This week on the whole Burton has been a different boy! We have had a couple of stroppy toddler moments but mostly he has been really good and a pleasure to take out. Here is what we got up to this week.
Following my post recently regarding Burton and his meal time dramas, I was not looking forward to the idea of going out for lunch last Sunday, because I had visions of him refusing to eat what was put in front of him. I did some research and we went to a restaurant that I know had a good varied kids menu where pasta was included! I ordered him and I spaghetti bolognese and do you know what? Amazingly, he ate a fair bit of it without even having to bribe him with stickers!! I was literally gob smacked!!
Then on Wednesday while we were at his grandma’s with his cousins he tried some new food! He tried a chip, some baked beans, the yolk from a fried egg and some warm sausage! Mind you he did have to have some ketchup too as his older cousins had some on their plates too, as it’s not something eats at home. But even though he only ate a few mouthfuls, it didn’t matter as the important thing was that he tried it.
Monday we went to see my Mum and meet her new puppy called Shadow, who is a 9 week old collie/Labrador mix. On the way there I taught Burton to say ‘Shadow’ so when we arrived at Mum’s Burton was able to tell her what the puppy was called. Burton enjoyed playing with the puppy in the garden and it was funny hear him copy grandma when she told Shadow ‘no’ for doing something he shouldn’t!
Tuesday we made cakes together which Burton thought was great fun! Especially the part when he was able to eat some of the chocolate before we used it in the cake mix!
The cakes were made from odds and sods I had in my cupboard and if you would like to have a go a making them then here is what we did.
Banoffee Cupcakes (makes 18 cakes approx)
3 ripe bananas
2 beaten eggs
1 pot of toffee mullerlight yogurt
1 Easter egg
100g brown sugar
225g self raising flour
100ml oil ( I used olive)
1tsp baking soda
Very gently melt the yogurt and chocolate together and leave to cool slightly
Mash the bananas (I used my fingers) and add the beaten egg, oil and sugar and mix well. Then add the chocolate mixture and the dry ingredients and fold until just combined. Then divide between the cake cases
Cook at 180oC fan oven /200oC for about 15 minutes or until knife comes out clean. Allow to cool and then enjoy – yum!! (please note that they can be eaten with trousers on too!)
We also ventured out to a coffee shop for a drink and to share some cake, which we haven’t done since before Jenson was born. I bought Burton a sticker book to take with us to keep him occupied and he was really good and didn’t get out of his seat once! I think the distraction of the stickers helped so it was a good purchase!
All this week I have been slowly weaning Jenson into trying some new flavours which I wrote about here. He is increasing his in take each day and the last two nights he has had me up twice for feeds so it might be time to offer him another meal soon!
So all in all we had a lovely week 🙂
Thank you xx
those cakes look great! Definately be giving them a go! x
Awwww what a lovely post! Glad you had a good week. Love the photos, Burton has such a gorgeous smile
Those cakes sound and look yummy (but I hate bananas with a passion, would have to take those out)
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I’m glad the eating thing is getting better with Burton…possibly just a phase which has hopefully passed.
I love making cakes etc out of ‘odds n sods’….and those cakes look & sound lovely!
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