Oh no! It's been over a year!

Well, Kerian is way past his BLW days now. He is a choosy (picky/fussy) eater but I think I'll do it again with his little bro because he's very nimble, eats very cleanly and stops when he's had enough. I expect he'll soon spoon his own portion out as well! I'll have to post here again when little bro has his first try!

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Bric a Brac Photos

This is part two of me catching up with the Blog. The intention (do NOT laugh) is to keep up after this!

Kerian now really eats quite voraciously. He sits with us for Breakfast lunch and dinner most days.

Here he is at the Scrumpy Willow and Singing Kettle. They cut up some carrots for him to munch on while we had lunch. This is taken in mid January. That day, he also had some pear and ginger juice and a taste of bread and soup.



End of January. Kerian is 6 months and this must indeed be the magic number because there is a marked difference in how much food actually makes it from table to tummy. He had a few veg, and a really good go at an asparagus, sucking all the tasty flesh and leaving the skin. He finished with a pear, which he now eats everyday almost whole.
















Next we jump to March and Kerian is now eating lots of cooked veg and still enjoying cool raw bits but not really swallowing much as it is hard flesh. He really enjoys squash and aubergines here, dark and ugly, don't scare him one bit. Courgettes were a hit as well but Kerian is no fool and although we remove all foods before salting, he's partial to nice flavours from cooking in garlic, onions and herbs.




We spent saturday at Sam and Steve's in Wellhope mid March, and Kerian just nearly swam in the trifle bowl. Sam made it with defrosted berries, Blueberry yogurt, crumbled blueberry muffins and unsweetened whipped cream. We tried to leave the muffin bits out and let Kerian dig into everything else. Let's not be mad here: this is much better eaten with the help of a spoon!

A couple days ago, I made some meat balls and chips, not a meal for a baby probably but he had one chip and one meatball, which he finished and loved. There was still plenty room left for a banana!


Kerian never just opens his mouth anymore. He needs to touch, feel and smell before he gives anything a try. I had to be quick to take the photo though. He grabs new foods with quite some eagerness!

I believe Kerian did prefer the meatball to the potatoe. He has had a few cuts of meat and he's no vegetarian by taste for sure. I guess that's human nature and he will learn in time that meat is OK to eat if the animals have been treated well and in small quantities.


Babanas are eaten whole or almost now. Kerian will eat banana on his own but there is a lot of loss throught smearing and bits falling on the floor. Bananas are slippery animals! I thus sometime just peel the banana in front of him and let him bite what he wants.

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Quick recap!

Pfeeew...haven't posted forever so I thought I'd do a quick pic free post with a recap of everything Kerian eats now.

Veg:
- Tomatoes, raw and cooked
- Cucumber mainly sucks the pulp
- Greens like asparagus and beens, cooked
- Leaves, just the water of the cleaned leaves but does not mind a basil leaf or a rocket even
- Carrots, raw to suck and cooked to eat
- Parnips roasted
- Butternut in soup
- Mushrooms, cooked
- Courgette, cooked
- Broccoli or did that just disappear in a million pieces
- Cabbage, cooked

Fruits:
- Pears raw and whole, his favourite by far
- Apples raw thinly sliced or cooked with cinnamon and fed in choppy puree
- Lychees with help
- Summer red berries in the yeo valley compote fed
- Bananas, raw or frozen. More gets eaten with help holding it
- Clems, skin gets discraded
- Grapes, peeled in halves
- Kiwi but I'm not sure whether he liked it
- Pineapple, gulps in down but gets a rash
- Mango

Meat:
- Ham from the butcher an in square
- Organic lamb from sunday roast, sucked on
- Beef, sucked on
- Chicken bones, bit hit to suck on at length

Other stuff:
- Cheese bits of hard cheese or creamed on bagel or toast
- Yogurt from Rachel's or Yeo Valley, all flavours go
- Hummus
- Pastas of any kind
- Bread, toast, bagels, bread sticks, lady fingers, crepes, pancakes
- Juice and smoothies
- Broth in a spoon, a big favourite

I am probably forgetting a few, but less now than in a few years, when he asks me about it!

I'll be back soon with pictures. I have been taking them just not posting them.

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A slippery lychee

Our crazy friends Sam and Steve dropped by last week with a big box of lychees. BIG HIT! Slippery but worth the work says Kerian. It was hard to choose a pick so I made an animated gif of 5 favourite. *edit * the animation does not work on firefox :-(

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Oh my darling...

Kerian has had a supervised suck at clementines a couple times already but tonight he really went for them. I gave him stacks of two or three slices. He basically juices the fruit in his mouth and swallows the juice. About one quarted of the fruit is 'drunk' before it falls on the floor!



I have to admit I pulled the fruit out in case he would choke but really he was spitting/gagging it out.

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On l' aime sans compter

I cooked some jerusalem artichoke risotto from my noel recipe book: it was delish! While cooking -as usual - I had to munch on something so I got some nice organic Comte cheese and cut a generous slice. I wondered whether Kerian would possibly like this slightly acidic, nutty cheese. It is quite strong after all. Gueno was looking at me with his mouth opened and the baba was on his lap so I handed the cheese over. Kerian grabbed it immediately and watched carefully as Gueno was chewing his piece with exaggerated motions. He sucked quite well on the cheese and crumbled small pieces into his mouth. He definitely chews now and I'll have to take a video.

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Let it snow...

This is a bit Hors-sujet but it's just so lovely so here we go, a few snow pics...


Sitting in the snow.


A nice walk in the woods.


Santa's little helper.


Red cheeks from a long walk.


White and more white.


The sunset and a little Bear.


Dodging the branches (not to mention climbing on fences and crawling under barbed wire).

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