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my twitter lows ... so far

As a newbie or should I say noobie, I am still getting the hang of this twitter malarky. Here are my top 5 twitter fails so far

1. Tweeting a response to one of my husband's tweets copying in a handle with over 200,000 followers about him tweeting in the bathroom. He was not impressed.

2. Typos. If I do any more no one will accept that they are justified by baby brain or tiredness from 2 herberts who don't sleep through the night.

3. Not tweeting enough about my brother's Kickstarter project TwentyPence. I was too worried about what people thought of my tweets and should have shouted every hour that my talented brother is forging his way into the world of fashion!

4. Not tweeting soon enough or quite simply enough about my friend's incredible new app Curly's Guide. It is the most interesting, pleasing to the eye and informative app I have seen in forever. A guide to every sport you can imagine all written by a girl. Not meaning to sound old fashioned but she has the best knowledge of sport I have ever come across and still is the sweetest girl you could be lucky enough to meet. (Funny thing is, we lived together at Uni and she became known as Curly, hoping that inspired the app name!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is Curly!

 

 

5. Tweeting whilst holding small boy on my lap. He regularly, magically, manages to click the send button before I have finished typing with either a stray foot or a pudgy hand full of rusk. Maybe he's trying to tell me something!

Anything you could add to this list?!

eat up! it's delicious!

I wanted to go to all the post natal talks at our local children's centre put on by the team of Health Visitors second time round. Mostly because I feel like my baby brain has meant I have forgotten everything I learnt first time! There was a particularly good talk on weaning which I wouldn't have missed for the world.

I know all the basics, the puree stage, the fork mashing and introducing lumps gradually. But it was great to go through it all again, what are good foods to start with and what to try as first fingers foods.

I was a little shocked when it was questioned why we shouldn't add salt to baby's veg, that it wouldn't taste as nice, but they don't know any better do they, babies!

I am trying to just give small boy water as he seems to be taking it fine and big boy suffers from night terrors on the days he's had squash at a party or at a toddler group where I don't get to him in time to switch it for milk or water!

I suppose babies only get used to what we give them. If you don't buy it, they don't eat it.

The Health Visitor made a thought provoking point, that weaning is an opportunity to revisit the foods you, as an adult do not eat.

I, for example, will eat cooked tomatoes, in a sauce, but cannot bear them whole in a salad. So as a consequence I hardly ever buy them and guess what, my boys won't eat them! Same for plums and kiwi fruit. Bizarre isn't it!

I hadn't really thought about the enormous influence that my personal preferences play in the weaning process.

To start with, I followed a chart, ticking off the foods I have tried, but as time goes on and they get older you get into a pattern, a routine of meals you cook every week, that get mashed and reheated for small people. Please don't judge me, that I give the boys what we have eaten the day before and not cooked from scratch each day. I admire anyone who is able to cook just for the children and then again for the adults but I am not one of them!

I am determined this time round, to make a conscious effort to expose small boy to as much as possible and give a few new things a go myself!

Have you experienced the same? Is there foods you have subconsciously not tried on your baby because you don't enjoy them?

If you want to print the handy list I have on my pin board, find it here!

 

see it snap it love it - red

Well can you believe it, I won last week's See it Snap it Love it photo competition from Dear Beautiful Boy! So I get to choose next week's theme!

I choose Eyes. Be great to see what everyone spies with their little eyes!

This week's theme is Red so here is my entry.

I chose it because when I think of the colour red I think of my brother. It's his favourite colour and his house in New Jersey is decorated with red walls, red kitchen accessories and red curtains and cushions! He even set up a website once dedicated to all things red!

So I have photographed his Save the Date! He is getting married in June and just like the little silver plane in the photo we will be crossing the pond!

It is sitting on the top of a red post box I bought on eBay that we are taking to the wedding so the guests can all write postcard wishes of love to the happy couple! Not quite sure how I will get it on the plane it's a metre tall!

Join in with your entries here.