Reuben went on his first swim last month, his Aunt Holly & Aunt Meg both took him for a swim and he absolutely loved it! He loves water anyway as bath time is his favourite so I knew he would like swimming. He was in the pool for a good hour or so and kept babbling at the other children, how cute?! He is such a sociable little bunny. He kept kicking his legs when he saw other children doing it too, he’s so adorbs! There was a box of pool toys that he absolutely loved and kept playing with too and he didn’t want to get out! I’m thinking about getting him baby swimming lessons but I’m not sure if he’s a bit young yet so we’ll see!

I’ve been trying to get him to say mama for what feels like absolutely months and during the last week or so, he has FINALLY said it!! It’s his first real word and now he’s started he will not stop saying it, I’m in love! He doesn’t say anything else yet, he doesn’t even say like ‘bababa’ or anything like that, it’s literally just ‘mama’ or ‘mamamama’ and that’s it. I’m not complaining, I love hearing it constantly! I’m pretty sure he knows he’s addressing me too because he will stand in his cot when he’s woken up from a sleep and shout ‘MAMA’ at the top of his voice until I go and get him – how frickin’ cuteeeee. I love him so much.

If you’re subscribed to my channel or follow me on social media, then you will know that on Sunday 2nd July, I got Reuben baptised. I have grown up as a catholic in a religious family and I want to bring Reuben up with the same beliefs that I have, so I got him christened. Obviously when he’s older he can decide for himself what he chooses to believe in, but I would like him to go to a Catholic school and be brought up as one until he decides otherwise. We went back to the town that I grew up in and got him baptised in the same church that I was baptised in which I think is so lovely. We only had a small family gathering to celebrate it with us but it was really nice. My parents paid for us to all have afternoon tea in a hotel and the gardens there were beautiful, it was such a gorgeous day too! Andrew filmed the day for me and you can find the video on my channel here if you would like to see all the highlights from the day! It’s a really beautiful video so I definitely recommend a watch!

 

 

Another thing we’ve been trying to teach him for a while is to wave when you say ‘bye’ or ‘hiya’ and he finally learn to do it when you say ‘hiya’ to him and wave. It’s so cute. He doesn’t always do it but he will start waving randomly when you’re not even trying to get him to and it’s super duper adorable.