A Tasty Treat

Look what Adam made us last night! 

Camembert and fresh bread..yummy! 

A new start

So I started my new job this week. Even though its only part time (two mornings a week) so that it works alongside my afternoon job it's proving to be very tiring. I'm hoping its just because I have just had a lovely summer holiday and am not used to the early mornings - in fact I am not used to being woken up by an alarm

rather than Mia, what's up with that?!

Another exciting thing this week is that Mia has been trying some new food. She now loves pasta with tomato & basil sauce and homemade pizza. I know typically you would think pizza is not very healthy and I'm a healthy eating freak when it comes to Mia but if you make everything from scratch you can be sure of exactly what's in it and limit the bad stuff like salt. Everyone needs some salt and sugar in their diet but just all in moderation. 

How's everyone's week going so far?

Pasta and homemade sauce

This is a really easy, simple recipe to make your own pasta sauce for your little one, combined with tiny pasta shells and its perfect for babies, use bigger pasta or spaghetti for a twist! 

Mia loves this, which I was surprised about because plain pasta is not such a hit and tomatoes on their own she's really not keen on. But combine it all together and she guzzles it down!

For the sauce you will need:

•Fresh tomatoes - vine tomatoes are good for this

•A little bit of garlic 

•Fresh basil leaves

•Skin tomatoes and chop. 

•Put into a sauce pan with a tiny bit of extra virgin olive oil. 

•Add one clove of crushed garlic

•Add a good handful of basil

•Let tomatoes cook down

•Once hot, using a hand blender, blend until a sauce consistency (this sauce is quite thin - it can be used as a soup as well!) but if you combine with your pasta it's coats it nicely.

A very country chic room...

My journey home from work

Poor Mia

So this last week has been pretty hard. Mia has had bad diarrhoea and vomiting which lasted for 6 days. She couldn't keep any milk down at all and at one point she couldn't keep water down either. Very much brought back memories of early morning sickness where I couldn't keep water down and had to be prescribed anti sickness tablets. 

Having a sick baby is horrible. Not only are you mopping up sick and diarrheoa but you feel so helpless. Your baby is unable to communicate verbally with you to tell you what's wrong. This was the worst part for me. We weren't 100% sure what was wrong with Mia and why it was going on for so long and she was unable to tell us so we just felt useless. She was so lethargic for a fair few days as well which was awful, so unlike her and at times we did become quite worried. 

I think she picked it up from one of those baby cafes, you know the ones I have raved about before......hmmm I must admit I'm feeling rather reluctant to visit one again now! But your baby will pick up bugs being around other children, there is no avoiding it really. I mean obviously don't let your baby put the toys in their mouth if you can help it in these cafes as you don't know who's had it in their mouth before or when it was last cleaned. 

Luckily she seems much better now. She is keeping her milk down and solids! Just to get her weight back up now! 

Weekly favourite