Cooking marathon and general update !!!!

Well Chloe is certianly getting through her food once again ... each batch tends to last about 2/3 weeks, so not to bad !!! So once again we are near the end of her food supply so am set to get cooking for her again !!!
She will eat anything and everything spooned into her ... she seems more of a veggie baby although she will eat meaty meals but she doesn't gobble them up as she would a veg meal ... her favourites are carrot and butternut squash, she quite likes cheesy broccoli and also courgette !!
She has 3 6 oz bottles and her bedtime bottle is 9oz although thinking of doing 2 9oz bottles and 2 5oz to get her to eat more food at dinner and tea time. She has 6 cubes although they are the cubes from the flexiable trays and so are smaller then the normal .. 2 cubes from the bendy tray = 1 cube of the normal ones so from the normal tray she is having 3 cubes ... gets a bit technical !!!
Shes started waking up from half 6 now .. although really she is waking at half 7 as the clocks went back ... think its gonna take a lil while fo her to fall into her normal sleep pattern !!!

Shes finnally managed to roll !!! But she will only do it in her cot ??? Also she has learnt the trick of swapping ends in her cot .. I always have her feet bumper end so she don't get her legs stuck ... come morning her head is that end ...

Her sitting up is going well .. she still has days where she just topples and days where she will sit well .. so at the moment its a bit hit and miss !!!

Daytime sleeping is kinds a battle at the moment .. not sure if its due to the clock change ... she now screams after 5 minutes of being in her bed ... not sure if shes just not tired or is out of sorts with the clocks or what really ... so the aim is now to leave her til after lunch and put her to bed between half 12 and 1 and see if she hopefully has a big nap to tide her over til bedtime!!!

She still has only got 2 teeth .. although she has her top ones moving down .. looks like 4 of them .. hoping they don't all come through at once!!!

Ryan is now on half term .. so thinking of things to do to keep him occupied ... theres a pumpkin olympics not to far from here so might take him to that on saturday, tomorrow evening he is going to Jons mum's to stay overnight and then on friday she is taking him off out on the bus. Sunday not sure what to do !!! Monday its back to the school routine !!

Saturday just gone Jon's sister Teresa came down with Emily ... we took them to manic monsters for them to let of steam .. both had a fab time bless them and even Chloe loved sitting in the balls again !!!

Have some more recent pictures so will upload those soon !!!

Photomasks

Photomask set is up on my blog !!!!!

New Kit !!!

Its up on my scrapblog :)

My first ever Digiscrap kit !!!

9 papers and 21 elements !!!

I hope to try and make a Halloween one soon .. if I can make it before Halloween !!!

Just some recent pictures !!!!

We had I think been to Jon's Dad and got home a bit late .. so skipped bathtime and just got her ready for bed .. sat her in her chair and when came back she was like this !! She was a very tired baby girl!!!


She has now learnt to feed herself !!!! She was getting too fidgety me doing it and wanting to sit up and be nosey so now she sits in her chair and drinks it all by herself !!



All wrapped up for our cold evening walk !!


Little Pink Eskimo !!!

2 cuties !!!!

Lil lad !!!

Daddy and son :)

Daddy and his babies !!!

Daddy and his baby girl !!

Ryan took this picture!!!!! Quite impressed!!!

Thats it for pictures .. have some more but have not yet taken them off the camera!!!! So thats a must do task soon !!!!

Not been up to too much .. have been working on Chloe feeding herself her milk !! She has been doing this for about 4/5 days now and is doing well .. the only bottle I hold is her bedtime one as shes asleep on it!!! Foodwise as well she is doing brilliantly !! She loves anything but her favourites are butternut Squash and Carrot ... either together or seperate or mixed with other veg or meat !!!

As its the autumn now I ought to be doing some more didgiscrap pages .. will keep me occupied amongst other things these wet and cold days !!! So think I might do some scrapping tomorrow !!!!

Another update !!!

