What has made me happy - #R2BC

Father's day @ Sea Life London

I find is always good to stop and reflect on good things life bring your way, it's only very easy to get caught up on the wave of bad and inconvenient things that happen everyday, it can be hard to keep things in perspective.

At the moment I feel extremely grateful for having the opportunity to meet up with my brother and sister after 3 years away. We used to go to Brasil (sorry I can't write that with the Z) every two years and between pregnancy, redundancy and a new job we end up never travelling passed September 2011. My mum came over for Harry's birthday and stayed with us for a couple of months- great help - but apart from that I haven't seen anyone from my family since July 2013.

With Harry's birthday arriving we have been lucky enough to receive two visitors who, as the rest of the family, were crazy to meet Harry in person and give him loads of cuddles. My sister spent two weeks with us and my brother arrived on the day of Harry's birthday party and stayed with us for a week. I loved having them around PLUS it was just brilliant to have some free baby sitters. Our lill guy of course had the best time with lots of people to give him all the attention in the world, just the ticket.

It was sad to see them leaving, specially my brother who I have always felt very close, even when I moved to London and it wasn't long before he moved to Canada and became the one person in my family who actually understand what it meant to me when I left it all being to live in the UK. Hopefully it won't be long until we meet again, 3 year was far too much time to spend away from those that I love. 

Reasons to be Cheerful 1,2,3...

After the 4th ear infection and two weeks of antibiotics I can finally breath in relief as lill guy seems to be getting back to his lovely normal self. After 3 months trying to get him to eat properly when I finally thought things were finally working he got ill and stop eating all together. I was then back to breastfeed every two hours, sometimes every hour. I must admit I did panic for a bit there but luckily the infection is gone - together with all the side effects from taking antibiotics - and Harry has started to eat again. I know most mums out there will understand me but I just cannot explain how happy I feel when I see him eating well, 3 meals a day.

so my main reasons to be cheerful at the moment are

1. Harry is back on track, healthy little feller.
2. I'm back to breastfeeding him only  a few times a day, happy mummy.
3. lill guy and daddy seems to be closer and closer everyday. They play, roll around the floor and cuddle as I always hoped they would. As a breastfed baby he will still prefer mum for certain things but he hardly ever cries now when he seems me walking away.

This post is for the #R2BC linky hosted by the lovely Michelle from Mummy from the Heart, click on the image below to know more about it. 

#R2BC - Reasons to be cheerful... 1, 2, 3

looking back at 2012 I've spent half of the year being pregnant and the other half learning to be a mum. i must say the second half is by far my favorite. Pregnancy wasn't exactly fun and even though being a mum is proper hard work, even overwhelming at times, it also is one of the most beautiful things I have ever done in my whole life. If I was ever to name one selfless act I'm sorry but being a mum isn't that. i love my little guy, in a way that I never thought was possible and whenever you do something for love you do it for that amazing feeling love brings. I do everything I do when looking after lovely Harry not because I am this saint of a person but because I want to see him happy as that makes me happy. so agree with me? Not selfless at all.

On that note - and to take part of one of my favorite memes for the first time- here are my three reasons to be cheerful this week:

1 - I have a lovely little boy, or a big baby as you wish. He is healthy and strong and as far as I can tell he is also a happy baby. I love the way his face lights up with a smile about a thousand times a day. He is extremely curious and inquisitive and I just cannot have enough of watching him discovering this world.

2 - I have an amazing partner who really embraced the daddy inside of him - who knew he had it in him at all? - I can see in his eyes how much he loves Harry and I just love watching them playing and bonding. Every morning after my cuddles Harry looks for his dad and he now gets smiles as huge as the ones I get after a good feed. He might not be perfect and neither am I but he is turning out to be a great dad and partner.

3 - my boobs. lol nope, I didn't go crazy or am about to write about my neckline. Feeding my little guy is one of the most amazing accomplishments of my life. As many others, we had a bit of a ruff start with lots of  challenges but thankfully we both stuck to it and 5 and a half months on my boy is healthy and happy and i'm back to reason 1.

This is a post for Reasons to be cheerful... 1,2,3. If you want to learn more about #R2BC click here and read about how the linky came about, be sure to link up, share your own reasons to be cheerful and visit the other blogs too.