6 months old

I cannot believe Rian is 6 whole months old!!! The time has flown! It's amazing how sad it makes me that he is growing up so quick, I want him to be a small little baba forever and ever!

Rian's beautiful blue/hazel eyes! :) 

Age:

6 months & 2 days.

Clothes size:

6-9 mostly. I think his growth is slowing down now! Which apparently is normal after 6 months!

Sleep:

Really great! He goes down to sleep in his bed at around 8-9pm and puts himself to sleep! Its amazing how good he is with his sleep! He will then sleep until 7-9am in the morning. :) Great for my much needed beauty sleep! haha! ;) Rian sleeps in his own cot all night until he wakes, then he gets a bottle in my bed and might go for a snooze snuggled up to me for another final hour.. We are halfway through doing up his own room for him! Its the furtherest away bedroom in the landing from mine!! I hope he doesnt get upset when he's moved in! (or me.. like I said.. growing up too fast!!)

Asleep with a face covered in Liga biscuit bits! :') 

Feeding:

7-9am : First bottle. Aptimal first milk. I dont plan on moving him onto the no.3 follow on milk for babies over 6 months. From my research it seems to cause more problems than it solves.. and it doesnt solve anything! He will be on cows milk when he is one! I believe that will be best for him! Unless it doesnt agree with him! obviously! :P 

10am: A small bowl of Milupa's Seven Cereals

1pm: A pot of Cow & Gate 100% fruit

2pm: Another bottle of formula milk.

4pm: A tub of Cow & Gate Little Gourmet Custards These taste like petit filouis! The strawberry is his favourite! :) 

6pm: A packet of Ella's Kitchen organic baby food. Love these. Love giving Rian them. He loves them all! Theres a huge variety too to choose from! I think cow & gate's dinner range is really small! and they all taste very similar.. Like carrots! The stain like carrots too! 

7.30-8.00pm: Last bottle of the night! His favourite! :)

Nomming on a Liga biscuit! (an occasion snack!)

New things:

ROLLING OVER! He's doing it ALL the time now! I'm so proud haha! I missed the first time he did it! I had just left the room to go to the toilet.. walked back in and he was on his tummy! My brother swore he didnt flip him over (he had tried to trick me with that before) and later that day I caugh him doing it! He gets stuck on his tummy sometimes and cant figure out rolling back on his back if his arm gets stuck and then he gets frustrated! But all in all he is delighted with himself! He is pulling his knees up to his stomach too now.. Which is meant to be the starts of crawling! (holy shit!!!!) haha! :)

Rian is also now in his big boy stroller! I got the Quinny Zapp but dont recommend it so I wont bother leaving a link! I'll be getting him a better quality stroller over the summer! :) He LOVES facing outwards watching everything happening! Such a people person.. He coo's at people standing around him and smiles at everyone he can! :) 

Things coming up in the next month:

Rian's christening is in 10 days! I'm both nervous and excited about it!.. Because me and Rian's dad arnt together I dont know any of his family very well at all.. and wont see them until the day.. But I'm excited for Rian! He's going to look so cute in his outfit and he will love the attention too! ''About time to wet the babies head!!!'' haha everyone had been waiting for his christening for so long! Well its finally going to happen. It will be nice to spend some time with my family and friends. 

That's all thats planned for Rian in the next month I think....

OH and he will be moving into his new room! Once it is done being decorated.. Cant wait! ;)

Lording the trolley baby seat in B&Q

MommaKatie xo.

Pale skin : makeup routine

Good auld Irish skin.... I have probably skin the exact colour of a sheet of paper.. A ghost.. A corpse.. Whatever I've heard it all! Haha! 

I have no undertones to my skin.. Maybe sometimes a tinge of red if I'm sick or having a reaction to some product.. Yep.. It's also super sensitive!! 

I also have a lot of freckles.. Not the cute ones some people get.. Across their nose.. Mine are like little brown smudges making my skin look dirty! Ugh! 

I have bad dark circles under my eyes too.. Not sure why.. Nothing seems to help even a good nights sleep! I think it might have to do with my sinus problems! Apparently that can cause dark circles from bad circulation in the eyes area.. anyway here is my most basic make up routine.. To cover up my imperfections.. I havnt done any eye make up here.. 

These are the areas I apply my concealor...

The concealer I use is the palest I've ever found and I think it would only suit very pale people as you can see.. It's hard to see even on the palest girl in the world! :P (apologies for the crap lighting!!)

These are all the products I used.. 

Primer : baby skin by maybeline

 It's lovely and light on the skin.. And does fill in those pores... Which can be very visible with pale skin! (Great news right!) 

Foundation : 25 hour lasting finish by Rimmel.

This is not too light and not too heavy. It's the lightest shade it comes in. It does stay put for most of the day but definetely wouldnt last 25 hours haha! But what foundation does. I've gone off my usual MAC foundation lately and I'm not sure why.. I just keep going back to this every morning! It wouldnt be good for going out at night though unless you applied it kinda heavy! :) 

Contouring : Rimmel bronzer.

Cant remember the accurate name for this cause I lost the cover.. Which I always do! Its also nearly gone! Oops! I love it! Its great for pale skin cause it isnt too pigmented leaving you looking like a drag queen!..

I just apply this to my cheek bones, temples, along my hairline, down the sides of my nose and down my neck to blend my foundation with my natural skin colour! Ye all know the way anyway! :P 

Eyebrows : A pencil by Eylure.

The name had faded off this.. and I got it over a year ago! Its alright for light shading! Again I wouldnt use that on a night out! But it's perfect for daytime! :) 

Real Techniques brushes! Both foundation brushes! 

The result...

Basically this is just evening out uneven skin tone that very pale people always seem to have issues with.

There's no eye makeup done here.. Not even mascara! (feel sooo naked in the eyeball area ahaha!)

MommaKatie xo.