Well as stated in previous post we have now decided to crack on with solids .. she has been having them for about 3 weeks now !!! About 4 days after starting she started having real bad nappies up to 6 times a day ... wasn't sure if it was her reacting to food or teething or a mixture of the 2 ... as it turns out it must have been the teething as this week 2 tetth have popped through !!! And her nappies turned back to normal ... the bad nappies went on for just over 2 weeks !!!
She is loving her food ... because of the nappies and not sure the reasoning behind it we went back to basics foodwise !!
I cooked up single fruits and veg ... she loves carrot on its own !!!
Then the last 2/3 days have been mixing fruit and veg ... she loves butternut squash and pear and also carrot and apple !!!

Thursday just gone we went and had her weighed at baby clinic ... she was 18lb 4oz!!!!!

Also she has her 2 bottom teeth .. these both popped up in a matter of days !! A week at the most ... deffo the reason for awful nappies !!!

Her sitting is coming on well ... she will sit unaided for short periods of time til she is distracted then she will topple bless her !!!

Still not rolling over ... shes a bit lazy on that one !! She is attempting to but thats as far as it goes!!!

Anyway I think thats it for now !!!!

Oh Ryan went to school Friday just gone dressed as a croccodile !!! He loved it bless him ... it was all in aid of book week and had to go to school that day dressed as there favourite animal from a book .. his wasn't in any book but he was happy to go and say it was in a book lol .. not sure what he said but never mind !!!

Will add some pics in the next few days !!!

HUGE Update !!!!!!

Well its better late than never but here FINNALLY are the pictures of Chloes bed !!!!

Very cute and girly bedding !!!! Its lovely !!!

And below is Chloe trying it out !!!!

We went to baby clinic on 10/09/09 and she was 17lb and 7 oz .. so shes doing brilliantly bless her !!!

Below is just a random photo I took of her that I love !!!! Its so cute of her !!!

She decided that my choclate bar in the wrapper was a fab thing to hold and attempt to chomp on !!!

We had to start her on solids .. the plan was wait til she was 6 months but she had other ideas ... she decided she would have 2 days of going 3 hours between bottles instead of 4 ... which for her is very odd as she has always done 4 hours NO problems from birth .. so we decided to crack on with the food ... she had apple for 2 days then she had carrot, potato and cauliflower and today she had roast beef !!! she is doin so well ... hardly any sitting out and no screwy faces apart from the first or second spoonful. she is easily clearing 2 icecubes so tomorrow for lunch she has 3 cubes of cheesy pork and mash !!!!

Grandad has come to stay for the week !!!! So heres a picture of Ryan and Grandad (my dad)

And a picture of Chloe and grandad !!!

Because ryan has been inschool all week we decided to make the most of the weekend with Grandad .... so Saturday afternoon we took Ryan to the local soft play area (Manic Monsters)
He loved it bless him ... running up and down ladders and ramps and god knows what else !! The big slide was a hit too !!!!!

Even Chloe got to play in the under 4's section !!!

then after that we went to win green for a quick walk,in the car to come home for a quick tea and then out the door again for Mere Carnival !!!!

Sunday we took Ryan to bournmouth airport for Ryan to watch the planes land and take off !!! He was quite excited about that bless him !!!!

On way back we called into Jons mum and his sister was there with her 2 kids so had a quick coffee.... Chloe was on a mission with baby Jasmin !!!!

Moved to big cot !!!

Today Jon went to Babies r us today to get a mattress for Chloes cot ... she now is in her big cot and has much more room bless her .... she looks tiny in it !!! I'm so pleased as she can now use her pretty pink bedding from Next that Grandad got her !!! Will update blog tomorrow with a picture of her cot and one with her in it !!

Today also I decided to up there other bottles to 7oz .. so she will now have 4 7 oz bottles a day as opposed to 3 6oz and then a 7oz bottle at bedtime ... will see how she goes as the last 2 nights she has woken between 5 and 6 AM although she goes back off to sleep in 10 minutes til 7.30 AM so not too bad .. but some days she is a bit moany during the day so wondering if its a case of wanting a little bit more milk.

