Father’s Day 2016

fathers day 2016
Us at the top of Leith Hill tower

So today was Father’s Day and my dad stayed at ours last night so that he could come and watch Clara’s swimming lesson this morning for the first time. Afterwards, we decided that seeing as the weather was nice we would take another trip to Leith Hill and go on a bit of a walk. Somewhere along the way we must have missed a signpost because the circular walk took quite a bit longer than it was meant to and we were all starting to wonder slightly if we were still heading in the right general direction!

Following our walk we were all starving so we headed to Regional Thai Taste in Reigate. The food was delicious and Clara was very well behaved throughout the meal, although she did take a couple of swipes at my crispy beef so we had to keep everything on the table well out of arms length!

By the time we got home we were all shattered, and I don’t think I would be alone in saying that we were all a little bit envious when Clara went down for a nap. All in all a very successful and enjoyable first Father’s Day for Jamie and first (Grand)father’s day for my dad.

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Enjoying some Thai food

A busy weekend

a busy weekend
Clara with her granny

This weekend has been pretty hectic. On Friday, both of my parents were over for the day so Clara got a good bit of quality grandparent time. She is starting to really recognise family members now and is very smiley for them whenever they are over which is great to see.

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Weaning – week 11

weaning week 11
Clara at Toby Carvery

We tried out a veggie dhal recipe this week which was really tasty and had a bit of a spicy tingle to it. Clara enjoyed this one so it was a good introduction to foods with slightly stronger flavours. Apparently, the flavour of my milk changes depending on what I have eaten so to be fair I guess she is probably already used to more flavours than we realise! We also gave her some roasted sweet potato wedges which were part of our dinner and she enjoyed holding and chomping on these.

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Weaning – week 8

weaning week 8
Clara in the pub garden

This week we tried egg again, although we only used the yolk this time in order to determine if Clara will have an allergic reaction to it. I hard boiled it and then mashed it up with a bit of avocado and she loved it! No vomiting this time so we will test the egg white again soon to see if that sets her off, otherwise it may have been a false alarm which would be nice. We have also tried out buttered toast fingers, peanut butter, rice cakes, chicken and lamb for the first time so it has been a pretty adventurous week!

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Weaning – week 7

weaning week 7
Clara in the IKEA restaurant

This week Clara continued to try new foods, including some Organix red pepper hearts corn puffs (which she loved, and were great as they completely disintegrated in her mouth so I was less paranoid about her choking on these!). She also tried Organix multigrain mini cereal puffs, although given that she is still struggling to get along with the porridge, I think this was a step too far as it is basically all of the lumps from the porridge taken out and combined in one packet! Definitely going to need a little bit more work with this one.

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Weaning – week 6

weaning week 6

This week we introduced kiwi to Clara as part of a kiwi-avocado combo, and she seemed to like it. I’ve heard that this can be a potential allergen but she didn’t have any symptoms after eating it so hopefully we are ok with this one. We will try it again soon just to make sure. We also gave Organix multigrain porridge a try for breakfast one morning, although Clara didn’t seem massively impressed with the texture or taste of this one so we will definitely need to keep trying it in order to try and get her used to it.

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Sunshine & bank holidays

sunshine & bank holidays
Trying out the new buggy seat

Today is Good Friday and Jamie has booked the whole of next week off work so that we are able to have a bit of family time over the next few days which will be lovely. When we woke up this morning the weather was absolutely gorgeous so we decided to make the most of it and go for a little walk with Clara as we have been dying to try out the new seat on her Uppababy Cruz buggy for a couple of weeks now.

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