EATING.

It's becoming a battle. i'm now beginning to dread meal times, when i never used to. i'm trying so hard not to get stressed or cross at him when he performs his tricks in his highchair and refuses to eat anything. maybe it's my fault for using a highchair without straps...he knows he can stand in it and so always climbs about. sometimes i resort to letting him have his food on the floor/on my lap/in front of the tv/on the kitchen work tops...where ever really i can attempt to get a few more mouthfuls in. is this bad? am i making a rod for my own back with bad with bad eating habits? should i get a different highchair?

Ok so how much should a soon to be 14 month old eat? Stanley goes through good eating patches and then bad. i don't know if its some motherly thing or some weird feeder thing i have when i want him to eat lots. he's so far been an ok eater. i mean we went through a good patch that i even started to record his meals. will try most stuff. sometimes spits it back, sometimes not.
for example one day he'll eat raspberries like they are the best food on the planet then the next day he'll look at me when i give them to him like they are poison. is this normal? we never did baby led weaning properly. i'm sort of regretting that now. maybe it would have made me more relaxed with the quanities he was taking in...like he was in control and knew how much was right for him.
would be great if you have any advice. he's not exactly wasting away....but i just want to know this behaviour is ok, normal or whatever!

Thanks for all the votes by the way...i'm creeping up there and it's making me feel better!

his & HERS

mama: coffee to see me through until i do a food shop later in the day....nothing in the fridge :(
stanley: pasta with roasted vegetable and tomato sauce

STANLEY STYLE

LONDON

i  L O V E  london.
i really miss it sometimes. not now i have a baby so much though. it is somewhere i personally didn't want to bring up my child. my family all live in brighton and for me it was a no brainer to move 'home' and be near them. i use to live in dalston and it was a fun place to be....happy times in my youth!

for now though i get to visit occasionally when i visit for a meeting or to drop off book artwork etc. i love walking across the bridge from waterloo to embankmant. my favourite journey. no matter if it's a grey old day like it was last thursday... i had a meeting in town. hopefully for something exciting. i can't say what, and i've probably just jinxed the damn thing now...but hey ho....it was worth it to get this glorious picture in of my favourite city in the whole world.

ON TUESDAY WE READ...

...."NO TINC PARAULES" by Arnal Ballester and published by Media Vaca. I bought this book a long time ago in Spain. It has no words (which i think is what the title says?!) but a clear narrative running through it. Visually stunning using only two colours it uses composition in such a strong way.

 

 

 

 

It will be great I think to talk about with Stanley - plenty of potential to make up our own stories around what is happening on each page.

footnote: I'm continuing this series without Stanley as he is camera obsessed at the minute and just wants to wrench the thing out of my hand and push all the buttons, change all the settings so i haven't a clue what he's done with it...so for now, no baby, just books!

LATELY....BEEN AWAY

hello. so sorry for the lack of blogging recently. very unfair to ask you to vote for me every day when i don't keep up my side of the bargain! anyway i'm back to it. so if you could clicky click for me that'd be great. i'm mid 100 and something......so thank you so very much!

last week me and stanley flew to stockholm to visit one of my very best friends that lives out there. she is swedish so it's fair enough she lives there but i miss her so much. we were pregnant at the same time and our boys are 6 weeks apart but they could have been so much closer in age if she wasn't early and me late! it was a lovely trip and i survived it! flying my myself with a baby on my lap - which at times felt like travelling with a small dog on my lap...wriggle wriggle! felt good to achieve it though. i was very proud of me and him. we were like a little team together and i loved it.

i did pick the flight times to fit round his naps/sleep and it seemed to work. he slept for an hour on the way out so all good there. then on the way home he slept the whole way until he woke just as we began the decent and SCREAMED BLUE MURDER the whole way down. i think his ears were really hurting him but i couldn't get him to sip water/drink milk/take a dummy/play with a toy/eat anything or take his mind off it all all. poor lamb i tried everything but he was just so beside himself. i got a few dirty looks from other passengers. but hey no surprise there. i WAS trying to make him feel better obviously. so i just shot them one back. some people really enjoy making you feel even worse in an already bad situation. i assume they don't have kids?

the up side was that they have free wifi on board! amazing! i went instagram crazy! so exciting!

anyway it was a lovely holiday and so nice to see my friend and see the boys play together. they were so good. played well. had a few fisty cuffs over toys. but nothing major. all very cute. very sad to leave them both :(

hopefully we can visit again in the summer....

HOW NICE IS THIS?!

I found this in a flea market called snoopers paradise in brighton. i sent it to a friend of mine that used to teach me...the amazing george hardie illustrator of the dark side of the moon fame... because i thought he'd like it. he did. but i had to take a copy myself as it was just too great to post without remembering it.