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 !!!!