Mio’s favorite song seems to be å…Žã®ãƒ€ãƒ³ã‚¹ (Usagi no Dansu, or The Dance of the Rabbit), a Japanese children’s song, which I’ve been singing to her from when she was born. Lately, she starts jumping up and down to the song in her jumper whenever I sing it or play it from a CD for her. Here’s some footage we captured of Mio hopping up and down to the music, as if she were a rabbit herself!
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Last night, I was eating some sherbet in an ice cream cone when Mio suddenly started trying to grab at my treat. I don’t know if it was the colorful colors (it was watermelon-flavored, so it was bright green and red), or how deliciously I was eating it, but no matter how much I’d try to pull it away, she’d keep going for it.
I suppose this is one of those signs that they tell you to watch for of when your baby is ready to start solids, but Dan and I are on the fence. We had been thinking of waiting until Mio turned six months, since we read that starting solids on the earlier side can lead to a higher risk of the child developing food allergies as well as obesity issues later in life. For now, we’re thinking of sticking with our plan to not introduce solids until she’s closer to six months of age. She will have decades to eat lots of yummy food, so waiting a couple more months shouldn’t hurt.
For now, Mio will just have to be satisfied with milk and attempts to eat her stuffed animals:
On a completely unrelated note, here are a couple photos of Mio playing with some of her older toddler friends this past weekend:
20 Weeks Old.
Mio turned 20 weeks old today! 🙂
Brioche with Chocolate Ganache
My adventures in baking brioche continue: my latest concoction is brioche with chocolate ganache! I made it recently from the brioche dough I had left over from making bostock, and I once again used a recipe from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day. The dough recipe from this book creates the softest and flakiest brioche, and the best part is that it’s so easy! No kneading at all. If you are a chocoholic like me, you must try this recipe!
It was like eating a big fat chocolate croissant! But if you choose to make it, make sure to devour immediately. We ate it over the course of a few days, and towards the end, it started to taste a little dry. But like I said, if you love chocolate, you won’t want to pass this up!