My last monthly update!

Oh lord, oh sweet baby Lord. How has it already come round to Liv turning one?! Of course I have been a complete emotional wreck the past week or so with organising her birthday party and realising that she's actually a year old.

I thought I'd do the year update now (even though her birthday was on the 24th) because I've had so much to do so it was now or never! 

Okay so in the last month or so Liv has changed A LOT. She is now 12 months old and reading through all of her monthly updates on here I can see how much she is growing up. 

Firstly, she no longer only has 2 teeth!!! She now has her top two through as well so we have a whole 4 teeth! 

Her favourite foods are grated cheese, spag bol, scrambled eggs, cous cous, white chocolate buttons, quavers, grapes, strawberries and the Ella's kitchen melty hoops. 

She LOVES squash (juice/cordial what ever you prefer to call it), cups of tea and warm milk. Every morning we both have a cup (well she has a bottle) of tea together whilst Liv watches Bing. 

Her favourite TV shows are In The Night Garden, Peppa Pig and Bing, and she still loves her nursery rhymes from YouTube. 

She can now say so many words! I can't remember all of them but off the top of my head she can say: mama, baba, dada, daddy, gangad, keekee, lala, cakey, mamar, Peppa, yes, no, ta, one, two, minger, boo, hiya, hello, bye, Corcor, cheese, please, mwah, shhh and puppy. She also says moo, woof, quack and baa! 

Liv is also now walking everywhere. Not only walking but running as well. She still falls over but can easily stand her self back up and carries on and she can climb all 3 stories of the house within about a minute!

Her favourite toys at the minute are any books, her dolls pram, her little toy oven and her iggle piggle! 

She's now pretty much out of 9-12 month clothes and is in 12-18 months or 18-24 months! 

She's done a good few wees on her potty although apparently peeing on my new rug is more fun. 

She's now in her own bedroom and although I've slept on her floor for most of this week because Callums been working late and I didn't want Livi waking him up, she's actually slept pretty decently! 

I'm still managing to squeeze her in her jumperoo as well which means I can still do all my cleaning but this is definitely that last month or so that I'm going to be able to use it. 

Other things that Livi can now do is pick her nose (I find it absolutely hilarious and she actually picks it when ever I tell her too!), wave good bye (she's been doing this since about 7/8 months), blow kisses, give proper kisses, give proper hugs, climb on to pretty much any sofa and bed, push doors open, open cupboards and bins, open DVD cases, take her bib off herself and gets the post from the letter box and brings it to you! 

And last but not least, Livi is now completely off breast milk! I don't really know how to feel about it but she weaned herself off a few days after I did her last update. It's quite sad but seeing how happy she is right now makes it all worth it!

And that's it! My last ever monthly update! 

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Living with a boy...

After living with a boy for over 2 years now I thought it was my turn to pass on the advice for new boy owners. Yes, boy, not man. Trust me, you'll understand when you live with one. 

Farts - Always gunna be number one. You never learn to cope with them. 

When he comes home from work, when you're trying to be romantic, when you're eating... Yup it's apparently acceptable to fart. 

Towels on the bed and floor, not on the towel warmers. Just leave them on the floor and let them use wet towels, they'll soon get fed up (or they'll start using your towel). 

Their idea of washing up is filling the sink with water, putting all of the pots in and leaving it all 'to soak'. By which he means he's leaving you to do it. 

Their food intake is bloody ridiculous! Like similar to what you'd imagine an extremely hungry elephants intake. Those days of doing food shopping and having a full fridge are over... He'll eat the majority whilst putting the shopping away. If I were you I'd put the shopping away yourself and hide anything that you don't want him eating!

Don't look at their washing! If you're like me then you will more than likely be the one doing all the washing so my absolute best advice is don't look at his washing!!! (Especially his boxers) just chuck everything into the washing machine with a shit load of stain remover and I'm sure you'll be absolutely fine! 

Turn the heating on yourself! If you ever find yourself laid in bed and think you'll just ask your wonderfully generous boyfriend to turn the heating on... Don't. His idea of 'heating' is shoving you under the duvet and farting. (Yup farting again). 

Learn his bank details. For some reason men have this bizarre idea that women buy a load of crap, so if you learn his bank details and order from his card then TECNICALLY you didn't actually buy the crap. You'll thank me later. 

If you notice that there's a large amount of milk/Coke/any thing that comes in a carton missing and there's no glasses in sight, DO NOT drink out of the carton!!!! The amount of spit back that my man child leaves in one swag is disgusting. Just choose a different drink. 

A mans day off is a mans day off, a woman's day off mean cleaning apparently. So train them early, Callum now knows that his day off means doing jobs just like I do! Hanging pictures, mowing the grass, decorating bedrooms! TRAIN THEM EARLY other wise you'll be eternally stuck with a giant man boy sat in his pants playing Xbox until dinner time!

And last but not least, when you first move in together don't try and be a perfect girlfriend that is happy to pick all of his shit up, wash and iron all of his clothes, runs his bath, makes him tea etc. Cause when you get bored of doing it he will NEVER let you forget about all the nice things that you used to do for him. Save yourself the ear ache and just be a bitch from day one, at least then the poor sod knows what he's got himself into. 

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Thankyou and sorry!

I'm not sure if anyone else watches Vlogs on YouTube but I am a huge lover. Partly because I'm incredibly nosey and love seeing what other people get up to but also for inspiration, parenting advice and just generally something to do when Livs napping! Anyway, since way before Liv was born I've been an absolute addict to Mrs Meldrum. Her videos calmed me before labour, give me inspiration on birthday gifts/baby buys, advice on weaning and a lot more (probably a lot more than she realised she'd help someone, especially as I don't even know her!) but recently she left a video that made me rather emotional and left me feeling quite bad about the things I take for granted so this post is basically just to say thankyou to the wonderful Mrs Meldrum and a sorry to my lovely Callum. In her video she talked about how hard it is having a husband that works off shore and how lonely she gets in the evenings and how hard it is parenting alone. Something I often moan to Callum about, the difference being I actually have him at home. It's made me realise how lucky I really am. Callum works long hours and is often out of the house before 6 and not getting home until Livs in bed. I find it so hard having to do EVERYTHING for her on a daily basis from the moment she wakes up right until she's asleep and then all through the night and I never let Callum forget it and it's sometimes super easy to forget how wonderful I have it. Not only that he works hard enough to make enough money for us to live comfortably whilst I stay at home and look after Livi but also that when he gets home he will literally listen to me moan about him being at work, give me the worlds best life advice and he cooks me dinner. I know we've probably all been there and moaned about it to the working parent but it is definitely something I won't be moaning about again! (Or at least I'll try not to anyway!). I can't even begin to imagine how hard it is having a partner work away or even not having a partner and doing all the mummy grafting yourself, absolutely baffles me how amazingly some people cope. So thankyou Mrs Meldrum on your unintended life advice and sorry Callum for being nob head of the year!