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BABY DEVELOPMENT APP

BABY STUFF - DO WE NEED ALL OF IT ?

As our baby grows and develops so has to our imagination to create great games. It’s natural to want to check that our precious baby develops “right”, does the “right” thing at the right time (I must stress in here that each child develops at its own pace and does things at its own time!!! ; Look at Chloe walking at 9 months but still only 2 teeth at 14 months😂) 

 When Chloe was around 6 months old I started looking for help/inspiration on how I should play with her. We had our games but there is just so much you can play the same repertoire over and over again! I wanted our games to be fun but also to support Chloe’s development. 

 I came across an App called Baby Sparks and I have been using it ever since! I love this app and would recommend it to everyone. 

  
What I love about it?

– It has a month-by-month Baby development guide. This has helped me to understand baby development and what I should expect to happen in the near future. 

– Daily program. This is full of activities for the day. Those change constantly so your play time is never boring. What is great is that all of the activities are divided in to groups : 

* Gross motor skills

* Fine motor skills

* Cognitive

* Speech 

* Sensory

* Self Care

* Emotional 

  
 You can choose what part of your child development you want to concentrate on and practise that day. 

 Main purpose is to help your child develop but it’s done in a very fun way! It keeps your days versatile and your play time interesting. 

–  Another great feature is the ability to brows the activities by: Category, Place, Milestone.  You don’t have to stick to the daily plan you can just freestyle 😊

 You can also mark activities as: Completed, Favorite and Archive. 

 The App is available for different ages. It’s not a free app but it’s not expensive; at £3.99 in my opinion it is worth every penny! 

Photos of few examples of the exercises in the app. Each of the exercises also has a video showing how to do it. 

   
    
   

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT, ANOTHER MEAL …

DINNER RECIPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT…


ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

PUMPKIN A’LA CARBONERA PASTA

Ingredients:

– 100g pumpkin (cut in to small cubes)

– 1 slice of bacon (cut up small without fat)

– 20 ml of cream

– 10g of parmesan

– 50g pasta

– 1tbsp parsley

Cooking Method :

Cook pasta according to cooking instructions.

Fry bacon in tiny bit of olive oil for 3 minutes then add pumpkin and fry for 10 minutes untill soft.

Add cream and parsley and cook for a minute. Mix with pasta, add parsley and it’s ready to serve !


Mamas and Papas amazing Spring Collection ! 

YUMMY BABY & KIDS FASHION

Mamas and Papas has their new collection out and you must get your hands on it asap! As always theirs clothes are cute and quirky. There is lots of fabulous prints which are Mamas and Papas signature. We already got our hands on quite a few of the items … Get yours before they sell out ! 

GIRLS : 

  
    
    
  
 
BOYS :

   
  
    
    
 

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT, ANOTHER MEAL…

DINNER RECIPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT …

Cute cute cute. Vintage print shirt with shorts dungarees and tights ! 

  

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

SCHABOWE (pork in breadcrumbs)WITH SWEET POTATO CHIPS & PEAS 

  
Ingredients: 

– 1 pork filet (chicken and turkey breast are brilliant as well)

– 1 sweet potato

– 50g peas 

– thyme

– 1 egg

– 50g breadcrumbs 

– olive oil 

Cooking method:

 Preheat your oven to 200C. Wash, peal and slice sweet potatoes. Put them on a baking tray and sprinkle with thyme and a little bit of olive oil. Bake for 15minutes.  

 Make sure that your filet is around 1 cm thick. If you are using chicken breast flatter it with a meat hammer or rolling pin.

 Prepare 2 plates: on one whip an egg so it’s one consistency; on the second one put breadcrumbs. 

 Cover meat in egg then breadcrumbs and fry on a frying pan on a low heat for 5 minutes on each side. 

 Boil water and pour over frozen peas; leave for few minutes. Cooking peas in unnecessary. Peas its such a small vegetable that leaving it in a boiled water for 2 minutes defrosts it and that way it will keep all of the goodness.  

 For a grownup version just season the egg with slot and pepper before dipping meat in it. 

Enjoy it !!!

CHATTERBOX! 💜❤️💚💜❤️💚

MY BABY EXPERIENCE

Chloe as you all know from my blog is a very happy baby/toddler (still can’t bring myself to call ther a toddler) . She always was quite vocal, making lots of different sounds and in recent months starting to say some words.

 I don’t know what happens but on Friday she got up and became a chatterbox !! She doesn’t stay quiet! She keeps talking in her baby language all the time. 

