What happened?!

OK so a couple of months ago I came here to write a blog post. 

On logging on I discovered all my pictures had disappeared! I have no idea what happened but years worth of pictures had just vanished. 

It's taken ages for me to try and find them to re-add them. I have added what I can but I've also had to delete a lot of posts, mostly food & recipe ones as I no longer had the pictures for them. Really frustrating!

Now that I have managed to rebuild it the best I can I hope to get back to regular blogging :)

Home Education

I have been meaning to sit and write a post on this for ages. Looks like I'm finally getting round to it...

We've always had trouble with Louie at school. He has never settled, nor enjoyed school. It used to break my heart dropping him off and leaving him either unsettled and sad or crying. I hated it and would spend the whole day feeling sad myself thinking about him and how his day was going. He was so stressed that he would go to bed and cry himself to sleep because he was dreading school in the morning.

In april I decided I couldn't take it anymore and I deregistered him from school. Just the look of relief on his little face when I told him he no longer had to go to school made it worthwhile for me.

He is honestly a different child. I have loved having him home and Frankie loves his company too. Now that I have had Toby we are going to start getting involved in some Home Ed meet up groups and we are hopefully starting up our own local one too so we have exciting times ahead :)

I will keep you updated on our journey!

Frankie turns 3!

On July 25th we celebrated little Frankie's 3rd birthday. I honestly can't believe how quick these kids are growing up, I really wish time would slow down.

We surprised the kids with a bouncy castle, they were thrilled. Since baby Toby was only a few weeks old we had decided to just get a bouncy castle for our own kids and have a nice garden lunch rather than a big party.

They all had a fab day and were shattered by the end of it. As you can see below, little Toby just slept through it!

It's a BOY!!!

I haven't had chance to pop on here and update in a while as I just haven't had the time. And truth be told I have totally been babymooning and making the most of every minute with my newborn. Yes....my NEWBORN. Baby is here! 

Our beautiful baby boy, Toby Klae Williams, was born on July 6th (a whole week overdue!) at 3.45am. I had my second home waterbirth and it was another amazing experience. Very quick as my first contraction was at 12.45am and he was born at 3.45am. He weighed a massive 9lb14.5oz!

I had just gas and air and the pool for pain relief. We had the lights out, candles lit and some lovely natal hypnotherapy birth music playing. it was very relaxed. My midwife, Mary, was amazing and totally made me feel safe and at ease. We were actually her first proper birth since she officially registered as a midwife so I am really glad it was a great experience for her, she was so pleased and on a huge high!

I had a natural third stage. This is something I had never done before as I have always had the injection to help the placenta along. The contractions for the placenta were as bad as the ones before Toby arrived but I'm so glad I had a fully natural birth. I did have a small tear but it was allowed to heal naturally on the promise I would sit with my legs together for 3 days. No problem, I planned on doing nothing but resting.

We are all totally in love with little Toby, he's so squidgy and cute. Time is flying by, yet it feels like he's always been here.

20 Week Scan!

Today I am 20+1. I had my 20 week scan at 10am.

20+1 Bump

Baby #5 is doing just perfect! I can't quite believe the size difference between the last scan and now. Baby has come on so much and looks just gorgeous!

The measurements from my scan report are as follow-

 FL 34.6mm

 HC 186.0mm

 AC 155.0mm

Olivia's First Musicals Show

Olivia took part in a drama club at school. Just before Christmas they put on a stage show. Their take on the west end musicals. It was a fab show, I loved it. They did songs from Grease, Mama Mia, We Will Rock You & more!

Operation Day

So Frankie finally went in for his operation on December 11th. I had decided to stay home and let daddy and granddad go with him. It sounds awful but I knew I couldn't see him be put to sleep. It would have broken my heart especially with all the extra pregnancy hormones I am carrying right now.

As it happens I got sent to A&E due to bleeding on the morning of his op so I was never destined to go anyway. As he set out to LGI I set off to Dewsbury & District hospital. What a pair we were!

He was supposed to be taken down at 12pm but hubby was told they were running late and he finally went down at 1.45pm.

I had told hubby he would be in bits when he was put to sleep but hubs seemed to think he would be ok with it. As it was, I was right (as always, ha) and hubby was in bits and cried his eyes out. When he called me and told me how awful it was I felt horrible and really guilty and had a bit of a weep when I got off the phone.

The operation went well. It turned out his testicle had died on its way down to the scrotum. They removed all the tissue and I am so thankful its over and done with, we all are.

 He woke for a little while then went back to sleep.

He then had to have some toast & water and a bit of observation before he could come home.

Here he is putting on a brave face

We were all so excited to see him. We had missed and worried about him all day long. He was in for lots of cuddles when he got in and all the poor love wanted to do was sleep.

He's recovering well, he's still a bit sore and bruised but he is getting there.

We have waited so long for it to be done it seems so strange that we no longer have it hanging over us.

Oh and there was no obvious cause for my bleeding. I had a scan two days later and bubs is just fine.