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Month: July 2014

July: a month of firsts

…a month of firsts, for us all…

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When you finally escape the twins to the beautiful @thyme.england - and your biggest problem is deciding whether the chandelier or the bathtub is the star of the shot #notmyusualkindofproblem #interiors #cotswoldhome #rolltopbath #cotswolddecor #thymemanor #24hoursoff #mummytime #allthesleep

Elsa is four on Sunday. FOUR. Anyway, all those days and weeks of worrying and wondering if we’re doing it all wrong or getting any of it right seemed to crystallise in the moment that she told me all she wanted for her birthday was a bug house. That’s my girl. Good and wholesome gifts. So a bug house she shall have. (Disclaimer: She has since added to the list a ‘real pink pony’. So that’s nice and simple. Anyone got a spare Shetland kicking around that they wouldn’t mind me spray painting??) #fouryearsold #bughouse #bughotel #pinkpony #arealpinkpony #simplethings #birthdaylist #turningfour #birthday

My friend @chuikingli is so flipping clever. I feel like she has captured the very real joy that is childhood with this photo. The whole wall-climbing, scabby-kneed, muddy-legged, knotty-haired, flower-picking, clothes-optional, worm-digging grace and grit of being small, and free. #childhoodunplugged #outdoorliving #childinnature #wildchild #wildandfree #wildandfreechildren #candidchildhood #natureschild #childhoodgames #playingoutside

Still on the sleep train here. Literally. In fact, I’ve been working with the lovely Jenna @thedailynanny recently to try and master some of the problems we are still having with sleep, namely early waking and bad napping. She has been fantastic to talk to and very gentle and flexible in her approach. She has lots of very clever things to say, but one thing she told me the other day has stuck in my mind for its total simplicity. And made me wonder why I didn’t always know this. It would have helped so much. She says: “All babies wake up. All adults wake up, and babies are no different. Babies do not just ‘sleep through’ - instead they wake, and then go back to sleep again. It is simply a case of managing their wakeups and giving them the skills to gently fall back to sleep.” This seems so simple but has been so fundamental in shifting my mindset. It’s not about ‘sleeping through’ - it’s about what they do when they wake. #sleep #sleeptraining #sleepingbaby #sleepingthroughthenight #ornot #gentleparenting #babyboy #twins #twinsleep #twinboys

Children truly have the most incredible timing. Felix picked today, of all days, to sit peacefully in his Daddy’s lap and then quietly just lean forward, rest his head on his chest and snuggle into him. And there he stayed. Because there is no safer place in the world. #Daddy #son #babyboy #twin #twindad #fatheroftwins #fathers #fathersday #twins #twinboys #fatherhood #parenthood

“The best present anyone ever gave me was….three babies. For all the difficulties and problems we may have, Emma still delivered three healthy babies. As someone who likes to worry, I am only too aware of the challenges of conception, pregnancy and birth. I feel very lucky to have what we have.” In honour of Father’s Day this weekend, Richard, my husband and father of our three children, is on the blog today, talking about fathering and his experiences of birth, babies and beyond (Link in bio, photo @chuikingli) #fathersday #fathersonfathering #daddy #twins #twindad #twinfather #fatheroftwins #daughter #parenting #modernparenting #mothersonmothering #fatherhood

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