more than happy to be my myself. Now however I can't think of anything worse. Now that is sad!

So he went last night (well I wasn't going to tell you it is tonight am I!? I might get murdered in my sleep by some strange blog stalker, ha ha! I wish nobody even reads my blog let alone stalks me!) So he left yesterday morning and is home this evening. So for the evening whilst he was away my cousin came round and stayed the night. It was really lovely! We chatted had a takeaway and chatted some more! We chatted so much that I completely forgot I had a bottle of wine in the fridge until we got into bed. We talked about growing up together and memories we have of each other which are frankly HILARIOUS!

Today is Thursday and I don't know whether you picked up on my previous blog blunder but I thought I was seeing Breaking Dawn Friday night but it's not it's blinking tonight! So today me and Bambino are spending the day in our pajamas lounging around and napping whenever napping is avaliable, because it is tonight I will be getting the train to the city and watching MY Edward Cullen on the big screen at midnight!

However usually I go to bed at about 10 because I very much need my beauty sleep. Some people can live on a few hours sleep and be right as rain the next day and cherpy. I however look like something out of the rising dead and am grumpy all day if I don't get enough shut eye. So swimming at 10.15 tomorrow morning should be... Interesting.

Wish us luck tomorrow, I have a feeling I'm gonna need it.

Mummy & Bambino <3

Burnt Tounge and a Melted Heart

Things that have happened since I last blogged:

I found out cayenne chilli powder is not the same as cayenne powder. In a disastrous attempt at making Christmas relish. After buying all the ingredients and spending hours in the kitchen slaving over a hot stove, imagining my family's happy faces as they taste my homemade wonder, and being pleasantly surprised at how clever I am. 

Then I dipped my finger in it to test, and almost blew my brains out! So it ended up on the bin...

Bambino has started to pick up on some new characteristics like punching you and laughing, yanking your lip and laughing, throwing his porridge up the wall (and laughing) and splashing in the bath, but not just splashing... More like trying to cause a tidal wave (But that is actually quite cute!) I am now completely dreading him growing into a toddler and growing out of control! I think I may ask for super nanny's autobiography for Christmas?

Also I finally received my iPhone!! I have a 2 year contract and when I was 5 months pregnant (I am totally blaming baby brain for this!) I dropped my iPhone down the toilet! For the past year I have had a replacement phone. But oooo how I've missed it! I've missed downloading useless apps that cost nothing. Mean nothing. Do nothing. (I may see if they have an app for Christmas relishes?)

I've missed having social networking and online shopping at my fingertips! I have also discovered the wonders of twitter...

Now like most things when people rave about how brilliant something is, it puts me off. People have been going on about how great twitter is for years so after a brief attept in 2009 i stayed away.

But I finally decided to dip my over-sized big toe in the water and liked it! So now I am offically a tweeter! (I'm not entirely sure if that is a word... Still not down with the slang!) It's just like Facebook but you can stalk pretty much whoever you want and they have no choice in the matter! I am now following the entire cast of 'Made in Chelsea'  and constantly bugging them to say hi to me. Yes I know it sounds lame, but is highly addictive! I'm sure there probably is more to it than that, but I haven't figered it out yet.

I have also captured a few shots over the weekend of the Bambino to share with you all (on my new iphone of course!)

And finally there is 4 sleeps and 1 nap until the big night!! Oh-Yes girls you know what I'm talking about!

BREAKING DAWN!

Friday the 18th at midnight, I'll be there, at the first showing of the Twilight saga-Breaking Dawn... Call me sad if you will, I don't mind There isn't many things I really get into (Other than Made In Chelsea, have I already mentioned them today?) But Mr Edward Cullen is one of them! And I am now officially on the count down and bet your bottom dollar there will be a blog about it on Saturday!

Melts My Heart...Get a grip!

Mummy & Bambino <3

11.11.11

Me and Bambino popped into the city today, well I say we popped we spent 40 minutes on a bus.

But it was lovely we met up with a friend and her gorgeous little one too and had lunch and of course a Starbucks too and had my first (of many) gingerbread lattes of the season! We window shopped too, as window shopping is my new 'go out and spend money' way of shopping. And I was pleasantly surprised at how well behaved the Bambino was! because just like his daddy, Bambino usually gets bored. When I window shop Bambino makes it his mission for me to stop and lavish him in attention. But not today!

On the bus journey back I over heard the sweetest conversation by a girl who couldn't of been any older than six and her Mummy.

In the most innocent voice I have ever heard the girl said "Mummy... I feel really sad for all the people that died in the war"

 

"Oh sweetheart" Replied her mum

"Why can't everybody be friends and just play together?"

"I don't know darling"

"Well this morning I made a poppy for you in class"

"Thank you"

"Did you be quiet for a minute this morning mummy? I did and then I felt really sad..."

How blinking cute is that!! Well it made me smile anyway.

On the subject of poppy's (or is it poppies?) why every year do I lose mine!? I think there seriously needs to be a redesign! I'm thinking maybe a badge?

Anyway I hope you all paid your respects today to all the brave men and women of our country, with two minutes silence...

Mummy & Bambino <3

I would like

To snuggle up on the sofa with a gingerbread latte, please and thank you

Mummy & Bambino <3

The holidays are coming...

I hate winter!

I hate, I hate, I hate, I hate winter!!

It's dark and cold and miserable and depressing and the people you meet are similar to the weather, cold wet and depressing!

The mornings are dark and the nights are longer, days out are a thing of the past and staying in shivering because nobody can afford to put the heating on unless you have just won the lottery is the future. Huff.

