The trouble with babies is they go from this:


To this:


In about five minutes flat. Still, I've loved every minute & wouldn't have changed it for a thing.

They do grow up quickly don't they? mine is now 7 months old and is a proper little character, she has a lot of little games she plays like as you carry her past the tassles on the bedroom lampshade she stretches out to touch it on her way past, if she misses she makes a grumbling noise, if you stop and go back she smiles and then touches the tassles and then smiles at you some more.
She is eating her food (mush) and if you are not fast enough withthe spoon then she sits there mouth open making a grumbling noise till you fill the mouth up.

She gets a look of mischief in her eyes as you are feeding and you just know she is going to start biting the spoon and not letting you have it back, she only lets go when she giggles too much to hold onto the spoon, this game can go on for as long as the feeding time and she finds in very funny.

She does little "coughs" if you are not looking at her for a bit, if she is in her bouncer and we are pottering about the room doing other stuff she will make a little "cough" and then smile at us when we look at her to see if she is ok.

Socks are a thing to be removed and thrown, giggles when you reset the game by putting them back on for another go.

like to try the food we are eating, she nibbles on big chunks of apple, has had the odd chip, chunks of cucumber and carrot are studied and nibbled with the two new front teeth.

Has just laernt to splash in the bath, and kick her feet, its so hard to hld onto her now and she grins from ear to ear as she is wriggling.

If you are changing her you have to give her the nappy to hold as you are freshening up or she will hold her feet and roll side to side making it difficult to do anything at all, giggles that whole time she is making it harder for you, also kicks the sudocreme pot off the change mat and pulls more nappies off the pile if she rolls enough to reach them.

I have been away a couple of times and found it hard as I thought I would miss something, in this time they do grow up and learn so fast that is probably true.

23 & 20 years later and still loving every minute of being a parent, wouldn't change one minute of it, love them to bits

Hi: breastfeeding
Low: breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is great, until it stops you from doing something 'big'. I have tickets for tomorrow's jubilee concert and palace picnic. I will not be going as my 4 month old boy will not take milk from bottles (have been trying since March)

I don't regret breastfeeding though, as it is great for development and bonding. I think it is special.

Baby does not have a ticket, is too young and the day is too long. I will just get text updates from my mum as she was my guest and is now going alone. I hope she is allowed to collect my picnic hamper from Buckingham Palace for me to try.

While I experiment again with bottles...

Tried closer to nature' then 'breastflow'. I have a doidy cup to try as suggested by the health visitor, but I am aware that many boob babies refuse anything but their mummy's dispensers.

Our little man took to Medela as well, I think there is something different about it, not sure what, I'd have to ask wifey!

My little lad is nine months now and can crawl, clap and wave says Mum and Dadadada and if he cries I just show him the Edf Ad on YouTube or Laurel & Hardy and that sorts him out.

Great times.

As the OP of this topic I feel a bit bad for not updating it myself...

Evie is now almost 11 months, she is babbling away and trying to talk all the time, the words will come soon I am sure, She claps, passes things from hand to hand and likes to study items in fine detail, she is especially fascinated by labels on clothes and will sit looking at these in minute detail for ages.

She is sleeping from 7.30pm until 7am, and is still in a good routine, to the point where she starts grumbling if we are late to take her to the bath or up to bed.

She is not crawling yet and seems uninterested in it, we excercise her by holding her in a standing position and she can easily support her own weight, we put her on her tummy and she can lift herself but she just deos not move under her own power yet.

I think she is content to stay put, I think she knows we will pick her up or mover her eventually and is not in a hurry to get mobile.

She has 6 teeth, 2 bottom ones and 4 tops, they are sharp and she likes to bite and chew things/everything.

She smiles and is happy 90% of the time. laughs at me and mummy when we pull funny faces and can do funny faces of her own on command.

She is an amazing little girl and when I come home from work I have to pick her up straight away and she hugs me and tells me all about her day in a constant stream of babbling and shouts and noises.

Awesome, I can't remember what I did before she was here, She fills my house and makes us a family.

I can't believe Evie is 1 next sunday.

It feels like only a couple of months have passed. She is almost standing unaided, not bothering to crawl or roll, just interested in being upright, I am babbled at from the moment I take her out of the cot in the morning to the momebt I put her in it at night, she is very chatty and even though it is nonsense there are proper pronounced sounds coming out.

When she does get words we are not going to get a seconds peace.