High chair baby

Just trying out the new high chair, we start weaning at 6 months, so in two weeks time. Really looking forward to weaning her, going to do a mix of purees (like I did with Charlie) and baby led (which is new and exciting for me). She liked being up at the table and watching Charlie and me, but quickly grew tired of being trapped in the chair, so I'm hoping once there's some food involved, she'll stay in for longer!

24 weeks

At 24 weeks Eve:

- Has reached that frustrating age where she wants to get involved with EVERYTHING but can't crawl or talk to get what she wants.
- Is living in quarantine! Charlie has been off school with chickenpox since Thursday and although Eve's not caught it (yet) we are having to stay in to look after big brother. She's pretty grumpy with all her toys now and just wants to go for a walk.
- Can turn the pages of her board books (with help). We read 'That's Not My Fox', 'Wow Said the Owl' and 'Peekaboo Baby' with her, she gets very excited about books and tries to eat them. She also likes to listen to Charlie read his schools books.
- Loves Charlie, will happily watch him for ages. She reaches out to him and laughs at him.
- Loves Daddy, ditto to the above, except she gets ansty if she's not with me, so will get grumpy very quickly once I've left the room...
- Is still going through that screechy stage. She is very high pitched and gets cross very quickly when things don't go her way.
- Is incredibly drooley, we're going through 5 or 6 bibs a day at the moment.
- Is still not sleeping well. We're pretty much co-sleeping to help us get any sleep, but generally she wakes 4 or 5 times in the night. She starts off in her cot but after midnight tends to come in with us.
- Is turning blonde, her hair has really lightened up over the last few weeks.
- Tried our her highchair for the first time, we start weaning (and sleep training!) in two weeks.
- Is ever so smiley, her dimples are getting deeper and she loves attention.

23 weeks

At 23 weeks Eve:

Is teething and going through a grumpy phase. She's still smiley a lot of the time but has quite regular crying/grumping periods. She's also developed an ear shattering, high pitched screech for whenever I step away for more than a second!

Is still not sleeping well, she's a little better than previously, but wakes at least 4 times a night. Currently she has her first sleep in the nursery and when she wakes at 9pm I take her into the cot in our room. Roll on six months when we can start sleep training.

Is embracing the buggy. Now that she's facing forward she quite likes the buggy, she's happy to watch the world go by and then fall asleep. She still has her moments (screaming for 30 mins when in the park with Charlie and me on Saturday), but for the most part enjoys going out in the buggy. However we still use the sling daily for school drop off and pick up.

Loves her new toy owl, it has chimes in it, a squeaky baby owl and crinkley wings. Also loves jumping in the jumperoo and chewing on teething rings.

Eighteen to twenty two weeks

A busy month for us. A lot of illness, Christmas, family meet ups and a non-sleeping baby, led to a disappearance from blog writing for a while. However, baby is well and napping so here's a quick catch up on weeks 18 - 22.

At 18 weeks Eve:

- Continues to roll around on her play mat and has also started to sleep on her side in bed. She can now move across the play mat by wriggling and rolling.

- Weighs 13lbs, 14oz, just below the 50th percentile but gained a bit more at this weigh-in then the last one when she was ill. 

- Is wondering if she has a slight intolerance to formula. We've stopped giving her the 200mls in the evening and her sleep pattern has returned to normal, only waking once or twice a night instead of seven! She is fully breastfed once again.

- Has moved, her cot is now at the end of our bed instead of by the window, it's warmer here!

- Loves my phone, I let her biff the photos in the gallery and she loves to change the picture. Right now she is lying on my lap trying to grab the phone as I type.

- Likes action rhymes, I sing and play with her Benny Bean and Wagon Way which she loves.

- Started facing outwards in the sling for the majority of outings. I still put her facing me if I want her to sleep.

- Holds her head up well and can sit up when propped with cushions.

At 19 - 22 weeks Eve:

- Had a trip to A&E, I fell when carrying her in the baby carrier (horrible horrible), she didn't touch the ground and didn't really notice the fall (though I cut my hand and both knees) but we took her to be checked out, just in case. The doctor pronounced her fine and just to watch her for the next 24 hours.

- Got ill again, a horrible cold, with a cough that woke her every couple of hours throughout the night and a runny nose. She also got conjunctivitis we visited the doctors for eye drops and to check the cold hadn't infected her chest (it hadn't).

- Lost weight over Christmas due to the illness, dropped 4 oz so on 31st Dec she weighed 13lbs, 10oz.

- Stopped sleeping!!! It started with the cough, but once that stopped, she continues to wake every couple of hours at night. Mama is incredibly tired and trying anything at the moment until we can sleep train at 6 months. She's co-slept, slept in the nursery, had an early bedtime, a late bedtime, a cool room, a warm room, a hot water bottle to warm the sheets, and none of it really works! Currently she's waking 3 or 4 times a night, which it better then the 7 or 8 times she was averaging, but hopefully things will get better soon.

- Smiley and happy, even when ill we could still coax out smiles and now she's well she's so cheerful. She has smiles for everyone and loves to be talked with.

- In love with her Daddy, he enters the room and she watches his every move until he comes and talks to her.

- Loves to chat with her brother, Charlie can often make her smile and likes to calm her when she frets.

- Something has developed in her brain in the last fortnight and she's really aware of toys. She will happily play with a toy or two on her play mat for quite a long time. She loves the light up and roll ball, a teething toy elephant, dolls, rubber ducks and various teething rings.

- Loves bath time, she now has a rubber duck to chew on, demands to hold the sponge and generally splashes about in the little baby bath.

- Has a jumperoo which she loves, my friend was selling one for £30, and it's been such a good buy, she jumps about like a mad thing and coos and giggles whilst in it.

- Likes a nice cuddle, she'll now give baby kisses (slobbery, wet, sucking, gummy ones) on your face or neck when holding her. She is exploring faces and reaches out to touch your mouth and teeth if you let her. She's also grabbed my glasses off twice and sucked Daddy's nose!

- Still long, she's gone into 6-9 month vests as the 3-6 ones are getting too tight.

- Has graduated to the big girl buggy, she now faces outwards in the buggy, rather than facing me in the car seat. She loves it as she hated being in the car seat on the buggy for too long. She's had some nice long naps on our walks and is all snug in her new puffy coat from Aunty Pam and Charlie's old red and white star cosy toes.