h45 weeks: a new tooth and first steps

On Tuesday Squidge was 45 weeks old. No one was meeting for mummy’s afternoon so I decided to take the girls out to the local Weatherspoons for tea. They have an afternoon special (between 2 and 5pm) where you can get a plate of fish, chips and peas and a cup of tea for £2.99. So Fidget and Squidge shared the fish, chips and peas and I had the cup of tea.

Squidge yummed hers down, Fidget was doing well but had left most of her peas. She then decided she needed the loo so we all had to troop to the bathroom, when we returned they had cleared our plates away but I was determined that Fidget finish her peas so went to ask them to bring out more peas which they did, and surprisingly Squidge did finish her peas (with a little bit of ketchup to sweeten the pill!)

Even though I took a picture on my phone on the Tuesday I thought I would take a better 45 week picture on the Wednesday, ere we go…

Squidge spent most of the morning going round and round on the v-tech baby walker.

In the afternoon, Squidge and I went over to Fidget’s nursery to talk about Squidge starting nursery. Squidge was very happy having an explore about and chat with the helpers. After we had filled in all the forms, we picked up Fidget and went for tea at a local farm shop, then had a wander round looking at the pigs and cows.

On Thursday I noticed that Squidge’s next tooth was finally making an appearance. It seems quite a while since the first two came through. She has had plenty of teething pains inbetween and has been gamely munching on all food offered, but given her appetite she could really do with a few more gnashers!

There was time for playing with Tigger…

before we headed out to the shoe shop. I was sure that Squidge was not far from walking and with our impending holiday thought that shoes would be a good idea, so that she had the opportunity to try out walking around outside.

It was busy in the shoe shop – back to school!!, but there were alot of people serving and Squidge was happy pulling baby trainers off the shelves, before we knew it we were served and Squidge had her first shoes.

more playing and standing with the pram and then the walker

Squidge got into a bit of a routine so I decided to catch it on video. She would wander round the table with the hat on then stop, stand (not holding the walker), take the hat off, then try to get the hat on again – but struggle and get annoyed.

She was having such fun with the doctors hat that we decided to try out some more…

Friday, M had the day off and came with us to the swimming lesson to provide moral support, but for the second week in a row Fidget did not go in the water and created a scene, so we’ll have to give it until the end of the term but might have to leave it until later before taking her back to lessons. In the afternoon Daddy and Fidget went out to pick some rhubarb, then made a crumble together.

On Saturday we got ready for the day, between Fidget and I we picked a rather groovy outfit for her. I wanted to take a picture, but Fidget was too busy dancing.

Strike a pose!…

i noticed Squidge taking a few steps around her baby walker so tried to see if she would walk. She did take a step…

we tried again and M managed to get Squidge’s first steps on video…

later on she did quite a few more hanging onto her teether for dear life!

Most of our effort recently has been around trying to get our ensuite done. It is cleared out now and we have mapped out on the floor all the bits we will be getting.

The afternoon was rounded off with a visit to the park…