There's nothing better...

...than mucking about with water!

Secret midnight snapshot

The Munchkin is so cute when he's sleeping, even in a travel cot away from home.

 

Evolution of eating

Isaac, it would seem, no longer wants to be fed with a spoon. He screws his face up and has a little fit. There is a single daily exception to this rule and that is breakfast. He simply cannot get enough of the tasty banana-wheat biscuit-hemp milk combo in his mouth fast enough any other way than if I feed it to him. I guess it's because he's gone without food for so long (i.e.: all night) and he's super hungry by morning time, even with a boob feed at about 5am.

This morning he wolfed down a WHOLE BOWL of the stuff without stopping to whinge once AND THEN ate a WHOLE PIECE OF TOAST too! It was cut into dinosaur shapes, but still. That's some good going for the Wiggler, who usually gets to 2 spoonfuls left & then quits. 

I tried, again, to feed him his lunch, to no avail. He screwed up his face, again. He threw a little fit, again. So. I left him with the bowl and the spoon & went to do the washing up. I look up to see a perfectly contented Little Man playing with spoon & food and later on even eating it!! I think he managed to eat most of it, but it's difficult to tell with vulture hound stalking the underside of his high chair, ready to pounce on any freshly discarded foodstuff. He was happy enough to eat this way and even managed to get some on the spoon and subsequently in his mouth! Excitement!

It looks like a total mess, but it's not. Believe me. This is relatively clean when compared with previous baby led weaning exercises. Anyway, I think he enjoyed himself! And the fact he looks a little like he has food stubble is too cute :-D

And he's off!

Isaac is officially on the move. He doesn't crawl yet. I like to think of it as a commando-style belly drag. He's pretty quick about it though! Or, you know in zombie movies when the zombie has lost its legs & it still drags itself towards you, desperate for a taste of human? A bit like that, but without the insatiable desire for brains and with a cheeky grin & some slobber.You can tell where he's been because he leaves mini piles of evidence. He's so happy while he does it! Constant babble as he Wiggles about.

He particularly likes pulling DVDs off the shelf & getting them out of their cases. It seems to be a standard baby tactic - "Right, I can move I shall beeline for the DVDs". Why is this? Also, Rinny's ball is not safe. At all these days. I have to put it away when he's around & on the move because between them they won't leave it alone! 

Anyway, he's very happy about being mobile and I'm sure crawling proper isn't too far off. Then walking...then running...then leaving home...

Blue Monday

Last week we had our first colour day. I've decided that it's a good idea to have colour days, maybe once a week, where Isaac wears the colour of the day and I point out things to him which are that colour. So anyhoo, last Monday was (of course) Blue Monday. 

He had a lovely time playing with the blue Mega Bloks in his blue t-shirt & blue jeans. We spotted lots of blue things on the way to the swimming pool, around town and on the way home. Even his swim nappy is...blue! How convenient!

I think this week our colour day will be tomorrow & might well have to be Orange Wednesday. *groan*

Fruity fruity!

Today Isaac had his first taste of nectarine. He used all 4 of his teeth to nash his way through it. He has 4 teeth now by the way; the top 2 came through just before the weekend and now he's onto his next lot. He puts his hand to his gum & grimaces...poor little mite. I don't envy him this pain at all.

Anyhoo, I think he liked the nectarine as he scoffed nearly the whole thing! :-D

Can't...stop...baking...

It seems I either bake nothing or have a bit of a frenzy. Typical me, all or nothing. Yesterday I made sugar cookies. I used the recipe in The Joy of Vegan Baking by Collen Patrick-Goudreau. I've made sugar cookies before, but not very well. Have you ever made sugar cookies? They're perfect if you want to make a shaped cookie/biscuit to ice. Good for occasions (like baby showers - I saw a very cute onesie cutter the other day) BUT they are an awful faff. Very tasty, but a massive faff to achieve perfect results. There's shed loads of refrigeration and then some more refrigeration and some extra refrigeration just in case of dough warming. Not really being bothered about achieving perfect results, I have decided from this moment on to not faff so much, thus saying b*****ks to the refrigeration completely and not using a cookie cutter. I like them round & if I want shapes I'll make something else. Meh. Here are my attempted-not-perfect-but-delicious sugar cookies.

I haven't iced anything before and must say that it was great fun! I used unrefined icing sugar, hence the golden colour. The icing recipe was from the same book and was very easy. No faffing there you'll be pleased to hear. I didn't even know that some icing contains egg whites. WTF? Yes that right. Regal icing contains uncooked egg whites. Yuk!

Anyhoo. My second batch of baked goods were made earlier today and are vegan blueberry muffins. I Googled "vegan blueberry muffins" and got quite a few results (surprise eh?), but most of them were a right faff! (We know how I feel about faffing.) Or required ingredients I do not have. So, I chose this recipe from recipesforvegans.co.uk. I haven't tried anything else from the site. They were so easy and quick to make!  And delicious! Thumbs up! Not bad considering the blueberries needing using up.

I've also made a fruit salad (gotta love reduced fruit) & spiced lentil soup today. But they aren't baked so do not get a photo.

I hear my Little Man has woken up so off I shall go to get him. I love how he greets me when I enter his room:

:-)