Today also I have cooker 2 more meals for her, she has one meal of carrot, potato and cauliflower and another meal of green beans and cauliflower (this one seems to be a bit watery but we shall see what its like when she can have it) .... so on a roll .. thats now 3 meals in the freezer ready for her. Think will now leave it a few more weeks before doing anything else for her, or maybe cook a load of meals when I have introuduced her lunch time solids as I plan to when she is 6 months do a week of breakfast first, so will be pureed fruits for breakfast and then the second week introuduce lunch (the vegetable purees) and then the third week tea which will be veg purees with meat. Then after that she will have baby breakfast for brekkie and for lunch and tea a different meat with veg one followed by fromage frais the other followed by fruit ... can't wait to get her on food ..... she will love it !!

First meal in freezer for Moo !!!

Yesterday I cooked a roast beef dinner, with it I did roast potatos, carrots, green beans and yourkshire puds ....... YUMMY !!!!

I decided to do cook a potato (for mashing) and save some meat and veg and then blend down and freeze ready for Chloe in just over a months time !!

I blended down for her 3 slices of beep. a mashed potato, half a carrot and about 6 green beans and got about 2 icecube trays out of it !!!!! So she has one meal all ready for her in the freezer!!!!!

Today we went shopping to get ryans school uniform, we got him a pack of 3 white polo shirts, 2 packs of 3 vests, a pair of trousers, new shoes and a new lunch box .. the trousers need taking up a few inches but other than that he is good to go !!!
Nanny bought him a new coat the other day which he is chuffed about so he has a new coat for the winter!!!!

Tonight he is staying at Nanny's and then tomorrow they are off out on the bus which he is really looking forward to !!! So tomorrow is bit of a chill day with a few bits of housework and washing to do !!!!!

And yes it is 12.45 at night and I am STILL sat up !!! Luckily it seems to have no effect on me what time I go to bed!!! Good job she will wake at 7 for milk and go back to sleep til half 9 !!! No doubt I will change all that when school starts monday ... she will wake at 7 and be up !!!!

Sleeping longer ...

Well as Chloe was waking at 6 I decided to up her bedtime botte by an ounce ... so she now has a 7 oz bottle at bedtime and she has this about half 7 and is in bed just before 8PM. It seems to have done the trick having an extra ounce and bedtime an hour later as she now sleeps from 8PM- 7AM ... a MUCH better time to stat the day from.




She also can sit by herself for about 30 seconds before toppling to the side .. she leans forward as well so she ends up resting on her hands ... anyway heres a pictue of her sat at 4 and a half months old !!!

Baby weaning recipes !!

I know I'm not weaning Chloe til she is at least 6 months but I have been looking for recipe ideas .... I have found these thatI would like to try :

Butternut Squash and Pear

Ingrediants

1 Medium butternut squash

1 Ripe juicy pear

Method

Peel the butternut squash, cut in half, remove the seeds and chop into pieces. steam cook for about 12 minutes. Peel, core and chop the pear and add to steamer and continue to cook for 5 minutes or until the squash is tender. Puree in the blender and add in bout6 tablespoons of te water at the bottom of the steamer or as much as is needed to make the puree a suitable consistacy for your baby.

Root Vegetable Puree

Ingrediants

200g sweet potato, peeled and chopped

200g carrots, peeled and chopped

100g parsnips, peeled and chopped

Method

Steam the root vegetables for bout 20 minutes or until tender. Blend the vegetables to a puree adding a little of the boiled water at the bottom of the steamer until is a good consistancy for your baby.

Chicken Puree with Carrots & Apple

Ingrediants

350g carrots peeled and sliced

1 chicken breast

1 small apple, cored, peeled and chopped

1/2 tabalespoon of oil

250 ml unsalted chicken stock

1/2 small onion peeled and chopped

Method

Heat oil in a saucepan and saute the onion till softened. Add the sliced carrots, pour over the chicken stock and bring to boil. Reduce heat and then cover and cook for 10 minutes.

cut te chicken into pieces and add to the carrots together with the chopped apple and continue to cook for 10 minutes.

