Baby's First Steps!

My L/O is now nearly 8 months! Time has flown, but I have loved every minute of it. I don't understand people who only want them for when they are new born, don't get me wrong, I loved him when he was first born as well but I love watching him learn and watching his personality develop more!

For example, the other day Michael took his first steps! Granted I was holding him, but it was a magical moment, and very impressive considering he never conquered crawling (he just lies on his front and cries).

He babbles constantly now, he says dadad and the occasional mama (though this is generally when he's upset) he loves to say 'ungy' which we are trying to interpret, I thought he meant monkey because we call him a cheeky monkey but we don't have a clue!

He drinks from his beakers like a normal cup, he doesn't seem to enjoy having to suck to get his drink he prefers it being poured into mouth, though I think this is learned behaviour from me and his dad, he also adores tea, if he sees me drinking it I can't drink in peace! He has just started learning how to drink from a straw, but he quickly gets bored and starts chewing it.

He has also developed an interest in ears, which fortunately for me only leaves my partner being assaulted everyday, I can only guess that he finds ear lobes funny and squishy.

Thanks for taking the time to read and please leave a comment!

About Me!!

Hey, I'm Natasha (normally go by Tasha though. It sounds weird to hear my name in full!) and I'm a 20 something new mum!

I started this blog to show all sides of being a new mum from teething, to feeding to babbling babies! I do occasionally add in the odd rant and lifestyle post as well!

I appreciate all opinions on my posts and love people to comment, I will try to reply to everyone (I don't reply to Lollalong as she is my sister!)

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Baby Babble

Michael (as a normal 7m/o) is babbling like crazy! He is actually quite hilarious and seems to have proper conversations, though I have no clue what he's saying he is always adamant to join in.

When I watch him having his little babbling moments and see the expression on his face it melts my heart! Especially when mamamam and dadadad is thrown in there, I know he doesn't know what they mean and hasn't associated them with us yet but it is still lovely.

His favourite word at the moment seems to be "ungy" now we haven't a clue what he actually means because he says it all the time, as soon as he wakes up he says it, or as soon as he's finished having a feed he says it. We have asked him if he's hungry and he has replied "yeah" which was amusing and exceedingly coincidental. My partner was in the kitchen one time when Michael said "ungy" and I asked my partner if he heard him and Michael replied "yeah" that was great! It's like the two words put together mean something to him and I can't wait to find out what that is.

Here is a video of Michael babbling (excuse the mucky top!), it's not great but that's because when I try to film him, he normally stops doing what he's doing and just stares at me.

New Hair!

 So as promised on a previous post I am showing you my before and after pics. No today is not my birthday, it was an early present because I couldn't stand my hair how it were for much longer! You can see why below:

BEFORE                                                                                                                       



As you can see, my hair had been left untouched for that long my fringe was no longer a fringe! I had curtain hair, which some people pull off really well, though I bet theirs is maintained much better than mine. With literally going 2 years without having it done I knew I had gone long enough, and with my birthday around the corner I took my opportunity!

AFTER



This is me now! Don't I look better with a fringe? Also I decided to have a side fringe, I wanted a full one but then realised everyone is getting one of those, and I like to be different (only a smidge). I needed something easier to maintain, but still look nice and with it only costing £24.50 I couldn't really say no could I?!

Food Review No. 2!

So Michael has decided he wants me to tell you all about the foods he is enjoying at the moment! 

Heinz Organic Biscoti: He loves these! He has been eating the apple flavoured ones and scoffs them down, however, they do make a mess. 

Heinz Fruit Custard Pots: We have only recently bought him these but he adores them! They come in apple & pear or banana, he's only tried apple & pear so far but he has eaten basically the entire pot... both times!

Chips: I know I know, they aren't the best thing but I want to try him with everything I can to try and get him used to all kinds of taste and textures, and as you can probably guess, he likes them! 

Toast: He has been eating half a slice of toast for breakfast and he loves it, he has been eating Hovis 50/50 with a bit of butter on it and he thinks t's great! 

Fruit Smoothie: I know this is a drink not food but Michael really enjoyed this when we made it. It included strawberries, black grapes, raspberries, 1 banana, 1 pot of Greek style yoghurt (low fat) and a bit of ice cream, just to make it unhealthy!

Green Beans: When (over) cooked, to make them soft he loves them, and they're a great food for him to feed himself, which he loves to do.

Barney Bears: To be perfectly honest I'm not sure if he actually likes to eat these or just crumble them up in his hands, either way they are a good snack and again getting him used to different textures.

Though to be honest, he will eat anything he picks up! It all goes straight into his mouth, unless it's something we want him to eat! Then it has to be inspected, he is a funny baby :)

Birthday Wishlist

So it's my birthday soon and my sister Lauren suggested I do a wish list, because apparently I'm slightly interesting.

1. Acrylic/Gel nail set - I want this because I have decided I want to learn how to do nails, as when I do go back to work I don't want to be limited to the skills I already have, especially as I will have been unemployed for more than 1 year!

2. Manicure Set - I know you're thinking 'how obvious' but if I want to do nails a decent manicure set (to me) is essential.

3. Nail Dryer - This isn't something which is a necessity but I want one because it will make doing nails quicker, especially if I am doing patterns.

4. Perfume - There's no proper reason for this one just that I have run out of perfume and would really like some more.

5. Haircut! - I already know I'm getting this one but I thought I'd include it anyway. I know it doesn't seem like such a big thing to the most of you reading this but I haven't had my hair done for 2 years! Somewhere between being skint and having a baby my hair has been forgotten about. I will do a post showing before and after so you all know I'm not fibbing, though you will have to wait for 2 weeks!

So that's it, I don't really want or need anything else. However, dependent on what I get I will do a review on the products, just in case anyone is interested.

Teething, Tantrums & Clinginess

So as you will be aware I haven't done a post for a couple of weeks, this is due to the fact that Michael has been a poorly little pumpkin.

Me and my partner awoke one morning to see that Michael had developed a weird rash on his tummy and on the back of his neck, we put cream on it and waited to see if it would go. We checked him again the morning after and it was the same (getting worse) so we rang the doctors to get him checked over, he had gotten Scarlet Fever (from god knows where) so we were given antibiotics for him to get rid of it. After one day of him being on antibiotics we noticed a bit of white on his gum and realised it was a tooth coming through! We were both really impressed with him, he were being quite well behaved considering he weren't very well and he had cut a tooth, which we were none the wiser about, and then it started... Constant crying whenever he weren't with me, he could be sat in front of me and would cry until I picked him up, nothing would help, he wouldn't get distracted by toys or the TV, it was driving me insane!

I had sympathy obviously, he is a baby and wasn't very well, but he wouldn't go to anyone without bursting into tears, he wouldn't even go to his daddy, it was exhausting!

Anyway we carried on giving him his medicine (which was a trial in itself) and tried to keep him happy, when it came last few days of him taking his medicine we noticed that he was getting another tooth, right next to the first one, my immediate thought was great, breastfeeding isn't hard enough! Which I was correct about because the little monkey has made it so I need to use cream because my nipples were cracking, which I am guessing was due to the fact my precious son likes to bite when he's decided he's had enough.

Thank god he's better! He's currently sat in his jumperoo screeching like a mad man, I would love to know what he's shouting about.