On A Date With A Parsnip!

Breakfast - Rusk and Banana

Lunch - Apple purée and porridge

Supper - Butternut squash followed by Parsnip with Date purée

Edward was a bit unsettled this evening I think it was just because he got frustrated and annoyed. He managed to crawl all the way from the far side of the lounge, across the lounge out into the hallway (quick play with his Davros walker on the way past) and then into the kitchen to see me cooking, having made it all that way though we had to lift him up and take him back to the lounge as he kept playing with the bin!

Then once in the lounge he wanted to go and fiddle with Luke's computer and Luke's chair (he has a particualr liking for sticking his little fingers right into all the moving parts of the chairs wheels, where they could be crushed) but Luke put up the baracade (namley a chair on it's side) to stop him, and so he got angry about that. In the end though we just fed him more food and that cheered him up!

I have an awful lot of the date and parsnip puree so expect to see Edward eating alot of it over the coming weeks, he really seemed to like it, I think because it is so sweet, so hopefully that will continue as I don't want to throw it away. I did have a piece of duck for him but he fell asleep before we got to main course.

Wheatabix Cement

Breakfast - Half a banana and a Wheatabix BLW, followed by spoon-fed yoghurt

Lunch - Salmon and tomato pasta with nectarine and baby rice for pudding

Supper - None as baby bear was TOO sleepy

Pretty good day all round Edward had lots of fun with the Wheatabix at breakfast especially, needless to say he had to go in the bath afterwards. The salmon pasta I made and froze ages ago but have put off feeding it to him as I was worried he'd turn his nose up at it and didn't want it going to waste, but much to my amazement he actually ate it all without too much fuss, dare I say he even seemed to like it :o)

Tanorexic Baby

Breakfast - Apple BLW

Lunch - Apple and Crackerbread with Marmite BLW

Supper - Spaghetti Bolognaise BLW

Edward has done really well at feeding himself today, all three meals have been baby-led and he hasn't asked for much in the way of milk in addition, he's just had three bottles.

There is a major downside however to Edward's fantastical self feeding skills, it's the mess, and yes I know I always moan about that but it seems to have taken a sinister new turn, I am quite worried he is developing tanorexia. Both at lunch and supper he managed to smear so much food over himself that he ended up looking like David Dickinson, and by that I mean fake-tan orange!! We also are rapidly staring to think we may need to buy a food strainer for the bath as it seems to have more food going in it than the kitchen sink....ah well it certainly makes for VERY entertaining family viewing.


I think the best thing that happened all day had to be breakfast time, Edward offered me his breakfast, I was sat eating with him and helping him when he managed to throw everything off the tray, and as I leant forward he offered me his apple. I realised what he was trying to do and so opened my mouth so that he could put it in and I took a few bites, he was SO delighted it was so sweet. He then put it back in his mouth but it wasn't long before he offered me some more, obviously concerned I may still be hungry. It may sound like such a little thing but Edward is still so young we don't get a huge amount of feedback from him, he doesn't really play 'with' us and he rarely snuggles when you cuddle him, so to have him offer me something with such a sense of care and enjoyment was really touching and not something I think I will ever forget.

Supper was also really fun as all three of us sat at the table together and all ate the same thing, it's the first time we've done that I think since very near the start of Edward's weaning when he had roast with us and Karolina.

You have to guess whether I'm holding my knees or Edwards :o)

8 Months Old Today!

Breakfast - Blueberry and apple cereal

Lunch - A chip and tiny piece of doughnut...some of which got very surreptitiously thrown 'overboard'

Snack - Leaves followed by Mr Chris' watch and shoes

Supper - Muesli

We've had a really excellent day out, Edward had some new tasty things to celebrate his 8 months and got to flirt with a pretty waitress and my friend Claire who we randomly bumped into in Reading. He did really well all day and only got grumpy when we curbed his leaf and shoe eating, I was a very proud mummy.

As I have said on my blog this is the first time I've gone on a day trip out of London to see a friend with Edward, it has given me a lot of confidence and hope that I will now be less nervous about venturing afar to see my country-wide chums and introduce them to my beautiful son....you never know one day it may even stop feeling weird calling him my son!

