Well, since my last post which took place during the packing of what felt like endless amounts of boxes, we have successfully moved and have been in our new house for approx. a month. It’s a lovely home, it felt right as soon as I walked through the front door. We have had oodles of help in the form of our parents, helping us to make our first home so special. James’ parents have helped enormously with the fees as well as our lovely garden accessories (shed, table & chairs, barbecue) and my mum has helped with the furniture. Because we were living in a part-furnished rental house, we had hardly anything to bring with us – the important things like beds, sofas, dining table all needed to be sorted, and mum helped us massively with that. In fact, because of their help, our first home looks like it’s been lived in and added to for a couple of years, where in fact we’ve only been here for 4 weeks – currently considering ourselves immensely lucky. Here’s a few pictures of our place – I need to take more now it has stuff in it, but that would require tidying it up a bit, and it’s half 10 in the morning (too early for housework).

In other news, Freyja’s Birthday has been and gone! It feels so strange to say she’s one. It feels like yesterday that we were bringing her home from the hospital all tucked up nice and warm in her little Maxi Cosi car seat. And here she is, outgrown the car seat and in a Britax one, in 9-12 month clothes and growing by the day.

And… She can walk!! She’s been walking properly for just under a couple of weeks, having made a few steps beforehand. She’s like properly walking! It’s weird! And she’s fast – meaning I have to be doubly on the ball at every minute, because now, she just doesn’t stop!

I’ve got a few blog posts planned for the next month or two – I can’t guarantee I’ll write them as often as I’d like, but I will try! Now I have the internet back, I don’t really have an excuse!

In other news, we are waiting on a call from the bank – hopefully approving our mortgage application! Eek! We have seen a lovely house in Portsmouth that we are really hoping we get accepted for. It won’t be ready until March, as it’s a new build, but we are waiting on a call from the bank. It’s nerve racking to say the least! And one helluva big step. But a step we both so desperately want to take.
We’re off t’up North for the weekend to see friends – it’ll be a nice break, and hopefully get some pictures. I’ve just realised I’ve been pretty slack on the photos in September. In fact, I’ve been pretty slack on everything.
I need to get some pictures of Freyja sitting – she is so good now! She seems to have perfected her sitting technique, and her balance, over night. She hardly wobbles now! Clever girly – 5 months and sitting like a star. We are so proud of her!