Getting started on solids has been a special time for us at the Byrne household. We are now well down the line but this is how it all started.

Three mealtimes a day and not forgetting their milk feeds – we aim for breakfastime, lunchtime and dinnertime – all of which have fallen  nicely in to place ….even their little cup of water is going down a treat. I’m well proud of me and my boys.....all’s going well and we are getting messier by the minute. My lil munchins have already had a great variety of fresh fruit, vegtables and this week  a new addition chicken!!

Let me take you back to my second week of weaning and supermom already seemed to think she should have her babes on a proper feeding schedule of breakfast ,lunch and dinner, tea, snacks the lot – I now realise to “get real” and that weaning is called weaning for a reason.

A tasting period.  A wonderful fun time to allow the little ones to taste and enter the exciting world of gastronomics...

Week 1 - A spoonful of baby rice before the afternoon feed (thats sounds easy enough!). That was a success as me and baby tommy tippee spoon were greeted with wide eyed happy smiley faces along with lots yum yum mmmmmm’ sounds. You might have guessed we sing a lot in this household - our own little melody “yumyums in our tumtums”.

Week 2 - Well someone should have reminded  me that I wasn’t stocking up for an army of young teenagers as I eagerly prepared my organic veg and rationed them into my new ice cube holders in prepartion for freezing. I was so proud, I even have these photos to prove it. I must add to date I would not be known for my culinary skills and now here I am in domestic bliss!!!!

Back to my point though, week two, rice with the breakfast feed and now for lunch time I frantically phaff around the kitchen preparing my babes first new tastes. I choose carrot, the sweetist flavour of the veg family. Having left out two wee ice cubes of carrot puree to defrost, one would think I was trying to prepare a gourmet dinner! Well it was kind of....

I demonstrate to my boys how to eat the carrot puree as I lie and pretend its devine. I despise carrots by the way, they are the only veg I hate. So I am prepared for two dissatisfied babes, but no, another success –two orange faces smile widely back at me once more.

The week followed with amazing butternut squash, sweet potato, potato and so on, all pureed to perfection.

Week 3 I gave two spoon feeds a day, delicious fruits now featured , pear and apple. Stewed apple (their dads favorite by the way-so always have 3 babies spoons at hand).

Week 4 fruit and vegetables but some new ones and  now combinations (who would have thought), broccolli and potato and hipp organic baby cereals for breakfast. What a treat!

As the days and weeks pass I Introduced more fruits and vegetables some of which were bananas and avocado those with a thicker and more adventourous consistency. I found it getting easier now.

Week 5 6 and 7
the list continues including some organic  baby spelt porridge for breakfast. I add three feeds now leaving  spoonfulls of fruit with a cup of cooled boiled water  as the last food feed of the day as its lighter on their small tums.Of course before bed they snuggle up and resort back to their much loved last milk bottle of the day, bop bops as we call in our house – ooohdaah bop bop baby please don’t let me go!!!! From one of my hubbys westlife hits and off they go and rest their little heads another day filled with new tastes and experiences …..