Weekly Meal Plan - 29th July 2013

Hope everyone had a good week.  It's terrible, I'm sitting here trying to remember what we actually did last week and I can barely remember!  Memory isn't what it used to be....  The sun dipped in and out and heavy showers came on quickly so we stayed around the house and tried to get some things done.

Hubby and I got to go on Friday night to view the pictures from our photo shoot last Saturday.  I was anxious if they would be any good as it was an exceptionally warm day and the little one hadn't really napped so it was just a bad combination.  I needn't have worried as they were beautiful and of course it made it extremely difficult to decide which ones to pick.  We eventually decided on 9 photos that we're getting on disk so we can get prints, wall art etc ourselves.... I hope it arrives this week as I'm chomping at the bit to see them again.

We stuck to the meal plan last week, although the little one refused a few dinners.  Don't know if she is getting too independent and wants to feed herself all the time and so is refusing when we spoon feed her, but if I leave her to her own devices she doesn't get an awful lot in her belly.

This weeks meals are pretty uninspired, finding it hard to find things that we can all have together without it being repetitive every week.  There's a few meals on the plan that she won't be having and instead will be having Chicken, Vegetables and potatoes, Chicken & Summer vegetables and Tuna Casserole....hopefully they'll all go down ok :s  Any ideas of what to give her would be gratefully received.

This weeks meals are as follows:

The baked pasta dish is a batch I already have in the freezer and am trying to use up before it's been in there a little too long.  By Thursday I was completely uninspired so am just going to stick my head in the freezer and see what there is, there's bound to be something in there that needs used up anyway.  The smoky philly chicken is scrumptious and we haven't had it in a longggg time, so will be good to have a change with it.

I'm linking up with Mrs M, so why not stop by and have a nosey at what everyone else is having this week.

Have a good one :)

Things I love about you...

Tomorrow my beautiful girl you turn 8 months.  8 months that have gone past in the blink of an eye, in some ways it feels like you've not been here that long and in others it feels like you've always been there and I can't imagine life without you.

Already I can barely remember you as the smell little newborn who just stayed still and looked at me with wide eyes.  There's so many things that I love about you, that I'm sure I'm going to forget as you get bigger...

I love that despite me telling you for 9 months not to come on my birthday you decided to do it anyway

I love the huge grin you give me every time I come into your room after you wake up from a nap in your cot

I love when I check on you there's always at least one toe poking through the blanket

I love your cute curls in your hair

I love the way you always pull up your big toe from the rest of your toes

I love that you've ticklish feet

I love how excited you get playing peek-a-boo, your arms trembling with excitement waiting for the blanket to be pulled off

I love that you hold your arms up when you want picked up

I love that you spend all day going, ma ma ma, da da da, na na na

I love how excited you are on your swing

I love the MANY funny faces you pull

I love that you find such simple things funny

I love that despite all your toys being out that my shoes are still more fun to play with

I love how you are so cute when you rub your eyes when you're tired.

I love that you make me go at record speed to change your nappy before you crawl/roll away

I love that you always want to stand and won't bend in the middle to sit down

I love how you laugh so hard you end up with hiccups

I love that you always smile and get excited when daddy comes home

I love the way you splash about in the bath

I love the way you tap the floor with your hand for me to come here, after I did it to you

I love that you crawl after me if I step into the kitchen to see where I've gone

I love the way you pop your head around the kitchen door each morning to say "Any chance of breakfast Mummy?" 

I love that sometimes you only want me and no one else will do

I love the look you give me when you know you're about to do something you're not meant to as if to check that it's actually ok...it's still not

I love how you turn the pages of your book even if it's not in the right order

I love how you can put your dummy in yourself but not necessarily the right way up

I love the way you've captured my heart

I  love that we've been blessed with you in our lives

I love that your happy and healthy when not every parent is so lucky

Most of all I just love you, for who you are, the person you will grow up to be and I treasure these days of innocence and beauty.  The days that you want me to be here, you want me to play with you and you want to spend time with you.

I can't stop the time from going so quickly but I can only appreciate every moment that we have together.  Before I know it, it'll be your first birthday and our first proper joint birthday together.

I don't even want to think about how quickly you'll be going to nursery school, then primary and secondary school, dating, getting married and having children of your own.  For now, I just want to treasure that you are my beautiful and gorgeous 8 month old baby girl and hug you tight with all my might.

I love you little JD :)

Meal Planning Monday - 22nd July 2013

Don't fall off your seat reading this, I am alive and well!!  Yes, it has been a little while since posting anything but I have still been Meal Planning behind the scenes.

Things just got really busy with the little one and with the glorious weather it made it difficult to get the little one to eat, sleep, want to do anything so I just didn't have the time to get blogging.  I also had a wave of what's the point?  Does anyone even read this and is interested whether I'm actually here or not? and so before you know it it's over a month without a single post being written and very few being read.

I still find time very limited to get reading/writing posts, as it is the little one is asleep now but I should really be doing something productive before she wakes up again.  By the time she's settled in bed for night, things are cleared and tidied up, a brew in hand and some chilling time, it's time for bed!  I'm in awe of all you who seem to be so much busier than me and still have time to blog.

Anyway, so we're back (for this week at least) and hopefully I'll get back into the swing of blogging and find time to be able to just share my thoughts if nothing else.

So in my absence on here, we've had some progressions....weaning is still going well and now I'm trying to find meals that we can both have together instead of having to make separate dinners.  Any thoughts on meals that could be made or ideas of lunches would be greatly appreciated as I'm running out of ideas.

Also, about 3 weeks ago JD started crawling forward!  She had reverse gear, side to side and complete about turn but could never seem to get forward.  Now there's no stopping her, it is more like an army crawl but she can fairly shift and now I need eyes everywhere!

On to this weeks Meal Plan....

I'm linking up with Mrs M, so why not click the link and take a look at what everyone else is having this week.