fork I'm good!

Tooth number 2, Mummy cooking and eating yogurt!

He still refuses anything from a spoon the majority of the time, he used to once love yogurt but from one of his many sickness episodes he went off them. I thought I'd give him a try with yogurt again, well i got one spoon in and he promptly gagged and heaved. So i gave him the pot and spoon which i don't think he ate any of but he def enjoyed making the mess! (bruise on head is from tiled bathroom floor) And yes he is scowling again, its now his normal facial expression!

He has his second tooth just coming through, felt it this morning and might explain the hunger strike he put him self on, i decided i am crap at the moment with giving hims vegetables etc so i have made him some cheese and broccoli muffins and they are yummy (if he doesn't eat them i will)

And one final note I have lost a 8lbs so far since joining WW but not been for last 2 week, not sure I'm going back now i am getting in the habit of eating better.

A Couple Dilemmas???

What do you think??

Potty training?? I've been and bought a potty yesterday after reading a book my MIL gave me, the book says to introduce the potty at about 9-12months. The reason i am thinking about this, I've seen recently a few of my friend really struggle as they have left it late, my friends little girl wont poo in her potty and is 2.5yrs old. When is best to start?? Should i buy another book? After asking my Mum turns out i was toilet trained by 18months and only had a nappy for bedtime. I am having to bigger expectations?? Is 18months plus more realistic?

Christy has made me think about this when looking at her blog. In 4weeks time it will be Billy's 1st Birthday, well i have a cake dilemma! Just looked up on the Internet first birthday cake ideas, the choices are Carrot Cake, Apple Swirl Cake or just my old time fav Nigella's Choco Fudge Cake (the one I've made loads of times and for everyones birthday) or a plain sponge? The point am getting to is that should it be healthy or sod it, feed him sugary junk food that one day??

How much can one boy get in his mouth???

He has pizza, cheese sandwich and potato wedges in there, i think he's gonna turn in to a hamster! Very strange combo!

Well his party is now booked, the ball pit/bouncy castle is booked. Roll on the 30th June!

He's been playing on the decking today and his knees, feet and hands were so dirty, his baby wash didn't get him clean, ended up using Mummy's shower gel! Good job he'd not been on the grass too - LOL. Oh forgetting we aren't allowed on the grass as Daddy has had the lawn doctor come and treat it! SADOOOOOO!

Out twice in 2 days to eat and to the farm

Lucky i borrowed a bib yesterday or we'd have been going home! He had home made burgers and chunky chips, and pretty much ate none!

So many piglets... soooooooooooooo cute!


Wow Mummy i love the swing push me harder!!

I'm even fed up with bread!

But i am happy with the mess i've made!


Our art work and this is as artistic as i get! (our kitchen wall)


Saw a picture like this on another blog. Just to show how little he actually is! I do think we forget he's so tiny.

Possibly the messiest dinner ever!

Dinner today was fish pie, he managed to get

the mashed potato's everywhere, including up his nose. Not really mentioned his eating habits for a while, quite strange considering i set off calling the blog eatingbigfood!

His eating habits are pretty good at the moment although veg and fruit are still the enemy and only eaten if hidden or if hes feeling like it.

We are now down to milk in the morning from a beaker(sippy cup) and bed time one a bottle only managing 10oz pr day but he eats plenty so not worried.

He is possibly the mardiest baby around at the mo, I'm gonna say it but it'll not be true HE MIGHT BE TEETHING??? He just sits and cry's for no reason and crawls around crying again for apparent reason, he'll chomp on anything and randomly try's to chomp things that are the strangest things possible, like the window or TV stand.

Another hair cut today, thank goodness my mother is a hairdresser! Such a fluffy curly head he's got.

Aunty Claire's BBQ

He had a dirty burger (dirty means processed) and typically he thoroughly enjoyed it! Ash, Claire's little girl is 8yrs old and was desperate to hold Billy, initially it scared me but after a few beers she was welcome to, she spent ages walking him around the garden. Quite funny that one of Ash's friends came over and asked if she could pick Billy up, so i confidently said of course, she then returned and said Ash says I cant and its her house! Kids hey! Made me giggle to my self, because one day i have all that to come! He loved the attention.

In my drunken thoughts i was looking around and there wasn't one of us who hadn't got a child or who was expecting. How life changes, 2years ago i was just about to get married and i was the first too and at that point only two of my friends had children now look, its babies and bumps galore. Its good though that we all are going have children of similar ages.

Such a skilled eater! From the serving bowl!

The boy who ate and ate and ate untill he burst! Or Mummy took his food off him!

Sure he'll hate me for that photo when he's older!

