Anna glad to hear your mum is settling. It must be such an emotional time, I can't even imagine. I hope that, after visiting your mum, you get to take an hour in a cafe with a nice coffee and the paper on your own while your DH is with DS. And if not you should!
I'm really pleased with DD2's eating, she's taking and tasting everything really well now, but because she had quite a strong gag relux I don't want to overfeed her too much of one thing - that can sometimes be overpowering.
So last night they both had lentil curry with tomato, spinach, carrot and cauliflower, and then I made them a smoothie of banana, coconut milk, dates, and almond butter which they were crazy about (I thought it could have been improved only with a dash of rum and some ice, but you know).
We don't normally do desserts here either but I have lately been spoiling the DDs rotten with all of the lovely summer fruit, strawberries especially. The other day they had Greek yoghurt with strawberries and Dd1 had some toasted almond flakes on hers. Somebody mentioned the doughnut peaches upthread - those are the best baby food ever, must try and get some! I think Lidl usually has some.
lady I don't know what peekaboo is, but IME if you work on the settling for naps and bedtime, that itself is a huge help. I really don't think dd2 could go 12 hours without a feed yet. obviously she wouldn't physically expire, but it would be an awful lot to ask of her. But she had a great night* last night, down at 7.30pm, just two very quick feeds at 11.30 and 4.50 and up for the day at 7am.
*Disclaimer: She did have neurofen because the second tooth is just cutting through..