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Lovely weekend with the little fam ❤

His little face when he gets kisses and cuddles from daddy 💙 (at Locomotion - The National Railway Museum at Shildon)

First snow! Day 145 #rlt

Does any one have any advice on what they did to crack the four month sleep regression?

RLT’s first halloween saw his cousins come round to trick or treat. Tried to dress him up as Pubert Addams but he was a wriggly little worm - saw another mum had done this more successfully than I, and she used hair chalk - will try again next year!

Happy Birthday to my cat who is 2 today!

His second time on Hartlepool Mail online! Not bad for 4 months! He's catching up with the cat!

So at day 135 on this earth, RLT decided it was time to roll over - I shared the video yesterday. Quite a nice end to his daddy's week at home. I was very pleased he did it while his dad was at home, the less moments we miss due to working life, the better (I'm dreading getting the call from my mum when he walks and im at work, as I go back when he is eight and a half months old! But at least he'll be with mum and his cousin Ted who will praise him). So he rolled a few times late afternoon, but soon tired himself out. I didn't expect him to be rolling so soon, the info I've seen said it can happen as early as 4 months, but I always thought boys were a little late to the party on most developmental milestones. But nope 4 and a half months and here he is rolling around on the rug! This morning he has been unstoppable! It is like something just clicked. Absolute madness to think 24 hours ago he couldn't do it!

He rolled over for the first time today! At 135 days old! It's all going too fast! But he's incredibly proud of himself! As was I, you'll hear how much if the sound works on this video! 🙈

So this week a german safety test put the Nuna Rebl through it's paces at 40mph and the results were terrifying. The seat base just snapped! Uk safety tests are done at 30mph at which the rebl is thought to be fine, which? Found out about the German safety test and indicated to to readers that they shouldn't buy. It's all a bit complicated in that the seat appears to be fine rearfacing for kids as long as they're not the size of an average 3 year old and you crash below 40mph. But although my baby is 4 months old - this didn't fill me with much faith, we bought that seat in particular as it was safe and he could be in it until age 4. Paying £400 and worrying about the point in which he becomes so heavy that it's not particularly safe was a step too far - so we wanted to change it. Nuna wont issue a product recall as it does comply to uk safety standards ( that's a whole other argument... why are our standards less than germany and sweden?!) Mothercare were a little late to the party on following suit with exchange - so my other half intervened and contacted his team to do an article. Daily mail and Sun soon followed suit and what do you know, Mothercare were then exchanging or refunding. We took our Nuna in to our local mothercare store on Saturday for the assistant to say something really daft 'i wish they'd tested some of the others we sell because they're a lot worse than the Nuna'. Rather than fill be with confidence on the Nuna it just made me very concerned about the other seats- some parents wont do the reseach we did (fat lot of good it did us) and will buy because they believe in the mothercare brand - stores like this really should be lobbying for safety regulations in UK to meet or exceed those of other countries. I'm sure this entire situation has been a massive financial burden on Nuna, but I like many other parents couldn't unsee that video. We exchanged for a Cybex Sirona, which passed the tests Nuna failed - mothercare didn't have any in stock so we should get it this week. I feel bad for the nuna marketing team who have taken the brunt of anger this week, as their product team must have known about it only just passing UK tests - the fact that a redesign is hitting the shelves in Jan indicates they were putting profit before child safety.

I’m a massive Orla Kiely enthusiast, my cat is even called Orla Kitty! My clothes are OK, wallpapers are OK, RLT’s cotbedding is OK, if she designs it, we probably have it!

Day with daddy tomorrow! I’m going in to work to do some ‘keeping in touch’ so daddy has taken a lieu day for some quality fifa/baby time.

Loved visiting Daddy in the newsroom! Although it appears Reuben's lack of sleep last night has taken it's toll on @markdes (at Sunderland Echo)

Still can't watch when I video this at Waterbabies 🙈

@markdes has gone to see the Giants at Twickenham today. He said he can't wait to take #rlt with him - but he's already seen them, I have a certificate to prove it #3monthspregnant #theythoughtmynamewasbaby