Sunny Saturday

Finally, we have  a break today from the dreadful weather!
Oh what a joy to have blue sky and sunshine instead of the gloom and wet we have had for the past weeks. It is 15C today of just pure sunshine.
No wind too. Just lovely.

Our day started  very early.
At 4 am I woke up to a very loud thud. Little Girl had  fallen out of bed! She cried of course but only for a few seconds then went back to sleep.
The worrier in me was the one who could not go back to sleep after.
So I scooped her up and put her in our bed. Waited for Dearest Husband to woke up and then the re arrangement began.

This was how her room used to look like. The bed was in the middle.

This is because I have to accommodate her Hello Kitty play house.
It is just so space consuming and no matter where you put it, it really affects the room's space however small or big it is.
This used to be in her playroom downstairs but it helped her feel at ease in moving to her bedroom hence it has to stay.

And this is now the new arrangement. I just really hope this will work this time now as one side is close to the wall.  A friend also advised to get a bed rail guard.

I have to put back the kitchen and piano toys in the playroom.
The play house stayed  and the the  natural brown changing table which I use as a book case now is placed at the foot of her bed.

This is not the only re arrangement we have done. We also did the same to the stair gates downstairs.
We have a total of 5 in this house.:  2 in the second floor (1 at 2nd floor landing  to stop her going to the 3rd  floor and the other 1 to stop her going to the ground floor).
The other 3 were all in the ground floor:   1 to prevent her going to the kitchen, 1 in the hallway to stop her going to the front door and 1 in her play room.
Her playroom is just next to the stairs.  Now, we removed both the one in the hallway and the one in the the playroom and just put one instead at the bottom of the stairs.
It is much better. She can just come and go to her playroom from the  living room and back without me worrying her climbing up the stairs.

 I have also noticed these past few days that the summer bulbs are already starting to come out while the spring flowers are already finished for this year.

Some of my back garden flowers already springing to life.


At about half past 3pm I told Dearest Husband I wanted to go out.
It seems such a waste to just stay at home and do nothing when the weather outside is just beautiful.

Here we are on our outfits of the day:

Wearing a long sleeve K&D  London top

  Fossil black cross body bag both from my shopping last week

Carvella black ankle boots

H&M Sqin jeans in dark denim blue

a very old Giordano belt.

Although I soon realized after I could have just  worn  instead some open toed heels or a maxi dress, or anything summery for that matter. The weather was just really lovely.

Taking a picture of Little Girl was such a challenge. Here are my few attempts.

Little Girl wearing a Mothercare sleeveless dress 

Pumpkin Patch white tights

Clarks  purple shoes

We went to Touchwood Shopping Center in Solihull.
We made the most out of the 2 hours still left on the mall's opening hours.
Little Girl was with me when we went to different shops.
She would always refuse to stay in her stroller and loves walking around and trying on all the shopping.
But most often, she also loves lying on the flower, playing hide and seek, going to the lift to press the buttons so I definitely could not concentrate on my shopping.
I have to give her back to her dad who is waiting for us at a coffee shop.

while patiently waiting for mummy to come back from her shopping.

I did not have much time left to check all the shops.
I just went straight to Zara, Gap and H&M.
There was nothing that appealed to me at Zara and the black maxi dress at Gap was not too convincing either.
In the end, I settled for these jeans at H&M. It is the same with the one I am wearing on the above picture only on different colours.

H&M jeans from their Sqin collection.  Low waist skinny jeans in black and white colour.  They are only £9.99 each.

I am not one of those who are very particular with only wearing a designer jeans or tops. I am more with the fit and comfort. And as I wear jeans most of the time, replacing/adding some more won't be financially challenging.  

Back in the Philippines I am a fan of the Bench jeans. There were several instances before  in my trips abroad (Paris and Las Vegas) wherein I was often asked about my jeans and where to get it from. I could not help but smile as a pair would only cost Php 700.00 (or about £10.00 at present conversion) . 

And this was back in 2006.

 Nowadays, I am into H&M and Dorothy Perkins jeans. I still go to Levi's occasionally.  
Shoes and bags are a different story of course. 

