Weaning Wednesdays: Useful utensils

The parent-in-laws have left for home, so life is slowly getting back to normal.  The house still looks like a disaster zone though, and we still have 2 more toilet cabinets that need to be fixed up.  Managed to get the wardrobe fixed up with the help of the FIL this morning, but the doors have yet to be fixed on yet.  Baby J has caught a cough from the MIL, and is pretty grumpy.  Add this to late nights and early mornings, along with fieldwork (today's weather was good, but I was baked alive out in the mangroves!), and you get one extremely tired and grumpy mama.  Oh well, I'm still blogging just to unwind before I sleep, while waiting for the in-laws to sms that they've reached home safely...

Oh yes!  Baby J has started to say "mama", instead of "mamamamawwaaaaaahhhhhh" which he used to do when he was tired and hungry.  Now he goes "mama... waahhhhhh, mama...."  I never knew how two simple syllables have the power to turn me from a raging grumpy woman to a very happy one!

So again, back to the topic of weaning.  We've added barley and carrots to the repertoire of foods for baby J, and he seems to like barley, and is pretty indifferent to carrots.  Right now, these websites have been extremely useful to me:
Wholesome baby foods: This site has EVERYTHING you need.  Recipes, food guides, nutrition information.
My friend's blog on weaning her son: This blog actually charts her entire journey for weaning, and describes in detail how she prepares the food and her son's reactions to the various meals she prepares.

And... we discovered the "Take and Toss" range from Learning Curve sometime back from Ariana's blog, Becoming Mom.  The whole range of feeding utensils are PVC, phthalate and BPA free, are recyclable, and are relatively inexpensive, which really appealed to us!  We're currently using the bowls with lids, which are very convenient to bring out and have 2 compartments, as well as the spoons, which fit just nice into baby J's mouth.  Initially though, as the spoons were made of harder plastic, we used the Tommee Tippee feeding spoons, which were slightly larger, but softer and hence won't hurt baby J's gums.  Both types of spoons change colour when the food is too hot, which is a boon!

And in terms of sippy cups, we tried the Tommee Tippee Easiflow cup since it won some award, but found that baby J had difficulty getting anything out of it!  Right now, the Take and Toss sippy cup works better for baby J, who loves to drink water from it...

Ok! That's it for today... Gotta go!