Puree in a blender.

Leek, Sweet Potato and Pea

Ingrediants

50g of leek, washed an sliced

400g of sweet potato, peeled and chopped

300ml of vegetable stock

50g of frozen peas

Method

Put the leek and sweet potato in a saucepan. Pour ove the vegetable stock and bring to boil. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Add the peas and continue to coo for another 5 minutes.

Blend in blender.

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Those are the ones I have found that I would like to try ... I also fancy making these ones up of my own.

Carrot and suede

Cheesy Broccoli and Cauliflower

Chicken, Green beans, rice, tomato and basil baby sauce (Annabel Karmel)

Chicken, potato, carrot and suede

Chicken, broccoli and cauliflower with baby gravy (Annabel Karmel)

Chicken and butternut squash

Mince, carrot and sweet potato

Mince, suede and tomato and basil sauce

Mince, onion, potato and baby gravy

Mince, broccoli, cauliflower and carrot

Carrot, leek and butternut squash

Peas, broccoli, , green beans and sweet potato with tomato and basil sauce

I think thats all for now and should keep her going for god knows how long ...... I don't think I will do tht all in one go although I will prob have enough to do so !!!!!!

I can't wait to get ready for her weaning ..... we have her bowls ... she has the Tommee Tippee pack of 2 bowls with one soon and lid and a pack of 8 Tommee Tippee spoons, I want to get her another pack of the bowls and maybe a pack of the little pots.

Well I think thats all ..... I have no idea howong this post is haha!!!!!

Well ...

The last few days haven't really done much .... we have been to see Jon's mum and wander down the town, went to yeovil shopping and thats it really !!!



We have had to convert Moo's pram to pushchair mode as she was getting too big for it in pram mode..... I didn't really want to switch her round yet til she was at least 6 months but I would rather her be comfy !!! I don't sit her up tho .... She lies flat still .... I have put her on the posisiton one up from lieing flat but at the moment want her to be led down still. I will sit her up more when she cat sit up herself or when she is a little bit bigger!!! She quite enjoys the pushchair as even led down she can see more.

Heres a pic of her asleep in pushchair mode :)






When we went shopping I saw LOADS of gorgeous clothes for Chloe!!! Lots of pinks and stripes !!!! Could have spent a fortune !!! Ryan has found a cool trendy army coat that he has asked for christmas ... but I'm sure we'll get it before as he could do with a new coat for the school winter term.

Chloe had a bad day yesterday .... think she has a tooth coming .... she had 2 crying periods, the first she was just sat on me for an hour just crying, whatever I tried just couldn't console her :( She wore herself out bless her and zonked out on me ... secnd crying session wasn't as long but again nothing could console her :( Again she zonked out after with exhaustion.
Inbetween all she seemed to do was moan on and off ... thankfully she didn't seem to be unsettled overnight, she still slept solid !!!

Today she was better ... she moaned here and there but thats normal .. she also went to sleep at nap times better, although she didn't sleep that long at them, less than an hour each time.

Well I best leave it there , have my Rich (Bro) and his fiance (Melissa) and there son Ethan whos just over 6 months coming for tea tomorrow ... I plan to do a sheperds pie with carrots, green beans and cauliflower .... in the sheperds pie I plan to put onion and mushroom in to give it a bit more flavour ... think will get some brown sauce to go in like I used to do !!! YUMMY !!!!

Bathtime Fun !!

Chloe LOVES her bathtimes !!!! She kicks her legs to splash and has a fab time bless her !!!!

Got this short video clip last night !!! Shes just to cute!!!!!

Its just so fun to watch her splashing in the bath !! I can remember Ryan being the same .. he loved bathtimes too ... he has had a bath with Chloe ... he loved that til she wee'd !!!! So bless him he won't have one with her now !!!!

Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning !!!

