they don't call them terrible twos for nothing

"Hi mummy, hi!"

Hmm what to say, what to say. Ada is doing exactly what a two year old is supposed to do. Each day is filled with so many examples of her doing these three things:

1. Expressing her opinion

2. Mastering the art of doing things for herself

3. Finding the boundaries

When she does them in a positive way it is crazy adorable ("I love it", referring to BBQ chicken or a pink ice block. "My do it myself!"). When she does these things in a negative way it can really wear away at my patience and my general good cheer. Then it can make me mad! Angry! Cross! So unbelieveably frustrated! We are using some time out for when Ada's behaviour is unacceptable. This is almost exclusively when she purposely pushes or throws things at Olive. She shows no remorse! In fact Ada barely shows any motive for these actions, she just blank face does them. After a minute of time out we have a chat about it, then Ada apologises then looks like she will do it again pretty much immediately and so I make sure they are playing in different areas. Not easy with miss mobile 7 months.

Who else uses time out to discipline their children? Any tips? 

7 months!

Little miss Olive turned 7 months last week. Life has been a whirlwind lately, what with going on holiday up north and starting back into our term time activities at Playcentre and beyond.

Olive is her own little whirl wind. Two teeth, speed crawling and a few let go's to stand on her own two feet. She is a bunch of fun. Ada reminds us what we say by copying Olive and mimicking us. "Look two girls! My crawling! My standing up!" We have races crawling down the hallway and they both beam at me. I love it!

first tooth

The drool has slowed a little! Here is the first tooth cracked through Olive's sore gums. Can you see it? Watch out apples Olive is on her way. 

It was a pretty quiet arrival thankfully. I feel for those bubba's and mama's who have teeth come in with torment. 

Olive loves a wee gum massage to relive the pain. What remedies do you know or swear by?

Obaby that's a fun app!

Hello!

Obaby is a new discovery of mine at the App Store and allows cuteness overtop your cute pics. Double cute!

It's 80% off, so I bought it. Usually I go for the freebies but I'm having a lot of fun with this. $1.29 worth of fun at least. 

There are sections for all sorts of baby related moments, pregnancy, birth, the first year and so on.

Do you have any app recommendations? 

lunch time!

Olive seems to prefer savory dinner ish food over sweeter breakfast ish food and so I made her the baby spinach dhal Ada used to like. I searched here on my own blog for 'dhal' rather than redo the conversions for the original recipe. Reason #15 for blogging?

Success! She loved it too! I have puréed this and put it into ice cube trays to use later. Olive is still munching fruit pieces and toast, she has tried beans, broccoli and corn thins lately too. The other night at dinner I got the happies cos we were all eating corn at the same time. Small things... Olives food always ends up in her hair, marmite was no exception. When she was not eating dinner one night Cam put pumpkin on a nectarine slice, she opened her mouth wide each time and ate it. Olive thought it was awesome at first but then you could see her thinking, everything I eat tastes like pumpkin, what gives?!

What have you had success with when you have fed your babies? Any great sites out there? I am going to go back through The Wednesday Chef: Cooking for Hugo series and see what I can find.