First raisins

Not much to report today really. Hannah had cheerios for breakfast again today (and so did I, turns out they taste quite nice!).

For lunch I cooked her some mushroom and ricotta tortellini, and she followed it with half a banana. I think she ate more of the pasta today than she managed last night, although she still mainly sucked the filling out and left the pasta itself.

Tea was a couple of oatcakes, one with cream cheese and one with lentil pate on, plus some cherry tomatoes, slices of avocado, and some raisins. It was the first time she's tried raisins, and even though they were pretty small she managed to get them down her really well. I did find a couple that escaped down her bib in the clean up operation, but that was all.

She passed!

Hannah had her 8 month check today, and I'm pleased to report that she passed. She now weighs 16lb 15oz, and is 69cm long. Her head is nearly 46cm round, and she showed off by pulling herself up to standing for the health visitor several times.

Breakfast was cheerios, lunch was a cream cheese and hummus sandwich, and tea was some mushroom and ricotta filled pasta with tomato and mascarpone sauce. All went down very well, although all meals were rather brief today as we were a bit short of time and never quite caught up with ourselves.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit more relaxed, we don't have any specific appointments to get to, so I'm hopeful!

Crumpet and omelette and other things

Hannah had cheerios for breakfast again today, and we ate all together as a family, which was lovely.

At lunchtime I made her a couple of buttered crumpets, some cherry tomatoes cut in half, some grapes also cut in half, half a banana, a rusk, and a fromage frais (a strawberry flavoured one). The crumpets were just as popular this time as the first time she tried them a few weeks ago. She also drank some well diluted juice out of her new sippy cup - we finally bought a replacement after leaving the original one at someone's house earlier this week.



For tea she ate some of a cheese and onion omelette and a cream cheese sandwich. She definitely seems to eat more bread when it's not been toasted though, strange child!

Still not a fan of cauliflower cheese

Today Hannah ate cheerios for breakfast, then had the cauliflower cheese that she didn't want yesterday for lunch, along with some grapes cut in half, a slice of melon in chunks, and half a portion of butterscotch angel delight.

She still isn't a fan of cauliflower cheese and didn't eat very much of it at all. The melon didn't seem to be ripe enough for Hannah to cope with easily, so she didn't pay it very much attention. Fortunately she loved the grape halves, and the angel delight too. The angel delight got a similar reaction as rice pudding did the other week, she dived for the spoon as we were attempting to hand it to her, and she made "num num" noises while she was eating it.

For tea, Hannah ate an oatcake with cream cheese on, another with lentil pate on, a breadstick, a clementine, and the remainder of lunchtime's angel delight. For the first time in ages Hannah gagged on some of the oatcake and hastily spat it out. She didn't seem remotely bothered by this, and carried on with the rest of her meal regardless.

Another first today, she only had half a breastfeed at 11am, and none at all at 3pm, so I gave her a sippy cup full of formula along with her tea to make sure she's getting enough milk. She actually drank most of it, I think the first time she's drunk significant amounts out of the sippy cup.

Cauli Cheese Rejection

Strange day all told. Breakfast was good, as it usually is - in fact Hannah was desperately trying to find additional cheerios to eat towards the end of the meal:

Lunch was a toasted pitta bread filled with grated cheese melted in, and a yog-fruit digestive. She did remarkably well with the pitta bread, and even ate a bit of the bread. Mostly, of course, she sucked the cheese out of the middle and discarded the bread wrapping. Hannah really liked the digestive, and I ended up giving her another half of one after she'd scoffed the first lot. I thought it might be a bit too crumbly for her to manage very well, but the yogurt topping kind of held it all together, which was useful.

I made her some cauliflower cheese for tea, but she didn't eat any of it, I'm not even sure that any of it made it into her mouth for a taste. She missed her late afternoon nap, and generally seemed to be a bit out of sorts, spending over an hour either grizzling or yelling. When I put her in the high chair she swiped the cauliflower cheese off the tray and just banged her fists on the tray until I took her back into the living room a few minutes later. She settled down OK at bedtime, and didn't wake for a dream feed, so I can only assume that she wasn't especially hungry yesterday.

Double whammy update

A double update today, as I missed yesterday due to being at a Spice Girls concert, yay!


For breakfast on both days Hannah had cheerios, and ate loads of them - I'm sure she's eating more every day. We've started placing the last few of them on the tip of our fingers for her to grab if she wants them, as there's one particular sort that goes really mushy and she can't get them. Her pincer grip is developing apace and is pretty good now - there's not much she can't get between her thumb and index finger these days.


Lunch yesterday was, well, forgettable - can't remember what I gave her! I think it was a couple of breadsticks and a sandwich with cream cheese in. I'm sure there was something else as well, but I don't know what it was! Today there were some Quorn Swedish Style Balls, which were also on the menu yesterday teatime, along with a quarter of a slice of my cheese on toast, and a rusk. Here's the start of lunch:

Here she is part way through lunch:

And now she's finished!

Tea today was a corn thin with cream cheese, a slice of melon, and three tinned peach halves. She's not tried peach halves before and she wolfed them down, so I'll pick up another tin of those when we go shopping next.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year from all of us! Hannah saw in the New Year as it turned out, she woke up at about 11.30pm and seemed to be hungry, so we fed her, changed her, and by the time she was heading back to bed it had just gone midnight :o)

So anyway, onto food on 1 January 2008...Breakfast was the usual Cheerios but in formula milk due to a sudden lack of full fat cow juice.

For lunch she has 2 small slices of quiche and a cream cheese sandwich. Half the sandwich also had raspberry jam in, which seemed to go down well. It's only the second time she's tried untoasted sliced bread, I've been quite wary of it as I was told that the texture made it more difficult for babies to cope with than, for example, toast. But not only did Hannah cope admirably with it, she even ate a fair amount too! So unlike toast, sandwiches aren't considered mere disposable plates - hurrah! She also ate about 10 grapes cut in half, by chewing out the insides and leaving the skin.

We were out at tea time, visiting family, and Hannah ate some firsts - half an onion bhajee and some vegetable samosa. The samosa had a bit of a kick to it, but Hannah seemed to quite like it (it made me have a swift drink of something cool, apparently I'm a wuss!). She also had more grapes, a bit of carrot and a bit of parsnip.

Later on she shared tea and biscuits with Neil. She didn't have any tea, but had a couple of small chocolate biscuits that she liked. I'm noticing rather too much chocolate creeping into her diet though, but we've about eaten all our festive chocs and don't have any more family visits or days out planned just yet, so hopefully we can reign in the young chocoholic...

She's definitely starting to drop one or two breastfeeds, it's more often than not that the daytime feeds are either one side only, or very short. Morning and evening feeds are as normal, so I'll just keep an eye on things and try to make sure she's still getting enough milk - using formula or expressed milk on her cereal may become a standard thing.