For 1st birthday (how are we already at the 1st birthday stage?? We just had them??) I’m getting an illustration commissioned – sounds impossibly twee but I wanted something she could keep but not something that is only suitable for babies. So it’ll be a picture of the 3 of us. I also got her a 2nd hand little tykes car at the weekend for £15, she loved the one at baby group and now we have a garden it’ll be nice to have a toy to play with. If you have NCT sales near you I highly recommend volunteering, I did 3 hours of set up and got early access to the sale and I cleaned up! Inch blue shoes for £1, osh kosh jeans with tags for £1 and loads of toys still in their boxes. She’ LOVES the vtech laptop (£1.50) and a few other bigger toys I’ve put away for Xmas (musical keyboard mat, very hungry caterpillar floor puzzle etc). I spent £80 including the little tykes car (£15 but never been used outside) but I easily got £500+ worth of clothes and toys.
Sleepwise she seems to have gone back to 2-3 wake ups per night, I can handle that. The thing is… now she’s sleeping better dp is back in with me but he wakes me up a couple of times a night too, he wants to cuddle every time I get back from feeding, he talks to me in the night, he wobbles the bed when he’s getting in and out – I sound such a cow but it’s really annoying!! I suppose being able to DTD will be an upside!!
Snacks – I also struggle for healthy, non-fruit snacks. She eats a lot of cucumber slices, although they’re not filling! How about some soya yogurt? The alpro plain soya is quite sweet even without the fruit. Crumpets, toast with almond butter (‘good’ fats, protein and carb – should help them sleep), hummus wrap roll ups, rice cakes, you can make little omelettes in a muffin tin and bulk them out with peppers, onions, mushrooms, sweetcorn. We recently gave her malt loaf which she loved.