i love my toes!

A little food update for the week. Jamie was doing a bit better with the rice cereal, but I found that it was making him a little constipated (which is common for breast fed babies), so the health visitor suggested I introduce some fruit and veg into his cereal. We tried pumpkin I had roasted and pureed (homegrown in Christine/Nana's allotment), and he didn't swallow as much of it as he had the rice cereal. And today we tried apples that I pureed. I think he pretty much spit all the apple out, though he kept opening his mouth for more so I keep feeding it to him. It was always met with a scrunched up face upon tasting it. After the apples he decided to reward himself with a new treat...sucking on his toes. It was pretty funny, so I shot a little video on my phone and snapped a few pics:

Experiencing pumpkin:

real food...

...sort of...
Jamie has started waking (a lot!) for feeding during the night, so we thought we'd try our hungry boy on some rice cereal on Sunday. He seemed to like eating off the spoon, though I'm not sure much ended up in his tummy. (and he was up at 11, 12, 1:30, 3, 4:30 and 7! three of which were for feeding). He'll get there though. In the meantime, we can all be entertained:

YUM!

Happy Easter!

Yesterday was Jamie's first Easter and also our first outing. We went to church in the morning. Jamie was a perfect angel and slept through the entire service and the coffee/tea/chatting afterwards. He wasn't as perfect for the rest of the afternoon, but Paul took care of him while mommy had a nap. In the evening, I made him his first Easter cake:

It's a carrot cake with butter cream icing. The fur is coconut and the face is made of marshmallows, raisins and a cranberry.  I got the idea off allrecipes.com.  He didn't get to eat any of course. We saved it for lunch today with our friends Rob and Eilidh. 

He also got his first Easter present on Saturday from our friend, Anna: a little yellow ducky that quacks:

I think he'll enjoy it more when he's a bit older!  Mom and dad like it though! Mary and Anna came to pay us a visit on Saturday. Jamie likes to show off his good behaviour for his guests. All our visitors so far have seen him pretty much just sleep. It would be great if he was like that more for mommy and daddy. It's a good thing he's so darn cute!