He's now decided that he no longer wants a afternoon bottle, we are now just on wake up bottle and bedtime one, quite happy to be honest - getting rather fed up with washing and sterilizing bottles, cant wait for that 12months mark when i can stop sterilising.

He's now up to 14 raisins wheat's in the morning(max hes having), a normal lunch of something like a sandwich and pear and then his dinner. Very funny that his first 2 meals of the day are getting close to the amount that i eat! He's never very good with dinner as he's beginning to get tired by then.

He's now walking round with all the furniture and pulling him self up on everything, including my trousers which I'm sure he'll pull down one day and they'll end up round my ankles! He can balance for a few seconds and also can walk the length of the room pushing his walker. Surprising how quick they master new skills.

Since dropping his afternoon bottle, his poop has firmed up, today i had a disastrous nappy change. He is not easy to change at the best of times now and defiantly not on his changing table as he twists and rolls so much. Anyway i put him on the floor to change his nappy not expecting the disgusting nappy he'd done, well foolishly I'd not put the mat on the floor so when i removed the nappy he rolled and he rolled s**t everywhere and it was the type of s**t that sticks so removing via baby wipe wasn't a options, i had to pick it out of the carpet with my nails - i could have been sick. You'd have thought i know by now as he's nearly 10months, how too do a good nappy change!

The melon, strawberry & blueberry lolly! (wouldnt hold it himself)

A big boyz lunch!

The picture is my friends little boy C and Billy enjoying tomato sausage and veg pancakes. It was like feeding time at the zoo. C had tomato sauce with his, quite amusing he's nearly 2.5yrs old and he kept saying "dip, dip, dip, dipping" and even when he'd still got some left "more dipping Mummy, more dipping Mummy" interpreted that means "more sauce please Mummy". Billy is just mesmerised by other children, he may have been staring but it didn't put him off his food!

What a crap Mummy today! Feeding him fish & chips!

After a last minute night out, last night I'm feeling rather rough and hungover! We've been to the supermarket for a change this week rather than internet shopping and bought lots of nice healthy food. But at tea time i really couldn't be bothered to cook so we've had good old fish, chips and mushy peas for tea. I know some Mums will be disgusted with me doing that! I added no salt or vinegar to his food and i removed the batter off his fish, it all went down a treat. He's been a bottomless pit all day, had porridge from a spoon YES I SAID SPOON and even eaten all his afternoon bottles!

On Wednesday night he woke up in the middle of the night and when i went in he was sat up as per usual, i tried for 20mins to get him to sleep and even resorted to rocking him, he was nearly asleep and i put him is his cot and he sat up again! By this point my patience had gone, i left him sat in his cot and went and got back in bed, we were listening to him crying and i asked my husband to leave him to cry because i knew he was dying to get up and cuddle him. We listened to him cry for what seemed forever but in reality it was 4mins and he went back to sleep in his own! First time ever, just to add i was only planning to leave him 5mins crying - not into controlled crying but i was knacked and fed up. RESULT!

How things can change over a few days!

What a little monster he's turning in to.......

Sleep - Now he doesn't want a morning sleep, but i don't want him having a afternoon sleep or he wont go to bed at night. Oh what fun! When he's put in his cot he sticks his bum in the air and rolls over then kicks his legs laughing! He's been up during the night loads, he's generally sat up in his cot waiting for one of us to come in - really pi**ing me off now and then he wont go back to sleep, so after I've been up 2hours he ends up in bed with us, where he sometimes will sleep.

Food - He will eat bread, pasta and generally any carbs but no chance with fruit and veg at the moment. I am getting rather fed up with making a meal and him hardly eating any. He has 3x7oz bottles per day. Breakfast, 2pm and bedtime. The last few days hes been eating less and less, 5oz breakfast, 2oz afternoon and 5oz bedtime, think i might just give in a drop the afternoon one off, think i don't like the change!



Mobility - He's off..... everything is now fair game, he will chase everything crawling. He's pulling him self up on everything and standing very easily but he forgets to hold on! He also now like to walk round with you holding his hands - poor Mummy and Daddy's backs hey. He can now get over the door step so need a gate for our back door! Couldn't find him this morning and his was hiding in the long curtains in our lounge, which he thought was very funny!



And he's also turning into a tele addict, don't want him watching too much. I know they say is not bad for children but i think in small doses is best. I've heard people comment that their child wont eat unless distracted by TV, i really don't want to end up in that situation.

Last night he was giggling like a proper little person, he couldn't stop, the type of giggle that hurts your tummy. Well it hurt Mummy and Daddy's laughing at him which just made the giggling worse - it really was fantastic! I'll post it if i can catch it!

He may be a little monster but he's a lovely monster!

The choking episode!

