After several impromptu feeding sessions at the table with all the family we’ve decided that it’s about time Harry started to be weaned off his gallons of milk that he consumes and onto some solids. It’s not like this would be an alien experience for him as Daddy has been feeding him most things off his plate for a few weeks now and it’s fair to say he’s not exactly hated the experience!
Mum decided that like his eldest brother & his sister his first meal would be some pureed carrot & potato. The night before the big event Mum peeled & sliced some carrots & potatoes, bolied them and then mashed them with some butter. She then put all the pureed carrot & potato into the ice cube tray & froze it.
The next morning Mum defrosted 2 lego bricks worth of carrot & potato puree ready for Harry’s lunch that date. Lunch time arrived & Mum put Harry into his bumbo seat and started to feed him his food – to say it didn’t touch the sides would be an understatement, the food was literally inhaled by our little hungry horace, who then went on to drain his 8oz bottle of milk.
Mum says Harry is going to be a dream to wean as unlike Dan & Em he didn’t mess with his food he just ate it!
Update – March 2011
4 months on from Harry’s first taste of food it has been proven that Mum was indeed right – Harry has been a dream to wean!
He will eat anything & everything and is now on 3 full meals a day and whatever other food he can lay his chubby little hands on. His daily intake is now as follows:
- Breakfast – 1 weetabix or porridge or (weekend treat) 2 farleys rusk using milk from his 8oz bottle – then his 8oz bottle
- Lunch – a bowlful of food, usually something we have had for dinner previously (last week he had shepards pie & tomato soup to name just a coupl) followed by some fruit, followed by a 4oz bottle of milk
- Dinner – another bowlful of food followed by a yoghurt
- Bedtime – an 8oz bottle
Harry will also look longingly at anyone that eats food in front of him and he has been known to devour yorkshire pudding with gravy, banana, toast & chocolate fudge cake!!
Josh fell off his skateboard just over a week ago when he was here at the end of the summer holidays and made a gravel sized hole in his knee! We cleaned it up and it seemed fine but when picking him up on Friday he had a nasty looking infected knee. We tried soaking it in the bath on Friday night to no avail so I took him to A&E on Saturday morning which turned out to be a most of the day event.
He had an x-ray and turns out he still had a bit of grit in his knee that had buried itself deep in his tissue. It needed a proper digging out below even where the hole was in the first place and now has a few stitches in it for his troubles. The incisions were so deep that he needs to let it heal properly and avoid knocking it for fear of opening up the the existing wound and getting it infected as the hole in his knee is so deep now it could spread to his whole knee.
So he’s stuck on the sofa for the next few days to let the stitches take hold and is banned from doing anything particularly exciting for up to 6 weeks to avoid infection more than anything else!
He’ll have the stitches removed in 10 days or so and has some lovely tasting (not) antibiotics to clear up the infection.
Hopefully he’ll be able to resist being his usual self for a few weeks and not fall over and hurt himself so it doesn’t get worse!
Today is Mum’s birthday, sadly we’re not there to share it with her today. We’re not going to say how old she is but rest assured when we’re all together again on Friday we’ll make sure we buy a cake big enough for all the candles. Might have to give Harry a taste of it too but don’ t tell Mum.
Happy Birthday Mum, we hope you get lots of presents from Dad and like what we’ve bought for you; unfortunately you’ll have to wait till Friday for our presents!
Well where did those Summer holidays go to? The time has just flown by, it doesn’t seem like 6 weeks ago that Mum watched Daniel in his leavers assembly keeping her legs crossed so that Harry didn’t make an untimely entry into the world!
During the holidays we welcomed our little brother, Harry, into the world and now we are going to have to leave him in the capable hands of Mummy as we all return to school.
There is a big change for one of us this year. Daniel is starting at high school!
But first Josh – he went back to Ysgol yesterday, he is now in year 2 his last year in infants. He wasn’t really looking forward to going back to school as he isn’t very keen about the teacher he is having, apparently she is a bit strict. We are sure Josh will be ok though as he doesn’t usually get into trouble at school.
Daniel & Emilie went back to school today so this morning it was back to the early morning routine, we haven’t missed this, and now Dan’s routine starts 30 minutes earlier at 7am as he has to be at school for 8.20am!
Dan & Em had breakfast and then got dressed in their new uniforms and new school shoes – they both looked extremely smart and Daniel looked very grown up in his blazer and tie.
Then Dan set off on his first journey to school – he looked quite cool with his retro satchel, courtesy of Dad (Tim) – Dan was excited about starting at the high school.
Mum (Alli) walked Emilie to school and watched her go in as she made her way into Year 3, her first year of Juniors. As usual Emilie was very excited about going back to school, in her opinion the summer holidays are 4 weeks too long!
Our first days back went well. Two of us escaped without any homework but poor Daniel had some to do, although it wasn’t too taxing he just needs to back his exercise books – so Mum is off to the shops tomorrow to get some sticky back plastic!
Today Mummy, Daddy, Emilie & Josh took Harry to the Register Office so that we could register his birth.
There was some last minute deliberation in the waiting room over the choice of names with Daddy requesting Stringfellow & Mummy saying only if Harry became Harrison!
Fortunately, for Harry, the Registrar called us in quite quickly so the deliberations stopped and our new addition was named:
Harry James Elliott
The names were chosen for the following reasons:
Harry
Not after Uncle Harry or the current Spurs manager but just because Mummy & Daddy have liked this name for ages.
James
We (3pk) were asked to choose a middle name for our brother, Josh suggested James & we all agreed that this was a good name.
Elliott
This was our Nana’s maiden name & Mummy wanted to include this name in memory of her Mummy.
So there we have it, our brother is now official!!
