I don't want nectarine today thank you.

Lots of cranberry wheats for breakfast again today, and a mixed bag of lunch, which was rice cakes with mushed avocado spread on them, a breadstick, a banana, and a rusk. Hannah completely ignored the rice cakes, but ate the rusk and most of the banana and breadstick, so not too bad I suppose.

Dinner was fast fries (from Nigella Express) with quorn in honey and mustard sauce. I was quite surprised, Hannah's had the honey and mustard sauce before and didn't like it, but this time she ate most of it, which was great to see. And she liked the fries too - they're just potatoes bashed with a rolling pin and cooked in the frying pan, and they only take about 15 minutes to cook which is a blessing :o)

Pudding was fruit salad of grapes, strawberries and nectarine mixed with fromage frais and a bit of double cream. Hannah liked most of it, but found the nectarine a bit underripe for her liking. She did suck the fromage frais mix off it all though. Once she'd gathered all of the nectarine into one heap on her tray, she started ferrying it back onto the table in front of her - I think she only did this because she couldn't reach the bowl I served it from! It was very funny to watch, and she was very careful about placing it on the table rather than on the front of her tray. I've noticed her doing it a couple of times in the past, but not with so much concentration:

Woof woof!

Well today's big news is that Hannah has canines! A tad early, since according to this chart she's not meant to get them for another 5 months. Harrumph. Still, she's gone to bed without calpol for the first time in a week tonight, and so far so good...

Breakfast today was cranberry wheats, and Hannah ate lots of them although not quite all of the bowlful. It was a spectacularly full bowl though, so I'm not too surprised. Lunch was pasta spirals with a bit of pesto and some grated cheese stirred through, and I've not seen Hannah eat so much at lunch for ages.

For dinner I made some scrambled egg on toast, the egg promptly got thrown on the floor and the toast got a vague munching. Some egg did eventually go down, but only after I'd chased it around the room a time or two (I hear germs are good for their immune systems... ;o) ). She followed that with a bowlful of strawberries, and made short work of the whole lot.

Ooh look, a strawberry!:

Hmm, this strawberry is a strange green colour:



I think they've all gone, mum:

Yep, there's none in here:


Hannah has started bouncing again while in her high chair, which is funny to watch, especially when her legs are going back and forth frantically trying to get some momentum up. It doesn't seem to have occurred to her that the table means she can't actually get the high chair any closer!

Teeth, teeth and more teeth

Hannah is still teething (or teething again, take your pick) and consequently has been rather grumpy and picking at her food for the past few days rather than attacking it with her normal enthusiasm. She also got a few spots in the 7-10 days post-MMR period, as we were warned, which I don't think has helped! She has 11 teeth that have cut through the gum now, and at least 2 more that are nearly through - or maybe that's just wishful thinking? There are bumps there at any rate.

She's still managing a decent breakfast, mainly shredded wheat bitesize although she had cranberry wheats this morning. She's had a few snacks, things like chocolate biscotti, gingerbread men, raisins and grapes in the past few days.

Actual meals, in no particular order, have included eggy bread, a veggie burger with ciabatta bread roll, pasta, some Quorn picnic eggs (veggie scotch eggs really), a sausage, fromage frais, strawberries by the gazillion, a couple of bananas, a nectarine, potato wedges, boursin, and I'm sure there are things I've missed out as well. It doesn't look too bad written out like that, actually, maybe she's been eating more than I've given her credit for!

Fingers crossed that this tooth or teeth will actually put in an appearance sharpish and that we'll get a break before the next onslaught hits.

Lots of new foods to try...

Hannah seems to have eaten lots of new things in the past few days, although not at breakfast time which has been shredded wheat bitesize without fail. Although this morning it was accompanied by half a crumpet with butter on, which was mangled and mostly eaten with relish.

She's tried polenta in a tomato sauce with mozzerella cheese with a breadcrumb and cheddar cheese topping (quite nice), she's had some blue cheese - St Agur - of which she ate the first piece, then wrinkled her nose and pulled a face at the second pass. She had peas with her shepherd's pie last night which were mixed with a bit of chopped mint (she didn't seem to notice the mint), and she ate a carr's water biscuit with butter on too.

She's also eaten some bog standard stuff, like cheese on toast, shepherd's pie (twice), fromage frais, chocolate biscotti, strawberries by the bucket load, a couple of bananas, and cheese slices.

Here are some of the pictures I've taken in the past couple of days:

It's been quite warm so Hannah was only wearing her pants!

She didn't like the parsley tree that came with the shepherd's pie:

And she's been playing out in the garden a lot (although for some reason prefers patio underfoot than grass, which seems to tickle her feet cos she keeps trying to stand on one foot or no feet!):

More strawberry shortstuff

Hannah's had shredded wheat bitesize for breakfast for the past two days, and some strawberries the size of planets to follow. In fact she's had rather a lot of strawberries in the past two days, which she's consistently refused to share with me ;o)

Lunch yesterday was some pretend pizzas, which were crumpets spread with tomato puree and grated cheese then grilled till the cheese was melted. A new addition to Hannah's diet, although she's eaten all the component parts before. She liked them, and especially liked the way she could pick the cheese off the top of them. She had a fromage frais and some strawberries for pudding.

