Ellen's First Words and First Steps

Here is ellen walking in her bedroom, its sideways cos i cant work out how to flip it, will get michael to fix it when he gets in lol

 i also got one of her saying hello if u listen carefully she says it twice, once more clearer than the other, she is holding the phone to her ear, so u can only see me!

 thats the one underneath:

Other updates

Since toms birthday there have been a few things to tell you, but i thought i would put them in a separate post.

we had 

a big snow day last month, thomas and ellen loved the snow, ellen tried to eat it of course! we built a snow man in crystal palace park, and ran about for about an hour before the kids sta

rted to get to cold. we met up with adam and tuesday too, so tom and paige were chasing each other around the park for a

 while which helped warm them up.

Ellen is 

now walking, she frequently walks across the room, and is very pleased with herself! i am going to get a video of it and pop it up here for you tomorrow, perhaps tuesday however long it takes me to get her on film really lol

she is also talking and has a 6 words "hello", "up", "num"(food), "dada", "yeah" and "No" which has amazed me i can tell you! thomas spoke rather late, so to have ellen talking so early has come as quite a surpise, and i must say i am a little sad, she isnt really a baby anymore :(

however she seems happier now she can get about easier, she was quite

 frustrated for a while, so im happy for her really.

im going back to college in september, this time to study art and design, with the eventual aim of becoming an art teacher in secondary schools.

that is, of course, if i can get a place on the course. if not i may well have to wait till next ye

ar, but either way i know what i want to do with my life now, which is an improvement on last year!

we have decided to move into the bromley borough too, as we are sick of living in croydon now, and i dont want thomas going to most of the schools lo

cally (except the RC one) 

so we have been looking around, and have viewed a few flats, but until i get my income support sorted we wont be able to move.. so just waiting on that really.

michael went part time in January, and that means he is about to help out more now, which is great as i went through quite a bad patch and have been on anti depressants since, which thankfully having them and michael around a bit more has helped me. A lot of the depression was caused by what people were saying or had said about me to other people, i felt like

 everyone thought i was a bad mum, and felt unable to leave my house because i thought everyone was judging me. i reali

se now that people will bitch, unfortunately thats what women are like, (particularly the women round here it seems) as i have decided to remove myself from the people making me feel this way. 

Of course i have my chez, who is my rock and overall has supported me through this whole thing, and i think i may still be lost if i hadnt had her. so cheryl if you are reading this i just want to say thank yo

u, and i love you xx

on a brighter note, i have resolved to become more eco friendly, and have insta

lled energy saving light bulbs, a recyling box, switched to ecover, and put tom and ellen in reusable nappies. 

Now alot of people were quick to tell me i was crazy for switching the 

nappies, however it really isnt that much work, and it not only saves the environment but money too. we

 were spending £40 a month on nappies, now we only buy them very rarely, infact i havent had to buy one at all since switching cos we still have the ones left from before!

Thats a Picture of Ellen in the first nappy i put on her, bless her! 

Toms Birthday

apologies for my lack of posting recently, but been so busy with the kids its been stupid!

right so januray was last post so let me see, my sister turned 18, which was scary for me lol! 

In febrary me and michael celebrated our first wedding anniversary, and of course we had lauras birthday. march nothing exciting happened, and april we had toms birthday.

He was of course 2, and we took him on the london eye for his actual birthday which he enjoyed, and so did ellen! they were both pointing out things, tom shouting "bus" repeatedly at the top of his voice and ellen just bouncing up and down on the spot!

we had a small party at our house on the sunday which most of our friends and family came to, had a cake and opened pressies, and genrally just enjoyed having a house ful of people we loved. thomas had a lovely weekend, and i felt we had done just enough this year, as last year i felt that we didnt really make enough fuss (he was after all only one) and i made sure we got loads of pictures of both the things we did for him.

his main presant was a wooden train set, which alot of people got him extra bits for, and he got a few little bits on top of that. we didnt get much in the way of toys for him as i felt he has quite enough as it is, and he got alot more enjoyment out of a day out somewhere special than he would have done out of loads of bits of plastic.

anyway thanks to everybody who came to the party, the presents were lovely, and we hope you had a good time. (even if there was like 30 people squished into my tiny house!)