Gabe is on a 1 week break from school = havoc at home. Thankfully, Daddy has a few days break too so it`s not so taxing and we got to go to some places for some fun times.
We went to Hitachi Seaside Park in Ibaraki with a friend, Uncle David who Gabe loves. Nice park with loads of rides for older kids, for Gabe it was just being able to run around and look see. Lucas, well as usualy, whined and cried in the car. He`s NOT a car seat lover that`s for sure.
I think both my kids have this hate relationship with purees and mushy food, coz even Lucas refuses to have any of those gooey baby cereal. Porridge, he`s just OK only, won`t eat much of it. I`ve been thinking about Baby Led Weaning (BLW) alot. Like alot. Thing is, i was scared of the choke issue. But after reading and having feedback, and Lucas` recent rejection of cereal n porridge, plus his milk intake was decreasing, i decided i had to do something other than panic.
So, yup i went ahead with BLW. I started soft...i steamed long beans and carrots and gave it to him. It was soft, but not too mushy so he could still hold it decently in his tiny hands. It wasn`t love at first sight, but he still gave it a go. I also gave honeydew, which he loves no doubt.
Then recently, like yesterday i moved on to meat...yup...a drumlet, small one to fit his hands. I didn`t add any flavour to it, i just put it in the oven to grill until it was gently browned and cooked. I served it to him with some carrots.
And...yes he LOVED it. Kept sucking on it and holding it up. And he even managed to grab a carroot stick with the other ahnd and alternated between both..smart kid. After like 20mins i thought he`d had enough and tried to take it away, only to have him cry and bang his hands on the tray. So i gave it back...again i tried to pry later but he cried, so in the end, the boy sucked on this yummy drumplet for about 45minutes....and here`s what`s left of Mr Drumlet...of course, i took away some of those meat pieces which were dangling and hanging loose so he wouldn`t choke..but he definetely did have his share of meat...
BLW is scary for new mums or those who have never thought young babies could do it. However it has recently been very very popular and it`s even healthy for babies. So instead of pureeing the meat i just gave him the meat...in the end i think the result is the same, it goes to their tummies.
I only took this approach coz i realised i tried so hard and many times and if your baby doesn`t like mush, there`s nothing you can do and to keep forcing it down his throat would ultimately scare him away from solids. And you know what, I`m glad iI`m doing the BLW...he seems happy so I`m happy.
At 6.5 months, Lucas can finally sit by himself. He can do it without hands support too, while playing with toys...yay!! Now just waiting for him to be able to crawl n wonder around by himself so he doesn{t scream everytime I leave him to do things.
This is a really belated post on Gabe`s birthday celebrations. One of the main reasons why i wanted to go back in May was to be able to have Gabe`s bday party there. Of course, the theme had to be Mickey. And good ol mummy me spent about a couple of hundreds of Singapore dollars for the deco..only to have Gabe scream his head off when he saw the balloons and the giant Mickey....yup, there goes Daddy`s money down the drain.
We had the party at Grandma`s home, and then headed off to Shangri-La Sentosa for a staycation, courtesy of Er-Yi & San Yi..Thank you so so much we had so much fun!!! This will probably be Gabe`s last bday party....next year onwards, it`ll just be a cake n that`s it...ahah
Got some beautiful photos of that day...Hope you loved it Darling Gabe..be a good boy, you`re 3 years old now..Love u to bits
And the Staycation..where the kids had a Pinata..Amanda waa the lucky one who picked the correct string to release all the goodies...
