To say that it’s been a while since my last post is something of an understatement!! It’s been five months since I last wrote. My darling girl has been through quite a number if changes since she hit the six month mark back in January. At 7-months or so Thea got really active, commando crawling … Continue reading »
6 and a half months old: rolling
Thea has decided that rolling over is the new lying flat on her back. It’s her activity of choice and is usually accompanied by high pitch screams and squeals. She’s discovered volume and pitch… It’s not pretty. My daughter has a way to go before she’s challenging Mariah or Beyonce but she can certainly reach … Continue reading »
6 months old: 1st stage weaning
So weaning is well under way. I was working my way through root veg but I thought I’d take a detour and try avocado today! Weaning is a weird one. It makes all mums, no matter how faithfully they followed previous advice and routines, go completely on instinct. Some of my friends have been weaning … Continue reading »
6 month old: Xmas & New Years Eve
8.37am on January 1st 2013… I’m awake listening to the little one babble and sing at the top of her lungs. I’m knackered but at least I don’t have a hangover! We took Thea to two NYE bashes last night. One in Islington and one in Greenford. She basically slept through both. She’s been awesome … Continue reading »
5 and a half months: sleep issues
I naively assumed that we’d cracked sleep and that from now on night wakings would be rare and only if, say, jet lag or illness was involved. Unfortunately I had failed to factor in the more or less permanent winter cold that babies with virtually no immunity suffer from AND the increased hunger that comes … Continue reading »
5 month old: getting to sleep
I really thought we’d cracked sleep. Thea’s been “sleeping through” since she was about 3 months – and, just so we’re on the same page, by that I mean 6.30pm to 10.30pm when we wake her food a feed then 11pm to 7am. That was good. Still is good but I have noticed that she … Continue reading »
5 months: Mastering rolling
Thea is 5 months old and she’s just mastering the art of rolling. At 3.5 months she did her first back-to-front roll – she performed this trick three times at that day, twice the next day and then we didn’t see it again. She made cursory attempts at the back-to-front roll but never really got … Continue reading »
4.5 months: Sitting up and other milestones
About three weeks ago I started helping Thea to sit up. She loves to stand and her legs are getting really strong but sitting she wasn’t so keen on. She particularly loathed the Bumboo. She would arch her back and try to escape from it when I put her in. However now she’s a bit … Continue reading »
Norovirus – baby with vomiting virus
Ohhhh heartbreaking, my poor little Thea got Norovirus this week. It was Monday afternoon and she had been unusually crabby and whiny all day. I thought it might be the remnants of jet lag as we only arrived home from Japan the Sunday before last but it she was just getting more and more fretful. … Continue reading »
4 months: Centre Parcs
The first thing anyone says to you when you say you’re going to Center Parcs is “Ohhhh you have to pay for everything though” – now, I don’t know if I’m just not doing holidays correctly but I’m yet to go on a trip where everything I’d ever want to do is included in the … Continue reading »
