Logan's 4 month update!

Logan is 4 months old today and growing so fast! 

In this last month we have started solid food and he is doing amazing with it! 

He rolls from his back to his belly and has started gurgling away. He will just sit there and talk to himself for a long time. He has started giggling properly and mostly laughs at his feet! He grabbs everything especially his jungle gym. 

He has started to like his swing now that he hated when he was first born. 

He made a new friend at baby group that he loves. He just smiles at him! I hope he'll stay friends with him and they'll be in the same year at school! 

His favourite foods this month are butternut squash, banana and peach and apricot porridge. Today he ate fresh banana for the first time and Iv never seen him open his mouth so big! 

He went to his first party and screamed when it would normally be his bed time as we have such a good bedtime routine at home. When we went back to sleep at nannys he was so scared and screamed so bad we had to drive back home to his own bed! 

He also went to his first funeral for his beautiful great grandma who he loved so much! 

One year since my pregnancy test!

It's one year today since taking my pregnancy test and I remember that day like it was yesterday. It's the day I found out I was capable of loving someone more than anything else in the world and the day we told close family and friends we were expecting. 

A few of my favourite reactions were: 

- Luke's grandma. They had had a fall out and they weren't talking to each other. So we went round to break the ice by telling her we were having a baby. Needless to say she didn't stay quiet long! 

- then we went to Luke's mums and said that they were talking again now. She asked what we said to her and we said we had told her we were pregnant. Lukes mum said "oh god don't wind her up" then looked at my face and started crying as she realised we weren't joking! 

- Luke's aunties reaction was my favourite! We went to her work to tell her and she was soooo excited and got all teared up and just kept hugging us! 💕 

Weaning and my reasons to start at 13 weeks old!

I started weaning Logan at 13 weeks after he refused to eat for two days. He was only have a tiny sip then would cry. He suffers from reflux quite bad but he is on ranitidine for this. I was unsure but after the lack of milk he had taken I decided to mix some porridge with his normal milk and see what he thought. He absolutely loved it! And kept pulling the spoon to his mouth. He only had a couple of spoons for his first try but then straight after he drank 5oz of milk!! More than he would normally drink. Then he stopped drinking again that day so the next morning I did the same. More milky porridge and he drank his milk again and every bottle that day! So happy with it I thought I would stick to a routine and have milky porridge every morning. Then after a week I introduced evening porridge as his pudding but in the evening I gave him a flavoured porridge and he loves it so much and then goes straight to bed in his cot and straight to sleep. I did this for another week before I started introducing lunch. For lunch so far this week Logan has tried mixed veg blended which he didn't like at all. Broccoli blended which he loved! Carrots blended which he was ok with but it took some convincing! Lol and sprouts he hated!!! He kept gagging so that's a no no I think. I'll try again but he might just take after his mummy. (The poop after the sprouts stunk!!!) 

So right now he's having porridge with his morning milk. (Milk is always offered first so the food is just a top up on what he already has as he now drinks his bottles properly without needing food first.) then he has blended vegetables for lunch and porridge for supper. I am going to become more creative over the next few weeks so I will do a weaning update!! 

Today Logan had blended potato with carrot and broccoli and it didn't go down the best but he ate it all so that's a good sign right? 

Tommee Tippee Perfect Prep Review

I have the special black edition of the perfect prep machine and it is definitely a must have for new mums! It makes life so much easier for you and keeps your baby a lot happier than having to wait for a bottle to cool down! 

How it works - 

The perfect prep puts a shot (usually an oz or two depending on the size of the bottle your making) of boiling hot water into your sterilised bottle, you then add your powder into the hot water and this then sterilises and kills any bacteria in the milk powder. Then you put the bottle back under the water dispenser and it fills the bottle with filtered cold water to make the bottle at the correct temperature for your baby. You can change the amount of milk being made on the top of the machine however the least you can do is 4oz so you may have some go to waste in the first week or two depending on how much your baby needs. 

You can also use any size bottles for the machine as the bottle support changes for a smaller or bigger bottle. 

It takes around 2 minutes for the bottle to be made and is so much easier than boiling a kettle then wait for the milk to cool down. It also filters the water so it means there isn't any horrible bits in the water like the kettle water leaves in! 

I don't actually have any disadvantages to this product except the clean cycle seems very confusing but we haven't had to do that yet and it's been running for 14 weeks so far! 

We changed the filter for the first time last week and this has lasted over 3 months!  

I love this product so much and I got it for a good price as I found it on offer on the babies r us website. However. I went into store and it was full price so I just went online and reserved it for in store pickup and then payed the online price for it so it wasn't too bad! 

First farm trip!

Today we went to the farm for Logan's 3 month birthday and we had such a good day. I was a bit unsure if he would even care but he absolutely loved looking at all the animals and stayed awake for all of it! He had a little nap why we ate lunch then woke up to play on the park! He didn't seem to care much about the park but he liked the slide and there was this huge bouncy pillow type thing that he really liked bouncing on! Until some kid screamed at us lol. He loved the goats and the giant horse he had a photo with. I wish his dad would have took him with me by now but he works so much :( hopefully soon though now he knows how much fun we had! 

3 months old! (13 weeks!)

How my baby is 3 months old is beyond me!!! 

This last month he has grown so much. He is extremely advanced for a 3 month old and deffinately thinks he is older than he is. 

He constantly pulls himself from a lying position to sitting and tries he's hardest to sit up in his car seat and gets very frustrated that he can't. 

He rolls from back to belly although he can't figure how to pull his arm out of the way so gets a little stuck. He had his second lot of injections and the nurse who did it last time only say Infront of him  and he screamed the place down! Remembered that face lol 

He loves standing up and has learnt to kiss now with his mouth nice and open! 

Teething is really bad this last week And Logan is really struggling with it. He is chewing everything and everything and pulling his ears almost off his head! He's been quite upset and has had a little fever but we're hoping this passes! 

For Logan's 3 month birthday we went to the farm with his godmother Emma and we had such a good day!! He's flat out now though and I can't wait to get the pictures! 

Happy 3 months gorgeous!! 

Throwback... My baby shower at 36 weeks pregnant!

I had such a fun baby shower!!! 

The whole house was decorated in blue and I had my closest friends and family with me. I had a lot of my work friends attend which was such fun as I had missed being at work when I went on maternity. (As I took my holiday first!) and my sister did such an amazing job at organising it and decorating the house! She planned so many games that we ran out of time and the house looked great! Some games we played were, what's in the nappy, what's in the box, guess the size of the bump and baby birthday, and word games to see who could come up with words to do with birth etc.

At the end of the party I was exhausted and went straight to sleep! It was so tiring but I had so much fun, my sister did a great job!