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!