Yesterday I decided to blitz the house a bit !!! I did 3 loads of washing, cleaned the kitchen and bathroom, tidied Ryans room as he always rakes all his toys back and "forgets" to put them away ... I know I'm a mug for tidying it up but his room is small enough as it is without haveing it look like a bomb has hit it so you can't move in there !!!
I also sorted our room briefly and mopped the laminate floor downstairs !!!! Needless to say it was quite a productive day !! I love having days like that where I get so much done !!!
I don't mind doing it either as I quite enjoy cleanning ...... now that is probally quite sad but I love the satisfaction of of having a clean and tidy house and knowing I have made it like that !!! Don't get me wrong hubby does his bit of course but I just have my way of cleaning !!!!

Of course it all has to be done everyday but at least once its done majorly one day doesn't take as long next time !!!

Anyway Ryans tea is in the oven so off I go to dish it up !!! At the sirs request he has sausage, egg, toast and beans !!!!

Chloe was weighed today ......

And she is 15lb 15oz !!! She was weighed 4 weeks ago and was 14lb 14 oz so shes doing great!! She also had her last lot of jabs today :( 3 to be exact .. 2 shots in one leg and 1 shot in the other .... she cried her heart out bless her :( which was strange as she was fine on the last 2 times .. she moaned at the time but all was forgotten in seconds ..this time was the most I had ever heard her cry .. she cried more than when she was born !!! Ryan was a bit shocked at the amount of noise she made and I don't think he was impressed the fact the lady hurt her bless him!! Her lil face was all screwed up and tears streaming down her face ... she was fine a few minutes after though bless her but was still wimpering to the car .... she came home and had a bottle as she was overdue a feed by half an hour and then was straight in the car to go shopping and she was sound asleep !!! She has been a bit crabby on and off all day but then I guess anyone would be if they were stabbed 3 times in the leg !!! Bedtime she had calpol and her milk and we haven't heard her since !!!

Well as its 10 past midnight I am going to go to bed !!!

4 Months !!!!

Chloe turned 4 months old on the 10th August !!!! Can't believe she is 4 months old already !!!! Its gone sooooooo quick !!! Shes getting big as well bless her !!!! She was last weighed about 4 weeks ago and she was 14lb 14oz so I plan to get her weighed tomorrow at baby clinic.
She sleeps through 9 times out of 10 ... in bed for half 7 and sleeps til 6 or half past ... sometimes she can wake at 5 . When shes having a growth spurt she will wake up once in the night to be fed.

Shes now on 4 6oz bottle a day ... well I make up 6oz but she drinks anything from 5 - 6 oz Her bedtime one she drinks 6 oz yet her first one of the day she will more often than not drink 4 or 5 oz. The 2 in the day will range from 5 or 6 .... I think shes like this due to it being hot at the moment. I'm not too bothered about it ... she still seems happy in herself so she can't be starved!!!

Heres some recent pics ... these were taken a few days before she turned 4 months !!

Balloon Fiesta !!!! (8th August)

Wow was this a looooooooooooooong day ..... it was a brilliant day out and Ryan enjoyed it very much !!! Chloe was fab and she ate and slept at her normal times. The weather was brilliant which made the day even more enjoyable.

We left home about 9AM and arrived aout 11ish .... was only £6 to park and that was for the WHOLE day !!!

We found our spot right by the arena which was fab !!! The men set everything up nd then wandered off to have a look around while us mummies and kids watchedthe polo game in the arena .... Ryan thought this was cool !!!

Fed Chloe and had lunch and then watched the other things going on in the arena .... parachute jumping, that was fun to see ..... and army demostration of army shooting etc ... that was also fun to see.

Then we had some stunts from a sea fire plane, then we had a lazy few hours of walking around and amusing the kids and a few lil events in the arena ..... then it came to 5PM and the event Ryan had been looking forward to ALL day ............... THE RED ARROWS !!!!!

This display was something else .... I have never seen them do a display and it was BRILLIANT to watch !!! Ryan was very impressed by this !!!

