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Katie Middleton

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Buddy Is One!

This is the last of the ‘official’ monthly updates. *sobs*. It’s of course, super late but with everything that’s happening at the moment, I felt a bit weird publishing but I guess we have to carry on as best we can right? So yeah, my son – Buddy is one year old!

Wow, what a year it’s been. We’ve had tears, laughter, tears of laughter, happiness, sadness, uncertainty, heart bursting with pride moments, you get the drift. We fell quite ‘lucky’ with his birthday in terms of what’s currently happening right now, it was just before social distancing as per Government recommendations… I think it must’ve been a couple days after that social distancing/essential travel only came into effect (before lockdown obv). So I’m really glad that we at least got to have a last little bit of normality before everything went pear shaped.

Buddy

is one years old!

Our darling boy, one years old.

I still can’t believe it, even as I type this (even though he’s probably closer to being 13 months now by the time this gets published… Whoops!) It just blows my mind. The year has gone so fast. I must admit, I had some mixed feelings about his birthday. It brought back so many memories from our stay in NICU, the happy ‘first’ moments that we should’ve had as a family but we didn’t get. But it also made me count my lucky stars to be blessed with a healthy, beautiful and intelligent little boy.

The first year of his life has taught me so much and changed me as a person. Obviously, I changed because I became a mum (but I’m still me) but I changed in the sense that I now had another human to consider. Before, Kayne and I could do what we wanted, when we wanted but when Buddy came along we had to time everything perfectly for feeds, nap time, having enough milk, when did he last have a nappy change, has he had another shit… You get the picture. I don’t think we quite realised how different life would be with Buddy around.

He has taught me so much about myself… I’m actually pretty nurturing and maternal, something I never classed myself as before. To be honest, I didn’t want children at one point and Kayne never pushed me to have children, just something in me changed one day and well, we got ‘jiggy with it’ (for a very long time because our reproductive systems didn’t wanna do anything). That was that, we got pregnant and along came Buddy.

He is such a little character.

Everyday he makes us howl with laughter, he definitely gets his comedic aspects from me (because I’m dead funny). Buddy lights up every room he walks in, I swear, he just makes me dead happy. Even when he’s being a little terror and I feel like pulling my hair out, Buddy will just give a cheeky little smile and I forget all that stuff. From being in love with Belle to Hey Duggee, Babybum and In The Night Garden – yay for us – being a cheese thief, Toot Toot driver fanatic, kisses and cuddle monster, ball addict… I just can’t believe he’s really ours.

We didn’t have a big party or anything for his birthday – mostly because I couldn’t be bothered to organise/stress over it. So we spent the day the three of us together, then my mum and brother came round in the evening to sing happy birthday and have some cake with us. Then on the Saturday, we went to Kayne’s parents to do a three way birthday (Buddy, his mum and sisters boyfriend are all within 4 days of each other so it’s just easier) which was also lovely. To be honest, I don’t think I would’ve done it any other way as every one got to have their own special time with Buddy, it was nice and low key.

All Buddy does now is talk, sometimes we have no idea what he’s saying as it’s just a load of babbling and gobble-de-gook but he says cat, Belle, daddy/dada, ball, woof, ‘og (dog), mama, yeah, no and hiya. So his speech is coming on really well at the minute, I think that might be because Kayne is home at the minute with lockdown so there’s more than just me here now. Could just be coincidence.

He’s really coming on leaps and bounds.

It’s just really nice to see. He’s always been ahead of himself anyway because he’s just a different breed of human I swear lol. But he’s doing all sorts at the minute that I’ve never really noticed before and he just seems SO grown up all of a sudden, whether it’s because he’s finally one now or whether he’s just going through a development thingie, I’m not sure. It’s lovely to see though. He also looks like an actual child now too. That sounds really weird to say but he does, he doesn’t look like a baby? Not actually sure what I’m saying makes sense so probably just gonna shut up now. Although, I’m not sure how the hell we’re going to cut his hair, it is getting LONG now and he never keeps still… Maybe the infamous bowl cut will return during lockdown, Buddy being one of them!

Check out Buddy’s 11 month and 10 month update!

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