Liverpool, the village where the Beatles were from?

The Plan: Liverpool, the train time 09:06 from Winsford which meant we needed to be up at the butt crack of dawn which I was dubious about but to get a good day in Liverpool we needed to get a move on and get a move on we did b eing out of the house in enough time to find there were was no parkinking at Winsford so we drove to Northwich and caught the train from there.

The journey was good and we had a little bit of fun on the way with Reagan “bye byeing” every farm animal we passed and Lincoln wanting to stand and look out of the window the whole way there but by the time we arrived both kids were over the train and sitting still!

Getting a taxi to the Albert dock where I thought we could see some stuff and decided on the Titanic exhibition in the Maritime Museum which I particularly enjoyed followed by the Slavery exhibition in the same building. Hungry we walked around the dock eventually eating in Circo a clown themed pub which Jamie was overjoyed at….not! (The food was excellent though and I would highly recommend it)

A Beatles Tour was last on the agenda and we flagged down a taxi advertising a tour and we were not disapointed he was an excellent guide although he didn’t have enough room in his taxi so he got a mate to follow him and we got his dialogue each time we visited an important place like where they lived as kids went to school hung out got their hair cut etc a very informative even for someone that isn’t the biggest Beatles fan…

Later at home Grandma was feeling a little sore so she went to bed early leaving Emily Jamie and me to “get pissed” whilst watching ‘Embarrassing bodies’ on C4 lets just say when I woke at 11:30 I remember the girls falling asleep before the end of Embarrassing Bodies and their first drink and I was practically sober too so we all retired.

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Standing to attention on a train

He just wants to stand up and he doesn’t care if we’re doing 70 miles per hour?

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Standing to attention

I spent 20 minutes with Lincoln this morning and he just wanted to stand up all the time, I watched him at the gate as I washed up and he pulled himself up to standing 2 or 3 times. I reckon he will be walking around the furniture over the next couple of weeks to a month and will be walking by the end of July.

Ok, I’ve been wrong before but this little guy knows what he wants and that is to be like his big sister and be mobile.

Crawling is easy for him now and sitting up from laying rolling front back and back to front are second nature to him so why not walking in a couple of months?

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Welcome to Middlewich

The day was planned as a Middlewich day to meander around the town, rivers and canals showing Emily and Pam where we live. It was a sunny day but cool when the sun wasn’t out and I wouldn’t bet against getting wet at some point, but we set off walking up the canal taking coats under the pram just incase.

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Grandma and Auntie Emmy arrive YAY!

Today started with us waking to a sleeping Reagan a wide awake Lincoln and the news that Grandma and Auntie Em had made up over 30 inutes on their flight over night so instead of waking up at 6am and having plenty of time to get out of the house and get to the airport we were rushing…?

Mommy Lincoln and I had breakfast and then had to go wake Reagan up, ALWAYS up at 6 but today of all days dead to the world at 7 and probably would lie in till frickin 9 if we were not heading to the airport?

Anyway we got to the airport and were not waiting long…

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Worst Dad :-(

First night with Grandma and it ended with me doing bathtime(?) while Grandma looked on, and was a pleasure to do until I told Reagan it was time to do teeth. She decided it wasn’t time to do teeth and said no, so I asked her to think about what she was doing and told her again to stand up and let me brush her teeth.

Now I believe that I am second in command in this house (Mommy being matriarch and head of the family lol) but Reagan has to learn that if either Mommy or Daddy asks her to do something then that’s it she has to do it and if I backed down after asking would be showing her that she can say No to anything and I will back down.

So after the second time of asking I lifted her into the standing position where she became limp and started screaming but I had started something and felt I had to finish it but knew Grandma was right behind me and I wanted it to be perfect and now “IT WASN’T”

It embarrassed Grandma enough to leave and Momma came in and took over and Reagan let her clean her teeth…

That just left me feeling like the worst Dad, it was embarrassing and I didn’t like that feeling at all!

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I really had “almost” given up

Tonight I got home from work, to a nice house with everyone enjoying eating their tea. When I say enjoying it I mean really enjoying the event not just the food mommy served up and to be honest I felt a little sceptical? After night after night of coaxing cojoaling and ass kissing (not literally) it was impossible to think that we could have “a good night” with no tantrums…

Reagan tonight was amazing!

She ate her tea and laughed and giggled the whole time, then we went upstairs and she sat in front of the computer watching “TIGGER” and pooh thoroughly enjoying watching what was on the screen. This was brilliant for me because I sat there and watched her, enthralled at pooh’s adventures…!

We moved to bath and bed and she was LOVELY and it all culminated in her crawling in to bed where I read her a story kissed her good night told her I loved her and left the room leaving a tired Reagan to drift off…

I am revitalised in family life. love my family with all of my heart……….?

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Lincoln on the otherhand!

…has become easy, after his torrid first ten or twelve weeks, so much so that you forget about his illness now as he laughs and giggles through life (with quite a bit of crying sprinkled in between lol)

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The harder I try

Just lately is seems that no matter what I do its not right, Reagan has entered the “terrible two’s” with a vengeance and the whole family is feeling the strain, because we have to ignore Reagan while she screams

From my point of view we are doing our best whether it be right or wrong only time will tell but ignoring the mood swings and tantrums while they are happening takes a lot of inner strength and at the moment I do not have that in abundance and it requires Jamie to remind me not to react. The problem comes when its over and I have all that frustration still inside me I have no idea what to do with it…and that is so stressful?

I guess I will need to learn as we go a technique to deal with it but for now my beautiful daughter is pushing my buttons and the harder I try she gets under my skin!

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Four Milestones in a day?

1. Rolled from back to front
2. Sits up on his own
3. Pulls himself up to standing
4. Crawls on hands and knees

Read them and be amazed as we have been all day. Jamie said look he’s crawling on his hands and knees and we thought that’s the reason he has been sleeping alot, Reagan always used to sleep alot in the build up to something big. Little did we know that at 32 weeks old he would also FINALLY suss rolling from back to front instead of laying there crying like a stranded bug, two big things to accomplish in a day.

Don’t look away though mom and dad watch this, he only crawls goes and sits up from crawling and then from his belly too. Wow Linc that is the biggest day of your life I bet you’ll need to sleep now?

Nope, he only goes and grabs the fire guard and drags himself up to a standing position JEEZ that was amazing but was it a fluke? When we put him down for a nap in the afternoon he drifted straight off but an hour or so later when we returned to the kids room he was stood holding onto the cot side. (We had to lower the cot base straight away because he was hanging over the side as it was.

So there you go what a day in Lincolns life

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