1st Attempt making puree for cubbies

Cubbies has started on solid on their 7mth birthday.

They had been on rice cereal for a week. Time to introduce new taste/food.
Many websites recommend serving pears or sweet potatoes puree as baby first solid (after rice cereal) because these foods have natural sweetness which is easily acceptable by babies.

However, cubbydaddy is not around these few days to help in buying the ingredients. So, I just have to start them off with whatever ingredients that I can find in the fridge.
The 2 types of fruits which I found are Apples & Mango.  Since there are also websites that had introduce Apple Puree as 1st Food, I just start my 1st puree making with apples.

Apple Puree Recipe

Apples - I used 4 apples in this recipe

Steam for 10-15mins

Peel off the skin & cut into small chunks

Put cooked apples into the blender

Blend the chunks into smooth paste, add some water for easy & smoother blending

After blending

Serve warm, add luke warm water for slightly watery texture

Cool the remainder in ice cube tray,
Put the tray into a ziplock bag, frozen the puree,
Remove the frozen puree from the tray & store it in freezer (up to 2mths)

Cubbies Reaction towards Apple Puree

Hung

1st spoon: Frown

2nd spoon: Still frown

Following spoons: Frown, but still opens his mouth when spoon is near. Less anticipation as compare rice cereal

Syuen

1st spoon: Frown

2nd spoon: Less frown

Following spoons: Seems enjoying the new taste.

Juin

1st spoon: Frown, shiver

2nd spoon: Frown with mouth opening very small

Following spoon: Refuse to continue.... 

CubbyAngel's findings:

Smell: smells good during steaming & blending

Taste: sweet & slightly sour taste, may be due to the type of apple. Should try dark red apples as well

Texture: very smooth after blending, however there might be still some fibrous in the puree

Appearance: creamy colour, I was expecting it to turn brown, but it did not.

Triplet is sick

Found cubby juin feverish when fed him at 4am.

Wipe him with wet towel fr head to toe. Paste a cool patch on his forehead. Took off his long pants, change his long sleeve shirt to short sleeve.

He is still very active & chit chat with me for an hour plus. Breastfed him & hope he'll be able to sleep.

Hope he'll feel better tmr.

Triplets' Sleep Pattern 2

Cubbies all have their individual sleeping style & pattern.

Cubby Hung - he had just started learning to "bulldoze" (pushing forward with his head on the ground). Whenever he's sleepy, he will start to bulldoze from one end of the bed to the other end. He will only stops when his head kept pushing against something. He will then lay down to rest.

Cubby Syuen - quite independant, once he's sleepy, he wants to be put onto the bed. Not so much of carrying to sleep. If he's not put onto the bed, he will cries & scream.

Little cubby Juin - he's active and full of energy. He will not rest if he's still full of energy. Hence, we need to give him lots of kickings and jumpings during the day in order to use up his energy. However, if he's too active, he refuse to rest even when he's sleepy. He will keep on jumping till he is over-tired & exhausted. When this is the case, he will be extreamly fusy and refuse to calm down. So, we'd to be very observant. Once, he has shown sign to sleepy such as yawning/rubbing his eyes, we need to begin calming him down. Way to calm him down: cubby-angel's hug & singing. 'twinkle twinkle little star' is d no.1 song in calming him.