Georgia & Bobs

This bank holiday weekend has been absolutely amazing! Our besties (aka Bob's Godmother and Godfather) Bear & Matt came to stay with their gorgeous little Georgia. With just 6 weeks between them the pair of them have almost become inseparable!  Wherever Georgia went, Bobs followed and vice versa!

It's also amazing how much you can cram into a Bank Holiday weekend too! The Booths didn't arrive until 12 noon on the Saturday so we gave the kids some lunch in the garden and then they both went up for a nap so we could all enjoy some lunch of our own and a good old natter. Then we walked round to the park in the village.

The weather was a bit drizzly but it was just so nice to all be together and get in some fresh air. The kids played for ages on the swings and just charged round.

On our walk home we stopped off at Gill & Derek's for a cup of tea in their garden and a little play in Bob's favourite red and yellow car. Before we knew it we were all in the full swing of the Hokey Cokey.....a party is never too far away when Bear's around! Bobs was loving it, like literally falling over with laughter!

That night Chris cooked us a nice chillie and we had more of a good natter before being up early

with the kids the next morning. On the Sunday it was glorious sunshine so it was off to the Splash Pad in Brintons Park for us with a picnic! Georgia absolutely loved the splash pad - Bobs was not so sure. He's always loved swimming and bath time but he seems to be going off water a little bit now. I'm not sure if it's the coldness of the water, or the shock when other children splash him. Anyway the little tinker decided he loved it if I went down the slide with him, so it was me being the one to land in the big puddle at the bottom!

We all came home so the kids could have a nap and then later in the afternoon popped to De

Beers for an ice cream and the kids had a play outside.

Just everything was perfect. The bath times together, the story times, the kids sitting at the table banging the table for their breakfast...it was all magical. I wish they all lived closer. Can't wait for our next get together.

A sibling in heaven

I don't think there's anything more exciting in life than seeing those 2 lines on a pregnancy test that shows you a whole new human being is on the way! When we tested for Bobby I had no idea I was pregnant. I just thought I had trapped wind! I had bought some jelly babies, wind relief and a pregnancy test on my way home from work after feeling sick and was literally in shock seeing the result! Happy shock of course, but still that amazing disbelief.

This time round I just knew it. Literally from Day One I said to Chris I was pregnant. I did a test which of course was way too early and came back negative. Then another test a week later, and another a week later and then finally on test 4 or 5 it came back with the positive result. A little brother or sister for the Bobster with a due date of 12th November. So very exciting.

I told my closest friends, and my family, and booked in with the midwife. I planned my maternity leave, made a list of jobs to do to help prepare like get their name down early at nursery and so on. I adjust my training sessions to ensure I didn't over do it. I started drawing plans for the spare bedroom and how that would become the new nursery.

I think all I've ever wanted in life was to be a Mum. I never stopped to think that along the way nature might have a plan of it's own.

Sadly the pregnancy resulted in a miscarriage which was just the most hideous time of my life. It was a threatened miscarriage for a few weeks..... I think hope can be a very cruel thing. I'm not sure I'll ever forget that chapter of my life, or the hopes and dreams and plans that little baby brought.

We'll try again and hope that a little rainbow baby can be welcomed into our family. I just felt this was too significant a thing to not write a short blog about. I may not be a mum of 2 (yet), but I am certainly a proud Mum to Bobby and this will make me hold him a little tighter, for a little longer and tell him I love him a little louder.