Still not budging

Most babies Hollie's age are at least well on their way to crawling and becoming mobile but Hollie is just not interested! She has always been very good at standing and this hasnt changed - she can now stand on her own for a few seconds (very scary) - but she aint bothered about getting anywhere! This is probably a good thing as I think my life would be a lot harder if she didnt stay pretty much where I put her, plus we would have to mega baby proof the house. Ive told her to hold it off at least untill the 5th of January so that my time with her is a lot easier (selfish i know). But theres always a little bit of you thats so proud and desperately wants her to do new things, even if they will be a pain in the long run! But if she walks this early it will be mayhem as she just wont have the ware withall to know what shes doing!
On another note, she has learnd to make a coughing sound. At first we thought she actually had a cough, but no, its just a sound she makes.
She now has 3 teeth! She has actually been very good with the teething so she obviously hasnt inherited my stupidly low pain threshold! We went to the dentists last week which was fun and we brush her teeth 2 times a day, which she loves!

raaa raaa raaa raaa!

This is the latest noise from Hollie and, along with all the other noises she makes you can now have quite a comprehensive converstaion with her! And if you enjoy screaming competitions then you may meet your match in Hollie!
I am currently cooking her first roast dinner as she is now eating EVERYTHING! And my house is covered in it.

A* for development, D- for table manners!

Its been a while since i wrote on here, mainly due to orange's incompetance at getting my internet sorted (it was down for 3 and a half weeks!).

Well in that time Hollie has changed loads and has done lots of new things.

The main new thing is her eating. When I first started weaning her it was pretty futile and she wasnt really at all interested. She would only eat baby rice made with water at first and slowly progressed onto single mashed vegetables or fruits. I slowly started adding 2 veggies together but she still wasnt really interested or eating very much. I started giving her finger food and just persisted with the other stuff. She became a bit more receptive and started to eat a very small amount of what I gave her. Then she started to eat with us and had a tiny amount of whatever we had and suddenly one night she just ate LOADS! I gave it to Pete to feed her and told him she would probably only have a few mouthfulls but she ate it all! And since then there has been no looking back! She is now on three meals a day plus snacks. She always has a bit of finger food such as veg or bread while we eat and then first to finish feeds her. But, as you can probably imagine, its a messy business! She has also decided that she doesnt like breast during the day so she only has that at night now.

As well as eating she is also doing loads of new stuff. She was sitting but seems to have forgotten how to do that now! She can stand independantly, holding onto something so it looks like she may be an early walker which just fills me with delight- having a baby who can walk but has absolutly no sense about it sounds just great!

She is chatting loads and its soooooo sweet. I think its one of those things that is absolutly gorgeous with your own baby but you wouldnt even notice in someone elses!

We had Becka and Dan to stay last week which was really nice. We were really lucky on the saturday and had a spell of bright sun so we went to the Botanical gardens and Hollie had her first taste of ice cream and, needless to say, it was a great hit!

Rollin rollin rollin

Hollie has reached her first major physical developmental milestone! In France last week (will post that at a later date when I have figured out the photo thing!) she did her first solo roll! It was my mum who saw it and, as much as I kept my beady little eye on her, I didnt actually see her do it for a couple of days! But it was really funny to see her on her back one minute, look away, then look back and shes on her front with a really surprised look on her face as if to say 'what on earth has just happened to me?! how did I get here?!' But the funniest thing is she cant roll back yet so she gets really frustrated after a bit and needs turning.

Shes also come up with some new sounds since being in France (maybe influenced by all the singing??). I think she has discovered that you can make sounds with your lips as well as your tongue so shes doing loads of raspberry type sounds its so sweet!

Iv added a little photo of her at exactly 25 weeks (6months- v scary, not sure when that happened!)

Cornwall 2008

Well, as you can see from the picture, the weather wasnt too kind to us in Cornwall but that didnt stop us from goin out and having fun! It wasnt cold, just rainy so as soon as the sun poked itself out if we snuck out before the rain could start again. We didnt go too far because we wanted to relax but we got to St. Mawes which is a small fishing port and had lunch in a pub and we also got to the beach twice. The small village we were staying in was lovely and we wandered round there a few times and had proper cornish ice cream. For the beach we bought a little tent like shelter which was a bugger to put up in the wind (it didnt help that we chose the most exposed part of the beach!) but once it was up it was a godsend and it kind of kept the sand away from Hollie.

We spent a lot of time at the house just relaxing and watching the olympics, which Hollie loved! We had two bbqs, both of which Pete did and I had a glass of wine every night which was great (any excuse!)

One day I will find out how to get the pictures in the text so it will look better and be all hunky dorey!

Hollieday!!!

After much discussion on the best time to leave so as nt to disturb Hollies sleep too much, we finally left at 6.30 on Sunday morning and now, here we are, in Cornwall on our first family holiday! We were so excited and now we are having a lovely relaxing time!
The weather has been a bit mixed so weve not done a great deal which is nice cos we both needed a bit of a break from doin a lot. We strolled into the little village and had some proper Cornish ice cream which was yummy and yesterday we went to the beach whilst the weather was a bit better. There were people swimming in the sea but we whimped out of that one! In stead we strolled and jogged along the beach, sat on some rocks whilst I fed Hollie and did a small bit of sunbathing. In the evening Pete did us a bbq and we wined and dined in the conservatoire!
Hollie is sleeping very well- not sure why, maybe its the sea air?!?! So we are both getting a well deserved break!
All that plus in 2 weeks me and Hollie are going to France as well!
Very posh!

An Oympian in the making!!!

Iv got up with Hollie this morning and were just watching the Olympics Breakfast on BBC1 and she is absolutly facinated! She does love the tv anyway so maybe its just that but I like to think she will win gold one day! Pushy mother!