Really confused about weaning!?

With my son, who is now 10 months, I pureed EVERYTHING. He took to it veryvery well and i loved the factthat i could freeze everything in ice cube trays (1 cube is toughly oz of food). However when i then tried to introduce mashed up food (with a little more texture) I had alot of trouble and he would not take to it at all. He eventually refused to eat all together and lost alot of weight. I looked up alot of stuff online and came across 'baby lead weaning' and although it may have been a little late (he was 7 months old at this time) i started to let him pick at finger food all day and just try things for himself. He now eats what i would call 'toddler food' so basically, everything that me and my partner would eat just cut up smaller. He is now 10 months old and weighs 24lb!! I think that next time round, to save alot of hastle and distress, i would go with the baby lead weaning route of finger foods xxx