We had a bit of a tiring week, Yannick had a VERY sore throat. He was whiny a lot and didn't sleep well unless I gave him pain killers - poor mite. We went to see the doctor who said among other things that Yannick probably wasn't eating very well right now. Strange thing is that he actually ate quite well, despite the sore throat. What he didn't do was drinking. Things are better now and the drinks are slowly beginning to go down again.

Yannick still hates seeing to the doctor. After all of those shots at age one I'm not really surprised. A while ago I got him a book about going to the doctor, which by pure co-incidence was about a little boy with a sore throat. So Yannick knew all the instruments, the little torch to look into the ears and the stethoscope. Yet, it didn't help. He actually cried almost in panic when the very, very friendly doctor got closer to examine him a little. We didn't get any antibiotics and I was quite happy about that as I don't like to use them too often, instead we got a homoeopathic medicine. That was on Wednesday and today the sore throat seems to be almost completely gone! Yippee!

The strangest thing that's happening is that Yannick all of a sudden is eating cooked vegetables. He seems to like sauce of puréed vegetables with his rice and he's even eating mushrooms and green beans when I cut them into small pieces. I think it all started when my sister tried this African recipes with prawns in spinach (an interesting spice mix goes into this, with cinnamon, thyme, cumin, coriander powder and coconut milk). Yannick loves prawns and the spinach was just a green sauce clinging to them so he ate them, completely disregarding the sauce. At some point he must have realised that the yummy taste came from the sauce rather than the prawns and only wanted to eat rice with sauce and no prawns! Just a little while back there was no way I would get any vegetables into him, not even the puréed stuff. I love it when changes like this one happen!