Again an unofficial weigh-in but I feel as it is his 8 month birthday I should make an effort...my porky boy now comes in at whopping 8.9 kg or 19.6lbs ...no wonder it's getting tough to lift him!

Video Diary

Breakfast - Nectarine and rice

Lunch - Rusk and a very unpopular bit of lamb and vegetables out of a jar

Supper - Potato, carrot and chicken (largely worn as a facepack) followed by yoghurt

Edward has been VERY unenthusiastic about food today I'm not really sure why, I think I may need to cut his milk back as I upped it while he was teething. We will see how things go tomorrow though it could all be a bit of a pickle as we are going to see Mr Chris in Reading.

I have finally done some videos which I have been meaning to do for a while. I think all the BLW the last few days has rather gone to Edward's head and he has now decided he's too grown up to be fed. The only way to get any dinner down him was to load the spoon up and then let him put it in his mouth....though I feel the coating of food that everything got shows we still have some way to go with this.



Edward has been rolling and wriggling round the room for some time now, however this 'crawling practice' where he gets himself onto all fours has only been happening for about a week, I think it is a major indicator that true crawling is just around the corner and he looks ever so cute when he does it, though amusingly it also often looks like he is trying to hump things like a randy dog!

New Look

Breakfast - half a banana BLW and a yoghurt

Lunch - Mediterranean vegetables with baby rice (from a packet) fresh carrot puree, greek yoghurt with jam, two cracker bread and a rusk!!

Supper - Apple puree and porridge followed by a yoghurt

Good day today, Edward had lots of fun pretending to be Davros in his walker commanding Daleks and naughty parents about the room!

As you may have already noticed, after some rather hairy moments when all useful editing buttons disappeared, I have managed to give Edward's blog a new 'foody' look and I'm feeling rather proud of myself for doing so.... comments on a postcard please :o)

Noodle flinging and Laptops

Breakfast - Half a banana BLW

Lunch - Didn't want any had a VERY long afternoon nap instead!

Supper - Carrot, Chicken and Mash 1 cube of each followed by a yoghurt and finally some Marmite toast BLW

Late Second Supper with Mummy and Daddy - Stiry Fry of sugar snap peas, capsicum, pork and noodles.


Edward has had a good day today he's been trying REALLY hard to crawl and managed to pull himself along the length of the sofa....all in the quest to reach the laptop...BEASTIE!!

Edward's late second supper was a naughty lazy packet sauce stir-fry so I sucked all of that off and he had it quite plain. He really enjoyed the pork and sucked on that for ages, he also had quite alot of fun with the noodles, I'm not convinced he ate any of them, but he did manage to fling them across the table and the very hungry caterpillar got a mouthful!

Baby Led Weaning FTW!!

Edward cheering his own mischievous mess making!!
(I particularly like the small piece of mushroom stuck on his head hehe!)

Breakfast - Banana and Pear BLW

Lunch - Parsnip, Carrot, Banana, Mushroom and Strawberry....and a cracker as he kept eyeing up mine! BLW

Supper- Muesli and Apple puree

We went rather hard-core BLW today, especially at lunch I really wanted to offer Edward a range of things and let him pick what he thought looked or smelt most tasty. He spread it everywhere and had lots of fun, the strawberry and the mushroom were the most successful things on the table, the strawberry initially got shoved in whole though sadly I didn't get a piccie of it.

Edward did did very well at manipulating the food, especially as a lot of it was slippery. It is always hard to judge how much he ate, however at breakfast looking at the pile of mush left behind I would say he ate the most part of a pear and half a banana.

In the evening though we went back to the safety of puree it's not as amusing to watch, but it is a lot easier to clean up after!

Roast Dinner!!

Breakfast - Large pot of apple porridge

Lunch - Yoghurt then a bit later sugar snap peas and carrots BLW style

Supper - ROAST DINNER!! Namely beef, pasnips, carrot, potato and most favourite of all yorkshire puddings.

Now Edward has his amazing set of two teeth, each a stunning millimetre or so long, I have decided to try again with the baby led weaning as you may have noticed from the odd BLW that has been cropping up over the last few days.

