Posts Tagged ‘siblings’
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Silent Sunday
November 20, 2011 by Lauren
Category Silent Sunday, The Gallery, Listography & Meme's | Tags: siblings,silent sunday | 7 Comments
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Silent Sunday
October 9, 2011 by Lauren
Category Silent Sunday, The Gallery, Listography & Meme's | Tags: brothers,siblings,silent sunday | 22 Comments
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Mummy’s Boy
September 27, 2011 by Lauren
Spud, my independent little boy, gives cuddles on his terms. If he doesn’t want a cuddle and a kiss then tears and tantrums will ensue soon after. He has always been a child that wants to be doing his own thing and even as a baby would push himself away from me to get on with what he wanted to do. It did make my life quite easy, I didn’t had a baby that wouldn’t leave my side and I could get on with anything without worrying about him being clingy or demanding attention. Sometimes it made me sad, I wanted a cuddles! Occasionally he would sit down for a nice cuddle and I would treasure those moments. My Mum also wanted a cuddly Grandson and would irritate him something rotten forcing him to cuddle her. As he got older cuddles became more frequent but still only when he wanted them. Ever since he was small if he hurts himself or is in a bad mood because he is tired, then Mummy has always been his first choice. Daddy rarely gets a look in when he is upset and even his beloved Pops plays second fiddle. To some extent he is a Mummy’s boy.
Category General | Tags: baby toddler,boys,Hands Full,mummy's boy,parenting,siblings | No Comments
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“No Two Babies Are The Same”
September 22, 2011 by Lauren
We’ve all been there, stood with other mothers with children of similar ages competing for the best/most advanced child. Competitive parents are what put me off most baby groups. With Spud I would leave a baby group and get straight on to the health visitor because he wasn’t talking like the other babies or sleeping like them. I was constantly reassured that he was fine and that because he was so advanced physically, I couldn’t expect him to excel in all areas – he wasn’t super-baby and “no two babies are the same.”
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Category General | Tags: baby,differences,Hands Full,parenting,siblings,toddler | 3 Comments
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Another week at Nana’s!
September 2, 2011 by Lauren
We have some more exciting events to go to in London so after the Wedding at the weekend the boys and I stayed at my parents house. The Hubby had to go back to work so left us on Monday afternoon which was a huge downer after such a good weekend. This time Spud seems to have accepted that Spike belongs to Nana and Pops as well and that he has to share them because he has been super lovely to him. He has been giving a lot of kisses and cuddles as well as sharing toys. Then yesterday Continue reading “Another week at Nana’s!” »
Category General | Tags: brotherly love,grandparents,holiday,london,mexican,parenting,siblings,tapas | No Comments
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On a whim
June 27, 2011 by Lauren
I am a woman of impulse. I don’t do much forward planning and if I get something in my head it has to be done right now. As previously mentioned we go to a Craft group rather than do it at home but today whilst Spud was helping me to check my emails I thought it would be fun to draw around his hand. He totally surprised me by holding still so of course I had to take it one step further!
Only 15 minutes before our dinner was going to be served I decided to draw around my two year old son!
He was a little unsure about when I was doing and kept pulling faces but went along with it anyway (much like his Father does when I get something into my head!)
It was a bit of a rush job but we now have a 93cm outline to decorate tomorrow!
Spud decided that it would be a brilliant idea to have a life-sized picture of Spike, I was happy to oblige because it melts my heart when he wants to include his baby brother in things.
Unfortunately now that Spike can roll and because he was very interested in the pencil, it wasn’t a successful task but Spud found it funny none the less.
And of course all baby brothers get annoying after a while so Spud decided that Spike wasn’t allowed to play anymore, much to Spike’s disgust.
Category General | Tags: baby,brothers,craft,impulse,siblings | 1 Comment
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Brotherly Love
June 24, 2011 by Lauren
Naively, when I was pregnant with Spike I thought that my very easy going, 21 month old toddler would be ecstatic to have a baby brother.
For the first 18 months of his life the Hubby worked away so Spud was constantly being left with just his Mummy and we had (still have) a cracking relationship. Taking that into account it makes me really proud to say that I can easily leave him for two weeks with the Grandparents and that he runs into Creche knowing that I don’t stay. I have a Mummy’s boy who is also strong, independent and secure. When I was 20 weeks pregnant we moved and started living with the Hubby full time. Spud thought it was great and he has so much fun with his Daddy, it also meant that he was a lot less clingy to me when he hurt himself and at times where he wanted cuddles, like when he was tired. We were a lot closer to extended family so saw them more often which Spud thought was great because Nana and Pops are the bees knees! We had a great thing going on…
Add a baby to the mix and you get this:
Spud was NOT happy. He visited me in hospital and was so curious and loving with his baby brother, I was thrilled. He wasn’t thrilled when the baby came home with me! He was even less thrilled when the baby went to visit his Nana and Pops. He wasn’t treated differently by anybody. I still had one on one time with him, doing everything that he loved and I was so adamanat that people weren’t even allowed to look at the baby until they had spoken to Spud that quite often Spike got left in the corner! To Spud this didn’t matter, he ignored anybody that was holding the baby, it was as if he was looking straight through the person, pretending they weren’t even there!
Back at our home things were easier with just the four of us and he did have some lovely moments where he would give the baby a cuddle or give him his dummy but it was very much on his terms. If he didn’t want to he made damn sure that we knew about it! It made having two children a lot harder because I was totally split between them.
Over the weeks Spud got used to the fact that Spike wasn’t going anywhere. We caught him giving him the evil eye like he is plotting something but so far Spike has survived the wrath of his big brother. Not that he ever noticed that Spud had an intense dislike for him, Spike has always been in total awe of his big brother and probably always will be.
6 months down the line and we have a very loving, helpful big brother. If he is tired or clingy then it is still very much on his terms and to get photos of them together either has to be done in stealth mode or with chocolate bribery.
I know that our age gap will be amazing when they are older and every day it gets better but I really wasn’t prepared for the early days and the possibility that it wouldn’t all be plain sailing!
Category General | Tags: baby,brothers,jealousy,love,rivalry,siblings | 5 Comments
