Fun video!

Snacks in the park


Yeay! Salmon for tea

JJ has been eating fairly well over the past couple of weeks. Fish is a big favourite at the moment with salmon being top of the list! He has also taken a liking to Organix gingerbread men (although we try to keep his sweet snacks to a minimum but he knows where they are kept and he knows what he wants!).





I have added a very cute video of JJ eating his tea. It shows quite well where he is up to with his fork too. He isn't normally so excitable at meal times but it was salmon for tea which I think sent him into a frenzy! In fact he ate his fillet of slamon in about 30 seconds and then kept shouting more and pointing at this daddy's so ended up having another half!





JJ has been a bit more challenging behaviour wise recently. He has become very clingy to me at home which is driving everybody mad. He is fine if I am not there but the second he sees me he starts whinging and wanting to be picked up. I have read this is a common stage and that it passes but I really hope it passes soon. To add to this we are doing some major work to the house - re-arranging the whole ground floor and this just adds to the chaos! Because the kitchen will be out of action for a while, me and JJ are heading to my Mum's for a few days while his daddy works on it.

Mixed bag

On Saturday we had the usual breakfast of shreddies but he was not very interested.
Lunch was ...... can't remember!
For tea we had Fish and Potato pie which went down quite well.

Sunday we had beans, poached egg and toast for lunch which he really enjoyed! He always loves eggs though.
For tea we had chilli which he only ate half of. He is enjoying using his fork now but it is slowing him down a bit and distracting him from eating as he doesn't really have the hang og it yet

Monday lunch was a quesadilla for JJ with cheese, chicken and peas - he ate the while thing but it took him a while as he was very chilled and relaxed!
For tea we had pasta but again he wasn't overly enthusiastic.

sweetcorn and fish and chips

JJ had Oatibix and cornfalkes with some plum for breakfast again today which went down quite well.

Lunch was another success. JJ had lots of sweetcorn for lunch - he has never really been that fused on it before but he ate bucket loads of it today! He also had cheesy wholemean pitta and some friut.
For tea JJ had fish and chips - baked cod which he quite liked and some chunky home made oven chips, along with broccoli and yogurt and banana for pud. He didn't eat as much as he did for lunch and he is still obsessed with dropping food over the edge of his high chair and smililng when it makes a splat sound. He also like to bite into the end of the chip and then shake the bit that was hanging off until it fell. He would then pick it up and eat it - every time!

Other news - JJ is getting about all over the place and is standing up on everything possible - radiators, sofas, toys and trying to climb the stairs - he is having so much funn. He also like to roll a ball and crawl after it then roll it again etc! He seems more settled and is sleeping a little better.

Fish and potato pie

JJ tried ready break for breakfast this morning. I spoke to the HV yesterday and she said that JJ's shredded wheat may not be enough and that the fruit he eats too doesn't count as it must be cereal. When I asked why she said it was because of the iron and vitamins added to things like wheatabix...what did the world do pre fortified cereals I ask! She also said that babies his age usually eat 1 1/2 wheatabix for breakfast - I don't think JJ usually eats that much. So I thought I would try some ready break for JJ to try like he eats yogurt. Well he hated it - and I can't blame him really. He was reaching on his tray like he wanted his usual so that's what he had (and bitesize Oatibix does have the added goodies!!).

He had his usual amount - I decided to stop worrying as I just don't think he is that hungry at breakfast - he doesn't have that much milk from me either. Gonna chill out and remind myself how well he is doing and he will eat what he needs as he has always done.

For lunch he had some potato and fish pie which we had last night and he loved it - he ate lots! He also had some nectarine but after a bowl full of pie he had no room left!

For tea he had some cheesy pasta again with some veggies. I bought some of the steamfresh packs for quick fixes and they were great - ready really quickly. Probably not as good as fresh but frozen does come pretty close nowadays (although not organic but never mind!). He enjoyed it but didn't really eat that much but he did enjoy his yogurt.

New foods galore!

No it's not bogies - it's avocado!


JJ the vampire


JJ's tea




Tommy two spoons!



Same old same old for breakie - shredded wheat and oatibix.



Lunch was avocado (he has never had this before but seemed to quite like it), philly on toast and some blackberries and blueberries. He seemed to like the blackberries but seemed to enjoy the feel of them and dropping on the floor better! The blueberries were a little bit sour but he had a couple - he found them easier to chew if I squished them a bit first.

I was very excited about tea - fish patties - yum. I whizzed a slice of bread into breadcrumbs, them whizzed some parsley and some cod, mixed it all together with an egg white and made little patties. I fried them till they were golden each side and then put them in the oven for 10 mins. I could have eaten all of them but only had my one to check they were edible.


JJ started well and kept stuffing it in - but once again with a hugely full mouth he just cried. I think he doesn't like having so much in his mouth. Anyway after some banana yogurt he kept going back for some more so I think he must have liked them. He also had some more blueberries. He ate the whole pot of yogurt which he has never done before - and there was less on his face etc than usual. I think I will have to ration his food at the start of a meal so he doesn't attempt to put it all in at once and see if this helps.



Meals are taking sooo long - by the time I have prepared, cooked, fed, cleaned it is at least an hour often a lot more. Good job I enjoy cooking and feeding (just not the cleaning bit!)

More of the same!

As is getting quite a pattern, JJ had his usual cereals and fruit for breakfast today - might try something more exciting soon!

His dad sorted lunch and he had pittas and smoked mackerel and cream cheese again from yesterday (this was lovely and also good on breadsticks). I was glad he liked the fish as it is great for him - the only downside is that his hands stink of it all day and his favourite hobby ATM is to shove them up mummy's nose!

At tea time JJ had some tomato pasta that I had frozen from a previous meal. He didn't get on too well with this though as freezing the pasta seemed to make it a bit tougher and chewy - might not bother any more. He had a full breadstick and only dropped the last tiny bit, and some nectarine.

Other news:
JJ spent aaaages in B&Q whilst we chose garden furniture and was so good! I had more tantrums than he did as it was boring!
He is getting such a grown up boy recently. In the past few days he has started to pull his legs up to try and crawl, bounce up and down on his bottom whilst he is playing and when he sees us, and he will happily sit and play with his toys on his own for quite a while before he gets bored. He has had the same toys for a while and has all of a sudden found different ways to play with them. He is sooooo cute!

Exciting new dishes!!

Yesterday we ate out at lunch and JJ had some food from home (usual packed lunch of breadsticks, cheese, date, fruit) - he was very good and didn't throw too much on the floor. It has been a real battle to get milk into him for a couple of days but he seemed better today.

Today JJ had his usual oatibix and shredded wheat for brekkie. I noticed that he has got really good at picking back up the halves that stay in his palm till he drops them on the tray. He ate much more than he dropped today which was great.

Lunch was very exciting! I made some lovely broccoli and cheese nuggets from a recipe from Aitch's blog (www.babyledweaning.com) and they were sooo yummy I could have eaten a lot. But me and JJ's granny had a couple, JJ had 3 and we froze the rest. I even took a photo! JJ loved them. He was chewing like such a big boy so I took a video which I will try to link.

For tea JJ had some philedelphia whizzed up with some smoked mackrel spread on wholemeal pitta bread - again he loved it.

All in all a very successful food day!