Easter egg hunt

Happy Easter to you all! i hope you all had a wonderful day. I certainly did. It started out with a little easter egg hunt with Elle. She was so excited and sat on our bed clutching her basket saying "come on mummy and daddy, lets go downstairs". Her face lit up when she saw the eggs everywhere.
We then went to my lovely aunties house for lunch and for tea. We had a lovely family day on her garden. I love my aunty alot and we always have the best time at hers. Mia was giving everyone the best smiles ever and Elle spent the day bouncing on the trampoline and going down the slide.

Apart from a lovely easter day, i have been having lovely days also although it is hard to plan anything right now as Mia is cluster feeding and i seem to be chained to the sofa feeding and feeding. But i am so proud of myself for continuing to feed as it has not been easy atall and still isnt. But i am so happy knowing she is getting the best start in life and i do enjoy feeding her. She has started to stroke me now when we nurse. Yesterday, she was a whole month old! i am so in shock that time has flown so quickly.

I have hardly had time to open the laptop, let alone update my blog but i hope to be able to update alot more now. x

Three weeks

Mia is three weeks today. Time is going so quickly! Mia has a tongue tie which is preventing her from latching. We are still nursing using shields but it takes her a while to feed. An average feed now is around four hours. Sometimes seven! i am chained mostly to the sofa or bed feeding her. She has a hospital appointment tomorrow morning to see if they need to snip the skin under her tongue which then means she will be able to feed without me needing the shields.
Elle is getting better with her sister. She became quite jealous and upset but she is adjusting.
My days havent really been exciting. I have just been feeding most of the day, giving cuddles to my girls and then bed at an extremeley early time!
Housework needs doing. Washing needs doing. The garden needs doing. But it will all just have to wait!

GIVEAWAY WINNER

The winner of the giveaway is comment 5. Jenny Huxley. I have contacted you for your address. Many thanks to everyone who entered, tweeted and blogged. It was so lovely of you :)

The blossom series is now available in my Etsy shop.

Blossom GIVEAWAY

To celebrate the birth of my little lady, i am giving away one of my new blossom sets. The giveaway includes 3 6x4 matt prints of the three prints above.

The giveaway is open to all worldwide. To enter please leave a comment on this post.

For extra entries:
1. Tweet/blog about the giveaway and leave a seperate comment to say you have and a link
2. Like gingerlillytea on facebook. If you are already a liker, just let me know and you can have an extra entry too.

The giveaway will end next wed 13th april and a winner will be picked by random.org.

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Twelve days in.

Mia is now 12 days old! i have hardly had time to open my laptop, let alone blog. But this evening, both of my fairies are fast asleep which means i have a little spare time to update.
Mia is doing so well. We had trouble feeding at first and she didnt feed for the first two days but after seeing a lactation specialist, we have learnt that she has a tongue tie which is preventing her from latching. i am now feeding her with nipple shields and we are going to a consultant to see about getting the tongue tie sorted so we can feed without the shields.

She is just perfect. Elle adores her sister but jealousy is starting to kick in. She is giving me a bit of a hard time but it is to be expected and i know she is just trying to adjust and she doesnt mean to be a little tinker!
I am so in love with both of my girls now ♥

My fairy has arrived.

I am so pleased to announce that Mia Isobel has arrived safely into the world. It was a very long and difficult labour that lasted for 55 hours but she is beyond perfect and i couldnt have asked for more. She is so so beautiful and we are deeply in love with her. Elle is besotted and so are we. She weighed 7lbs 11ozs and arrived on the 24th at 5am. *sigh* i feel i am in a dreamworld :)

i love..

i love how you dont like people visiting unless you have your fairy dress on
i love how when you get out your pretties, you put all your bracelets around your ankles
i love the face you pull when you are pretending to be angry but really you want to laugh
i love your four little pointy vampire teeth.
i love how you always tell me i am pretty
i love your delicate little voice.
i love the way you always seem to run or skip everywhere and never walk
i love how you stroke my nose and ears when you are trying to fall asleep
i love how when you do something good and i say thank you darling, you say "say thank you elle"
i love your sheer determination to do everything and when you do, you get so excited and shout "i did it myself!"
i love how your first words in the morning are always "did you have a nice sleep?"

Most of all, i love YOU! thank you for choosing me to be your mummy. I could list 100more things about you but these 11 are a few of my favourites.

You are going to be the most amazing sister. Love you fairy girl x

♥ Love from your mummy ♥

blossoms and baking

Today, my little fairy and i spent the morning hunting for fairy bits for her dressing up basket. We found more wings, little tutu's and some hair pretties. She also got a few more bits for her dolls house and some mermaids for her baths. I do love pound shops as i got so many treasures today for £7 :) She then got a new tin for her dressing up jewellery and then we went to the supermarket to get some bits to make cakes after her nap.
A lovely morning :)

After her nap, she made some lovely vanilla cupcakes (with a little help of course)and we played in her teepee for a little in her bedroom. It has been a nice day. I am trying to make the most of our alone time as in one week, we will be bringing her a baby sister.