Ethan

I do worry about Ethan.

I worry about his eating habits; how he only seems to live on rice and gravy and nothing else.  Well, he takes hard-boiled eggs on occasion, but it really depends on his mood.  No other form of protein, and if we’re lucky, just a few small pieces of meat and that’s it.

Lately, his daycare giver says that he has taken a liking to Mac-n-Cheese, and would eat a LOT at daycare, but when I prepare Mac-n-Cheese for him at home, he wouldn’t even taste it!  Not even if it’s Mic-a-roni and Cheese, i.e Mac-n-Cheese made with Mickey and Friends pasta shapes.

I worry that he is not getting any fiber in his body.  He does not like vegetables, although he basically knows the names of all the vegetables I put on the table.  Sometimes he even makes a special request to ask me to buy carrots or broccoli when we go grocery shopping.  But eating it is a no-no.

As for fruits, he will only take apples now.  His love for bananas has also waned.  I once tried whipping up a chocolate banana milkshake to entice him, but he only took a few sips of it.

We are trying to jazz up his Pediasure nowadays, using colorful straws and cups.  Works some of the time…I also make a batch of Pediasure and chill it in the fridge for his evening consumption.  Whatever goes in, I am thankful.

Despite all this though, our Ethan is still very much active all the time, full of energy and always making us laugh.

Things he won’t turn down?  Ice cream and yogurt…is it any wonder why this yogurt freeze from the Ikea Deli managed to *entertain* his taste buds so well? 🙂

Yesterday morning, I had the perfect opportunity to do some baking because Hannah decided to sleep in till 11:00a.m. or so.  I had seen these yummy Milo doggie cookies baked by Angie and Hooi Ling, and after I was done salivating, I found out that the recipe actually originates from Happy Home Baking’s Horlicks doggie cookies recipe!  Since the only Milo I have here is the 3-in-1 variety and hence not suitable, and since I have some Horlicks brought from Malaysia, I decided to bake some of these cute doggie cookies.

With no electrical mixer available, I relied on my trusty wooden spoon where I had to manually stir and mix the cookie mixture.  It look okay by my standards, not lumpy or anything!

The first batch of cookies turned out way bigger than I had imagined.  I must have used too much cookie dough.  They looked more like fat doggies…hehe… No Koko Krunch here either, so I used Cocoa Pebbles instead, resulting in smaller doggie ears. LOL

I managed to bake 39 cookies in all, although the recipe had estimated 48.  Nevertheless, the cookies smelled fantastic!  And they were very crunchy too…tasted a lot like those typical Chinese New Year cookies, y’know?  Good thing about these cookies is that it’s not too sweet, with the sweetness coming only from the chocolate chips!

I love baking homemade cookies because I’d know exactly what goes into them.  With Ethan loving cookies so much, it’s a fantastic idea to make nutritious cookies for him.  And like Happy Homebaker whom I got the recipe from, I would want to find that ideal cookie recipe with the right balance of nutrition, wholesome goodness and great taste too!

These Horlicks cookies called for some milk powder too, and I’d used Pediasure for that 🙂

Ethan made quite a mess last night when he ate doggie cookie after doggie cookie.  The crumbly nature of the cookie caused that, and he preferred to bite off a little at a time, and lick the chocolate chip (nose of the doggie)!