While all of you are puckering up to your special loved one this Valentine’s Day, Belén would like to point out that puckering is as natural as sunshine.
In fact, puckering is a perfectly instinctual response to banana, peach, raspberry baby food, which is, indeed, is pucker-worthy.
Sunday Andy made guacamole at the worse possible time. I had logged 37 miles of running for the week including six HARD miles earlier that day in an effort to training my body to run tired. Lunch had worn off and I was hungry for dinner. That is when he brought out the crackamole.
I need to come clean. I am a total freak about formula. Why, you may ask? ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON! It is one of those things that I got in my head I wasn’t going to do and haven’t thought much about it since until now when I am only pumping 5-7 oz. at lunch and each day that I do it I have been wondering how much longer I can really keep it up.
Now that she is nearly nine months old almost all food with the exception of milk, honey, eggs and nuts are viable feeding options. We have not explored most of the non-vegetable/fruit options but intend to start doing so. Sunday night we were at Highland Hollow with my parents and we decided to let her try a mushy fry and bite off pieces of a saltine cracker. It was a full-blown feeding adventure. We even dipped the partial fry in catchup. Welcome to American eating culture, Belén.
The best part about beets (besides the nutritional benefits) is the pictures. They look like a baby version of CSI sans creepy bugs.
Purchasing a high chair and bib.
Belén is now accepting solid foods and even seems to like them.
A rough October, with the difficulty of a working mom comes to a close.
Sunday we made baby food out of squash using our BabyCook and prepared vegetable stuffed portabella mushrooms for dinner.
We did it. We tried introducing solid foods. It wasn’t what I would call a success the first time around, but we gave it a go.
Andy bought this rice cereal at the grocery store. My only specification was that it is not Gerber and ideally organic. I think I mentioned, I morally disagree with Nestlé’s [...]
