We recently went to Center Parcs with family and Leigh’s 3 year old niece came down with the chicken pox. We decided to still join them as we read up and discovered that it is very rare for a baby under 12 months to catch it as they are protected by their mother’s immunity. We only overlapped with them for a couple of hours in the end, but then two weeks later we found ourselves with a chicken pox baby!

Luckily she has had it very mildly and it coincided with lovely weather, so the two of us have been sitting in the garden lots talking about how much she will love nursery. Well, me trying to reassure myself really!

She has also had a bad cold and cough at the same time and then we discover her first tooth also broke through! It was exciting for us but painful for her! Then to top it all off I discovered you can’t trust buying fish fillets, no matter how premium, as she ended up trying to eat a bone. Thankfully she didn’t manage to and there were no ill effects, but it had me worried and feeling very guilty. It certainly took away my enthusiasm and almost pride in home cooking. Before Imogen, everything came from a jar, but now I am to cook from scratch a bit more and it’s making me more adventurous as well!