The Adventures in Homemade Baby Food Continues!
We went baby food crazy this morning!
Okay.
I went crazy this morning.
There are now 6 batches freezing. Two are in the fridge, still in the blender cups, waiting for the ice cube trays to be free. That's 7 different types. 5 new flavors or combos along with two that she really loved that we'd run out of. And, I'm not even done with the ingredients I bought!
Today we've got:
- Yellow Squash & Rice (cereal); A past favorite!
- Carrots & Yellow Squash; Another past winning combo.
- Green Beans; A brand new veggie.
- Banana Apple; New combo.
- Nutmeg Butternut Squash; She loves one squash, we'll try another.
- ABC's- Avacado, Banana & Carrot; Nutritious new combo.
- Carrot, Apple & Rice (cereal) Another new combo.
I have quite a stash of other yummy stuff to make, but we'll see how fast I can get through it, my dad comes to visit in a couple days!! It will be his first time meeting Cassandra. I know that is one of the reasons he came back to the states. He has lived in Thailand for many years now, where he teaches English as a foreign language at a University in Petchaburi.
She graduated to size 2 diapers today!
I can't believe it!
We had a big day today.
Lunch at Old Chicago, half price slushes at Sonic and visiting Jenny at Rejenerations. Cassandra got a her-size Baby Tugs Care Bear Talking Plush! I also picked out a cute chunky ring for the first piece to put in her jewelry box. We also stopped in at Best Buy since we were in the area and Tim treated himself and his girls to a few movies. Gravity, Frozen and Gremlins have now joined our collection!
Tiny somehow managed to push her self up to a sitting position from her tummy tonight! If I hadn't been watching I wouldn't have believed it! She had her legs tucked under her like she was going to try to push herself up to maybe crawl, but they were so far under her this time that when or at least while she pushed herself up on her arms her butt stayed planted on the floor. She didn't sit straight up but pretty close. She was sitting! She then tried to take her weight off of one arm and fell right over. So it only lasted moments. But it was AWESOME!
Bang. Bang. Bang. Go the toys against the tray on her booster seat. Bang. Bang. BurRRRRP. Bang.
It was the enormous burp that made me turn back to look at her from glancing up and to the side at the computer next to me. She had both of the cup holder liners out and was banging them quite happily together and against the tray. She had the toy dropped into her lap, temporarily forgotten in her excitement. That is when I noticed remains of her dinner. At least the blueberry proportion of it. Everywhere. On her purple embroidered Batman bib. On her face. Cheeks. Nose. Right next to her eye. She either had some still in her mouth after I cleaned her up or clenched in one of her tiny hands. I'm pretty sure I cleaned her hands.
But, there she was. Blueberry all over. Wearing her cute purple dress that I made out of a tank top I bought at Goodwill for $1 and a purple Batman bib. Playing with the purple cup.
Purple EVERY where!
I told her that I should rename her Blueberry and she did her laugh that ends in spitting. Much like a raspberry. So my little blueberry girl gave me the raspberry.
My day is now complete.
p.s.
Yes. That is Food Network playing in the background. It is currently our favorite channel. Tonight we were watching Chopped, while waiting for Grey's Anatomy to come on.
p.p.s.
We had a pretty fun day visiting Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Nick in the morning. Tiny Viking fell asleep right before we were about to leave and when grandma said to just leaver her there. We did. It was very odd but kind of fun to go to lunch just the two of us. I leave you with this picture of the actual successful hand off of the sleeping baby:
When I got up this morning I handed my baby girl to her daddy for their morning play time and began a quick check of things on my Android phone. If nothing is urgently needing my attention I don't turn on my laptop until later in the day. Nothing in my email to catch my interest. No new sales to take care of from either eBay or Etsy. So, I sat done at the edge of my chair to scroll through Facebook and stumbled upon some of the worst news you can ever see. A very good friend of mine from High School has passed away. I stood at her wedding two and a half years ago.
My goal was to type longer, more interesting posts. But today I just can't.
I love you Jamie.
It is extremely funny to me that groceries is one of the few things I actually enjoy shopping for yet most of the time I HATE shopping with my husband. Tiny Viking and I usually stay at home, unless I am restless to get out of the house and walk around. Anyway...
For a semi recent grocery trip, I gathered up coupons and made a list for things we wanted and needed. Tim went on his way and came back with more than I'd asked for! I wanted soup. And, WOW did he bring home soup!
These are some of the NEW Campbell's soups I've tried now and what I think of them:
Healthy Request Grilled Chicken & Sausage Gumbo Soup. - The original Chunky version is one of my favorite soups EVER. This one was both way too spicy and very bland at the same time. Spicy in the sense that my mouth was on fire after two bites but everything I love about the original was just not there. I was very disappointed. Not sure what I'll do with the other two cans of it.
Soup on the Go Cheesy Chicken Tortilla. - I could eat this every day. I absolutely loved it. I really want to sing praises for this one but I think it can speak for itself. HIGHLY recommended!!
Soup on the Go Cheesy Potato with Bacon Flavor - One of the worst soups I've ever had the misfortune of trying. All I could taste with every sip was fake bacon flavoring. Maybe because I had such high hopes it made my disappointment in this one worse, either way a dozen or so sips was all I could handle and it just got dumped down the drain. Sorry Campbell's go back to the drawing board with this one.
For anyone curious the Soup on the Go flavors Chicken & Noodles and Cream of Chicken are very tasty as well. In the Chunky style I really enjoy their Steak & Potato and Fajita Chicken with Rice & Beans.
I think I watch WAY too much Food Network! I critique everything I eat now. Soup is what's on my mind tonight. Hopefully this helps someone out there find new flavors to try!
