Large lunch and using his fork!

Yummy, JJ loves Shreddies!

What a poser!! He did this as soon as he saw the camera!

JJ had his new breakfast favourite shreddies again - he just loves em! He also had a little bit of my toast.




He had a long, leisurely and large lunch! I made some cheesy pancakes and he ate them all (6 in total!), along with a banana, some dried apricots and a tomato.

For tea JJ had chicken, mash and veggies and 2 kiwis for pudding. He also used his fork on his own properly which we caught on video. He seems to find the fork much easier than a spoon.

Other News:
JJ stood up and stayed up for a few seconds unsupported today which he hasn't done spontaneously before! He can also do the action to the song 'Wind the Bobbin up' Which is just the cutest thing!
He has also started to sleep for longer at nap times in the past week - an hour or so !!! Unheard of till now but I hoped I haven't jinxed it!

Blueberry and banana pancakes - YUM!

JJ had shredded wheat and dried fig for breakfast.

For lunch he had some cucumber, nectarine and bits and bobs as we went out for lunch and had to take a packed lunch for JJ. He was pretty well behaved in the restaurant and didn't make too much mess!

For his tea I made some blueberry and banana pancakes which he enjoyed. He also had some cheese and banana (which he seemed to enjoy today more than before as I had cut it into batons).

JJ is still stuffing lots in his mouth at first (I think because he likes the taste) and then crying as he has a mouth full of food and doesn't know what to do with it. He has done this a few times recently and I worry he will choke as he is crying. Today when he started doing this I ate some pancake and made really exaggerated chewing movements and kept doing this. Eventually he started to copy me and he managed to chew and swallow it all and after that was eating really well. It goes to show how much they learn from eating with us.

Pancakes and turkey sausages

Same stuff for breakfast again with the addition of dried figs - JJ liked these a lot but sneezed it out after sucking on it for ages!



I got adventurous with panckaes for lunch (got the idea from this cool blog www.myblwexperiences.blogspot.com) and did spinach and ricotta pancakes and berry and creme fraiche pancakes - JJ gobbled them up so quickly it was great to watch! He really enjoyed them but made much less mess than usual - guess he didn't play with it as much as he was enjoying eating it! I enjoyed them too!





For tea I made some turkey and apple mini sausages (got the idea from Aitch's blog) and he had them with avocado and necarine. He seemed to enjoy them but tea was a bit late and he was tired so prefered to rub them in his eyes.





I will try to set up a recipes section and post my versions of the recipes there.

Pancakes and pastries

Exciting day today on the food front...

Breakfast was same old shredded wheat and some banana (not much)

For lunch I made some mini pancakes. I added some apple puree to the mix and to half of it I also added some grated cheese. The apple ones didn't taste of apple at all but the cheesey ones were nice. JJ gobbled them up! He also had some melon.

For tea I made some puff pastry tarts using some of the veg sauce from yesterday, cheese and tomato and apple and cinnamon. He couldn't get them in quick enough but at one point he had so much in his mouth he didn't know what to do with it and just cried! He always stuffs more and more in when he likes something - I guess he'll learn. He also had some more melon as he loves it!

He was in such a mess after tea (partly due to enthusiastic munching and partly because he pulled off his bib and wrestled me off when I tried to put it back on!) that I had had to shower him off! He did quite like that though.