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View PostAnd what a fun, poo filled few weeks its been!
Get a puppy he said, it’ll be fun he said HA no I’m kidding she is so much fun HOWEVER having a puppy is not easy. We have had Rosie since she was 9 weeks old, she was tiny.
We are crate training her and have got her used to pooping on her puppy pad in one corner and then she will take a dump behind our curtain at the back door (good I know as she wanted to go outside) Not good when you don’t know she’s taking a big crap right under your curtain, the curtain has touched the poo without me realising until I’ve lifted the curtain up and placed it on my sofa so I can hoover and shit gets wiped all over my wall where I’ve flung the curtain. When you tred bare foot in fresh doggy doo doo in the garden which Is RANK because we have missed a poo when picking them up.
She is teething at the moment so she is nipping a lot we have brought so many toys from cuddly squeaky toys to rubber bones and ropes with balls on which she loves however she has taken a liking to my beading along my floor and my sons special wooden chair that helps him sit up straight at the table !
We recently made our own Dog toy with a old pillow case and a tennis ball.
We take some of her dried food and place it in the plaits and she LOVES it she also lover her little Pink kong toy which we fill with her dried food and the kong liver paste.
We literally have to watch her all the time she is like a little baby when they get curious, you leave a shoe on the floor for a second and she has found it .
I miss the days were I could just go out all day but I cant do that now as she needs stimulating which I wouldn’t change for the world she makes me laugh and she is so blooming adorable! even when she is nipping us. We have hard flooring and its so funny when we play fetch and she runs to get the ball and slides when she stops.
It would of been easier to get a grown up dog however we wanted a puppy to grow with our kids.
She has her 2nd jabs tomorrow and I cant wait to take her on walkies 10 days after she must be so bored.
When we come downstairs in the morning she is so happy to see us , her little tail goes crazy and my 4 year old daughter always gets up with us at 530-6am so she can go downstairs to see her which Is so lovely.
As she is getting bigger now she has started to sneak up the stairs when we are not looking, she jumps up at the TV unit an grabs what ever is on there , she really does keep us on our toes.
So far she has learnt to sit, sit and stay , sit and lay down , fetch and drop .. I’m now working on Paw (high five) and roll over.
When I booked our holiday I just knew I had to book this for my little princesses , it was an amazing experience for all 3 of us.
We decided to do the experience on our first full day so we made our way over the Disney Hotel and went up to the 2nd floor where the shop is as this is where you have to book it.
We wanted the same day as we was dining at auberge de cendrillon (Princess dinner) that evening but unfortunately they only had the one slot left so we booked for the next day.
I have been told you can book this in advance but only if your doing the package that include the dress so as soon as you arrive go and book it if that’s not the package you want to do.
My daughter’s at the time were 4 and 2 year old however my 2 year old was turning 3 the week after. So I went to the till to book it and when they asked how old they were she said to me the 2year old couldn’t do it because she wasn’t 3. I was truly gutted I couldn’t let one and not the other as they were both so excited for it , so we left the shop and I called my partner who was with my son to come up whilst I wait in reception with the girls and book it but to say she was 3 years old instead ( Naughty I know but she was days away from being 3 )
VOILA ! all booked we went for the 55 Euro package which included
There was more packages that included the dress but to be absolutely honest with you the Asda princess dresses we brought with us were a so much nicer than there’s.
The boutique is located on the 1st floor and its stunning when we arrived they asked for Lydia’s invitation ( receipt from booking is the invitation ) and its a 30 minute slot.
Lydia’s little beautiful face lit up when she saw the boutique and was treated like royalty, the lady sat her on a big chair in front of a beautiful mirror and asked her what princess she wanted to be and she replied Aurora and they started.
At the end of the make over before they do the photographs the cast member waves a magic wand over the princesses head whilst saying bibbidi bobbidi bo and then sprinkles glitter all over her … (took weeks to come out of there hair haha )
Now princess Milly’s turn and she wanted to be Belle.
We was so glad we brought the photo pass to and we got so many stunning photographs to treasure forever and they absolutely loved it. I couldn’t stop smiling and I really wanted to be a princess for the day too.
I would definitely recommend this if your taking a little princess with you, you will not be disappointed.
And here is the finished product
Leo’s Story Part 1
I was 17 when I found out I was pregnant, and 18 when Leo was born. I didn’t know what gender he was until he was born so it was even more exciting.