I had kind of given up with BLW as he didn't really seem to ever manage to eat anything, but having given it a rest for a while and trying again now he's a bit older it seems to be more successful. His motor skills are a little better, and he seems to be better at chewing too, the sugar snap peas and the carrots he had for lunch certainly had proper teeth marks in them and looked quite bedraggled and well 'eaten' by the time he threw them on the floor. The roast dinner also looked quite mashed by the time he'd finished, though I must admit it was hard to tell how much went down and how much just got smeared....either way he went to bed a happy little monkey :o)

BIG BREAKFAST!

Breakfast - Apple and porridge large bowl, followed by a large bowl of porridge, followed by a tablespoon of greek yoghurt with apricot jam (after plain greek yoghurt was spat out!)

Lunch - Fruit puree and porridge

Supper - Broccoli and courgette cheese laced with apple puree, yoghurt for pudding

Edward had a lazy day round the house today, he spent most of the morning with his nappy off rolling round a mat cunningly waterproofed with a bin-bag, but then I got bored of having to keep him on the mat and he did a poo so he went back in a nappy.

I mean to take Edward swimming today but as his nappy rash was still bad, and the skin on his head and knees very dry and eczema-ish I decided against it and so just took the library books back on my own leaving him in his Daddy's capable hands for the afternoon :o)

Porkyworkies!

Breakfast - none

Lunch - Slice of pork, a small piece of apple and a sugar snap pea BLW style

Supper - Pork in home-made apple sauce with carrot

Again I went easy with the food today as Edward is still not 100% himself. I took his nappy off last thing at night to find he'd done a poo, I don't think it had been there long but was so nasty it had made his inner thigh really sore, to the point the skin looked ready to blister, poor boy! I had only been thinking yesterday how we'd got through his first tooth without the dodgy poos often associated with teething, obviously 'thought' too soon.

Edward's lunch was a very laid back messy affair we just handed him the bits of food where he was on his mat and let him play with them. The pork mostly just got shredded and spread about, but the sugar snap pea got seriously munched!

Edward went to the song and dance session at the library today, it was a special one today (quite by chance) and there was a flute player and a ballerina from The National Ballet leading the session. His little eyes were so wide watching all the other children, I think he quite enjoyed it especially the clapping :o)

We got some books out and he is now officially taking part in a reading challenge, he has a special card and a chart that he gets stickers on and everything!! He just has to read, or be read, six books by the end of the summer then we get entered into a prize draw for cinema tickets which at £10 a shot in central London is actually quite a good prize. We got a Baby Einstein book, a feely book called 'That's not my rabbit' recommended by Grandmummy, and finally the essential classic 'The Hungry Caterpillar'.

Edward is getting VERY close to crawling, I was watching him earlier and he keeps managing to get up on all fours then as he flops down he wiggles backwards. I think there is a good chance he will be crawling by the end of the month.

All in all he's had a good day, he's been really chirpy and giggly which has been just lovely, he also has a new favourite toy...namely the metal carpet edger between the hall and lounge, he likes scrunching his fingers across it and banging it as it makes a rather superb noise!

Puree Day

Breakfast - Banana and Peach Breakfast

Lunch - Vegetable and Lentil Bake and a yoghurt

Supper - Butternut squash and Potato Mash with Salmon

Snack - Crackerbread with Marmite

I did lots and lots of puréeing today so the freezer is nicely stocked up now. Sadly Luke put my snazzy new flexible ice-cube tray in the dishwasher and it kind of melted and so now looks like some sort of piece of modern art. I shoved the potato mash in it anyway and I will have to see how well the cubes freeze and if it's still possible to get them out.

I did mostly main course type things today, and a few pots of apple, so I think I may need to buy some fruit and make some more as Edward tends to have fruit most mornings with his breakfast. It also makes a good bribe for encouraging him to eat other things.

Edward is not right in himself he's been utterly grumpy wingey and horrid all day, he's been driving me mad!! I just hope he is better tomorrow or I may have to call Mr. Stork and tell him to take him away!!

Nectarines and Butterflies

Breakfast - Nectarine puree and Porridge

Lunch - Mince and mash, yoghurt, a cracker and some crackerbread with apricot jam

Supper - Apple puree and Porridge

We had a lovely day today as we went to the butterfly house exhibition at the Natural History museum with Shaune and Xander, we then went for cake though I was a mean mummy and didn't give Edward any! Luke fed Edward his supper as I was fast asleep after our exciting trip out!


