Best little traveller!

G and I did had a huge road trip, 3 hours to visit family then 4 hours back home. I timed it she she was ready for a sleep for the bit of the trip, then lots of snacks and toys. Three hours is about her patience level for being in the car seat, so the last hour of the trip was high maintenance! Lots of singing and throwing every toy available at her lol. We know have a DVD player to try when her patience runs out next road trip :-). It's good that she is a great road trip companion as Hubby and I love road trips. She also loves the Ergo we bought, she goes to sleep on the back pack while we take walks etc. Well spent money!

Because G is such a little mover know, we need to finally buy a portacot. Especially as do a lot of traveling. I want this one, but we will see...

So much fun!

After G had so much fun in the ball pit at Gymbaroo I decided to buy some balls and clam shells for home. Balls were on special at Babies R Us for $9.95 and clam shells from Kmart for $25. Clam shells can also be used for a wading pool and/or sand pit!

so many modes of transport!

As previously posted we have now got two prams!  And now we also have a baby carrier - the Ergobaby Performance Carrier. Little G has never slept in the pram, and I tried and tried!  So the other day my Hubby ended up carrying a sleeping baby for 40mins while we were out.  We promptly went to Babies R Us and bought this Ergobaby performance carrier!  It was $200 so way not budgeted for, but my Hubby felt like it was now an essential purchase lol.  It carries up to 36mth old children, though my Hubby said there was no way he was carrying a four year old in a carrier.  Hehe.  We have yet to use so I will have to update the blog with a review in the near future.

Although we are on a careful budget I also bought two things from Tinyme.  In preparation of G going back to childcare I bought personalised iron on labels for her daycare clothes.  I also bought a personalised wooden puzzle.  She loves wooden puzzles and I thought that would be a cute way for her to start to learn her name and how to spell it!  Altogether with postage it was nearly $60, I find that Tinyme pretty much never has sales or discounts on their main items so I wasn't going to bother waiting for one!

Personalised

I love love personalised stuff!  For only my baby though, I recognise its not that cute on adults - even if Carrie on Sex in the City gave it a good whirl with her Carrie necklace.  G needs a clock in her room, mainly so I can monitor the time it takes to put her down for her sleeps!  I ended up getting this one from Deals Direct with her name written on it.  It goes with the disney pink theme that has slowly evolved as her room! I also bought a personalised shirt from Ebay with her in the Miss Kitty theme.

Because we have recently moved away from family, even though we will still see them every 6-8 weeks I realise that its important that G continues to recognise and be familiar with everybody.  I have been meaning to do up a photo album up for ages that she can look at all the time but hadn't got around to it.  Then I saw that Big W had a huge photo sale on and was selling soft cover photo books for $5, score I did one up online and will pick up in store shortly.

Gymbaroo

I finally got around to putting my bub in a Gymbaroo class.  When she was little little, we decided to go to a music class instead of Gymbaroo - probably for the best really as I think her age now is the perfect time to start Gymbaroo.  I am so glad I started to take her to playgroup classes very early (7 weeks), because to follow her progress and interaction with the world has been amazing!  She just loved the Gymbaroo class which involved exploring different play stations and also other sensory group activities.  We are also expanding our food adventures to proper baby led weaning, trying different biscuits and fruits - she is embracing it all!  Still not proper crawling at 9 months but she can get anywhere she wants by bum shuffling lol.

I bought her this love heart dress from Kmart for $8 and a whole stack of character dresses like this Dora one from Ebay.  Dresses are so easy for us so I am embracing them for the next year, shorts and skirts are out!

cheese sticks :-)

I could not resist buying this Winnie the Pooh overalls, they were from Target and with 20% off were $16. There are heaps of cute clothes coming in store but I am resisting because I know how cheap they are when they have sales!

Turns out my LO loves cheese sticks!  She demolishes them.  She is taking very well to solids (finally), but still does not love savoury stuff.  I am trying to get away from a lot of fruit food and just mixing one fruit with muesli, and sneaking in a couple of teaspoons of savoury ;-).  I am not a super mum at cooking thats for sure, but in a couple of weeks when we are settled in our new home I am going to try harder.

Toys Toys Toys

So it turns out that the toy library where we are living now is not that great.  Thats really disappointing, as G really needed some new toys - especially with the new developmental phase she is in.  My Hubby disagrees because he thinks she has a lot of toys already, but she has only a few actual toys (I posted about them when I bought them from the big toy sale that happened a few months ago), but most of her 'toys' are building blocks and stacking cups - thats why it looks like she has so many toys as they are scattered all over her play mat and need to be picked up every night.  So after extensive research and price checking I went to Kmart and purchased the following.  I think that until Xmas this should get us through :-).

$9.  This is such a classic toy

$9.  This is a shape sorter, plus a drum and a pull toy

G cannot stand at the moment, but this is a classic toy for when kids are learning to walk so they can push it around and stack their blocks in and out. $15

$25.  I like this one because it has heaps of push and spin and pull open stuff.  This one was a bit $$ but I think it will be money well spent.