first-time-daddy

Saturday, 2 June 2012

Silence WAS golden!

Only a couple of months ago, we would welcome the silence of him playing with his toys or 'reading' a book to himself but now silence simply means he is up to something! He's either attacking the TV, the laptop, the dogs toys or his current favourite? The back door! Every chance he gets, he makes a break for it! (I'm sure you have all read my previous post.)

Only a couple of months ago, we would welcome the sound of silence when he eventually settled into a slumber of sleep, but now when we hear a break in crying we don't assume that he has settled, we play a game of sleep or stand.

When the screaming stops we try to decide if he has fallen asleep or is simply standing up. If he stops for more than 5 mins, we know hes found sleepville, if he stands, he simply carries on screaming until we press the reset button and we get to play again!

I'm sure you have all played the game, but I warn you, if they decide to create an event in the upcoming Olympics...I'm pretty good at it!

Have you got a similar game you play with your little one?

PS. I know that picture has nothing to do with this post, just thought it was waaaaaay cute!

As always, thanks for reading.
FTD

Thursday, 24 May 2012

The great escape

We can NEVER relax again!

When a baby is born, you know life will never be the same again. You know you might have to wait 18 or so years before your child leaves you alone long enough for you to have a nice cuppa. The reality is, when a baby is first born, you get plenty of time. Well with BB we did anyway. He slept ALOT. I think this happens for life to ease you into a false sense of security before BOOM they don't sleep as much as they did.

Then you still don't have it too bad. The little man or lady in your life is still pretty restricted. You can lay them down, stick them in a play pen and they are as content as a pig in poo!

THEN they get mobile! At first its cool, cute, maybe even fun, but soon your devising a way to place a tracking device on them just to keep track!

BB started slowly, he started with an army crawl. He crawled with his arms, while pushing himself along with his big toe!

The he got the whole crawling thing, but occasionally he still went back to the old 'crawl 'n' push'. Then he got better with the crawling, now hes off and I am pretty sure if we didn't keep an eye on him, he would be sat in the pub with a pint in his hand before we noticed!

We really need to go buy some gates!
Thanks for reading

FTD

Thursday, 17 May 2012

The incredible F'***ing hulk?

There's a monster inside me and its trying to get out.

It's been there for years. Sometime I can contain it, sometimes it just jumps out without me even realising! The monster inside me is bad. Bad language.

A story from my childhood (about 6 years old) goes a little like this...
I'm sat playing with some toy cars on he floor of my aunties house and one of the cars goes flying to the other side of the room.
With a glum look on my face I said to myself "Oh sugar butties".
My uncle laughed to himself and asked my why I would say such a strange thing. My response was simple; "Well, I used to say shit, but my mum says I shouldn't say that anymore!"

So here I am now. With a 10 month old, who no doubt doesn't yet understand a word I'm saying, but I know someday soon he will. I don't want to look back on his first word and be ashamed it was Fu*k, B*llox, A*se or any other of the bad words that come flying out of my mouth without any consideration for the innocent audience in front of me.

I can't be the only one can I? The Mrs doesn't have this problem and very rarely swears, maybe because I do it enough for both of us.

Do you have a monster inside you? How to you keep it under wraps?

You better leave me a comment now.....or you might just make me angry!....YOU WONT LIKE ME WHEN I'M ANGRY!

As always, thanks for reading
FTD

Saturday, 12 May 2012

#blogging4madeleine

I saw recently on BritMums, they were doing a blogging prompt called #Blogging4Madeleine!

The aim of this prompt is to re-raise awareness that there is a little girl who is celebrating her 9th birthday (12th May) and probably doesn't know it because she was taken from her parents nearly 5 years ago and as not yet been found.

I am sure you have heard the story before but in case you haven't......
Madeleine McCann disappeared on the evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007. She was on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in the Algarve region of Portugal. She went missing from an apartment, in the central area of the resort of Praia da Luz, a few days before her fourth birthday, and has still not been found. Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, have said that they left the children unsupervised in a ground floor bedroom while they ate at a restaurant about 120 metres (130 yards) away.

Many theories exists from her simply wandering away, being kidnapped by a paedophile ring to even being murdered by her parents. My honest opinion is that she was taken, by whom we may never know. If she had been hurt either by accident or on purpose by one or both of her parents, I think more evidence of this would have been found by now. This of course is just my opinion and I suppose I would prefer the thought that this little girl is still alive and well, somewhere.
Hopefully one day, a girl will hear this story and realise that she is in fact little Madeleine and will come forward.

I originally wasn't going to take part in this prompt, but when I thought about it, I figured what harm could it do. If one of the many blogs taking part means somebody comes forward with new information, it's been worthwhile. So here goes....

This is a picture of Madeleine when she was taken and also what it is believed she would look like at 9 Years old.