This Was Calleigh's Year: 2012

Wow, what a year this has been.

It has definitely been an interesting one.

Paul and I have been finding ourselves as first time parents and Calleigh has grown up so much .

 

It doesn't seem that long ago since we all saw the year 2012 in (well Calleigh fell asleep at 11:50pm so didn't technically see it in). I can't wait to see what next year has in store for us. One thing I am sure of is that Calleigh will continue to grow into a beautiful little angel drama queen!!

 

2012 was the year I started this blog for Calleigh and I am determined to continue it throughout 2013 hopefully after that too. Here are some of my past posts that mark important milestones of the past year.

 

Calleigh's first time in the snow

My first Mother's Day

Calleigh's first trip to skegness

An unusually warm couple of days in May

Calleigh's first holiday to St Louis, Missouri

 her first steps

her first Halloween

 A trip to Copenhagen

A trip to Ipswich

 her first Birthday

Meeting Santa for the first time

And a very Merry Christmas.

 

I hope you all have a very Happy New Year!!

 

Calleigh and I celebrating last year



Calleigh's Christmas Day

 

 

We all had a great Christmas this year. Calleigh got Lot's of presents from Santa, ate loads of food and overall had a truly amazing but tiring day (she couldn't wait to get to bed).

 

Presents!!

More Presents!!

Calleigh opening her present

A few of the things Calleigh got for Christmas

In her Christmas dress

The dinner table all set

Calleigh's Christmas dinner

Yummy :-)

More presents at Mee-Maws



 

Calleigh's favourite part of the day: Opening the Cat

My favourite part of the day: Seeing Paul shed a little tear when he opened his iPad (I fooled him into thinking I only brought him some teabags and a book, then sprung it on him)

Paul's favourite part of the day: Probably the same as mine.

 

The fun isn't over yet, tomorrow the three of us are going to Nanna and Grandad's for another Christmas dinner and to see Auntie Emma and Uncle Jim.

Looking forward to that!

 

Thank you to all our family and friends who brought Calleigh gifts :-)

 

I hope you all had a brilliant day too!



Calleigh's Menu: 12 Months

The time has finally come where Daddy and I get our table back. Good bye steriliser! Goodbye bottle's. Hello sitting down and eating meals together again.

 

Now Calleigh is a year old, pretty much anything goes. She eats what we eat, when we eat, 3 times a day.

 

For breakfast she is now on 2 Weetabix and a slice of toast (piggy).

We have tried her with Lot's of new food's for dinner, these include Chicken Fingers, Pizza, Brussels and other veg, Egg Mayonnaise, Tuna, Gammon and countless other things. She pretty much eats whatever you give her, although sometimes a bit funny with it at first.

I think her favourite foods are potato and beans.

 

She hasn't quite been able to get her head round a fork yet and just stabs at her food like a crazy person then throws it on the floor and goes in with her fingers instead.

Hopefully we will get there soon.

 

 





I was going to put some more photo's on from my iPhone but I accidentally deleted them all without copying or backing my phone up.

So now I am just going to have a little cry at my stupidity and all my lost photo's of beans :-( 

 

 



Outfit of the Month: Christmas Special

 

Mrs Santa Costume: Matalan (only £8!)

Meeting Santa (Sort of)

On Sunday Mee-Maw took Calleigh and I to Westfield Centre in Derby so Calleigh could meet Santa and get a little present from him.

We got our time slot but still had an hour to kill so decided to do some browsing. Calleigh fell in love with a new cat teddy so of course we persuaded Mee-Maw to buy it for her. It actually freaks me out a bit, It's got massive eyes!

 

After a lovely black forest hot chocolate in Costa it was time for us to go back and meet Santa.

There wasn't a long wait, just enough time to get some pictures of the grotto.

 

You will notice that there are no actual photo's of Calleigh meeting Santa below, this is because as soon as we entered and she caught sight of Santa she burst into tears and actually started shaking a little with fear. Who knew Santa was so scary. Poor Calleigh.

 



"Oooooooh"



Love for the freaky cat

 

 

If you do want to see Calleigh with Santa there is a photo of her with him on a previous post when she went with Nanna and Grandad.

 

 

While I'm here I would also like to say a big thank you to Charlotte from CharlottesWeb for my new blog design. Love it :-)