Big Hiatus...

...in the blogging caused by an unexpectedly extended trip to Europe (Iceland, you have a lot to answer for) and then a house move.

The Boy is thriving except for a mean dose of jet-lag which involved him being up and bouncy all night for the last two nights and Mum being distinctly the worse for wear and unable to make a decision as to just where all these boxes of stuff should go now we don't have a cavernous storage room!

Eek!

Allergy? Part II

Turns out that it's a hummus allergy not an egg allergy - he scoffed a large bit of cheese omelette today with no reaction.

Such a relief, eggs are great!

Here we were thinking The Boy didn't like fruit...

... and it turns out he doesn't like cold fruit!

He's been turning up his nose at and throwing away almost every fruit we offered him except banana. What I didn't realise is that banana is the only fruit we don't keep in the fridge. (It's warmish here and fruit left out tends to go of fairly quickly if left out).

I discovered this because he's not yet up to crunching apple so I microwaved it and he ate three slices, after some thought I realised what microwaved apples and bananas have in common and now if we take the fruit out of the fridge a couple of hours before we offer it to him or even better, zap it in the microwave for a couple of minutes.

So now I'm proud to say he very much enjoys;

Oranges
Apples
Strawberries (they give him a bit of a rash but he loves them so I can't stop giving them to him!)
Plums (mmmm, microwaved plums!)
Kiwi

With the sour fruits he does the best screwed up, ikk face when he puts them in his mouth but then goes ahead and eats them anyway.

That's my boy!

What we've had to eat

Mum in HK has been feeling very sick and sorry for herself of late but The Boy has been thriving and eating almost everything in sight.

A quick run down of the last few days;

- dim sum
- roast butternut squash
- roast courgette
- spag bol (well, you've got to, haven't you)
- lovingly microwaved apple
- kiwi fruit
- cucumber
- orange
- more dim sum
- rice
- chorizo

I think he's doing quite well :-)

Quiche

The boy ate a whole mini chicken and leek quiche yesterday - no sign of the egg allergy this time so fingers crossed. Chewed the pastry and leeks happily and spat out any wrong size bits of chicken - wrong size is too small to be held in little fist with a bit sticking out to be gummed off but too big to be swallowed whole.

So cute, he's taken to making a very serious faced mmmm, mmmm, mmmm sound as he eats - we think it's enjoyment.

Rice cakes

Just because I don't particularly like something doesn't mean I shouldn't offer it to the boy and lots of other blw'ers have reported that rice cakes went down very well.

I had trouble finding suitable ones as the rice snacks in the supermarkets here tend to have lots of soy and mirrin and other salty deliciousness on them.

I eventually found what I wanted at Bumps to Babes and doubtless paid a huge premium for these imported goodies but they were salt-free, baby-sized, organic rice cakes and it's not like I'm going to make my own!

The first one I gave him was enthusiastically sucked but what was left at the end was a damp whole rice cake.

After a nights sleep he obviously developed a plan for tackling this new object and the one I gave him the next day was pretty much demolished.

Now it's great because if I'm eating something incompatible with the toothless one's diet then I can always give him a couple of rice cakes.

Simples!

The Roast Dinner