Thursday 24 July 2008

Lara's watching her figure

Olga took Lara to be weighed today, and as we suspected, she's "only" 17lbs 4oz. This has put her down from the 75th percentile, where she's always been, to the 50th. This is still perfectly OK, and isn't a surprise, Lara's not been eating as much as we'd hoped when we've been feeding her. It's certainly not been enough to maintain her rate of weight gain that she had when she was only on Mumjuice, but it's necessary that we persevere with the jars and the carrots, strawberries, raspberries, kiwi, courgette, peach and whatever else we've been feeding her for the past 6 weeks or so, topped up with Mumjuice. I fed her yesterday afternoon while Olga was having her hair done, and Lara chugged down a little pot of yoghurt in no time, although the half-jar of fish mornay was more of a struggle.
The nurse also suggested that Lara's burning more calories now that she's more active than she's been before, which would certainly contribute to the slower weight gain.
I reckon she's just caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror and has gone on a diet.... ;-)

School? Waste of time!

I got an early bus yesterday morning (pretty much on time!) and there were quite a few kids on their way to school in Marlow on it. There was one seat available for me, but a girl had her school bag on it, I politely asked her if I could sit down and she reluctantly relented. Her friends were trying to find out how she was, as she seemed very quiet and sad, despite this being the last day of term. Anyway, once she'd gotten off in Marlow, two lads behind me started talking about her; their chat was something like this:

Boy one: "Anna looks sad, what's up with her?"
Boy two: "Oh, she got dumped."
BO: "Uh, right, OK."
BT: "Yeah, he was from Swindon or summit."
BO: "Where is that?"
BT: "I don't know. Miles away. It's on the coast I think."

These lads were 13 or 14! What are they teaching at school?! It made me wonder if I knew where Swindon was when I was that age, and I probably didn't, but then again I lived oop north, and I knew where Halifax was, or Preston, or Chester, all of which are about the same distance from Bury as Swindon is from Marlow or High Wycombe. Honestly, kids!!
I'm going to make sure Lara always knows where Swindon is - although I might not encourage her ever to go there ;-)

Tuesday 22 July 2008

Weekend with the grandparents

We went up to Radcliffe this weekend to see my mum and dad. The weather did its best to keep us indoors, doing its usual thing of windy and / or wet on Saturday and Sunday, then lovely on Monday, just as we were coming home.
Lara showed off her eating ability, she's definitely eating more than before from jars. Being (almost) in Lancashire, she had to have Lancashire Hot Pot, and that went down well, but not as quickly as her Mango Surprise dessert, which seems to be Number One Jar at the moment. She does also polish off the odd boiled carrot stick, courgette, strawberry and raspberries for good measure.
I've put some photos in the New Photos bit on the left of the blog, and here's a little video of her enjoying Hot Pot - I know she seems to pull a face after the first mouthful, but see how she comes back for more!



We had some fun and games on the way home - we stopped off at a retail park in Bury, Lara was asleep, so we went in turns to have a look round the shops, with one of us staying with the Lara in the car. I'd left the aircon on (the weather had perked up) and this drained the battery totally flat during the hour or so we were there. A quick call to Mum revealed they had two - yes, two - sets of jump leads, so after checking though the Honda's and Mum's Toyota handbooks, we took deep breaths and connected the plugs in the right order, and the car started first time. The handbooks both warned of "dangers of explosions" so Olga had taken Lara for a stroll to a safe distance from the cars!
Other than that we had an easy drive back, just under 3 and a half hours, and had the BBQ at our house that the weather hadn't let us have at Mum's.