40 today!

Happy birthday to me. It's a big one, I'm in a reflective mood so soppy alert...serious soppiness coming up. 

When I hit my 20th I was a student, single, broke, no idea what I wanted to do and defined my teenage years as a disaster cause of the lack of boyfriends. When I hit my 30th I was single, living back at home, having spent a fairly uneventful decade in Dublin...not exactly disastrous but still not many boyfriends (I was far too obsessed with boyfriends or lack thereof, especially on my birthdays).

Now I'm 40 and in the last decade all my dreams came true. I got everything I ever wanted but assumed I'd never have. It's hard to believe that I have 4 precious people in my life that weren't there 10 years ago. How lucky am I that I get to spend my 40th with a new baby and two lively three and a half year olds, and I get to spend the next decade being part of their childhoods, watching them all grow up. And I finally have a boyfriend turned husband...who was worth the long wait.

So age is just a number and this birthday the only thing I'm counting... is my blessings :)

12 weeks today

It's going too fast. Our little boo is 12 weeks today. The days of sleeping on chests, swaddling, wobbly heads and winding are slipping by. What a lovely addition Hannah has been to our family. These days she is sleeping til about 6.30, feeding with no fuss and is still as placid and undemanding as ever. After an initial week of breastfeeding torment followed by 7 weeks of me pumping she decided she wanted to try again and took to the boob no bother. Her mouth had to grow to accommodate my freakishly large nipples apparently. Yeah for me, I've almost hung up my pump for good and more or less ditched the bottles.

In other news it feels like the lads have been non stop sick over the last few weeks. At one stage everyone was sick and at home including myself and Sean. I never want to go through that again! So I have nothing done for Christmas or the christening on Sunday. Everything needs to slow down. Here's some photos...

Swaddled angel, she is starting to wriggle though.

Lots of smiles and chat 

Snuggling on a lovely warm tummy with daddy and big brother

There's none of Lucy over the last few weeks cause she has decided to take up photography. She took this one, not bad for three and a half! We are hoping Santa might bring her a camera so mammy can get her phone back.