Favourite Foods

Oh wow. It's September already.

I have a bit more to write about our wonderful Lake District holiday - but I need to wait until I have access to all the good photos before I do that post. So in the meantime, here's a quick description of what it's like eating dinner with Ash at seven months.

Enjoying Thai green curry with noodles, back in July

His favourite foods are probably pear and nectarine. Sweet, soft, juicy and delicious! To the extent that I can't eat either fruit if I'm within his reach, because he will take it from me and devour it himself. The boy definitely has a sweet tooth (surprise surprise...) - the occasional taste of ice cream has gone down a treat, and whilst we were away he had his first biscuit. It was a malted milk. He usually makes a bit of a mess, drops some bits, and leaves the last little piece that was concealed in his hand whilst he was eating. But that biscuit? He did not drop a single crumb!

Omelettes are a savoury favourite. I don't know if it's because they're so easy to eat? I've tended to make them for him when we don't have much fresh stuff in the house because it's a good way for him to eat the things we usually have in the freezer (spinach, peas and sweetcorn). His fine motor skills are improving but he's still not quite up to picking individual peas off his tray and putting them in his mouth.

Vegetables were really popular when he first began this eating business, but these days he's a bit less keen, preferring bread, rice cakes, crumpets, rice crispies, risotto, rice... hmmm, I'm spotting a theme here! He will give them a go though, especially babycorn, tomato and pepper. Cooked carrots are good for eating; raw ones for chewing on when there's a tooth coming through.

Generally though Ash will try most things. The only thing I've given him that he hasn't even tried putting in his mouth is mushroom (and honestly, who can blame him?) and I think how much he eats really depends what mood he's in or how hungry he is. Unless it's nectarine, of course. Asher is always in the mood for a nice juicy nectarine.