A spooky couple of weeks and then a solid start

"These solids are great!"

Probably best to start with something a wee bit funny - we started Sophie on solids this week and she seems to love them. the plastic aside she has had baby porridge and baby rice - both of which she seems to just get stuck into without even thinking twice. She still wants the milk though and she wasn't into the carrots yet.

"here's my innocent face."

We've had a real rollercoaster couple of weeks actually - Katie hasn't been well again which has been tough on us all (she's better now) - coupled with the fact we had a plasterer and a painter decorator in and it all became a lot more stressful.

The hallway if you remember had polystyrene tiles and adhesive spots that had to be removed.

In the end it kind of worked out like this - just the floor to be done and we have a hallway to be proud of!

But back to the real fun - Sophie has been an absolute star throughout all the upheaval and she's even been (on occasion) only getting up once during the night - which has been great for us all.

We've taken the decision to start weaning Sophie at 5 months and as mentioned at the start of this post she's taking it all in her stride - loving the food in fact. The next stage is to gradually increase proper foods and reduce the breast feeds.

Hilary and Ailsdhair paid us a visit to see how Katie was after her latest adventure - Sophie dressed up as a bumblebee as it was Halloween.

And talking of Halloween, Sophie had her very first parties. Our thoughts on costumes for Dave and Kate's childhood heroes party ranged from Mr T to Wonder Woman but after all the kerfuffle we kept things simple and used the same Cat costume for all the parties.

"If that skeleton touches those Haribo I won't be happy". 

"Got my own!" 

Kate's costume gets stress tested.

We took a wee day trip down to Ayr on Saturday - typically for Scotland the sun was out all morning and by the time we had arrived the weather had taken a turn for the worse. We had a great time regardless.

And then we went a long walk on Sunday to Mugdock reservoir - Sophie slept most of the time but we stopped to appreciate the great sky.

Finally - Katie and Sophie also caught up with Jenny Soep recently - a talented artist that Katie has known since childhood. She did a wee sketch of Sophie that I will post at some point.