ohh the zzzz's, the glorious zzzz's!

This blog post is to celebrate a significant event in my short life of motherhood so far: Giles' first sleep through the entire night.

It happened on October 30th, one month ago from today!

Motherhood takes on a whole new sugar coating when your baby sleeps through the night. It seriously transforms you into a new person haha. To finally get a full stretch of sleep, longer than the normal 3 or 4 hour stretch for a new baby, is just incredible. To go about three or four months with interrupted nights really wears you down. So I want to celebrate this whole month of sleep and to celebrate my gorgeous, happy baby boy, Mr. Giles Spencer!

baby baby oh baby!!!

Giles' studio portraits. ERRMMM YEAHHH caaahuuuutteee???? YES YES YES!!!

ZUMBA!

I've bought the Zumba DVD kit recently. I have never bought anything from an infomercial before, so I was a bit reserved. But the Zumba program looked really nice and worthwhile, so I took a gamble and I bought it.
I've had it about 5 days now. I make sure to do it every single day so I get my money's worth and so I don't become lazy or unmotivated.
Today is the hardest day so far haha I am just so tired! I really don't want to do it right now. Nevertheless, I shall get off my bum and get shakin!

It really is a fun program. I love to dance, although I can't really dance with much skill hahh. Zumba takes fun dancing and stretches it a little bit more into it being a real workout. It's really a good buy, I do recommend it.

Now off of the computer and time to start shimmying. Haha

x

studio

Just a quick little post about something that happened this past week. Giles went to get his first studio portraits done!

Every momma that has a baby in England gets something called a Bounty pack. It has free samples, coupons and deals, baby and new mum magazines, etc. Well every Bounty pack has free vouchers to get your baby's photo done every 6 months at Pixifoto, with one free 8 by 10 included. Well we went this past Tuesday and it was a great experience!

As ya'll know, I dabble in photography. But of course, I don't have the benefits of having a studio. So I was excited to get some studio lighting and props and all that in some pictures.

Giles did SOO well! The photographer was really nice, she was a nice girl, about my age or maybe a little older. She got him to smile well and she complimented Giles on how happy and smiley he was for just a 4 month old. Said the smiles came out easily and that he is just gorgeous (of course I agreed completely :P). We got the free shot, and, of course, when you see all the other adorable shots you just cannot help yourself. So Josh said it was okay to buy some more shots. I spent £100 (yeah we don't drop our little bit of cash too easily haha so you know these pictures must be cute! haha) but yeah we got 2 more 8 by 10's and one 10 by 20 with three pictures in centered and spaced in the middle.

I get to pick the prints up at the end of the month! I'm so excited! I'll definitely scan them in and put one on the blog! YAYY!! I love my gorgeous boy.

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Recent things Giles has been doing lately:

-He just HAS to stand nowadays (with help obviously! hah). He loves to stand, wobble around, and take in everything. He's always been so alert, so standing is his new favorite viewpoint.
-Giles is just drooling more and more. It's getting quite bad hah! He is definitely in the teething stages. No signs of a tooth yet, but it will probably just pop up one day.
-He talks all day long. He is always going 'woo woo woo woo woo woo woo', ALL day haha. But he throws in some high pitched squeals and laughs when he's especially delighted. I just love his high pitched sounds hahah. I crack up everytime!
-Giles is getting very good being on his tummy. He lifts his head wayyy up now, and can hold it up for a long time, about 2 or 3 minutes. He lifts his legs up at the same time as well and he looks like a dolphin at Sea World haha.
-He is developing a little mind of his own more and more. Gone are the days of little soft baby you can easily do anything with like swaddling him up, putting him in his car seat, holding him calmly on your lap or in your arms, etc. He is getting so strong and he will thrash around if he doesn't want to do something haha. This means he's getting a bit more difficult at church haha. He used to just chill or even sleep most of the way through. But I've had to take him out a few times for being too noisy, etc.

He is just growing up so so so fast. I love spending my days with him, playing with him and trying to stimulate his brain. He just loves books still and he loves interaction. He is so alert and so happy, he really is rarely fussy. I find I am just kissing him all day long haha! You never know before motherhood exactly how much you're going to love your child. You really can't fully fathom that love! I just love my little Giles and I feel SO blessed that he is healthy and doing well. :P