Oh, I'm sure shredding of any type other than using a machine to destroy your bank statements (not that I get bank statements - I'm ever-so green and do it all online) is Strictly Prohibited during pregnancy. Right? I hope that's right...
Just a quick clarification, too - when I said J could't be more of a boy, I didn't mean that girls only behave one way and boy t'other (nor am I saying that's what you thought I meant!) - just sort of that as far as the sterotypes go, he does kinda fit so far! That said, he seems to be gravitating to pink stuff lately (although yellow remains his firm favourite colour of choice) so maybe he's in touch with his feminine side too 
MissPent (your new username reminds me of a 'story' from my youth. Aged about 6, we were on a holiday in devon to one of those butlins type places (I remember it was called Ladbrookes but the mind boggles that it might be the same company that owns the bookies!) and there was a fancy dress for the kids... Mum made my little sister up as worzle Gummidge, and I as a 'beauty queen' (yellow bikini - stuffed in the bra department; utterly shocking and worthy of a call to social services these days!). I had a sash, too, with my name Miss Take. (you will be seein the 'joke' already that as a child, I did not..). CUt to the compare asking me what I'd come as. 'My Mum says I'm a Mistake' The whole hall of hundreds of adults pitying 'Awwwwwww'd me!). As more of an 'old fashioned' feeder, with a little of blw thrown in, my advice goes against everything already said! James has had stages like Isobel, deciding lumps were not for him after all, and infact he didn't want a whole jar anymore when he'd been happily scoffin the whole thing for days on end. He's has only just moved up to the stage 3, 10month jars. What I tended to do when he was not liking hte lumps again (which would be when he was poorly, or teething, mostly) is to mash them up a tad more with a fork so they're less 'lumpy' and more 'textured'. When he was really ill with his cough and barely eating, I just stepped back a 'stage' (so back to stage one at that point) and he'd accept those. I only ever give him organic stuff and pay attention to the labels - the Organix jars, for some od reason, the calorific value of those is always a good 20-25% less than, say, the Hipp ones. When James is having an off day or two, I try to stick to the higher calorie stuff.
Whenever DP and I eat (be it at home or out) J usually gets a bite of everything we have and sips of our drinks (most often orange juice! But today he did get a glug of chocolate milk )
I guess what I'm really saying is that although there should, and needs, to be an overall progression, to take a few steps forward and then one back is not anything to worry about. And, particularly if they're poorly/teething, equate it to how we feel ourselves - if we're ill and lose our appetite, some soup is sometimes a) enough and b) comforting in it's simplicity and ease to just swallow without all that chewing business. Our wee ones must surely have some feelings connected to food even if they're not as complex as our own.
Which ever way you move forward, good luck - it WILL all work out, one way or t'other