Labour was 6 hours long and towards the end my mum said that his heart rate dipped and mine went through the roof, I opened my eyes after a quick blink and there was a room full of doctors and nurses who told me I had 10 minutes to push or I was going to theatre to be assisted. I gave birth to my gorgeous boy 2.36am on 29th December 2005 weighing 6lb 14oz.
A few of my online friends were pregnant at the same time and we used to chat every single day. One lived in Northampton and the other in Oakham.
When we was talking about milestone’s online i soon realised Leo wasn’t doing the same things my friends babies were doing and by 9 months he still wasn’t sitting unaided, I took him to my health visitor and got told he will catch up, give him time, boys are slower then girls. doesn’t really help as both my friends babies are boys!
I took him back at 10 months and 11months and 12 months and he still wasn’t sitting up. My health visitor then referred me to the hospital with him and we received our appointment for April 2006 Leo was 14 months old by then and still not sitting up.
We literally went in to the appointment dumb thinking it would be something as simple as casting his legs as originally we thought it was his hips. A Few reflex tests later and the Consultant asked us if we had a occupational therapist ,physiotherapist and a social worker in place?
I replied quite confused and asked why I would have all them involved? and his reply was ‘well that’s normal procedure for children with cerebral palsy to have the teams in place.’
And that my friends was how my boy got diagnosed with Spastic diplegia cerebral palsy.
I remember asking if he would walk, talk, eat on his own using a knife and fork etc and his reply was I cant answer any of them but please don’t look on the internet, and wait for the referrals to come through.
I rang my health visitor devastated as I knew nothing about CP and she had everything in place within a hour and Leo had his first physiotherapy session at 15 months. This is when we met Jayne who has been with Leo from the start and still is now.
Within 4 weeks at 16months Leo sat up unaided, I will always remember that day.
It wasn’t long before he also got measured up for his first pair of splints to help him get on his feet they were so tiny. At 3.5 years old Leo started to use a walking frame and got his first wheelchair so no more being judged for having a 3.5 year old in a pushchair!
I remember asking Jayne when he was 2 when she thought he would walk and nothing can prepare you for what she said next.
‘It’s really difficult to tell as every child with cp is different, I think if he does walk it would be by the age of 7-9years old and it might just been too hard for him and he may favour his wheelchair more.’
What the actual f@!K was she saying to me? I understood but found it incredibly hard to take in that my son would most probably never walk!
As Leo got older he got heavier and I had a tiny frame so lifting him in and out of the car got increasingly difficult, I used to get filthy looks when using the blue badge with him.
When Leo got to about 4 years old he was really good at high knee crawling and that’s how he got about.
I also remember one particular day, it was a lovely warm day and loads of children were playing in our car park and leo was desperate to join in so I thought sod it .. go on and play but stay just outside the garden gate so I can see you. (car park was a secured locked one with slow opening gate that creaked). Then I heard crying that sounded like my boy so I ran out and he was crawling towards me with tears streaming down his face and muddy hands and cut knees where he had tried to crawl fast to keep up with everyone but just couldn’t.
I’ll tell you something now, My heart SHATTERED and I just cried for him.
I remembered registering to the Scope website a few months back as they had a forum for parents with cerebral palsy, I remember seeing a lady post about a operation in America that could help children with cp walk. At first I thought it was a load of bollocks, its brain damage so I just browsed past it. After experiencing what Leo had just gone through I was more desperate now to try anything and I remembered the post. so I messaged the lady and she sent me through all of this information and I forwarded to my mum to read too. My mum called me back but she was speechless and explained it all to me and said its definitely worth a go. So I emailed St Louis Children’s hospital in Missouri and they sent me a form to fill out and send back with a video if leo trying to do certain things like crawling, rolling, standing if he could ( leo couldn’t stand or walk unaided at all )
We did everything they asked us to do and sent the forms. In the mean time I had spoken to Leos consultant who was against the operation as she had never heard of it before and that it was in a different country. well I went against what she said as I wanted to look my son in the eyes when he was older and tell him I did everything I could to help him walk.
I remember the day I received the email from the hospital saying Leo would be a good candidate for the surgery which is called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy. I literally couldn’t of been any happier I finally had some hope for him.
But now the hard part ….we had to fundraise £70,000
Part 2 coming soon…..
