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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

9 months

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Dear Lily,

You are now 9 months old, and have been out of mummy's tummy for as long as you were in there! 

You are getting so strong sweetheart. You get up onto your hands and knees, rock backwards and forwards, crawl backwards, try so hard to move forwards- and then fall on your face. But you are so close to crawling forwards! It wont be long now and nothing in this house will be safe anymore! You're already doing very well at getting into lots of mischief by rolling and crawling backwards. Stacks of DVD's are pulled down, cables are pulled, toys are pulled out and spread all over the living room, and the Christmas tree! You first ever Christmas tree, and mummy and daddys first too, as it's their first year not living at home with Grandma & Grandad! It is real & huge (daddy insisted) and you think it is the best toy ever! You very often are found under the tree, pulling branches and playing with baubles, and now the presents are under there, it's even more fun! 

You stocking is lots of fun too. When your in your walker, you love going to the fireplace and playing with your stocking. It's really fun to pull and shake because it's got jingle bells on it, but mummy's a little worried you are going to break it, because you get so so excited!

You are strong on your legs too. You can stand while holding onto something for support, and are trying to pull yourself up onto your feet by using the sofa and tables. You can sit now from laying down too!

Where are your teeth Lily? Your 9 months old and you still have the gummiest grin ever! I can feel them, but they seem very shy and have not yet broken through. Mummy can't wait to introduce lots of new exciting food to chew once they're here! But for now sucking and chewing soft foods is still extremely fun for you, especially when you feed yourself! You love feeding yourself sandwiches and biscuits and chocolate buttons and advent calendar chocolates.

You have started to love mummy's singing too (you wont when your older. you'll realise its terrible!) twinkle twinkle little star is your favourite for bedtime, but during the day you love row row row the boat. If you are sitting alone and I start singing it, you rock yourself backwards and forwards! You are so clever and know all the actions yourself! It is adorable. 

You have become fascinated with ears & earrings too. Mummy doesn't wear them very often, but Grandma and Auntie Beth do all the time, and you check their ears every day. You turn their head to the side, gently push their hair out of the way, and inspect their earrings. You do it to mummy's ears too, just in case. You love being looked after by Grandma and Auntie, but your are very excited when mummy comes home. I can't do anything but cuddle you as soon as I get in, otherwise you cry! You want a big long cuddle, before I even take my coat off or go to the toilet! It is very cute. And you give kisses too! You hold mummy's face in both hands, and mouth wide open, give the biggest, slobberiest kiss ever, and mummy loves them a lot!

You are the funniest, loveliest, sweetest little girl and you get funnier and sweeter with each day!

Lots of love,

mummy
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My wonderful weekend adventure!!

Gosh I have so much to write about!!! My weekend with my family was wonderful!! There were lots of suprises waiting for me, such as my new outfit...
New slippers...

New socks...

and a wonderful drawing!!!

(it says: "you are pretty and i miss you from Oliver", just with spelling mistakes and words added in randomly and in odd places!!!)

I was spoilt with lots of yummy homemade food, sweets and hot chocolate all weekend!! We also went to a cafe which seemed to have a star theme, and they were the tastiest stars I've ever had!!
I also got to see the little fairies that live around my room..And also my cat, who I adore!! His name is snowy, which you may find odd as he is black, but I was 6 when I named him and I thought it would be funny!! However as he has got older, the most wonderfully magical thing has happened... little white flecks and patches have begun appearing on his fur, making it look like he is covered in snowflakes!! I am sure it is because of the name :)I have also been watching lots of films over the weekend with my family! We watched; a cinderella story, snow white, star wars, the nightmare before christmas and an old mr blobby video!!

My little brother became rather Mr Blobby obsessed, and requested that I make him a mr Blobby out of my clay, so, of course, I did!!
After such a wonderful weekend, there were lots of tears this morning as I left and made my way back to uni on the train.

But I am back, and have a working computer again, and was able to read all the wonderful comments left for me over the weeknd, so thank you, lovely bloggers, for making me smile!!!

One last little note, my boyfriend has joined the blogging community!!! His blog is called Bitmapbox and it would be so nice if someone would visit him and give him a warm welcome!! He is an animation student, and is rather good at it :) Recently he made a father christmas I made out of clay on the computr, and I love it!! You can view it on his blog :)

I must go and make me and D our dinner now, so thank you all again for being so sweet and take care!! x