Chocolate
Here’s Evie having her first ever taste of chocolate! Do you think she liked it?!!!
I gave her half a finger of my KitKat. But then trying to wipe her hands while yelling “Don’t touch ANYTHING” was not so much fun.
I’ve finished expressing as well. I had a stomach bug last week and just didn’t feel well enough to express, and as I didn’t feel too uncomfortable the next day, I just haven’t bothered since. I still have some mummy milk in the freezer, so that should see her through to her first birthday. But to be honest, she drinks very, very little milk anyway. Maybe 100-150ml a day. She does eat yogurts, and cheese and milk in sauces, so I’m not worried about that. In fact, I think I’m happier about it than her drinking vast amounts of cow’s milk. I do wish she’d drink a little more water though, but everyone promises me that she will in time.
She’s not walking yet, I thought she might be, but she seems quite happy to crawl to wherever she wants to be, and then just stand up when she gets there. She can stand on her own now though, without support.
Food wise, she’s got a very good appetite now she’s stopped the breast feeding. She ate one and half Weetabix with apple for breakfast this morning, plus two prunes! She’s quite happy with all kinds of textures, most things we don’t even mash any more. She also loves her finger foods, although sandwiches are a very messy business. She’s also very interested in spoons. She now won’t eat unless I give her a spoon to play with. And sometimes she even puts it in her mouth!!
It’s her birthday on Friday, so I promise a big update with lots of piccies.
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We’ve had problems with our main computer and the camera, so there haven’t been any photos for a while. But now it seems to be sorted, so here we go.
Firstly, here’s a picture of the No-hood hoodie being modelled by a very wriggly Evie. That’s her dad behind her trying to keep her still.
It’s by no means perfect, and to be honest it doesn’t really fit all that well – it’s too long in the arms and too short in the body. But, I’ve learned my lessons from it, and it keeps her warm at home.
Debbie Bliss Ribbed jacket
I’m much happier with this. It’s a ribbed jacket in Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran. It was a quick and easy knit, it’s gorgeously soft, and it actually looks like it’s supposed to! It’s a 2 year old size though, so Evie can’t model it just yet.
I’ve also decided to teach myself to crochet
Nothing too exciting, but it all stayed together, and Newt is now using it as a coaster (when Evie isn’t playing with it). I decided that I had to learn because I kept finding knitting patterns with a crochet edge that I wanted to do. I think I’ve got the hang of the basic stitches now, and I’ve made a granny square, but the patterns are still complete gobbledegook to me. I don’t particularly want to make clothes (at least not at the moment) but I have seen a couple of nice blankets and bags that I might have a go at.
I’ve also been thinking about my oddments of yarn. I did have a fanciful idea of knitting swatches from them all to make a blanket for Evie. Then I thought I could do granny squares instead. But the more I think about it, the more I think that I’m just making life too difficult for myself. I’m knitting as a hobby, because I enjoy it, and using up all the oddments was becoming a chore. Also, I’m very pernickity, and I just don’t think I’d like a blanket that didn’t match properly, where the colours were not all in the same colour family or didn’t match tonally, or even didn’t clash properly. So, I’m not going to do it. I’m just going to concentrate on knitting things I want to knit, and then get rid of my oddments to the wonderful people who knit for charity or on freecycle for crafty groups or whatever. That way, I feel no guilt about them, they don’t take up cupboard space, and hopefully someone gets some use out of them.
And finally, just because she’s absolutely gorgeous!
No more breastfeeding
It’s been a while since I updated, but it’s been a bit hectic here because two and a half weeks ago, the Veggie Baby decided she wasn’t going to breast feed any more. She was having 4 feeds a day, and then just suddenly started refusing. I think it was initially because of teething – she’s got 7 teeth and we’re just waiting for the 8th one on the bottom to even things out. But although I think it was the teething that started it, I think it’s just carried on because she’s realised that there’s so much other stuff going on, and that she’s just far too busy! So I’ve been trying to coax her back, and also trying to express four times a day as well.
I’ve now decided that’s not realistic, and so I’m now just expressing twice a day, and not offering to feed her very often because it just ends up with us both getting upset. So it looks like this is the end of the road for us. This makes me really sad because I never planned on stopping so early. I always said that I’d feed her for as long as she wanted it – but I was expecting a gradual weaning at about 2-3 years, rather than an abrupt refusal. But I think we’re now at the point where the benefits of breast milk don’t outweigh the disadvantages of having a permanently upset and depressed mummy.
So I’m going to gradually wind down the expressing, I might carry on until she’s 12 months, because it’s only 4 weeks away, but we’ll see. I’m going to concentrate on enjoying the last few weeks of my baby’s first year, and I think that’s the most important thing.
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