Logan's 6 month update

So I'm a little bit late on posting Logan's 6 month update! It's hard to admit my tiny newborn is 6 months old!!! 

I cannot believe how much he is learning, everyday is totally different and he learns so much! 

He is army crawling everywhere... Nothing is safe any longer! But it is so much fun to see him going and getting what he wants to play with or sliding on over to you. He can put one nee forwards but then lies down so we're working on the crawling. 

This month we've started baby led weaning and he is doing amazing on it! He will pretty much eat anything. At first it was a case of sucking something spitting it out and throwing it on the floor but a few weeks on and he is pulling bits off with his gums chewing it and swallowing it. He has been for his first carvery (and two more after that) and had his own little meal. 

Talking!!! Logan started first saying mama then baba then dada and nana. Now he says dada quite a lot but when he cries or is tired or hungry he will shout mama. So it makes it ok that he says dada all day. 

The funniest thing Logan does at the moment is scream when you do! It's so funny! In the morning in bed we all scream for ages because why not!? If you scream he will copy you and he loves it! 

For Logan's half birthday (yes we celebrated it) we had a 6 month cake smash and went to the sea life centre! We had so much fun and he loved it so much. I got him a fish tank and am slowly filling it up with fish. He loves looking at them! 

Logan also attended his first football match besides watching his daddy at 3 days old! He was a bit bored though and ended up eating wot sits to occupy him 

Also Logan went on his first swing and had so much fun!!! 

The kind of parent I hope to be!

Looking back at my childhood I try to look at the days my mum and dad made us stay in and do nothing, watch tv because they couldn't be bothered to go out or they were too tired from working all week, or it had been raining and they didn't want me getting dirty... 

Then I remember we didn't have any days like this! 

Growing up we were always out and about or playing with our parents, either riding our bikes in the garden, or out as a family, going on days on a boat or to the park or swimming... No matter what we were always doing something and always having fun. 

My parents were very orientated on me and my sister, if we were playing in the garden they would be there with us... I remember playing in the swimming pool in the garden with my dad and riding my bike around with him, mum would play with my teddys with me and even put on a birthday party for one of my dolls once! 

We did things that me and my sister wouldn't want to do, like go and look at airplanes or war museums but it would always turn out fun! And we owed them really for sitting through a barbie and barney concert! 

When people ask me about Disney films or old tv shows my reply is 90% of the time no I haven't seen that, and they always say I was a deprived child... But how on earth they can say that is beyond me! Who wants to sit inside watching tv when their parents want to play with them and take them out! 

I was such a Tom boy growing up, which I'm sure my dad loved, I would always be in the mud playing with worms and making fish and chips with stones and worms and playing football and riding my bike and playing in water and it was the best times of my life! 

When I look at the parent I want to be.. its for my children to look back at their childhood and say that they can only remember days out and fun with their mum and dad... Bike rides, haven holidays, camping, days out to the beach, walking up mountains, playing in dirt, going to the beach, driving all the way to Wales just for a chippy or all the way to stoke just to go to water world... Every single year for my birthday without fail because that's what I wanted to do! 

Every parent worrys they won't be good enough, but as long as my children have the same childhood that me and my sister did then I will have done a pretty damn good job! 

My parents deserve medals for bringing us up with all the fun they did because it's only now that I realise how hard it is to do things all the time with your children and also I feel for the amount of people who don't get to spend time with their kids! 

I will be an amazing mum to my children. I might not always get it right but I will always try and will always turn to my parents for help because now they get to be amazing grand parents instead 😊

Xxxxxxx