Monday, June 2, 2008 Charlotte is singing!
This month I have mostly been craving curries and hot spicy food. I thought that food cravings are supposed to occur when you are pregnant! When I was pregnant I went off anything spicy and have never liked really hot curries, but since I gave up breastfeeding I have been craving and enjoying hot and spicy curries and chillies - how bizarre!
Lexie is now 23 weeks old. During the last two weeks, I have been feeding her vegetable and fruit purees. She has enjoyed a variety of tastes, including sweet potato, butternut squash, carrot, apple, banana and pear. I have been trying her out with different foods every two days. For the last two days she has been trying pea, and it is the first one that she hasn’t appeared to enjoy. I think she is impatient too, because, although her milk does not seem to be satisfying her as it used to, she is far to used to receiving it at a fast rate. So trying to eat purees is much more like hard work and takes longer so she gets impatient!
When she reaches six months I will start her on the chopped fruit and vegetables as finger foods so hopefully by then she will be used to the tastes and textures of the fruit and vegetables and enjoy chewing on them. Her favourite so far is sweet potato and apple (not together of course!). It’s far more interesting for her and for me to be eating a variety of foods as I’m sure milk must get boring!
Hayden is doing well too. His speech is amazing and he picks up words he hears immediately. Recently he has been going around at his nursery saying ‘all right babes’ to the nursery assistants who all find it amusing! We have to be really careful what we say even more so now. As for the terrible twos, he is going through the tantrum phase. It kicks in mainly when he is tired, and during his tantrums he’ll lie on the floor crying and screaming for so long that I’m sure that he forgets what he is crying about! Alexa watches him with fascination, I’m sure she is storing up knowledge for the day that she can copy him. One way I can get him out of his tantrum is by singing nursery rhymes to him as it seems to calm him down. This has caused no end of amusement for Craig who has been known to turn up the radio when I sing in the car as he doesn’t appreciate my singing talents, but as I point out to him our children like my singing so it can’t be that bad!
Lexie is now 23 weeks old. During the last two weeks, I have been feeding her vegetable and fruit purees. She has enjoyed a variety of tastes, including sweet potato, butternut squash, carrot, apple, banana and pear. I have been trying her out with different foods every two days. For the last two days she has been trying pea, and it is the first one that she hasn’t appeared to enjoy. I think she is impatient too, because, although her milk does not seem to be satisfying her as it used to, she is far to used to receiving it at a fast rate. So trying to eat purees is much more like hard work and takes longer so she gets impatient!
When she reaches six months I will start her on the chopped fruit and vegetables as finger foods so hopefully by then she will be used to the tastes and textures of the fruit and vegetables and enjoy chewing on them. Her favourite so far is sweet potato and apple (not together of course!). It’s far more interesting for her and for me to be eating a variety of foods as I’m sure milk must get boring!
Hayden is doing well too. His speech is amazing and he picks up words he hears immediately. Recently he has been going around at his nursery saying ‘all right babes’ to the nursery assistants who all find it amusing! We have to be really careful what we say even more so now. As for the terrible twos, he is going through the tantrum phase. It kicks in mainly when he is tired, and during his tantrums he’ll lie on the floor crying and screaming for so long that I’m sure that he forgets what he is crying about! Alexa watches him with fascination, I’m sure she is storing up knowledge for the day that she can copy him. One way I can get him out of his tantrum is by singing nursery rhymes to him as it seems to calm him down. This has caused no end of amusement for Craig who has been known to turn up the radio when I sing in the car as he doesn’t appreciate my singing talents, but as I point out to him our children like my singing so it can’t be that bad!
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