Then at 6.30PM it was the balloon launch !!!! This was spectacular !!! There was roughly 96 balloons crammed into the arena ready for take off ..... some of them were HUGE !!!!!

We had a lil wait for the balloons to land and come back via their trailers to set up for the night glow.

This again was BRILLIANT !!! Straight away after there as a fireworks display which was very good !!!!

Chloe bless her was asleep in her pram from 8PM .... she was all cosy in her jacket and fleece blanket ... it had turned quite nippy !!!!

We got back to the car about 11ish PM and it took roughly half an hour to get ut onto clear road !!!

FINALLY got home about 1.15AM !!!! Needless to say we were all shatered !!!

Anyway PICS !!!!!

Parachute jumper

Coming in to land


Ryan with hs Lorry Michelle got him

The Red Arrows

Diamond Formation


Arrow Formation

Balloons getting ready for the launch





Balloons taken off

Chloe having her bedtime bottle


Night Glow

I didn't get to many pics of the night glow as not all of them were coming out !!!!

Brilliant !!!

I definatley have this blog up and running .. I have even managed to find a background I love !!! Ones thats not too fussy !! I have even managed to add links etc .. I think they work .. well I have tried them and they do haha!!!

I can see I am going to really like this blogging thing ... be prepared for lots of posts .. most probally about nothing in particular !! I will have to get back on the scrapping scene (Not really had time since Chloe) and share them here !! I have of course done hundreds of pages .. but I will not post them all as I'll be here forever haha!!! I may sometime post my favourite pages .. then that should keep you going !!!

Well that be it for now .. we have a beautiful sunny day and hoping it lasts for tomorrow !!!

Whoop Whoop !!!

I seem to have the skin/template sorted !!!

Yay !!! Dunno if all links work tho ....

Intro ...

Well ... am new to this blogging but thought it would be fun to do !!! It will be all about our lifes .. me, my hubby and our 2 children .. our day to day routine etc !!

So heres a quick round up (Well I hope it to be quick) :

I'm currently 24 and am married to a wonderful man called Jon , we will have been together 8 years this August and we have celebrated our first wedding anniversary June just gone this year !!! Let me tell you that year has gone super quick !!! Other than the birth of our children that has to be the best day of our lives!!!
Our eldest is Ryan, he will be 6 in January coming ... hes a bundle of energy with great imagination !! (But then what child isnt !!!) Hes mad on cars and loves to be at school .. he is currently on his school summer holidays and is counting down the weeks he goes back to school !! He can't wait to go into year one and see all his friends again .. he also LOVES the day to day routine of school which is what he is missing with it being the school holidays. All in all he is just a typical boy ... loads of energy, loves to be an action hero of some sort and just a total sweetheart as well !!
Our youngest is Chloe, she is just about to turn 4 months old !!! Where that time has gone I really don't know !! She is a just a doll !!! She is full of smiles and all sorts of sounds and squeaks. She is begining to show signs of rolling over.. she can go from her side to front but not yet from back to side to front ... although she is figuring the leg movement to push herself over!! Won't be long !! She more or less sleeps through the night, in bed for 7 and will wake for a feed anywhen between 5 and 6 and then is back down to roughly half 7 , some nights tho she can wake about 1AM and then goes til 6 .. it just depends but 9 times out of 10 shes all night .. I am not bothered if she does wake tho as she is fed and back in her crib blotto within half an hour !!!

I love playing around with photos and editing them and adding effects .. mainly photos of the kids.
Digital scrapbooking is another favourite of mine .. again I love to do pages about the kids.

Thats all I really enjoy doing .. I like to read a good book when I get the chance , music I will listen to anything , I enjoy watching films and spending time on the computor !!

So thats a run down of everything I guess!!! Not much else I can say really !!

Anyway .. I need to figure this thing out more .. I want to change my skin/template .. I can get it to work .. only none of the info is mine .. its all the fake stuff on the template ?!?!?! Confused.com !!!