Joy to the world!

[susie_flo]

Forgive me, fiends, but I am a right slushy moo this evening.
  
I was walking home from Twickers feeling like jollity personified with a bag full of xmas doggy treats from the pound shop and some delicious dinner from Waitrose and me skipping along singing songs to the world's cutest baby, whose little red nose was peeping out from his fleece blanket and his snowflake hat and the hand-knitted cardie from sara_lou's mum and his fluffy boxing glove mittens...  and I realised that I was about as insufferably cheerful as a person could be.
    
It may have helped that I was thinking about our upcoming xmas holiday whilst walking down a road full of the most beautiful xmas decs...  a total winter wonderland, with someone roasting chestnuts and the smell following me down the road like some sort of xmas-mania-inducing crack.
  
Then I arrived home and Micro had some daddy cuddles and then I decided that it was time to have another go at feeding him some solids.  He hasn't been taking very well so far to the variety of purees I've concocted or the organic handwoven cereals, but - my god - the boy has just gone NUTS for a Farley's Rusk dissolved in milk.  He ate the lot and still had room for pureed pear afterwards.  I had a taste and it is weirdly delicious.  (I think I may have just fed him the fat and sugar equivalent of a happy meal. Oh dear.  This does not bode well for my broccoli puree.)
   
Maybe I will actually get on and write my xmas cards this evening ...and light the fire and get sloshed on mulledy wulledy.  I am so damned festive - just call me Charles Meanie-cat DIckens.
 
Meanwhile, somebody is not in bed.  Who is not in bed?  Iggle Piggle is not in bed.  Don't worry Iggle Piggle,  It's time to go...
  

Comments

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Farley's Rusks in Milk = Manna from Heaven :-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Yes, I said to G to feed it to me the next time I am ill and want comfort food

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

It is a long time since I have had any - I used to treat myself to a box every now and then when I was a student. But now I am reminded of their loveliness I might get myself some for xmas :-)

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

I remember totally adoring farley's rusks as a very young child - yum. Shame you're supposed to grow out of it ;-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I think I liked them as a kid, too. (Which means my mum must have carried on buying them long after we were babies!)

[chiller.livejournal.com]

This sounds lovely. Farley's Rusks are made of WIN (I still very occasionally buy myself a packet - about once every five years, but still...); and I thought green veg was one of the things tiny babies find unpalatable because their tastebuds are more sensitized to bitterness than our adult ones, so green things don't taste good? Anyway, perhaps I am remembering that incorrectly, but if not, that would be why he's not into the broccoli (but will probably approve of carrot).

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Yes he does like carrot, though not as much as rusk!

You are right of course. My baby weaning books urge the inclusion of green stuff, or in fact any veg you can get hold of, as a sort of tasting training. (I wouldn't be surprised if the broccoli has made him suspicious of my purees though!)

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can sneak a tiny bit of broccoli in with the carrot? I dono, broccoli is such an acquired taste - I am ancient and still don't really like it because of its bobbly texture! (I do eat it, though, out of a sense that it's morally necessary or something.)

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

I read something (may have been just a theory) that said babies and young children dislike/avoid bitter tastes because poisonous plants often taste bitter and so it's an evolutionary adaptation to avoid accidental poisoning. Younger kids like non-bitter vegetables like carrots and peas just fine. Older kids and adults have to learn to like bitter tastes - how many kids like coffee, for example?