Today Hannah didn't seem that hungry at lunchtime. She was given a courgette cake and some salad bits, a slice of cheese and more strawberries. The courgette cake was grated courgette mixed with an egg and some mashed potato and griddled till they were cooked. Hannah flung them mostly on the floor. She did eat a slice of cheese, tried a bit of beetroot for the first time (not the vinegary kind), some radish and cucumber, and found room for the strawberries:



For dinner yesterday Hannah had a cheese and eggy bread sandwich - let me explain: make a cheese sandwich as normal. Make the eggy bread mix as normal, dunk each side of the cheese sandwich in it and shallow fry until it's golden brown and the cheese is a bit melty. Cut into fingers or squares according to preference. It tastes fantastic, and Hannah liked it too!

Today's dinner was spag bol, which got munched in short order, followed by a fromage frais and two chocolate biscotti. All of it got eaten, although she was least keen on the fromage frais, and ended up with it running down the side of her face from her hair by the end. Good job there was a bath waiting upstairs...

Dinner a deux

Couple of days to update you on - there was no blog yesterday as it was the dreaded MMR jab day, so Hannah was rather unsettled in the evening and took hours to fall asleep. We gave her calpol, and she felt rather hot which I am putting down to her two war wounds. Fortunately she was placated easily enough with milky bar buttons off the nurse after the second injection.

Yesterday Hannah ate cheerios and pear (a whole one) for breakfast, and had cauliflower cheese for lunch before William and Sam came round to play with their mums. She also had half a pack of organix carrot sticks and a fair bit of water too. During the play date (well, it was with two boys...) she also ate one or two Nice biscuits, and would like to apologise to William for stealing his crisps out of Diane's changing bag. She found the packet, and stood there helping herself for a while before we clocked her and stopped it. Still, she shared biscuits and things with William and Sam in return so I suppose it's fair enough. She and William were confused over sippy cups as well - they each had their own, but used them interchangably throughout the afternoon. It was especially funny when they were passing it back and forth between each other.

Dinner after a short nap was a couple of slices of cream cheese on toast. Short and sweet, I guess she was still full of snacks from the afternoon goings on.

Today started with cheerios again, this time served with a banana that she didn't eat much of. Lunch was at the grandparents, and was ciabatta bread with tomato, pesto and mozzerella. Oh, and she ate a gingerbread man in the car on the way, as she woke up early from her nap (perhaps not surprisingly really).

She ate some cheesy poofs in the afternoon after her nap, as dinner was going to be later than normal to fit in with Aunty Jo, Uncle Matt and George coming round to join us. Hannah and George sat together and caused havoc:




Hannah didn't eat much, at least to start with, but was offered roasted vegetables, a bit of quorn lamb and mint cutlet (I thought it was nice!), and some couscous, which she did eat a fair bit of. Obviously she likes the challenge and sticks her nose up at stuff that's easy to handle :o) She also had pudding, which was part of a fat free sponge cake served with cherry pie filling. It was lovely!

There was rhubarb crumble too, but Hannah didn't get any of that - there's always tomorrow...unless I get there first ;o)

I took Hannah to the baby clinic for a weigh in after her injections yesterday, and I'm pleased to report that she's finally passed the 20lbs mark - 20lbs 3oz, or 9.02kg I think it was. So she's officially heavy enough to graduate into her stage 1 car seat, which was used earlier today for the first time as we travelled up to my parents for the week while Neil's off in the US (again) with work. Hannah liked facing forwards, and seemed to find it easier to sleep in the new seat, goodness knows why!

A new tooth at last :o)

Yay, we finally have evidence of tooth number 11. Not that 9 and 10 are through properly yet, Hannah's a girl, she's bound to be good at multi-tasking ;o) It's the bottom left premolar I think and is only just coming through the gum so there's a way to go yet.

Breakfast today was a bowl of cheerios and a banana. Hannah ate most of both of them, not too bad at all. For lunch we had quiche and salad, and Hannah had a fromage frais for pudding. She didn't eat much (or any) of the salad bits, which was only a tomato and some cucumber slices on the basis that she likes to rip up lettuce and throw it around.

There was a cream cheese sandwich, some carrot crisps, a pear, two slices of melon and a cereal bar for tea, but Hannah hardly ate any of it. She managed some of the cream cheese from the middle of the sandwich, nibbled one bit of the pear, ate about one slice of melon and half or two thirds of the cereal bar. And all of the carrot crisps, of course.


I think Hannah didn't feel very well though, judging by the three revolting nappies and clearing up of sick that took place in between eating dinner and going to bed. She went to bed an hour later than normal, just to check whether she was going to carry on being sick and so on, but I'm hoping that it's cleared her system already. This may be famous last words, I'll have to let you know.

In other news, Hannah's having her first MMR tomorrow morning, so we'll have to see how she copes with that and how it affects her. I'm hoping she'll take it in her stride like she did her 12 month injections...