Today is not only the last day of the month, but the last day of the year too. I feel like December crept up on us out of nowhere and I am left wondering quite how we got here. 2016 has been both a great and terrible year. Whilst in the wider world we saw many deaths, Brexit and Trump, in my smaller world we saw first, third and fifth birthdays, we welcomed a new baby girl, we celebrated as Finn learned to walk, run and climb, Archie started preschool and Dylan went into year one.
I can't wait to see what 2017 has in store for us. There is so much I want to do, so many places I would love to go, so many books I want to read and things I want to learn. 2017 will be the year Cora turns one, Finn starts to communicate more, Archie will start school and at the end of the next year we will be applying for Dylan's Junior school place!
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This year has been busy, it has been chaotic at times, messy, disorganised but always wonderful. We have all grown and learned alongside each other, we have developed new relationships, expanded existing ones and my little family is bigger and better than ever.
December has been a mixture of festivities and outdoor adventures as we have made the most of the milder winter weather. Christmas was celebrated many times over with different parts of our families and we will be seeing the new year in surrounded by our friends.
As I mentioned, the end of this month has crept up all too quickly so this post is both an end of the month and end of the year round up.
This Month Mummy is loving buying Christmas presents, the look on the children's faces on Christmas morning, watching the sunset at the beach and starting running again
Daddy is loving Cora being more interactive, time off over Christmas, buying a new computer and getting back to the gym
Dylan is loving Christmas crafts, Christmas tree chocolates at Grandma's house, his new 'colour with mum' book and doing treasure hunts around the house
Archie is loving snuggling up in his dressing gown, his new haircut, his Hulk Smash hands and having his big brother around more.
Finn is loving being allowed chocolate now (the real stuff), dancing to everything and anything, pushing his new dolly and pushchair around and watching Blaze
Cora is loving her first tastes of food, bouncing in the jumperoo, sitting up to play and blowing raspberries on the back of her hand.
I have put all of our me and mine photos from the year together too - I love seeing how we have all changed and grown as my bump became a baby, as Finn found his feet, Archie lost his hair and Dylan learned to write.
I can't wait to see what 2017 has in store for us. There is so much I want to do, so many places I would love to go, so many books I want to read and things I want to learn. 2017 will be the year Cora turns one, Finn starts to communicate more, Archie will start school and at the end of the next year we will be applying for Dylan's Junior school place!
Goodbye 2016, you have been wonderful.