Life through a lens - Surprise Sunday, Life With Callum

As mentioned many a time, life with Callum is never quiet... or still. You'll always find him running somewhere, climbing something or battling some imaginative evil force.

Last year we had Callum wanting to be Callum Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, Climber extraordinaire. What did being a Tomb Raider involve? Well firstly you needed your trusty backpack, Callum's contained a variety of books, a wind-up watch, some school socks and a clean unused doggy poop bag containing pens and pencils. Notice no food? And as for the selection of books....

I could just about lift the backpack up myself!

Now with all the necessary supplies packed the adventure can begin and what every explorer/tomb raider loves doing best is....

CLIMBING!!!!!!

After which you then need to learn to blend in with your surroundings and if needs be pretend you are a dinosaur.


So like I said, life with Callum is always full of adventures.

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend. xx

Life through a lens - Surprise Sunday, Life with Callum

As Bumpy's due date looms ever closer (it's days now!!... hopefully!!) I'm thinking more and more about Callum's birth. We had a very traumatic birth with Callum, one that maybe one day I'll talk about but not today, for now I'll leave you with the first image I saw of my son Callum, 13 hours before I actually got to see and hold him in person.


Anyway I'm trying not to think too much so I don't get stressed about it, I'm staying positive but every day I think of this new life growing inside me I'm also reminded of the life that I've already grown inside me, given birth to (well in a way) and nurtured. Sure he drives me crazy at times, acts like he is a teenager already (and he's only 6.5 years old!), talks back but he also amazes me in how he tackles things in life, his love and knowledge of cars, how he can just say one thing and make me laugh and smile or just how he just sometimes gives you a little cuddle and melts your heart. He always cares for peoples feelings and hates it whenever someone is upset, if a friend of his at school gets hurt he'll take them to the nurse and wait until they are ok, he never sees any difference between colour/creed/religion like I've seen other kids of his age do, everyone is there to be friends with. Like I said he may drive me crazy but every day he makes me proud to be his Mum. I know when Bumpy does come into the world that they will have the best Big Brother ever and even if Bumpy is a sister (Callum's worst nightmare) I know that he'll always look out for them and not let anyone harm or upset them. So here's to my little superhero, I love you. xx

Life through a lens - Surprise Sunday, Life With Callum

When Callum first started school he had trouble sitting still and with his legs crossed. So his first bit of homework he got from school was to practice sitting with his legs crossed and still. Of course he had to make it a bit different and make it so that he sat on my lap with his legs crossed. Eventually we got there though and nowadays he doesn't have any problems sitting cross-legged.

Life through a lens - Surprise Sunday, Life With Callum

As mentioned on last weeks Surprise Sunday, Life With Callum post I'm going to spend the next few Sunday's showing some of the ways that Callum shows affection.

This week:

A Spiderman to watch over me

Over New Year I was very ill with a tummy bug which resulted in me spending most of my time (well when not in the bathroom) in bed sleeping. Callum really worries when I'm ill like this but knows that he can't look after me all the time. The first night I was ill while I was asleep Callum snuck into our bedroom and placed Spidey where you see him above with instructions to look after me while he, Callum, was asleep. Spidey is still there all these months later, to now watch over me in case Bumpy decides to come during the night.

Life through a lens - Surprise Sunday, Life With Callum

The other day I took part in an interview that was to do with Family Life in Multicultural Britain. One of the questions I got asked was about how Callum shows affection. Now I'm lucky that I do have a very affectionate child (although he does swap like Jekyll and Hyde at times) and Callum shows affection in all forms. What forms? All forms, but I won't spoil it by telling you all, instead over the next few Sundays I'll post some of those ways.

This week:

Mrs Missile

Before school Callum was making Lego models, he made one each for hubby and I and before heading off to school (and without us knowing) he went and put each of our models on our bedside table. Mines called Mrs Missiles because she's married and has missiles and Daz' is called Lazer Eyes. lol. Callum will often do things like this, make a Lego model and put it either on our bedside table/s or somewhere for us.