Happy Mother's Day to all the mummies

Had a lovely present from Poppy (Hubby) for Mother's day - a day at the local spa. Includes a choice of a massage or a facial and the use of the spa facilities. Ah I can see a relaxing few hours ahead sometime in the next few weeks..

My miserable mood was still present a bit this morning, but I managed to get myself out of it pretty quickly thank goodness. Had lunch out with my family which was lovely, apart from my hubby not being able to be there as he was nights last night. Poppy ate loads and made everyone laugh with her eating, don't think many people have seen a baby who eats everything with their hands.

Just watching Jo Frost Extreme Parenting from last week. There's one RIDICULOUS teenager - 13 - who is allowed to dress up like a ho and try to get into clubs. THIRTEEN. Don't think I even knew about nightclubs when I was that age. The outfits she's got are practically non-existent! I somehow don't think Poppy will be going down that route. Her Daddy already jokes about making sure all his colleagues know what she looks like in case she sneaks out to town.

Viewed the Water Babies photo's today after lunch. Was disappointed really, was expecting to have the perfect photo a la the promotional shots off the website, and to have loads to choose from. We only had 5 and of those 3 had her with one hand out of shot, and the one's with her central in the shot she had a face like she was shitting herself! We did manage to decide on one to have a 20x16 of though, and to get the 6x4 proofs for free there was a minimum £200 order, so also chose two to have as 10x8 of which we had one free. Thank goodness we had some money towards it from xmas we had as gifts for her.

Back from our jaunt

Had a lovely weekend away, very peaceful, lots of lovely food and wine. It's amazing how you get out of the habit of having a proper conversation, what with baby, tv, laptop, housework blah blah. The friday night we sat and had dinner, and drinks, and just talked for hours. Visited the town shops and the abbey on saturday which was very pretty, and bought a few knick-knacks for Poppy.

Picked Poppy up from Mum's lunchtime on Sunday, she was just having her lunch when we arrived. It was highly amusing seeing my mum's version of BLW - she'd cut up the cheese on toast into really small pieces and was putting them into Poppy's mouth one by one! Bless her. Didn't say anything as she was eating and happy, and that's the aim right?

Turns out Poppy seems to be a definite carnivore, we've noticed that she'll always go for the meat on the tray over everything else. Tonight we had chicken fajhitas, of which she had the chicken and veg without any spice. After clearing all the chicken she moved onto trying some mushrooms and peppers, but wasn't too impressed. Think that the peppers were still a bit hard, even though we'd cooked it for ages.

Made some sweet potato muffins and banana & raisin bread today also, which was fun. Photo's to be posted tomorrow hopefully. Have been struggling for ideas for lunches for her apart from sandwiches or toast, I know how bloated I feel if I eat too much bread, so hope these will go down ok. She munched the bit I gave her to try so fingers crossed.