The Colourful Everyday: December 2022

Hello hello hello 👋🏻 I'm currently sat in bed in the middle of the day with a sleeping baby and a purring cat for good measure, we're huddling together for warm on this cold December day (the weather app says it's 1ºC outside but we haven't ventured out to check!) It's nice and cosy here though so don't you worry, and we seem to have a baby that always feels toasty warm so he makes a good hot water bottle. Juniper's fur seems to be extra thick and fluffy in winter too. The correct weather for this season has properly arrived now and it feels unbelievable that Christmas is just around the corner when surely Jethro was only born 5 minutes ago in the height of summer?! Time be flyyying.

The low winter sun creating cool shadows against the curtains.

It may be crisp and cold outside now but a few weeks ago it was verrry rainy indeed. We got the chance to use the pushchair rain cover for the first time which was exciting, and I enjoyed many a pavement rainbow 🌈 (oh and some of our drainpipe fell down in a particularly heavy downpour but that's all fixed now!)

Jethro update: he's now 4 months old! He can sit up for short periods, he is getting to grips with the door bouncer, and he has rolled over about 10 times but we never seem to catch it on video 😆 Most of the time he is a very jolly little fellow and will smile at anyone, we've had a few giggles too which are adorable.

Another new thing is facing forwards in his carrier, we've been for a couple of walks like this and he seems to love it 😭 he's growing up so fast!

Who looks more at home on the armchair? 😆

Family photo (watching the football!) ⚽

Recently Juni started to enjoy sleeping in her carrier box, it's good timing because she's got her annual trip to the vets tomorrow so it shouldn't be a struggle to get her in there! It's the same box we brought her home in so I found this identical photo from 2 years ago and isn't it sweet seeing them side by side! 💙

❗ Warning: it's about to get rather festive over here! 🎄🎄🎄

Firstly Ed made some spontaneous gingerbread one evening which we decorated in a highly artistic manner (spot gingerbread Jethro 😂), and then a couple of days later we went to get our Christmas tree! Ed was given a long measuring stick so that we could choose one the right height:

Here's a fun little video I made about our experience:

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Once we got home we tried to get Jethro down for a nap so that we could do the decorations but he was not having it (love that 4 month sleep regression). It turned out good in the end though because he napped in the sling and so was able to be part of decorating his very first Christmas tree 😊

When the Teletubbies visited the baby Jesus.

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I found some mushroom decor and a Juni to hang on the tree so of course they had to come home with me!

A cosy afternoon nap underneath the Christmas lights:

And some very ~ on brand ~ gift wrapping 🍄🎁 I had my first wrapping session last night whilst Ed practiced his trumpet for the upcoming carol service so it felt extra fun and festive!

In this house we now have not one but two nativities going on! This one is a knit-ivity kindly made by a lovely lady at church 😄 (both Jesuses have now been hidden in the fruit bowl until the big day as per family tradition!)

And now we have the frosty weather to match the Christmassy vibes:

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I'm this excited about a dusting of frost, imagine how I'll be if it actually snows here! It's looking possible this week so we're keeping hopeful ⛄ friends and family in other parts of the country have been posting lots of snow photos and we're feeling a little bit jealous!