I sincerely wish the sunshine would still be with us tomorrow. 
I still have more loads of washing to do. And I want a beautiful day out with Little Girl somewhere she can really enjoy.
Good night everyone.

The Tale of Little Girl's Sleeping Accommodation

I announced in  my Facebook yesterday that my Little Girl has finally slept in her own bed in her own bedroom. She  finally made the long overdue move. This may not be a big deal to some but to us it was a very big moment. We have waited and struggled for this for a long time.  Although this wasn't any fault of her own. I take all the blame. I've been putting off the move, for months. It was a big undertaking on my part. The first 6 months were understandable. It was also the recommendation. But as I was exclusively breastfeeding her (and she asked to be fed almost every 2 hours up to her 9th month) I found it too inconvenient to move her to her room while I would get up several times at night to feed her, hence her sleeping in our room. Plus I also breastfed her until she was 17 months so this gave me the further excuse to just let her stay in our room. But as soon  she was weaned off, we were already in the stage where moving  had become really challenging.  Don't get me wrong, there were times she slept in her room but I would end up putting her back in our room because I lost a lot of sleep. I would keep  checking on her although there was really no need. I was just being so anxious . Or should we say I just could not really let go of my Little Girl.

The  nursery room  I lovingly decorated while pregnant with her was never used

As she slept in our bedroom since her first night at home.

Our room has been re arranged several times to accommodate her.

From crib/moses basket days to big cot days -  which started  about her 2nd  month as she  outgrew her moses basket so quickly.

the cot was really next to my side of the bed

But I did try to move her into her own bedroom.

and  back again to our bedroom after a few days.It became a cycle- asking Dearest Husband to put her cot in her bedroom or in our bedroom and unsurprisingly, he eventually got fed up or should I say exhausted of the assembling/dis assembling. He let the cot stay in her room. I can totally understand. It is not easy to move a cot from one room to another.

We let her slept in a travel cot instead. We thought this would just be for the time being until she would move to her bedroom. Of course it didn't happen right away as what we originally wanted.

And as she got older, it has just gotten more difficult. She would even want to sleep in our bed. Although we never let her and as soon as she's asleep we would put her in her cot. She may be sleeping with us in our bedroom until she was 26 months old  but she never slept with us in the bed. I would not even breastfed her in the bed before for fear of sleeping over her.

And then one day, I finally told Dearest Husband that it  was  about time. I was very ready by then.  This was when she was turning 2 years old. By that time, her cot  (in her room) was already a toddler bed (dropped the sides down as it's a cot bed at the same time)  but she  would not  sleep there. We even sort of camped in her bedroom (by putting a mattress on the floor) just to let her feel she was not alone. Those were nights of struggles,  so finally exhausted,  just let her  carry on sleeping in our bedroom.

Her new bedroom was just waiting for her.  I have had spent time moving and redecorating  her room. Her nursery room before was a smaller one and was across ours. The present one is bigger and just next to ours.  I spent days redecorating her  new room with the Disney Princess theme. I did all the wallpapering myself and the Wall Mural was the hardest part. It came in 12 parts and I have to make sure that they were all pieced together correctly in all its sides.

 And just last weekend, we finally bought her a grown up single size bed. I thought it might help in the moving aspect. And true enough , she immediately warmed to it. She spent her first night soundly asleep and when she woke up in the morning, she did not cry,  just went to our room and  climbed into the bed with us. Although I have to admit I was the one who was very apprehensive. I checked her several times. Even tried  sleeping beside her. In the end, I just left her bedroom door and ours half open and  put on the baby monitor. I was being so silly!! And since then on, she just settled into her new sleeping accommodation so quickly as if she has been sleeping there for months now.

And it just felt so good to have finally our bedroom back to ourselves after a very long 27 months! (as we have of course arranged and put her crib beside our bed before she arrived).

from this - with the travel cot on the side

to this!!!

Anyway, I have to sleep now. And as of this writing, my Little Girl is already in dreamland asleep in her own bed in her own bedroom!! Now, what was that  fuss all about in moving to a new room? I  couldn't be any prouder.