Christmas eve

Imogen with Santa

Caught in the act! opening christmas toys under the tree the week before christmas

My happy baby girl

Time really does fly by when you are looking after a little one. It's Imogens first Christmas tomorrow and I am so excited, I cannot believe it is here already! Tomorrow is not just Christmas, Imogen will be six months old tomorrow, so there will be a few changes. She will be moved to her own room on boxing day (which has airconditioning as of yesterday!), her car seat will be turned around, solids will be introduced on a daily basis, the midday breastfeed will be replaced with a formula feed. The beginning of our weaning process.
Those are the external changes, Imogen herself has been changing a bit this week, with the development of her backwards shuffle that she does on her tummy now, so that she can get to places. I have seen her turn around so that an object is behind her so she can reverse up on it. She is getting chattier every day. I have heard /w/, /m/, /b/, and /p/. Accidental 'words' have included 'mum', 'wah' and 'boob'. I know that they do not count as words yet as they have no meaning to her yet, but its pretty cute when she cries she sometimes says "mum!" between sobs. The beginning of CVCV babbling I suppose.

She had her shots on Monday and was weighed and measured. She is in the 95th percentille for height and weight and the 97th for head size. AND I'm a vegetarian (pesco vegetarian). Some people have been surprized that a veggie has been able to grow such a big bubba!

Right now Imogen is in the kitchen with her daddy, helping with the Christmas menu which is as follows:

Christmas Menu

Snacky foods

-        Cheese

-        Olives

-        Biscuits

-        Pear/quince paste

-        Olive bread (SIL)

Meats /mains

-        Chicken

-        Pork

-        Prawns

-        Vegie Shepard’s pie (MIL)

Salads and sides

-        Pumpkin salad (Mum)

-        Onion tart (SIL)

-        Brown rice salad (SIL)

-        Twice cooked potatos

-        Roast vegies

-        Prawn dips (a thousand island, wasabi)

Desserts

-        Hot chocolate mousse

-        Pudding (mum)

-        Icecream

  I will let you know how Imogens first Christmas goes!