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Hello everyone! It has been so long again! I have been so desperate to blog over the past few weeks, but life has a habit of getting in the way sometimes. I have been so busy this past month. The wedding planning is suddenly getting very serious as we have only 5 months to go now, and I've had the end of year exams at work, and Lily is getting more and more active, and technology hasn't been my friend- but I've finally had a fairly quiet Sunday, and time to pay some attention to my blog!

Sorry for such a picture heavy post, but I'm trying to catch up then (hopefully) resume regular blogging as normal again. Life lately between working, housework, and wedding planning, has involved family trips to parks and rivers with Lily and our nieces and nephews, trips to London, silliness with Lily (her new game is putting her toy balls up her sleeves!), little Laura Ashley shopping trips, reading in Lily's book corner, enjoying my parents new garden, buying cute lamps, having gel nails done by my sister now she is a qualified beauty therapist, Lily being all grown up and getting her first toy baby and buggy, and eating lots of yummy food in the garden in this gorgeous weather we've been having!

As you can see, I have also redesigned and renamed the blog! I have never had a blog name I've been happy with. It started as Rosie Posie Rosie which I never liked, but was playing around on blogger not really knowing what I was doing when I started and never expected my blog to come this far and be so important to me! Then I changed it to just Rosie but really wanted to come up with a proper name for it. Peppermint Rosie has been a name I've been considering for very long time now but was worried I would change my mind and be unhappy again. But as I've liked it for so long, I've decided to take the plunge and finally do it! I am also looking into getting a custom domain, so I will let you know if and when that happens. I'd love to know what you all think! I was a little nervous about making the change.

The name peppermint Rosie comes from my addiction to peppermint tea, my love of peppermint creams and mint being my favourite colour. I do hope you all like it!

♥ x

11 MONTHS

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Dear Lily

Wow, 11 months. Almost a year! And you have changed so much in the last month!

You are crawling! You finally mastered it and now we can't stop you! It's amazing how much you being able to crawl has brought out so much more of your personality. Now you can get where ever you want to so much quicker, it's like you can communicate better with us. You can crawl to what you want and show us, like when you want a drink. And there is lots of crawling to mummy! You have got so clingy to me Lily! It makes doing anything 1000x harder, but at the same time it's so lovely knowing you want to be close all the time. You like to watch TV cuddled in to me, so you will crawl over and lean against me, and if you want cuddles, you will crawl to me or daddy, sit up on your knees and hold your arms up to us. But you hate mummy leaving the room. You will follow me, unless the doors are closed... and then you scream and cry and cry! You make me feel so guilty! I can't pop to the bathroom without you being completely devastated with tears streaming down your face, and we have to have lots of cuddles to calm you down when I get back. Hopefully you will let mummy go to the toilet without you getting upset soon!

You can pull yourself up to standing so easily now too, and cruise along the furniture. And you are getting so intelligent! You've worked out how to use lots of toys you couldn't before, like your marble tower, throwing your ball, scribbling with your crayons, knowing which buttons to press on toys. You can almost stack your stacking cups, and you 'read'! You turn the pages of your books and babble away, using all the same tones of voice as daddy and I when we read them to you! Daddy has taught you to hi-5. And you can sing incey wincey spider! Well, you hum it, and do the actions at the same time, then right at the end, you say the very last word 'again!' and clap! Grandad taught you that, and you love showing everyone! You've also learnt how to 'phone' people! You have a toy phone that you will put to your ear and say 'eggo'! But you don't just limit it to phones. You use remote controls as phones, fish cakes as phones, toothbrushes as phones, even Milly's collar! Oh, and the 'one, two, three' game. For months you and I have played the game where you sit on my lap, I count to three then tip you backwards. Now, you sit and say 'guh, guh, gooo! eee!' and tip yourself backwards! You little smartie pants! 

I can't believe your next update is going to be your one whole year update. This year has flown by, and been the best ever sweetheart. It scares me how quickly time goes, soon you will be all grown up, and you wont want to follow me around anymore, asking for cuddles. Don't change too quickly baby!  Mummy and Daddy love you very much.

Love

Mummy
xxxxxx