Well time is flying by and you’re already 7 months old.
So far we have been lucky to have a child that only wakes during the night for milk, which takes approximately 10 minutes to administer before you happily go back to sleep. There have been several instances where you decide to grace us with your presence and vocal cords for slightly longer than this (so far no longer than an hour and on most occasions 30 minutes, but as l can count these instances on my fingers and toes l’m incline to believe we aren’t doing to bad.
Food wise you will eat anything and everything. The strategy so far has been:
- Pick a vegetable
- Buy the vegetable
- Stew it and mush it
- Feed until it runs out – which means you usually eat a vegetable for four days straight with the other stuff thrown in for good measure.
Food to date includes:
- sweet potato
- cauliflower
- spinach
- apple
- pear
- banana
- lemon
- lime
- yogurt
- many types of cheese – brie, Camembert, Cheshire, Lancashire, blue, Swiss, cottage
- blueberries
- raspberries
- egg
- cucumber
- tomato
- mushrooms
- carrots
- plum
- avocado (there have been plenty of these)
- potato
- bread
- four licks of a Magnum (this was nanny and she was reprimanded)
- grapefruit
- rice
- sausage (again nanny and grandad, apparently you propelled yourself onto their plate from 5 metres away and snatched a piece – unlikely story but as it doesn’t contain sugar l decided to choose my battles wisely)
- bacon
- muesli (l’m not sure you are a fan of this but you still eat a little bit)
- porridge
- sprouts (you love this and lived off it for about a week)
- lettuce
- curried hummus
- croissant
- peanut butter
At month 7, you are also a mini adult. You can roll, sit, crawl, communicate without using words, play, laugh and throw a tantrum. You have a personality. Since we have been at nanny and grandad’s you have blossomed. I’m a little concerned that you like nanny more than me as you never cry with her and always give the biggest grin when she is around but l have put this down to the fact she gave you a magnum and you have confused the sugar hit with favouritism.
We had our 2nd official weigh in with the NHS. Patiently waiting.
At present you weigh 9kg, l’m sorry to say it is all thigh and tummy – a trait inherited through daddy’s DNA.
Apparently you are 71cm (l say apparently as last month you measured in at 67cm, it seems like a pretty impressive growth spurt so l am mindful they may of measured you wrong). If correct you definitely get this from the Lowe’s side as l am 5 foot 5.5 inches (yes the .5 is very important).
We had a busy week. Natalie and Chris gave us their National Trust passes so after a week of pottering around the Clarence Park, the streets of Bury and nanny and grandad’s house we got ourselves into gear and started exploring.
Our first destination was Yorkshire Dales National Trust Pennine Way Walk.
Around a large lake.
We searched for squirrels.
Before heading for high tea where you immersed yourself with a few cucumbers sandwiches.
En route back to the houe we saw a Yorkshire Dale cow on the side of the road.
Destination Day trip 2: Tatton Park
We searched successfully for deer.
This week was quite a social occasion for daddy and l too. After Tatton Park we went to the cinema with Mikes and Jo. Nanny and Grandad had a fun time with your wake up and we came back to chaos and a wounded grandad.
Mamma then had a night out with Paula.
Friday was spent with the Friend Family whilst daddy went to a sportsman’s dinner.
And we baked cupcakes with Daniel and Oliver.
Daddy took charge of Saturday sitting, whilst l had a night out in Manchester with Michaela, Natalie, Gabbie, Natasha and Rachel.
Sunday we explored Jumbles and fed the ducks.
After a walk around the lake…
We had a ladies lunch plus daddy, with nanny Janny.
As our flight to Iceland wasn’t until 4pm we pulled out the NT passes and made our way to Lyme.
In the snow we pottered around the gardens.
Surprisingly we were the only people braving the snow.
We learnt that the reason there are so many manors that you can visit is because during the war the death tax was 90% of the value of the assets. The country needed to generate funds during the war and the eradication of the upper class was in motion.
Before hot footing it to the airport we completed a tour of the manor.