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Holiday, crawling, blessing and news!

Its been some time since I have written on here but I have had good reason!

I think the last time I was busy getting ready for Millies blessing. We had a lovely weekend with a family bbq on the Saturday and the actual blessing on the Sunday. The weather held off all weekend, in fact the weather was glorious. Millies blessing was really lovely and both girls were really well behaved during the service- true angels!!

That week then was half term for Martha so I was pretty busy keeping Martha occupied and we had a lovely day at Folly Farm with my parents. We even fed the goats!

The next week was busy getting ready for our holiday to Brittany in France. We had a car full of stuff- just for two children and us, I don't know how people travel abroad with the little ones but then I suppose I didn't want to have to wash clothes, we took food, milk and nappies for Millie and probably took advantage of having the car! We also couldn't be certain of having good weather so needed a range of warm and cold weather clothes. Our first week there was up and down with the weather more down though and we managed to fill the days with a visit to an aquarium, soft play place and a couple of the local towns. It was funny because the end of the rainy days it seemed to clear up and we managed a few hours by the pool!

The second week was much nicer weather wise and a lot of time was spent by the pool just chilling out. There was a baby pool and a slide going in, it took Martha quite some time to get used to it but once she had been down a couple of times there was no stopping her.

The journey over was relatively trouble free, the journey back however was not so good, I had a bad tummy, crossing not overly smooth but the worst was yet to come! We arrived in Plymouth at 8.00ish in the evening and thought then that the girls would sleep. They did.... for an hour and a half at which point Martha woke up and just screamed and screamed wanting to be hugged and out of her seat. Liam did a fantastic job of calming her down, then however she decided she needed the toilet. We stopped not far before Bristol and had a quick toilet stop, when we got in the car then Martha was fine but Millie obviously felt left out so she started screaming, we stopped the other side of the bridge and changed her nappy, that didn't help. So the last hour and a bit of the journey both girls were crying and Liam and I were taking it in turns to sing nursery rhymes!!! Fun fun!

Only a couple of images from holiday but will upload some more to Facebook and I have still been nagging Liam to sort out our website so that pics can be uploaded there!!

Millie starting crawling while we were away and since we have come home she has started pulling herself up on furniture!! So much so she is obsessed with it, she won't even sit still in the bath now she has to stand up! Great but dangerous in the bath!!! She can also climb up stairs so the gates were sorted out this weekend. There was already one at the top of Marthas stairs but we hadn't put any anywhere else when we moved as Martha was confident enough. There are a couple of stairs to our playroom and Millie can get up those so its all go!!

So as I mentioned earlier the day we came back from our holiday I had some tummy cramps again, it started the night before with me feeling sick. Martha was sick that night so just put it down to that. The next morning when we came back from holiday though I was in quite a lot of pain and the Saturday we did come back I couldn't move and had a fever. The sunday night and the Monday I had some spotting. On the Sunday I was felling okish but worried about the spotting I rung NHS direct, only spoke to a nurse but she said I should see a doc that week as I was managing the pain. I spoke to the doc next day with our stupid call back system and he just said rest!!! Totally ignored my spotting! I was feeling a lot better but not happy with what the doc said so saw a different doc on the Thursday. She asked a lot of questions, took a urine sample and had a little feel of my tummy. Her conclusions were like before it could be cysts, a grumbly appendix or irritable bowel. She also wanted bloods done. They came back a week later with something showing as inflammed, by which time I had been having some back pain which I can only describe as mild contractions! The doc then wanted more blood tests and an xray. They came back last week with the levels that were inflammed are higher and xray was clear. I am now waiting appointments for a bowel specialist and a gynacologist. Hopefully we will get to the bottom of it and something will be sorted soon.

So that was a lot of news and hopefully will be posting soon with some good news!

Yummy lolly!

Millie on the snail

Martha and Millie enjoying the swings

Quick update

I am concious of the fact that I haven't written on here for a few weeks now and I have quite a bit of news but have got a million and one things to do in the next few days before we have a blessing for Millie on Sunday.
Couple of new things, Millie is now feeding well and has 2 bottom teeth, she is also starting to sit more and is moving round on her front and slightly backwards, not properly crawling as yet.
Martha was singing and playing with her toys tonight in the bath and then went- dai iawn, which means well done in Welsh, she can count in Welsh and does so regularly but this is her first word that she has picked up from Cylch. I have been quite worried about her grasping Welsh but I think she will do fine! Dai iawn Martha!
Right well like I said it was only a quick update so will try and get on here soon with more news!

Sisters!