6 months!!

6 months! Oh my goodness, I can't believe Robyn is 6 months old today! I know people always say the time will fly by, but really, 6 months?!
When I look back at pictures we've taken since Robyn was born I can really appreciate how much she has changed. On a day-to-day basis it's harder to see, which is why I'm so pleased that we've taken lots (and lots!) of photos.

It's funny the things you forget, for example, for the first 4 and a half months Robyn was exclusively breast fed, no bottles, all me! Now it's seems weird that she would have anything other than bottles. We're now gearing up to wean her onto food... yikes! We're going to try baby-led weaning, so rather than give her mush and puree we give bits of food, like steamed carrot sticks or broccolli. The theory is that she learns to eat proper food straight away and can show us what she likes and what she doesn't like. Should be fun (and messy!).

On the 2nd May Robyn cut her first tooth, I've been trying to get a photo of it, but it's more elusive than the Scarlet Pimpernel!! I've been reliably informed that the 2nd tooth follows within 2 weeks, so any day now, yay....!

She's still pretty dinky, out of her peer group she's the smallest girl, along with a 4-week premature twin girl. We've only recently been able to dress her in 3-6 month clothes, and currently have 1 pair of socks that fit her and they're 3-6 month size!! Strange really as she has plenty of 0-3 month size socks that are STILL too big! Oh well, I'll have to make some sock pigs out of them!! (There'll be another post soon with pics of all my sock toy creations!) At her last weigh-in (5th May) she was 13lb 14.5oz, and had stayed true to her 9th percentile line.

I still get quite bad hair-envy. A lot of her little friends have oodles of hair, but not my Robyn... she does now have a downy fluff of hair on her head which I'm hoping will thicken up soon. We shall see!! I shall leave you with a collection of pics from the last 6 months - I wonder if the next 6 fly by equally as fast?!

Where does the time go??? Robyn is now 5 1/2 months old, crazy!!! She seems to be changing every day, to the point where Colin now thinks she looks more like me than him... I'll let you decide, here's some pics of my lil munchkin:

Slightly confused:

Very cute:

Watching tv (again!):

Funny face - check out her Pixie ear (on her right):

I need to practice a bit more with my portrait lens on the camera, but I'm getting there - have always wanted to get that blurry background effect! She's a great model though.

Robyn's favourite trick at the moment is rolling onto her tummy and then getting annoyed with herself as she can't get back onto her back! It's funny, except when she's continuously rolling when you're trying to change her nappy! She also thinks it's dead funny to blow raspberries with her dummy in her mouth to see how far she can get it to fly!! She keeps me very busy and very entertained, that's for sure!

Enjoy the long weekend folks, it's meant to be gorious weather, at least here in the south east, finger's crossed!!

Photo shoot!

OK as promised more pics of Robyn!

Big ol' blue eyes:



She's a bit fond of this bunny - thanks Nanny!


See - she does wear dresses (sometimes!)

In her new "entertainment centre" (this was tougher than labour to put together!)

Oh dear... it's been a while! Robyn and I have settled into a lovely day time routine, which works for the most part. She has the odd day (like yesterday) where she'll only sleep if I cuddle her, which is no bad thing as I get to sit about having cuddles with my baby! It just so happened that yesterday I was at a friend's trying to make sock toys.... typical!

Sock toys are my latest craft obsession - they're so much easier than I thought they'd be. I was convinced that I couldn't sew and so (!) have been very surprised by the results.

Well, Robyn's about to wake up so I'll leave you with some pics for now.... I have taken lots of pics of Robyn lately but they're all on Colin's pc so I'll have to blog from there later!

oh yeah, I baked again!

12 weeks!!!

I can't believe Robyn is 12 weeks old! I know people say that time flies, but really, this fast?!? I also can't believe I've not blogged since 25th November, shameful!

So here's what we've been up to the past few weeks.
I wanted to write a bit of a recap of here of nicknames as I seem to have so many for her:

The first was Pink Smartie as that's what we'd called her throughout the pregnancy, this then turned into Baby.
After that was Green Eggs and Ham, cos that's what it smelled of when she farted!! I now have the Dr Seuss book and enjoy reading it to her.
Then she was Treasure, as in My Little Treasure... that still gets used as she is a real Treasure, so calm and easy going.
Treasure then mutated into Treacle which at 12 weeks still sticks (no pun intended!!).

Of course I do call her Robyn a lot too, and Robsie... seems strange to have picked a name for her then use all these alternatives!

For the first 7 weeks Robyn decided she was a nocturnal baby. She'd sleep for 4 hours during the day then be awake between 8pm and 2am, it was soooo hard going. Middle of the night feeding I could have handled, it was the fact that she would refuse to sleep during this time so we (I) had to be awake too. Saying that though she would then sleep until 7 or 8am. It wasn't just the lateness of the hour either, she would find falling asleep so difficult it would give us really bad back ache walking around, rocking her off to sleep. Come Jan 1st I decided I'd had enough and imposed an evening routine. I would much rather get woken up at 5 or 6am and go to sleep by midnight. So, we decided that before her 8pm feed we'd give her a bath. It worked, first time!! We now give Robyn a bath every night, she has a feed then cuddles with Colin, sometimes she naps for anything up to an hour after this, sometimes not at all. She then wants feeding around 10 - 10.30pm. I get ready for bed and feed her in bed with the lights low and Classic FM on the radio. She then falls asleep so quietly on my lap after feeding, I can put her into her moses basket and she sleeps through to 6 or 7am!!! It's been like this since 1st Jan, so fingers crossed it's a nicely established routine.

Classic FM has been a God-send. We started trying her with white noise one night - it worked. We turned it off at 4am as it was getting on our nerves and she woke up instantly. So the radio went on. First off we listenend to Radio 4 as it was only people talking. It seemed to work, we became fans of the Shipping News. Over Christmas we spent the night at Mum and Dad's and couldn't get Radio 4 to tune in on their radio, so ended up with Classic FM instead. We now listen to that all night!! I've read somewhere that classical music is good for babies brain development and we don't mind listening to it either.

We've been going to baby massage classes these past 2 weeks which have been great fun, as much for me as Robyn I think!! She wasn't much in the mood for it yesterday but we'll get there I'm sure. I am very lucky to have made lots of new friends from my ante-natal group. To be honest I didn't think I would, I didn't want to become friends with people just because we were having babies at the same time, but they are all so lovely and we all get on really well. We have 2 more classes to go and I can't wait to learn all the moves and have some quality time Robyn, even if it's only a couple of times a week to chill her out.... not that she needs it as she is super-chilled!

She's starting to 'coo' a lot now and responds a lot more to use pulling silly faces at her. Just this morning she found it hilarious if I said "you're full of farts and bogies today"... it would seem she has my toilet-level sense of humour!!!

Here's a few pics from the past few weeks:

Sleeping like an angel, literally!

Bath time!

Baby Massage class

Robyn's first photo shoot!

I'm so glad that I got a new lens for my camera with some birthday money back in September. I'm still not completely happy that I know what I'm doing with it but I am pleased with these shots I took of Robyn on Sunday.

Robyn Emma Chorley

arrived on Friday 14th November at 8.52pm, after a perfect textbook delivery! She's an absolute treasure and I can't believe how much she's changed in 6 days.

First picture:



Mummy and Robyn:


Daddy and Robyn:



Cuddles!!