Edward also did his best to eat some of his rolly-balls which I had put in a dish for him to stop them getting away, though he still managed to knock them out the dish and they went rolling off across the floor much to his intense consternation.

August And Everything After

Yes my little marmosets it is indeed August already! I'm afraid I've lost track a little of what I've fed Edward the last few days as we've been away at Fleur's wedding. If truth be told I often actually struggle to remember what I fed him for breakfast and lunch by the time I sit down to do his blog each night so remembering four days worth of nosh is beyond me.

When I went over Uncle Alex picked us up from the train station and we headed to TESCO's to buy some food for Edward as it was too heavy to take with me. I got a variety of things including some Blueberry and Apple baby cereal, some Apple and banana puree pots and some Carrot and apple puree pots, I also got some Fruity Chicken and vegetables with rice he ate all of these at some point over the weekend. I did get some sort of cheesy vegetables thing which he didn't ever have any of as I didn't think it would be very popular and he was finding it hard to eat anyway as there was so much going on with the new environment and lots of people milling around.

Edward also had some crackers, twiglets, cheesecake and a wine-cork this weekend all of which he loved, though he did leave a rather tell-tale trail of crackers from the car to the caravan. It amused Gruffy, who has recently been on a Ray Mears tracking course, to be able to track the path of a monkey-baby, he was able to accurately surmise one had passed by this way recently!

Edward also rather worryingly nearly ate a wasp who rather wickedly did it's best to steal Edward's dinner from off his lips. It was quite a scary moment as Luke is very allergic to wasp stings and I don't yet know if Edward is too, so to have this horrid little wasp crawling on his face was quite terrifying for me, though I did quite well at keeping calming and shooing it away.

Edward has remained marginally unwell all weekend, his nose is still snotty which is causing him a few problems when he's sleeping as he can't breathe properly, I just hope he manages to shake it off and get back to normal soon.

Poor Snotty Edward Bear :o(

Why Ello Monsier Mange Tout!

Poor little Edward-Tedward is indeed as I suspected not a well bunny. After being unsettled and grumpy all evening yesterday he actually started screaming and crying just as Luke and I were about to go to bed. We cuddled him and gave him capol and put saline drops in his nose, eventually he fell asleep in Luke's arms, but we kept him in the bed with us all night as he kept waking and it was easier to keep an eye on him and keep him comforted in with us. By morning he'd cheered up significantly and seemed alot less snotty so I took him out with me as I had a few things to get done around town today.

Breakfast - Banana and porridge

Lunch - Apple puree and yoghurt

Snack - Rusk

Supper - He tried some potato mash which he pretty much refused so I gave him some more banana and porridge. For the first time he tried mange tout with Philidelphia and some with hummus, he didn't really eat the mange tout but he enjoyed sucking off the Philly and hummus.

Sadly this evening he's obviously feeling rather rubbish again, he's grumpy, has been crying a little bit , is quite snotty and generally not himself. I know it's just a cold and nothing major but it's so upsetting to see him crying real little tears :o(

Pear Porridge and RED meat!

Breakfast - Pear and Ready-Break. I thought he might revolt if I offered him the Peach and Banana baby cereal again and so stole a pear nuked it in the microwave and mashed it with a potato masher, it was kind of lumpy but worked ok, I added the Ready-Break in an attempt to try and get Edward's poo's to be more solid as I think it's important that his bowel starts to get the hang of passing more than just liquids.

Lunch - The last few teaspoons of the Pear and Ready-Break and an apricot yoghurt.

Supper - Luke and I had the pasta sauce with mince and pasta tonight. There wasn't enough pasta spare to include it in Edward's dish so he just got the mince and sauce pureed, which was quite exciting as it was his first taste of beef. He wasn't terribly impressed and whilst smiling smeared it all over the pair of us! For pudding I gave him about half a banana pureed and mixed with some baby rice.

Picnic!!

Mmmm Tasty Playmat!!

Breakfast - Peach and Banana baby cereal (guess who forgot to pack much of a variety)

Lunch - Peach and Banana baby cereal. I did offer raspberry's but I think they were too sour for him as he spat them out. Edward also had some pita bread and some chicken and some normal bread out on the lawn at the family picnic.





