teeth!

This week has been ok food wise but JJ's rapidly growing front teeth and 2 newly emerging top teeth have made him a bit unpredictable. He has been eating but not as much as usual. He has a firm favourite in potato and has eaten his own body weight in blueberries, but has otherwise been a bit picky. I am sure it will settle down once teeth are through. He is persevering with his fork and spoon but it can distract him and hold him up. If it is there he seems determined to use it but hasn't got a reliable scoop or stab action and it's a bit pot luck. Consequently he can eat a lot less if the fork gets too interesting! He is getting better with his yogurt and spoon though but does seem to have gone off yogurt a bit.

He has had jambalaya, lasagne, pasta, crumpets, egg sandwiches, omlette, jacket potatoes, chicken and more this week.

He a=has also adopted a new photo pose designed to show off his new teeth - more of a grimace on occasions and much cuter in real life than on the photos!

Other news (long!!)
JJ seems to be learning something new every day:
He is standing a lot on his own now and getting stronger every day.
He will cuddle his toys, our cat, dog or us if you ask him to.
He loves putting objects in containers, and taking them out, and putting them in etc etc!!
He nods and shakes his head to mean yes or no (if he throws food over his high chair he turns straight to me and shakes his head before I have said a word!)
He likes to kick a ball around whilst walking holding our fingers.
He loves to point and make an accompanying curious noise to direct us where he would like to go!
He demands blueberries using the point and a special 'I want blueberries' noise!
He has learnt to turn the dvd player on and off (despite the fact it is in the living room we rarely use and he has never seen us do it!)
He loves to push himself around on a ride on toy at baby group.

From bad to good!

I thought JJ had a good breakfast today until I took his pelican bib off to find half of it in there! He doesn't normally drop much at breakfast! He did have 2 good BFs before breakfast though!

Lunch was lovely for us but a bit rubbish for JJ unfortunately. We went to a lovely pub and I ordered a nice margherita pizza and roasted root veg to share with JJ but he was not a happy bunny. He didn't like the seat he was in ( a handysit I think - we loved it but he wanted to rest back and couldn't) so he had a bit of pizza sitting on his dad's lap and that was it.

He did however, have a very large tea! He had homemade turkey and apple sausages x 2, lots of mash, broccoli with cheese sauce, a bowl of yogurt and 3 handfuls of blueberries! It definately made up for the rest of the day.

I also took some video of his 2 spoon swap technique for eating yogurt. I had to prop the camera up on some tea towels so its a bit of a dodgy angle. Just after this he discovered that if he went to throw the spoon on the floor he could get me to give it to him quicker - I had to work hard to keep up! When he did throw his spoon on the floor (I paused for breath!) he decided to thank me for picking it up by stroking my hair with his mashy, cheesy, yogurty hands - nice!

(will post soon)