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Lots of shopping

Monday, January 4th, 2010

William was in a much better mood today. We were out most the day with Cheryl and Evie shopping and he didn’t complain at all. We went for lunch at a chinese resturant and William was a good boy, sat in the highchair and ate his sandwiches very nicely for a change. He isn’t great at eating finger foods and things that aren’t pureed or mashed but he did really well today. I’ve been making sure that his lunch is always finger foods so he has more practice eating them and he seems to be doing better now, which is making life a lot easier for me. We then hit up all the charity shops (I’m informed in America these go by the name Thrift Shop – a thrift shop over here is slightly different!) and I got some nice things for William.

2 t-shirts and a fleece  for 2.25

2 toy cars for £1

A clicky clacky toy for 99p

I was very pleased with how cheap things were in the charity shops, in Worcester they were so expensive I might as well have bought brand new items but in Derby I actually make a good saving. The clothes are really cute too which makes a change. Shops usually have tons of girls items and only one small rack for the boys – so annoying. Don’t they realise us mummys want to dress our boys in cute clothes too.

William is working on his sitting. He still won’t sit unaided for long but if you let him lean back againtst you and put a toy he wants in front of him he will pull himself forwards and sit to grab it, of course he then hurls himself back ASAP to minimise the amount of heart wrenchingly awful time he must spend sitting *rolls eyes* that boy sure knows his own mind.

Tomorrow I need to get up early, clean the house, go to town and get the weeks shopping and then Cheryl and Evie are coming over for lunch. Busy.

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Back online

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Yey, we are back online!

I am intending to do a nice long update but William is resisting his naptime so it will depend on how long he will tolerate being left to settle himself before he decides to have hysterics, or maybe I’ll be lucky and he’ll give up on his groaning.

It’s been just over a week since we moved but it feels a lot longer, the downstairs rooms are still a big mess *sigh* it’s driving me crazy but moving is a lot harder when you have a 4 month to care for as well.

The kitchen in our new place was pretty nasty so we have painted it up fresh and my dad came up Saturday and fitted in new shelves and worktops. It looks great :-)

William on the whole is doing well. He is now taking three solid meals a day. I am still giving him milk first followed by food but am going to start doing it the other way around soon. With solids and then milk to finish him off. I am also trying him on water and juice from a sippy cup rather than a bottle. He is a little bemused by the whole sippy cup thing but I keep trying and he seems to be getting somewhere with it.

The other day he manged to sit up unaided, not for long though before he realised what he was doing and fell flat on his side lol, he hasn’t really managed to repeat this feat since but I keep sitting him up surrounded by soft things and letting him try. I must try and snap a picture next time he does it. the camera never seems to be handy when I need it.

We have been busy making some new mummy friends. We see Owen (9 months) and his mummy Louise a lot, in fact we met up this morning for coffee and a wander around the local shopping centre. We spent about 3 hours in town and it flew by – we never stop talking. We have also met a new mummy and little girl called Stef and Lottie. Lottie is about 4 weeks younger than William and Rhian and Sophie, Sophie is 6 months. Together we are going to to be running a local mums meet up on Wednesdays at a soft play area.

Monday afternoons we have astarted a year long PEEP course which is basically a social and creative activities group for mums of babies 12 months and under. As well as attending group we can put together a portfolio of work based on the session and send it of f to gain a college certificate – how cool is that? I’m really looking forward to it. Today was our first session so it was mostly meeting each other. There seem to be some really nice people there. The oldest baby was 7 months and I’m telling you William is pretty much the same size as him(!) my kid is HUGE.

Todays foods:

  • Heinz oat and apple baby cereal
  • Haricot bean and tomato casserole (dude this is just baked beans I swear!!)
  • Cheesy Vegetables

Todays cute moment:

  • William making eyes at Lisa who runs the PEEP course

Tomorrow:

  • Puree up some veggies and freeze for Williams meals, no more jars now our kitchen is sorted
  • Ironing

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A short break

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

There will be a short break in updates here as we move house tomorrow. We will have to wait a while for phone lines and broadband to be sorted out. I’ll try and get online at the library and update from there to let you all know what’s going on.

William hasn’t been himself today at all. To be honest I think the manic packing has scared him a little, he keeps looking really puzzled and has been very clingy and cuddley, not unsual for most babies but William is like me, he doesn’t love cuddles.

Yesterday Will and I met our friends Louise and Owen and went to Messy Play at the local surestart centre. Wills is a bit young still for the sand, water and glue play but we did some hand prints and then he lay on the mats and played with the baby toys that were there. He was a big fan of the caterpillar, which we have at home but at home he NEVER pays it the slightest bit of attention *sighs* go figure!

Sleep wise he thought it might be funny to have a little chat in the middle of the night, from 3am-5am and also demand feeding at either end of that time scale. He did go back to sleep at 5am and stayed down until 8:30. That was a nice treat, he’s usually up and ready to go by 7am at the latest. Just a shame he needed to be awake for 2 hours in the night to acheive it.

Todays foods:

  • Apple and rice for breakfast
  • “Grandpas Sunday Roast” jar by Cow and Gate. William loved this. I’ve tried him on a couple of jars before and he usually will take 3-4 baby spoons at most. He ate 1/4 of a jar today so it must have been tasty. Smelled good too.

Todays cute moment:

  • His big gummy good morning grin

Tomorrow:

  • Mummy, Daddy and Grandad to letting agents at 10am. Wills to stay with Grandma
  • Mummy, Daddy and Grandad moving stuff in to new house
  • Mummy and Will go to Sing and Sign 1:45 – 2:45
  • Wills moves to new house – YEY!!

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Baby Yoga

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Will and I have had a busy day today. This morning we met up with a mummy and her baby in the local park. I met the mum Louise through a site called netmums where you can talk to other local mums, she lives just up the road from us and her little lad is 9 months old. We stopped in the library and picked up some books then had a 30 – 40 minute walk around the park before having lunch in the cafe. It was really nice to chat to another mum. The weather was great as well, the sun as reappeared today and it was really warm, go figure that I had Will dressed for Autumn, I had to strip him right down to his vest and leave him like that but being England as I walked home the wind blew cold and I had to redress him in the middle of the street.

We had to run after the playdate to get to our baby yoga class in time. There were 6-7 other women there who have all done a bit before so I kinda had to catch up as we went along. Wills managed about 30 minutes before he demanded some milk and promptly fell asleep. He did however have the biggest giggle fest during some leg movements, he was just cracking up, I’ve never seen him giggle so much before.

Todays foods have been:

  • Fruit cocktail for breakfast
  • Rusk and baby rice mixed with milk for dinner

Todays cute moment:

  • Williams giggle fest at yoga
  • Head butting the spoon in attempt to eat his rusk and rice faster

Tomorrow we are:

  • Baby massage in the morning, last session – BOO! :-(
  • House hunting – 3 viewings with Ashley Adams
  • Must pick up the remainder of Williams gaviscon

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What a good boy

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

William on the whole was a very good boy yesterday, especially when you consider that we were on a train from 8 – 10:40am, then he had to stay in his pushchair while I sorted my things out, back on a train at 4, visited my parents then back on a train from 7:10 – 9:10pm.

We put him to bed when we got home and didn’t hear a peep out of him until 6am, YEY! The first time ever that he has woken up in daylight. It was lovely. He’s back down for a nap now and guess what…no crying. A little shouting but he soon settled off.

Today:

  • Visit estate/letting agents and book some house viewings
  • 12:22 train to Nottingham, meet Sally at 1pm for lunch

Todays food:

  • Rusks for William. Mexican for Mummy

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