April 2004 Babies.....the 3rd installment!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Okay, okay the May mums are genuinely quite far ahead of us (flashy lot). Their stats are:

May babies part 1 : 573
part 2: 543
part 3: 513
part 4: mysteriously absent
part 5: 222 up until now

and, ahem, we've done:

part 1: 561
part 2: 364
part 3: 176 up until now

Still its not the quantity of what you say its the quality....and we have supremely high quality conversations, don't we eh?

Nevertheless I am off to have a spy on them now

hmc you have a 6 month old and you can still add up?

dd2 flatly refused carrot today, yet made v cute little "numnumnum" noises as she wolfed down almost half a mashed banana. Only day 2 of weaning.

Will try pumpkin puree for her tomorrow. It's a never ending pumpkin - have already made soup and muffins from it, but there is still half left - suggestions on a postcard please! Otherwise it's just more soup for the freezer...

Wow HMC - I was pretty sure the May babies lot posted more than us, though (they are almost always in active conversations when I look). It's funny to think of all these threads (April babies, May babies and so on) going on side by side - and going through the same cycle of development too.
Tickle, can't think offhand re the pumpkin. Pumpkin soup always a winner though...
Hugs to you too dolbear!

now then now then....... our conversations are full of interesting, high quality postings.

must check out your thread more often and see how you lot are doing with your lo's.

xxxxx

Hello April... feel honour bound to step in with raised eyebrow here. hope you don't mean to imply HMC that our conversations are in any way SUB STANDARD?

We have locked Part 4 away in a lead box so as to make our stats unquantifiable. In case you were wondering. It has, ooooh, lots of posts. Loads.

LOL, Egypt... as we rise up indignantly! hell, we might end up boosting the April post tally at this rate!

btw, we shall call the next thread thread 4! you have to blame little libb for that one......bless

but you're allowed to cos she's ours.

ooooo yes, i'm offfff.................

i mean you're NOT allowed to............oh blinkin' eck. i'm going now. definitely....gone. bye.

bye

Oi! It was late you know - and less of the little!

I knew we'd get a rise

Tickle, the only time I tacked a pumpkin we had: Pumpkin soup (lots), pumpkin pie (easy and yummy), pumpkin in casserole, and shell for lantern. you can put it in savoury stews. but soup and pie are the best.

Fennel, have you seen the lightboxes thread under Feeling Low?

ooo u organised peeps , when I get a pumpkin for H/ween all I do is throw the middle away - smells funny
gfeel a bit better 2-day , not sure what happened y-day !! right old odd moment , well after the yr I have had ! ds is good , although now 19.6 lbs having trouble putting him in clothes !
howdy to the may babies gatecrashers !

another maycresher here - well, he was actually due in april just didn't appear till may! - but interesting to read about your lo's and compare it

I am being thick here? I don't understand the 'lo bit!?
Anyway, I can't believe how fast this week has gone, it's Friday already. I have been back at work three weeks, no more than that FOUR weeks!!

Dolbear your postings are making me sad, I have keep thinking about the poor 11 month old girl in the news at the moment, whose parents have gone to court. How awful. I can't imagine how they must be feeling Words can't describe...

I have never cooked pumpkin before. Dh says he used to eat it all the time in NZ. Maybe I should try it. Anyone got any good recipes?

lo = little one br sorry no recipe on pumpkin; never done it either :9

Oh I get it now

I'm back at work next week. The trial week at nursery has gone really well, dd has been happy there but I have been lonely.

What do you feed your lo for breakfast? dd only seems to take a fruit puree she gagged on weetabix this morning apparently (dh fed her brekky) and she does the same for anything that seems to contain baby rice. I don't want to keep giving her sweet things all the time or she will grow up with a supersweet tooth like me and dh (maybe she is fated already)

MrsD you can bake pumpkin like potatoes although having never cooked them either I can't give details it is something that is often served with a roast meal. You can grate them into vegetable fritters, in fact you can grate up any kinds of veges like beetroot, courgette, pumpkin, carrot, sweet potato into them.

Oohh just looked in the Edmonds cook book (your dh would recognise it MrsD as it is a kiwi classic) and they say to roast cook around meat for 40-5-mins or to bake 1/2tsp each butter and brown sugar on each wedge for 40-50mins.

another food question - should really be doing a post shouldn't I, can babies eat soup? I've just made fresh leek and potato soup and if I pop a bit under the hand blender so there aren't any big lumps could dd have some? It does have some vegetable stock in it if that makes a difference.

Chuffed - was it home-made veg stock or bought? You want to try and avoid salt if possible and most bought stock is pretty salty IME.

Evening all.
The great joy of weaning continues in the Lowryn household. To my great surprise Petit Filous fromage frais are not being very well received! DD used to scoff these down every day, I even used them to hide purees that she didn't like!
DS gags and grimaces and fights the spoon. He lurves pea puree and pear puree with a passion.

Sigh...Aren't siblings so different from each other.

I am having to give up using his bouncy chairs too. He has found a way of throwing himself out of them. He digs his heels in, stands up and leans out over the side until gravity takes over. Luckily I have been there to catch him so far.
Even with the lap restraint I might add!
Thinking of changing his name to Houdini

Chuffed - Of Course Edmonds!!!
My Mother-in-Law gave it to me when we got married!! Dh treats it like the bible