Last year, I bought myself a note book to log recipes that we enjoyed at home.  So far, in that time I’ve jotted down three!  So, my mission for this year is make a start on that recipe book with the many endless recipes that we love to cook at home so that every time I want to make one of them, I dont have to endlessly trawl through the Internet trying to remember where the hell it was.  Or for when I stumble across something, forget to bookmark it, close the laptop down and then fail to find it completely. 

I was watching something on the TV the other and woman pulled out a family recipe book, it was tatty and torn but so well used and it was that reminded me about my little note book waiting to be filled.  Im hoping that over the years I can fill it with lovely things that we eat as a family and then I can pass it to Joe, if he wants it that is!

TP has finally decided that nursery is fun.  He will very rarely cry when I leave now and only cries when I arrive to pick him up, me popping in at lunchtime to feed was upsetting him quite a bit and once he started to eat his lunch there I began going in later and later and now I dont go in at all.  I do leave milk for him but he is obviously far too busy to drink it and pushes it away in favour of dinner and snacks!

In general, TP’s eating habits have greatly improved.  I think because he drinks less milk now, he is eating more and more food.  Yoghurt is still by far his favourite and he is quite adept with his spoon these days, only occasionally covering himself in yoghurt on the scoop and when he gets bored with scooping he picks up the bowl and drinks it which is why I’ve taken to serving the yoghurt in his doidy cup!

I’ve introduced a fork aswell and TP is going great guns with it, he tries to stab it into the food which usually ends up with me doing it for him but once the food is on the fork its straight into the mouth and he’s looking for the next bit.

TP seems to have developed quite a bad habit where when he’s had enough to eat, whatever is left gets thrown on the floor, Im assuming its a normal phase – it just seems to be a pretty long phase.

Well Im off to try and figure out how to upload photographs as it is about time I posted one or two!

Today was the 2nd taster session for TP at nursery from 1pm – 4.30pm.  When I dropped him off, I chatted with the girl and asked them not to put food in TP’s mouth this time but said if they wanted to help him then they could pass him his food, gave her his bag etc and left after about 5 minutes so that TP could get the full benefit of the session without me being there.  So I gave him a kiss and said bye bye, he didn’t seem to notice much until I got to the gate and I waved again and then he cried, so I left hoping that he would calm down soon and start to have fun!

4.30pm – TP was sitting having his tea on one of the nursery worker’s lap which was nice, it was chicken sandwiches today and he had eaten 3/4 of a round.  As I walked in he started to cry but he hadn’t seen me and it took a minute for him to actually look at me and when he did the crying got louder.  The girls said that he had been crying on and off all afternoon but he did allow them to cuddle and comfort him so they didn’t ring me (Im glad about that as he has to get used to them settling him down) and that he had had a much better day today than Thursday.

They took him in the garden with the toddlers (as it was so sunny here today) and he loved it.  TP was sitting, laughing and smiling at the toddlers playing and really getting stuck in!!   TP hadn’t napped because as he was about to fall asleep something caught his eye and then that would be it, he was wide awake again so ofcourse he fell asleep on the short journey home and it would probably account for some of the crying too but it also means that he won’t want to go to bed until at least 8pm!

I’m really pleased that today was better for him, hopefully when he goes again on Thursday (this time from 7.30am – 4.00pm with a visit from me at lunchtime) he will start to enjoy it more.