VERY VERY SCARY

This evening having one of his usual dinners of broccoli, gnocchi, sweet potato and cheese sauce, i was sat with him passing him chunks of food because if i give it him all he starts dropping it over the edge of the high chair looking down and watching it drop, he suddenly threw his arms in the air and his face started to go red, i did at first just think he was trowing a tantrum as he was very tired but as i watched he was silent, his eyes were watering and he was beginning to gasp for breath. It seemed to be about 30seconds but in reality i bet it wasn't 10 seconds before i whipped him out of his high chair placed him over my knee with his face, facing the floor it took about 4 pats and out flew the gnocchi. He did cry for about 30seconds then he was looking for his dinner i put him back in his high chair and he was off eating again! I am so glad that i read about choking before i started BLW.

Generally throughout it been a bad food day, breakfast was fine back on raisin wheat's, then we went out for lunch and a daring Mummy didn't take him any, well we went to a restaurant in Sheffield called Boardwalk i was assuming that I'd be able to order him a plain chicken breast and some veg. No such luck the chicken breast was easy but they DON'T have veg!! So i had to resorted to chicken breast and garlic bread BAD BAD move, the chicken breast was reformed chicken and the garlic bread was salt city - might i add this is not a cheap restaurant it cost us £30 for the two of us just to have main courses! I'm well pi**ed off about it, i ended up having to pop into the local M&S and by a loaf of bread and cheese spread and fruit! Lesson learnt there!

I'm off to eat curry and drink larger after my traumatic day!

Link below is a quiz about what you'd do.

QUIZ

What to do if the worst happens

Sorry i've gone blog mad this morning!

BLW - I was amazed we popped in at Grandma H's and had lunch, lunch was nothing exciting just usual sandwiches, yes the white bread i hate so much! I knew Billy had been eating pear round there but I'd not seen it, well i couldn't believe my eyes - Grandma H cuts him up pear into quarters and cores it and passes it him and he eats it like, if he didn't someone would steal it - SKIN AND EVERYTHING!! Think she a little scared of him with the skin but she's backing the BLW all the way. VERY VERY IMPRESSED!

It will fit in my mouth!

This morning was a fruit cake for breakfast, lunch time was veg with cheese sauce, he even ate broccoli and his Daddy pleasant as he is said Billy would eat dog s**t if it had cheese sauce on! Dinner time was chili con carne, rice and tortilla. (wasn't very spicy - gonna build him up to that)

Its been cold today and raining, so we've played on the house all day, bricks everywhere and if i turn your back for a few minutes and he's in another room. Daddy bought home from work a safety gate - well needed now!

Oh i forgot how smug i was with HV!

I was very smug with HV yesterday (never met her before as mines off ill) she asked if he ate textures and lumps? I replied OH yes he doesn't eat purees, he only eats what we have mainly finger foods, so she followed it with like what?? Everything i said and gave her the run down of his days food. She was amazed, don't think she was impressed i gave him raisins though! But he loves them now! HV what do they know - sometimes. Got to say shes the nicest I've met so far!

Big boy spoon & fork - give me FOOD!

I gave him them to play with after his meal, don't think he actually ate anything from them. Grandma H has made us quiche for dinner, well his portion was about the size of a small adult and it went down a treat. Needed a little help as it was so crumbly, i wouldn't normally but he was getting very frustrated!

Gnocchi for Dinner

Full English breakfast, don't actually think he was impressed! Hot cross bun for lunch with butter (on offer at supermarket - can tell Easters on it way) We went up Sheffield city centre today had a look around the farmer market. We had a roast pork and stuffing sandwich, didn't get Billy one as i didn't think he'd eat it - how wrong you can be! He was sat on my knee while i was eating so my sandwich was in front of him, he kept leaning forward and taking a bite, quite comical really and very cheeky!

For tea Gnocchi (Italian potato dumplings) & Cheese sauce, he ate a stupid amount, oh and spread it in his hair and anywhere else his little paw landed (cheese sauce not fun to remove especially as i put half a block of cheese in!) Need to get more veg in his diet again - i do let it slip!

Clocks went forward last night by a hour so it'll be lighter at nights now, had about 4text messages reminding me this morning! Its not like last time they went back and i forgot! I got up early to go to the gym for 8am turns out i was actually there at 7am and it was a Sunday morning The Marriott Hotel wasn't even alive at that time never mind the gym!

Been that nice out today, in fact very sunny. Our lawns have been cut today, the lawn mower made Billy cry. He was very happy to stand on the window ledge and watch from inside though, oh and blow his cheeks up on my window and squash his nose on it! Lets hope he doesn't do that at Grandma H's she'd be gutted, her house is spotless!