Purple toucan: Round Our Way

The arrival of Natalie's teeth has triggered a change to her bedtime routine, as we now have to brush them after she's had her bedtime milk feed. So we've started feeding her dinner, followed by a bath (extremely necessary - she's becoming a more and more messy eater by the day), and then we pop out somewhere local for a walk before giving her some milk and brushing her teeth.

This has meant we've discovered some really nice places right on our doorstep, and it also means we dont waste half an hour watching rubbish telly waiting for bedtime! We have the advantage of living close to the Thames path, but even the walks round the neighbourhood are pretty interesting.

A bit more of an update on Natalie:

We got some bandana bibs (from Bubba Bibs) and Natalie's dribble rash has cleared up a lot! Not sure yet if the rash has cleared because of the bibs or because we've cut orange juice out of her diet this week (an experiment suggested by my mum because I used to be a bit allergic to OJ).

They do a great deal - 5 for £10.45 plus 1 free - 100+ designs to choose from!

Natalie started eating a lot of new things last weekend - Weetabix, cow's milk, chicken, fish, fromage frais and cottage cheese (she doesn't like this one - I dont really blame her, it looks like sour milk!). She even had jelly today, I made up some using fruit juice and gelatine sheets and it went down extremely well!

mmm, chicken!!

grated apple fangs!

We had a few new words (well, sounds really) from her - she now says 'dada', 'gaga' and blows raspberries!

Natalie's strong legs are being put to good use as she now loves standing up!