Good week, bad week

Well this week has had it's ups and downs...Sam still has lost the use of his arms when eating and remains my 'baby bird' - just squawking and opening and closing his mouth for food! As this coincided with him starting to crawl I have high hopes that it is just a phase.

Breakfast this week has been a pretty predictable affair, some or all of the following:

• Strawberry jam on toast
• baby porridge
• yogurt
• fruit
• fruit puree

Lunch and dinner have been a bit hit and miss with Sam deciding he likes cheesy scrambled eggs one day but not another. I got Annabel Karmel's latest book out of the library and have made and frozen some salmon footballs (which got squished in the freezer so they are more like patties), fruity chicken (with apricot cos I was worried about iron levels - for no good reason, just because I'm a mum and that's what we do!) and some 'lovely lentils' cos I happened to have the ingredients in the house.

Round Grandma Jones' on Wednesday Sam was v naughty and wouldn't even look at my freshly prepared fruity chicken - I was not very happy. However, the next day I cunningly added a bit of cream that was in the fridge and served it up again and he loved it and ate it all - he's a fickle little boy.

Having turned his nose up at houmous earlier in the week he happily ate loads on breadsticks and carrot for lunch today, and after the most impressive 'scene' ever (crying, shouting turning away) this evening I managed to put a bit of my freshly cooked lovely lentils into his open, crying mouth, after tasting it he changed his mind completely and ate the whole portion grrr he's a tinker!

We've got chinese for tea and I can't wait - special treat from the Sichuan Garden yummm.