Wednesday 12 September 2012

One year milestone

Today is a momentous day in the Bean household. Little Bean is finally an actual age and no longer needs to be quantified in weeks, which her mathematically challenged mother stopped doing when she was about 4 weeks. She is officially one whole year old. 

The past year has been alternatively stressful (especially for my poor washing machine which has never been so overworked) and emotional (me when the aforementioned washing machine briefly broke down).





So, time then to reflect on the year, to think about what we have learnt and what we can improve on in the future.

Is it bollocks. It’s time for me and hubby to crack open the bubbly that has been gathering dust since we got it as a gift a year ago today and toast each other’s brilliance competence at being first-time parents. It's been wild (although this definition has changed slightly since a few years ago), and involved less sleep than any human should be able to survive on. Still, we're here. Little Bean still has all fingers and toes, and seems to be fairly well adjusted. And the only real argument Mr Bean and I have is about where she gets her 'big personality' (i.e. temper) from. Obviously his side of the family. Overall though we're quite pleased with ourselves.

Cheers to us!

13 comments:

  1. Cheers to you! Congratulations on surviving the first year... ;-)

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    1. Thank you! It's been a blink and you miss it year but the one you want to remember most. :)

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  2. Well done to you and your other half for surviving the first year! And of course to Bean on her first birthday!

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    1. Thank you! One year old going on thirteen ;)

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  3. Congratulations - if you can make it through a year of parenthood with your sense of humour intact, you can do anything!

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    1. I think the humour is possibly all that's intact ;)

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  4. Happy birthday to Little Bean and congratulations!

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    1. thank you! She has been a very spoilt little girl :)

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  5. Congratulations! I celebrated the first year with champagne. Seems fitting :-)

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    1. Cheers to that! Champagne is fitting for most occasions :)

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  6. What, you haven't felt the need to celebrate before now?? I had the champagne open as soon as we got home, GG was on it via breastmilk from the very first feed, and got a nightly fix of red wine thereafter. New baby introduced me to the concept of wine-o-clock ;)

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    1. You obviously have a stronger constitution than me. I felt constantly hungover already, couldn't have added to my pain! Although one of the best pieces of advice I got was to make sure there was a glass of wine and a book under every chair so wherever you found yourself having to sit down and feed, you'd have entertainment and a beverage!

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  7. Happy birthday to little bean and cheers!

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