What to give? Food choices

In the recent months, Yanis's growth is stable but it seems his choices of food is getting bad. I am not a healthy buff with the kind of food his eating as long as his eating something. I guess my problem is, I wanted my son to eat more in quantity not quality. He look to be satisfied with less and there's no difference about how less or big his intake were. It never change his mood and physical activity. All I see, his very active and he knows what he want only that, the bad part is his very selective.

I asked a few moms that I know who has children that are a a few months older than Yanis and the way they are eating is like the same with Yanis but they are more heavier. My son is quite the slender, never get to that chubby cheek stage. His too thin.

I know I have to do something to let him get back to increase his weight. 1-3 years old they need Fat in their development and if my boy lacks those he might have lost that opportunity. I hated that fact and wish with him it's not the case.

One thing for sure, I miss to give him his supplement. The doctor didn't really recommend it unless we wanted to. I should start giving him his polyvisol vitamins again which he didn't really make fun of. He hated the smell and absolutely disliked the taste.

I think his up this month for a check up or I believe I have to call the doctor's office to make an appointment. With all the international travels and local travels we did, somehow it challenged his taste buds, and my mind just can't concentrate which event would come first. It's all twisted in vain.

Anyway, what I am looking for if there's someone out there who can suggest their meals for their picky eaters. Aside from fruits and vegetables, what other choices would you recommend or that work for your children. I wish to know some answers and greatly appreciates if there is one.

20th Month Update

Wow I can't believe it how days have gone fast. 6 months of no update here. But I will tell you, everything is good with Yanis. His such a blessing to us and his presence complete our whole existence.

So for his update, his growing a bit small on average of his age which typically happens with a preemie. But they said they could have a growth spurt that occur in their lifetime which right now I am not seeing yet. His growth is slow and weight is less. His still less than 20 lbs. Even if his thin and small, his pretty much so healthy. The eating habit is quite bad as of this time. Well, it did change when we flew internationally that brought his taste buds into a different state. His interested to eat anything but the portion isn't that great. I have to keep on searching what kind of food he really like. What's happening right now is, if he like one food today he won't budge with it after a few days. So it's quite a challenge at this point. He drink 24oz of milk though plus juice and smoothie. I made sure I give him my own cocktail of smoothie so he can get all the necessary vitamins he can't get from food. Fruit, Vegetable and protein in one cocktail so it's the best way for him to get it and he seemed to enjoy it.

As for height and thickness, I think his 28 inches ( gush I have to check his paperwork LOL ) and skinny.  His not malnourished. I don't agree because he has no problem with health. His very active, play all his toys with passion, talking and laughing, dancing and singing and very interactive. I am happy of my boy and I wish him to be a good boy when he grow up. That's what I am hoping for.

13th Month Update

Oh my golly! I haven't posted anything for so long. I am MIA for couple of months now. Being a mom is a wonderful blessing. No doubt about it, completed my whole being. Sometimes I wish that I could have a help here to watch my son. The problem with that is, I am hesitant to have a stranger in my house and really the trust issue is my ordeal. I am not willing to take that risk yet. Also, financially we are just depending on the husband, I wanted to used that money for a baby sitter to something else.

This past months Yanis' growth and development is doing good. We had his appointment early October and everything is good. There are some issues that I am working on with him but his okay. Nothing about delay. I was expecting too much from the little guy and comparing him to others that achieved earlier progress physically.

His not walking yet, just recently doing his 4 steps which is quite an achievement for him. I was glad I caught it on camera. The physical training his doing now can take so much of my time and I barely spend a time to do much for myself. He needed attention and play time. His a very active little man. I have to watched him closely. I may doing it more than he should but on that aspect the husband wanted me to do it regularly. So I do agree watching him closely can prevent and avoid any mishaps or accident so I did it. But I tell you, it's a lot of work and taking so much of my energy.

He did get sick though when we went to the Philippines. He got the bug first and I got his and my hubby got mine. We were all sick for more than a week. I was the one who got the worst bug but eventually I got rid of it by constantly drinking lots of fluid and medicine. Yanis was having the bug and he was teething too. Poor little fella. His first 2 teeth though came to appear after the trip and it was rapidly sprouting lol. Now he got 5 and I believe 2 is going to come out soon. His appetite would change every time and his nose would leak too. I don't know why his nose would leak but it happened. Coincidence maybe, but surely I saw it. The weird thing is his first 2 teeth was one at the bottom and upper. Strange but I asked the doctor about it and she said infant teeth just appear every where there's no text book to say which one would go first.

His babbling a lot and he speak a lot of words. It's very pleasant to the ear how this little guy voice range can fill up the room lol. Of course not the whining and twisting but when his talking on his own words. I just loved his voice.

Music is his thing as well. He likes to dance to an upbeat song. During our travel, we have noticed how he reacted to the different sounds and his feeling every rythm by moving his lower body and moving his arms in the air when he likes a song. He also snapped his thumb and point finger following me when I like to jam to a song. Though you can't really tell what his doing but if you look at closely, this trying to copy what you are doing. My boy is like a sponge.

This will be it for now. I will try to do more update in a few days. And also will share photos from his first birthday party.. Promise!

2015 Pumpkin Patch - this is just today's whereabout. Went out to a farm and he was having a blast with the hays.

11 month Update

Here it goes another month had passed and it's almost a year since I delivered my miracle baby. His 11 months now and time flies indeed. Yanis is doing great. His a smart boy. I am lucky and blessed to have him in my life. No greater feeling than to be a mother of an angel. Despite the sleepless nights, no matter how tiring my days could be, seeing him with his smile and laughter can take all of it. There's nothing to compare the joy he brings to my life.

His so mobile during photo session. I took this photo with so many tries since he cant sit still. I am glad I got at least a few good ones. The thing with him, every new thing he finds it amusing and likes to touch and feel it. You can't have him seat and relax. His very active little boy.

He doesn't have any full grown teeth yet. His bottom tooth is still peaking. I thought by this time it will come out but it didn't. I still love the toothless gummy smile. I don't worry so much. The doctor told me not to worry about it.

He does still cruise by the furniture and walls. His afraid getting off balance. I tried to check on him so he can practice walking alone but instead he will just sit. His not confident yet. Well, due to the fact he had fall a few times and it scared him. I hope one of these days he will try and do it. I know it will be fast when it happen. I am not sure if I can get in time for photos lol..

The second week of my Preemie ( 36 weeker )

I know I posted today simultaneously. I forgot to post the first week video last week. Even so, I hope you could be entertained by this.

The second week was a breeze for us with my husband. Though we didn't get much sleep because we constantly check Yanis body temp, we did get down to regulate this temperature. He was doing good and the progress we saw in him was fantastic.

Here's the recap:

The first week of my Preemie ( 36 weeker )

This was a project that my husband wanted. A 30 days video of our son. Majority of the speeches, comments, interaction over video was done by my husband. With so little time and no help from family, it's hard for me to edit and post something. Now that baby Yanis is getting longer sleep, I have some time now to create and hopefully posts his progress week by week. I still have a lot of editing until I can get to the present happening but in the mean time, I hope you will take time to check out this video.