I hope...

Chris and I have recently set up an email address for Jackson. We will send emails to him regularly. On his 18th birthday we will give him the password so he can see what we have written through the years. 

One of the emails we have sent was a typical baby shower game called 'I hope...'

"I hope you learn 

I hope you love

I hope you can reach 

I hope you see

I hope you get

I hope you become

I hope you grow

I hope you never forgot

I hope you respect

I hope you ignore

I hope you enjoy"

We both wrote our answers separately, some serous and some tongue and cheek. 

My answers.... 

I hope you learn to be happy

I hope you love me always!

I hope you can reach your goals

I hope you see the world

I hope you get everything you want out of life

I hope you become an amazing person

I hope you grow to be kind

I hope you never forget how much I love you

I hope you respect everyone

I hope you ignore the incorrect things that I will do

I hope you enjoy life

Chris' answers...

I hope you learn how to speak Greek

I hope you love mummy, daddy and Liverpool

I hope you can reach anything you want to

I hope you see the age of 100

I hope you get a family of your own

I hope you become Liverpool captain 

I hope you grow into a kind, strong man

I hope you never forget how much we love you

I hope you respect everyone who respects you

I hope you ignore anyone who tells you you can't do something

I hope you enjoy your childhood

Love Sophia xx

A lovely Autumn day...

As much as I love summer, I love the different seasons too. Autumn is so pretty. 

All the leaves on the trees begin to fall and I love walking through them and hearing the crunch. 

Not only do the leaves change to beautiful reds, purples and golds so does the fashion. I am currently enjoying the Barry M, Berry Cosmo nail varnish. 

We also get to start wearing our big jumpers. Zara have some lovely ones at the moment. 

Today was one of those gorgeous autumn days. We wrapped Jackson up and took the doggies on a walk in the woods near us.

And of course due to the change in weather, I got to go shopping for new clothes for Jackson!!!! I thought that I would share a few of my favourite ones (some brought by me and some lovely gifts).... 

Hat - Zara 

Top - Next

Trousers - Mothercare

Top - John Lewis

Trousers - Next

Outfit Set- M&S

 Dungaree Set - M&S

Jumper - H&M

Trousers- H&M

Love Sophia xx

Weaning

The thought of weaning excited me and terrified me. I was looking forward to the fun but not so much the cleaning!  After doing my research, I decided to go down the puree route, mainly due to the terror of choking.

The first week didn’t go down well. We started with baby rice and Jackson was disgusted with this and would just push it all out with his tongue. After about 5 days I gave up, I thought, 'he must not be ready' and it was just too much work.

We were on holiday in Greece at the time so a few days later my cousin's boyfriend brought these gorgeous fresh figs from his family farm. I thought I would give Jackson a lick and a play around with it. I chopped and peeled one and gave it to him. Of course it went straight into his mouth just like everything else. He loved it!!!! Again, he wouldn’t eat it but sucked it and he also loved squishing it in his hands. I have to admit that this made for interesting nappies!

This was the start of our baby-led journey. We gave him peach, cucumber, peppers, banana, carrot and pear.

When we arrived back from our holiday, I had Jackson weighed and he had not put on as much weight as I had hoped. So after speaking to a health visitor, I decided to try pureeing the vegetables and fruit, so I went straight home to my kitchen and started cooking. I was a bit nervous of how it would go but this time he ate the whole lot and cried when it was finished.

Due to the fact that I had already started giving Jacks finger food, I thought I would carry on. So far this has worked for me and he is such a good eater. He’s had such a range of foods and tastes, both finger foods and purees. He HAS choked a few times on his food, two times in particular I felt the need to get him out of his high chair and give him a pat (slap) on his back. One of the occasions was today which end up with Jackson being sick over me and my doggies, which did make light of the situation!

Two books that I have personally found really useful are ‘Annabel Karmel’s New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner’ and ‘Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food’

A typical day

7:30 – Bottle 7oz

8:00 – Weetabix with fruit

11:00 – Bottle 7oz

12:00 – Cauliflower cheese with cucumber sticks, crumpet and fruit puree

3:00 – Bottle 7oz

5:00 – Minestrone soup with fish and beans (or anything from our previous nights dinner) and yogurt

6:30 – Bottle 7oz

Its messy times but I so enjoy it and I think Jackson does too!!!!!

Love Sophia xx

6 Month Update....

It’s been a lovely and a sad month, our holiday to Greece had come to an end and Jackson was unwell with a cold and a cough!!!!

But this month we had the beautiful christening of Cousin Olivia to attend, celebrated Aunty Chloe’s birthday and her graduation. And we also had GG (Jackson’s Great Grandma) over from Greece for a week.

Milestones

Jackson is spending lots of time on his tummy doing frog impressions and then getting frustrated when he hasn’t moved anywhere apart from round in a circle and side to side.

He has four teeth but I am sure that the next one is slowly coming through.

Jackson has got good at sitting up but is still wobbly so has cushions all around him when he is!

We have started weaning this last month. He has enjoyed broccoli, sweet potato, potato, apple, papaya, and lots more. He was not sure on parsnip.

Routine

6:30-7:30am- wake up and bottle

8:30- breakfast – fruit and baby rice

9-9:30 – nap for 30 mins

11:00- bottle

11:30 – nap for 30 mins

12:30- lunch – vegetables

2:00 – bottle

2:30 – nap for 30 mins

4:00 – sometimes he has another 30 mins sleep

5:00 - dinner

5:45- bath and bottle

7:00- down for bed

Each time he is having about 7oz of milk in a bottle.

Clothes and weight

He is mainly in 6-9 month clothes but I am not sure for how long!

His weight had slowed down but then he shot up to 19lbs 14oz! Little piglet!

Love

Sophia xx