Supper - You guessed it Peach and Banana baby cereal .... in my defense I did actually take some of the pasta sauce and the jar from John Lewis but he was so distracted and over excited by all the people milling around I knew it was pointless to even try so stuck to things I knew he would eat.

Other things Edward sampled that I don't strictly think come under weaning include; his playmat, grass, flowers, a dragon and a tennis ball...well until we decided said tennis ball had probably already been sampled by Frank the dog and so probably wasn't ideal!!

Concentrate...Concentrate!!

Eating Pitta Bread is a serious business!

Exciting New Things For Edward

Breakfast - Baby rice and Pear puree

Lunch - A very naughty lazy rusk and a yoghurt

Supper - Butternut squash, Baby rice and Pear puree and most excitingly some homemade pasta sauce which contained tomatoes (fresh, tinned and puree), courgettes, mushrooms, carrot, broccoli, red onion, garlic, basic, oregano and ricotta, it went down surprisingly well I'm planning over the next few days to give him this with some pasta and with some mince to introduce different meat, we eat pasta bake quite regularly with a mix of veg like this and so it's very encouraging that he liked it.

There were also lots of solid poos today which was very exciting as they are SO much easier to clean up!! Hurrah!!

I have bought Edward some custard pots made by Heinz and some Baby Porridge just to add some more variety with things that are convenient for when we are out and about. I really think I need to get some on those flexible ice-cube trays for freezing veg as it's not practical to have them all in pots. It would also enable me to give him more of a mix.

Piggy Wiggy Day...well that's what happens once you are over 7 months old :o)

Check out that monkey-baby concentration hehe!

Breakfast - Apricot and banana cereal followed by a Yoghurt

Lunch - Chicken pie and rice pudding

Supper - Half a banana

Edward has done very well today and eaten lots of food. He's also been pretty good about opening his mouth so that I could feed him and swallowing his food without spitting too much of it out again in the process.

I felt it was high time the monkey-baby finally had fresh banana, I have been wossing out up to now as someone warned me it leaves black stains if you don't clean it out quickly, however my worries were unfounded as all of it went down the hatch and in an impressively lumpy state, to start with I actually gave him the banana whole to play with, and then when he got bored I diced it up really finely and tried to mush it though it's was perfectly ripe and so still a little too firm to mash easily.

He gagged a little a few times but my reaction to this has always been to just tell him calmly that it is all ok and it is just lumps in a nice calm voice, it seems to do the trick, and is a much better way of dealing with it than screaming and panicking as that would only panic him and make him frightened of lumps.

We have found Edward a fantastic website for him to play on as he loves hitting the keyboard to the point he makes a dive for it whenever he gets remotely close to one! Though I have reservations about him playing on the computer as I don't want him to end up like his parents I can see that in moderation they are fun and goodness knows I spend enough hours on mine so I can't criticize, for those who are into bright colours and loud simple noises head here!

Carnivore!!

Sorry I've been a bit lax with this recently. Over the last few days Edward has done quite well with his weaning and tried some new things including pear and carrot. He liked the pear because it was sweet the first time he had some he had it just on it's own, the second time he had it he had it mixed with some baby rice. The carrot he was not that fussed about though I think he bit his finger half way through eating it as he suddenly started screaming and so we had to abandon things.

On Friday I gave Edward a little piece of chicken to nibble on and play with, he didn't really eat any but he had fun sucking it and enjoying the taste and new texture. For lunch today Edward had chicken again this time I pureed it with a bit of his milk and fed it to him with the remaining carrot. He wasn't overly keen but he did eat quite a bit. I then gave him yoghurt for pudding which went down very quickly as always!

This afternoon Edward sneakily stole and ate a coupon haha!! Seeing he was in a feeding mood I gave him a rusk to play with while I did the washing. He didn't eat much but had lots of fun smearing it everywhere :o)

For supper I think I'm going to give Edward some butternut squash as I think we still have a little left in the freezer, or I may try and give him some of the potato and chicken pie thing I'm planning to make for Luke and I.

I did try to cook swede but it all went terribly wrong, I don't think I cooked it long enough and so I ended up throwing it away as I was pretty tired and not really in the mood to figure the stupid thing out!