 I find it fascinating how overnight child can change so much ! How something in they brain “clicks” and they just start doing something ! Seeing her talk so much, and telling me long sentences (in her baby language- just to clarify 😂) got me really emotional ! I am such a proud mum! 

ANOTHER DAY,ANOTHER MEAL … CAULIFLOWER AND SWEET POTATO CURRY

DINNER RECIPE


ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

CAULIFLOWER AND SWEET POTATO CURRY:

We love curry in my house and luckily for us so does Chloe. Now that she is one year old I can make a kids version of the curry that we eat, which makes the cooking so much easier.

Hope that your baby will like it as well.


Ingredients:

– 100g chicken

– 150g cauliflower

– 1/2 onion

– 200ml tomatoes

– 200ml of coconut milk

– 2tsp of mild curry powder

– 2 sweet potatoes

– 1 tbsp of basil

– 1 tsp ginger (cut in to very small cubes)

Cooking method :

Peal and slice sweet potato; steam until soft*

Fry your onion on a little bit of olive oil for 3 minutes. Add chicken and curry powder, fry for 5 minutes. Add tomatoes and coconut milk and simmer for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile wash your cauliflower and blend it in the food processor (if your baby/child is older you can divide it in to small florets instead).

Add cauliflower in to the curry and simmer for another 10minutes. At the end add basil.

Cut sweet potatoes in small cubes and combine with the curry.

Your dinner is ready to serve!

* I like to cook potatoes separately by steaming to preserve more nutritions and because it’s so much easier to cut them in small cubes once they are cooked.

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …RICE AND APPLE BAKE

DESERT RECEPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL…

RICE AND APPLE BAKE

My mum used to make it for us all the time. This can be serve as a snack, supper or a desert.

You can make a very healthy version of it or just healthy one. What is important is make lots of it as the whole family will want to eat it.

Ingredients :

– 1kg of sweet apples

– 250g of brown and wild rice mix (this can be replaced by white rice)

– 1 vanilla flavour actimel

– 400ml of milk (this can be replaced by water)

– 1tsp cinnamon

Cooking method :

Heat up your oven to 200C.

Cook rice in milk following cooking instruction on the packet.


Peal and grate all apples.

Prepare round, 30cm cake tin by coating it in a very thin layer of butter. Put half of your rice in to the cake tin, then add your apples and cover it with the remaining rice. Pour over actimel.


Bake for 20 minutes.

Dish is ready to serve straight away, hope that your kids will enjoy it as much as me and Chloe did.


Remember to be careful with the way you store cooked rice. This dish can be stored for up to 2 days in an airtight container or frozen within an hour, for up to 3 months.

 

CHLOE IS 1 YEAR OLD !!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART !!! ❤️ 

MY BABY EXPERIENCE

 
 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! 

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL … MINCEMEAT WITH MUSHROOMS AND COUSCOUS

DINNER RECIPE

 

ANOTHER DAY,  ANOTHER MEAL …

MINCEMEAT WITH MUSHROOMS AND COUSCOUS .

Ingrediants :

– 200g of turkey mincemeat

– 1 small carrot

– 125 g of mushrooms

– 1 garlic cove

– 1 onion

– 200lm of baby chicken stock

– 1 tsp of reduced salt soy sauce

– 2 tsp of ketchup

Cooking metod:  

Fry the onion and garlic. When your onion is gold add mincemeat and fry until is cooked (5-10 minutes). Add mushrooms to your mincemeat and fry for few more minutes then add chicken stock. Simmer until the liquid reduces. Add soy sauce and ketchup.

Make your couscous according to the instructions. Mix all together and it’s ready to serve


Top: if you don’t have the time to cut everything it to tiny cubes then use food processor to do it for you, it’s much quicker that way.

GROWNUPS  VERSION

Ingrediants :

– 300g of turkey mincemeat

– 250g of mushrooms

– 250ml of mushroom or chicken stock

– 1 onion

– 1 garlic

– 1 tbsp of reduced salt soy sauce

– 4 pancakes

Cooking metod :

Cooking method is exactly this same as your baby’s version, with the exception of adding carrot or couscous.

Once you prepared your mincemeat mixture, make your pancakes.  

When you pancakes are ready, divide your mincemeat in to 4, place one portion on to the pancake and roll it.
  Put pancake in to the egg, thencover it in the breadcrumbs and fry on the pan with olive oil. Or you can just eat it with couscous as your baby 😁