I hate staying inside, I don't mind it for a day or so but 2 or 3 days is my limit for going insane and cabin fever kicks in and I have to get out, even if it's just for a 20 minute walk to get a little bit of sanity.

But there is one good thing about winter, the one and only good thing about winter! And that is CHRISTMAS! Yeyy! Yeyy! Yeeyyy! I am still very much a child when it comes to Christmas I still get excited and totally over the top, but I love it and I feel sorry for people that don't.

Don't get me wrong jetting off somewhere exotic sounds like a fab way to spend the holidays, I've done it before and had an amazing time! But nothing beats being around the people you love stuffing your face with turkey and chocolates, watching Christmas movies in the warm while its blowing a gale outside, snuggling up and having a laugh and enjoying each others company. With sparkling fairy lights and warming smells of hot mince pies and Christmas cake surrounded by giggling children and family banter.

I genuinely love it! And I'm going to love it even more this year as it's Bambino's first Christmas... I have already brought his presents! (which is totally unlike me I usually leave buying presents until the week before Christmas) But that is how excited I am. He is going to get spoilt rotten and probably not have a clue what is going on because he will only be 8 months, and next year will probably be even more exciting because he will start to understand the magic of it!

It is officially Christmas for me when I see the cocoa cola advert! That is when I start the count down, Those of you that cringe when you see it, well you just don't get it! Yes its all very commercialised now, but it's how we have made it, you don't have to have it that way if you choose!

If you look at these photos and still dread it... Well then bah humbug to you!

Mummy & Bambino <3

Domestic Goddess

Oh yes! I am a blinky domestic goddess! You may bow down and praise me...

Okay so I'm not really... Well I like to think I am, even if I do leave my housework to Sunday night like I did with my homework for school.

I have baked a sponge cake, hold back the giggles please. I can't cook I never have pretended that cooking is one of my skills because it isn't. My family cook meals that I freeze for The Bambino and my Fiance cooks all the family meals usually, USUALLY being the operative word.

I am trying and failing and trying harder to cook. So I went out bought myself a few cook books and a set of scales (because that's what cooks have in their kitchen) and put my head down in the kitchen for 3 hours yesterday determined to cook a Victoria sponge.

3 hours for a Victoria sponge??

I know, I know... But before you judge, let me explain. I was going by a recipe from one of my "cook books" that claimed to be the best ever sponge. However I tried it twice and the first time it turned into a brick, so much so that if I left it in the garden the birds and foxes would turn their noses up at it in disgust.

The second one was under cooked (even though they were both in there for the same amount of time?!) and slightly dark on the outside. So that followed the first one to the bin.

Then in utter frustration I sent the Fiance back out to the shops to get me more ingredients and googled a Victoria sponge (again Google saves the day) and headed to the kitchen once more.

I Poured myself a glass of baileys and popped Oasis on in the background and BAAM!! I created my first ever edible cake from scratch.

Oh yeah!

 I even whipped the cream myself, by hand! I didn't even realise that was how whipped cream became whipped! I though it just came out of a can...

I was so proud I took a photo of it to share with you. And I also took it round the Family's to share my wonderful creation with them too!

I don't mean to boast but it was blinking awesome!

Now to try to make a trifle, I've been told there is no actual baking involved in that, so I should be okay but I'll keep you informed

In other news The Bambino has learnt how to roll from his front to his back and this is brilliant! However I'm never around when he does it to praise him and so when he does it he scares himself and cries... And as he sleeps on his front he keeps doing it in his sleep (because he is such a jifflebum) and waking himself up screaming, wondering what the f has happened. Hopefully he won't try and be clever too many times tonight...

Mummy & Bambino <3



It's come to that dreaded time... Going back to work

Maternity leave just isn't long enough.

So yesterday I went out bought new black trousers and new black shoes and for the entire day dreaded it, it wouldn't of been so bad if I was going back to the job I had left! I love LOVE love my job but unfortunately it was in another city and isn't practical. So not only was I going back to work after 8 months it was a totally new job too with new people and new things and new everything and I was well and truly out of my comfort zone!

It was only a trail shift waitressing, and waitressing is what I've done since I was 14 so I knew what I was doing, but trust me not even that tamed my fear!

But as I got there the fear slipped away and I'm not going to lie, I really enjoyed it! Not once did I think about making bottles or changing bums or housework or weaning or any thing else that usually goes through my mind in the evenings. I was Lizzie again, so be it only for 2 and a half hours but it was brilliant. I wasn't mummy for just a short amount of time, I was busy rushing around speaking to strangers. But don't get me wrong being a full-time Mummy is where my heart lies but financially an impossible role to keep, so I now have to be a full-time mummy and a part time waitress (oh and a part time housewife too!) But I like it! And today I feel liberated, is that odd? Maybe...

But I do still have over a month of maternity left and believe me I am going to hold onto every single day of it!!

Mummy & Bambino <3

My Baby

He wraps his tiny arms around me and burrows his head deep under my chin, but before he shuts his eyes to rest, he slugishly pulls his head high and gives me a grin. That perfect little smile that sends warmth around my veins to every area of my body. In those beautiful eyes all I can see is love and happiness. How did I create something so simply devine? My precious gorgeous little man. Who one day will feel this way about his own, and I can feel all over again when I meet them.

People always say the love you feel for your child is the stongest, is unbreakable but how could you descirbe it to anybody? It's impossibe.

But look... How could you not smile at him?!

Bambino xxx