Mia's 14 month update!

Wow I can't believe how quickly the month went between Mia turning one and now she's suddenly 14 months! 

This month has been an important one! Mia has taken her first steps! She has been cruising for months using the furniture to walk around the room but last Sunday we really tried to encourage her to walk between us and she did. She just did. All by herself. And looked very pleased with herself may I just add! 

She is now wearing 6-9 month clothes mainly with a few 9-12 month depending on the brand. 

We are also only having cows milk twice a day now and only from a beaker. The days of bottles are behind us :(

Mia has also started to throw tantrums. Full on toddler tantrums. Sometimes in public. Embarrassing yes. But also a little funny. Terrible I know. I shouldn't laugh. Actually I've started throwing tantrums at her when she starts and it makes her laugh and makes her stop so maybe she realises how silly she looks. Haha! 

I have started taking Mia to classes as well like baby ballet and sing and sign which she has been loving. I really want to encourage her to mix with other children of a similar age now and she loves being around other children and adults anyway. 

Healthy Vegetarian Toddler Meal

We are trying to expand Mia's meal variety by combining different combinations and trying to get her to eat eggs. She's never been a fan of eggs -

Omelette and scrambled have never gone down well so we thought we would try hard boiled. 

We try where we can to give Mia the same as what we are eating so that we all eat as a family and it makes it a lot easier than preparing lots of different meals. 

Tonight we cooked red Thai curry - this would be too spicy for Mia at the moment so instead of giving her that we gave her the rice, a hard boiled egg and some sugar snap peas. I was surprised as she actually ate all the egg and rice but didn't like the sugar snap peas - it's the first vegetable she doesn't like!

For pudding I gave her a yoghurt and some raisins. 

Mia is not a vegetarian just to clear that up before any questions are asked haha! She eats all meat and fish apart from pork. But we do cook some vegetarian meals each week. 

Pregnancy truth vs lies

A funny truth vs lie pregnancy picture that was shared through my Facebook. I thought it was very true...the lie side I mean! Haha! 

Christmas 2013

Just a few snaps of some of the gifts we received this Christmas. 

The Flood.

If any of you have seen the news this Christmas you will of seen major flooding in parts of the UK and that over 100,000 homes were without electricity. 

We were part of that figure. Unfortunately our Christmas ended up clouded by floods, no heating or light and constant worry about whether our home was going to be under 3ft of water when we got home. 

We had to leave our town on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day because we had no power so couldn't cook, didn't have any heating, lighting, wifi, phone etc. It was awful. Honestly I didn't appreciate electricity enough until it was gone. 

We were fortunate that our home didn't get flooded and that although our Christmas wasn't spent at home we live close to our family and could spend our holiday with then. 

Here are some pictures of our town on Christmas Day. 

This is the main road leading out of our town. 

This was a field before the river burst it's banks. 

This is the access to our train station which was completely flooded also. 

The water levels have dropped a lot now so fingers crossed we can hold off with the rain. 

I hope you have all had a happy Christmas and enjoy the new year celebrations. 

Mia 13 month update

This month Mia is starting to become a little more confident standing unaided. We have started practising walking while she holds our hands. She can now walk just holding one hand rather than two. 

She is loving books this month, the turnig of the pages is what she loves the most haha! She is also starting to play more with we soft toys and dolls. She cuddles them which is so cute! She also loves musical instruments - I wonder if we have a young musician on our hands?! 

She has still got 6 teeth and is now wearing 6-9 month clothes. She's loves anything she's not supposed to have such as iPads and iPhones! Haha! She even knows how to use the middle button on the iPhone!

She's started saying 'oh' a lot and pointing at everything. 

Christmas is coming!