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THE best cake shop in the East Midlands @strawberrycupcakes_notts have made us another amazing cake 🥰 I absolutely can not wait to see Noah's face tomorrow at his party. The team at Strawberry Cupcakes will move heaven and earth to design the cake you want. #strawberrycupcakes #birthday #birthdaycake #cake #cars #disney #disneycake #disneycars #lightningmcqueen

Because when you are 2 years old, a very slow walker, and are a bit tired, the only logical thing to do is evict your 12 week old brother from his pram and get your big 13 year old brother to push you through Birmingham City Centre. You'll notice the pot of peas he demanded we get as a take home item. - Parenting is a tough game, especially when they are small. It requires the patience of a saint to stay sane, and in reality we can't have all the patience all of the time. We are only human and we all struggle, it's been a tough ride adjusting to having 4 boys, I'm not ashamed to admit it. But what I have learnt is that with older children it's wise to pick your battles, sometimes kids are kids and you don't need to come down so hard on them. Smaller children fighting is tough, but telling them off sometimes isn't as helpful as showing them a cuddle is better than pushing. Babies are happy to be carried around the house doing chores and are just glad of the closeness and company. Most of all, I've learnt that the housework will wait (super annoyed about that tbf) and the magic really is in the moment, enjoy your babies because every day they are older than they were yesterday and are changing constantly. - This year (the remainder of) I am promising myself to find more fun in the days, to enjoy my children as although it really is hard every day, one day they will all be grown and I'll be wishing that I'm this busy. - And then I'm going on a cruise 💃⚓🛳️ #3under5 #andateen #4boys #sons #son #parenting #toddler #baby #babynumber4

Quick pic of this one while he's clean 👶🏼 #baby #son #babynumber4 #3sacrowd4saparty #mambaby #mambabyuk #jbyjasperconran

This would be a perfect opportunity to do what we all do on social media, and lead you all to believe that this snapshot, this one second is how this trip to the park went. Two brothers walking lovingly together, me pushing a sleeping baby in his pram. Beautiful weather, beautiful scenery and all in all just a gorgeous summer day. And although the weather and the scenery was bang on, this was a calm second in an hour trip that had pretty much consisted of Noah running away, me shouting "Wait, wait Noah, Noahhhh wait for Mummy please" poor Conner having to chase him, and us staying at each area of the park for approximately 4 seconds before Noah wanting to go and find the dinosaur park, which as far as I'm aware only exists in his mind. It is so beautiful to catch these loving shots, but for all of our wellbeing, we need to bare in mind that the squares on here are not real, and don't represent real life. I think we are all guilty of looking at other people's feeds filled with wonderfully shot pictures of well turned out children, beautiful scenery and smiling faces. If like to think I'm not alone in that 95% of my time as a parent is spent hollering at children that give zero shits about what I'm saying, their faces are not clean and very rarely are they still enough for me to take a photo. The other 5% is the content of my Instagram feed 🤣😆 #summer #park #parenting #wildflowers #son #boys #brothers #instasham #thescenicroutetosanity #june #grass #sky

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