mummy plans, baby laughs

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DD is 5 months old. I've spent the last month carefully deciding and planning when and how to wean and am all set for next month.....

Sitting there watching telly this evening eating a bag of marshmallows with DD on my lap chewing her teething ring (or so I thought) and look down to see that she's grabbed a marshmallow, got it to her mouth and is furiously sucking/gumming it with a grin on her mouth!!!

In real terms she swallowed a few tiny little shreds if that so I'm not worried. Just find it typical that after all my planning her first food is a marshmallow - guess she takes after her mother

What careful plans of yours have your children put the kybosh on??

Lol, I use that phrase all the time.

Still the most memorable for me was when DD was 6 weeks old (she's now 14 months), I left her with her Dad for 45 minutes while I went to my postnatal physio check up.

She was asleep in her bouncy chair when I left and there hadn't been a peep out of her when I got back.

We then thought we'd go out somewhere (can;t remember where) and I lifted her to change her nappy before we went.

As I put my hand under her bottom I thought 'Oh dear she's a bit wet'. I wasn't til I took her trousers off I discover that she wasn't just wet, she was COVERED in poo!! How it managed to get so far I don't know but it was like she'd had a bath in it.

All up her front, all up her back, then she managed to her get hand in it and it was all over her face - not cool.

The only option was obviously to give her a bath and we got out about 2 hours after we had planned to!!

How about things we didn't plan but happened?

Well, when ds2 was 8 weeks old and ds1 was 19months, I had given ds1 a box of raisins. I turned around for literally 2seconds and when I turned back ds1 had decided to share his raisins and there was ds2 making chewing motions and licking his lips.

I have never done anything so fast in my life as I did when I jumped over to him to fish 2 raisins out of his mouth. My heart was beating really fast for ages after that.

I can safetly say I never planned that!

I sometimes wonder why we bother to plan and guess it's even harder when you;ve got an older sibling helping pixie

sconetta DD specialises in the explosive nappies at bad times too - last time was in the middle of a shopping centre with really poor changing facilities!!

It's not like I could tell him off either because one) he was too young to understand that baby couldn't eat normal food and two) he just looked so damn cute and proud of himself that he shared his raisins.

I suppose the good thing was he was sharing with his brother rather than getting jealous