Blog about being Mum and everything that comes with it.
Months of planing, weeks of preparation, lots of stress, excitement and happiness … And now Chloe is one year old !
I have spent a lot of time making all birthday decorations, birthday cakes and food. This are the results of Chloe’s two birthday parties.
It has happened Chloe has turned 1 today! I cannot believe that my little princess is already 1 year old! Where did the time go ??!! When did the year go by ?? Yes in the past year I have been constantly tired, haven’t had many good nights of sleep and have been worrying all the time about everything. But it has been the most amazing, wonderful year filled with happiness and so much love that I found it overwhelming!!!! Chloe has come in to this world at the saddes time of my life and made me the happiest person on the planet !! Every day I would look at her cute little face, see her gorgeous smile and I would feel so happy, blessed and loved (even in the middle of the night after being up for 18 hours).
Chloe turning 1 was very emotional, a chapter of my and Chloe’s life has been closed! She officially isn’t a baby anymore …. She is a toddler!
Happy birthday my little princess! Thank you for being such an amazing baby and making me and Daddy so happy !
More about Chloe’s actual birthday and her parties in few days time!
I have been very lucky to be able to breastfeed Chloe straight away without any problems… Once she got hold of my breast and started sucking she didn’t want to let go for 12 hours !! This very painful 12 hours were a beginning of an amazing, emotional bond that I had with Chloe.
I loved every minute of it, every feed, every cuddle which came with it … And it made my life so much easier; I didn’t have to worry about having formula, sterilising bottles, making milk in the middle of night while baby screams for food…
Now that in few weeks time Chloe will be one and I will be going back at work it’s time to stop it… Naturally the amount of times I breastfeed Chloe has been dropping slowly over the last few months as she started to eat more and more solid food. We are now on 2 feeds a day, one in the morning and one in the evening . This week I have started to give her formula in the evening and only breastfed her in the morning . It has made me feel very sad and emotional … Especially when in the middle of the day she would start pulling my top down looking at my breast and say in her baby talk : give me my milk ! I never thought that this will be so emotional !
My baby girl is growing up …..
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …
SWEET POTATO AND APPLE MUFFINS (NO SUGAR) !!!
Ingredients :
– 1 small sweet potato (around 70g grated)
– 3 apples (skinless and grated)
– 75g of flower
– 1 egg
– 1 tsp of baking powder
– 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon
– 2 tsp of vanilla sugar
– little bit of water
Cooking Method :
Get your owen ready at 200C fan.
Mix all of the ingredients together with a mixer until the consistency is nice and creamy. Divide in to muffin forms (around 35 mini muffins) and bake for 15 minutes. Chloe loves them and I hope that your baby will also!
Now that Chloe is becoming a little person, she starts eating like one as well:-) She loves her snacks and she loves to have a nice verity of them. I was on a mission to find a nice way to store those snacks. This is what I found :
1.BOON TRUNK SNACK BOX
2.HAPPY JACKSON LUNCH BOXES
3.LEGO LUNCH BOX
4. JUMBOX CLASSIC SNACK BOX 
5. MONSTER MASH UP SNACKS BOXES
6. ALL CHANGE SNACK BOX
7. CATERPILLARS STACK SNACK BOX
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL…
SALMON AND BROCCOLI PIE
It’s the first time I have done a fish pie, but not the last time as Chloe loved it. It’s very easy , healthy and suprisingly tasty.
Ingredients:
– 2 tomatoes (skinned and chopped)
– 60g of broccoli florets (cut in to tinny bits)
– 1 small carrot (whizzed in food processor, or cut in to small pieces)
– 1 onion (whizzed in food processor or cut in to small pieces)
– 2 tsp of flower
– 200ml of milk
– 300g of salmon
– 50g of greater cheddar
– 1 tbsp of parsley
Cooking method:
Cook your sweet potatoes for around 15 minutes. Then add a splash of milk and mush to get a nice creamy consistency.
Melt the butter in a saucepan and fry onion and carrots for around 3 minutes. Add tomatoes and simmer for another 3 minutes.
Add flower and cook for 1 minute then add milk. Bring to boil then add the broccoli and salmon, simmer for 3 minutes . Add cheddar and parsley , combine it all together and season to tast.
Divide the mixture in to the baking pots, top with sweet potatoes and bake for 15 minutes in the oven at 180C fan/200C . Hope that you will like it !
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …
COD FISH FINGERS
This is an adaptation of Annabell Karmel recipe. As we know we all need to eat a lot of fish and this is a great idea to introduce fish in another form. This recipe is so yeasty that it’s a dinner for the whole family !
Ingredients:
– 300g of cod filets
– 75g of breadcrumbs
– 75g of grated parmesan
– 1 egg
– a little bit of flower.
Cooking method :
Cut your fish filets in to strips. Mix breadcrumbs with grated parmesan. Get flower, egg and breadcrumbs mix on to separate plates.
Cover you fish strip in flower, then egg and then coat it well in your breadcrumb mix.
Fry on the frying pan with olive oil 5 minutes on each side or until golden.
Serve with vegetable couscous.
4:30 am in the morning … Been awake for around 96 minutes …. And it doesn’t seem as if I am going to sleep any time soon, why? Trying to get Chloe in to her routine of sleeping through the night.
You know when you reed that you shouldn’t be bringing your baby to your bed when she/he is unwell, that you shouldn’t be breast feeding them for comfort, you shouldn’t be picking them up and rocking … I can understand why they say NOT to do it.
Few weeks back Chloe has had her first cold and straight after she went through seperation anxiety, this means a lot of getting up at night and crying. I couldn’t see her being so upset and just leave her to it, so I breastfeed her (it was really working), cuddled her a lot and was sometimes even bringing her to bed with me (which I have never done before). Now I have my 11months old waking up between 4am and 5 am demanding to be feed, and not being able to go back to sleep without it. This has to stop as I can’t be doing it when I go back to work… I have been trying to do it now for over a week but always gave in to her demands so that me and my husband could get some sleep but now with hubby away on business trip I am on the mission to stop it and to stick to it.
I feel so sorry for her as she has been trying to go to sleep for the last hour without a success…. I think that this might be a very long night ….
Came across it on Instagram and had to share with you. 
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL…
BANANA MUFFINS WITH NO SUGAR !
Makes around 34 – 40 small muffins.
Ingredients:
– 100g of self rising wholemeal flower
– 100g of white self rising flower
– 50ml of sunflower oil
– 50 ml of water
– 3 ripped bananas
– 2 eggs
– 1 tsp of baking powder
– 1 tsp of bicarbonate soda
– 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon
– 1 tsp vanilla extract
Cooking method :
Heat up your oven to 165 C fan.
Beat your eggs until thick and creamy
Blend your bananas so they are nice creamy consistency.
Mix all of the ingredients together
Line up your muffin baking cups or baking tins.
Fill up each one with one big spoonful.Bake for 12-14 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool.
You can freeze them or keep for around 3 days in the fridge.
NEW YUMMY MUMMY 