After feeding, I burp her on my knee and she often falls asleep there. It seems to be her most comfortable position. She doesn't seem too happy sleeping on her back. At night I let her fall asleep on me, and then gently place her on her own mattress. We co-sleep using a bedside cot side-car arrangement The last couple of weeks though she's been troubled with uncomfortable trapped wind. She's been kicking her legs up in the air and squeezing her abdomen, so I help it come out by doing a knee-to-chest "bottom burp"
Last week I did 3 loads of laundry and I still have a big pile that needs doing.
On Friday we rented a film from the library, The Ghost, directed by Roman Polanski. It was K's choice, but I really enjoyed it. It was about a man who was ghost writing the ex Prime Minister's memoirs and ended up investigating rumours about him being involved with torture and the CIA. It had a very unexpected ending which I will not spoil.
WJ seems a lot more alert and aware of her body and her surroundings. She's been playing in her activity gym, either hitting the dangling things, or just looking around, exclaiming "Khwai! Khwee! Khoi!"
I spent all yesterday making sunday dinner for K and I. I'm 25 but I've never made a sunday dinner before because I've never really enjoyed them. I don't dislike them, but I find them bland. I never think they're worth the effort when you can stick the same ingredients in a pan with some spices and make a curry or something with more flavour. I have a very fussy taste. So here's how it went:
-I made gluten-free bread in my bread machine in the morning. I just made plain white bread as I was trying to get the texture right before experimenting with different flours and extras. Gluten free flour doesn't hold air as easily so it's taken a few attempts to get the texture right but I finally managed it!
-For starter we had sweet potato, spinach and red lentil soup with the bread and a dollop of creme fraish in it.
-For the main course we had pork, cheesy mash, stuffing, yorkshire puddings, roast pattypan squash and red cabbage. The stuffing was made with crumbs of my bread and sage I'd picked myself. The red cabbage was cooked in my slow cooker with veg stock, apples and raisins. The Yorkshire puds were a disaster, I'd never made them before so I wasn't going to bother, but when I was in the supermarket they had some gluten free yorkshire pudding mix reduced from 99p to 75p. I don't think I read the instructions properly, and then I burnt the poor attempt anyway!
-I was going to make the flapjack cookies found here and serve one broken with creme fraish and some fruit, but we didn't eat until late and were both very tired (I'd been awake bottom burping WJ, and K had been stuck outside overnight as the boat was in the lock and someone had hidden the windlass!). K doesn't really like sweet things, so I thought he wouldn't want dessert anyway. I'd made the cookies earlier in the day though and woke up this morning to find one missing!
-We spent all morning washing up!!
I've decided I need more structure to my blog, so I'm going to start participating in the weekly photo posts such as 'Wordless Wednesday', 'Small Style' and 'This Moment'. On Mondays I hope to do a catch up of the previous week (such as in this post) and on Sundays do a list of things I plan to do. I'm still going to have other posts.
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