Adventures in Eating: You look away for a second...

This is what happens when you run to answer the door while feeding a baby sweet potato. I had set the bowl far enough away that she couldn't reach it. Well, she figured out if you pull the towel, things faraway get closer to you. I come back and she is covered in sweet potato. This pic does not do it justice. It's down her chest and all over her face. And of course she has the spoon in hand and is messily feeding herself. Good heavens, my child is a nut! She is also a smarty pants.



It was very not funny at the moment. But is slowly becoming funny.

Adventures in Eating: Peas Please

So it's been awhile. We have been busy around here. Lot's of things going on. Teething, croup, ear infection, etc. But we did let Zoe try some peas. She loved them for the first two days, but then decided nah! It could have been that she was not happy with a cooler temp. Who knows? Babies can be fickle, that's for sure.







We will be trying peas again soon. Up next carrots and butternut squash.

Adventures in Eating: The First Tooth

Zoe has her first tooth coming in! It is a little sharp ridge at the moment. It's still a little under the surface. I wanted to cry when I felt and saw it! My baby is growing up!

So to help relieve the teething discomfort I gave her a teething feeder with a frozen sweet potato cube inside. She loves sweet potato so this was totally right up her alley! She went to town on that thing and of course got it all over herself and everything around her.

This thing was an instant hit! She loved the coldness and it was safely enclosed in the mesh which she found that feeding herself this way was perfect for her.


Mmmmm, that cold sweet potato is great. Helps relieve the gum pressure!

Adventures in Eating: Super Baby Food By Ruth Yaron: Review 2 and Super Porridge Pics

Silly Face Girl

We are now past the 6 month mark so Zoe's eating adventures are branching out. We had our first Super Porridge from the Super Baby Food book. You would think that Super Porridge would be really difficult or complicated, but it's super easy. We use old fashioned rolled oats and water and viola! Of course there are a few more steps than that, lol.

I am really enjoying this book. The only draw back I see as we get older, is that the book is a little hard to read. Not too hard, but just a little bit. The recipes are somewhat dispersed throughout the book so it's a little bit hard to find them all. That's the only thing I would change.

I have also been looking at fun new websites for great additions to our recipe arsenal. I will share a few of them soon.

Ok, onto the cute baby pictures.

First Bite

Mmmmm, give that back

Content baby, full belly makes me happy

Do I have something on my face?

Adventures in Eating: Sweet potatoes for my sweet potato!

Little Ms. Ham getting ready for her first sweet potatoes! She has fallen in love with the camera!

First bite...
Hmmm, not sure...

Huh...
Oh yes Mommy! More please!

She has officially given up on rice cereal. Which is ok cause I have lots of new recipes to try out in the next few weeks.

She gobbled up one cube of homemade organic sweet potato, so I may move it up to two cubes tomorrow. We will see what she thinks.

Also, my apologies for my baby always being in just a diaper. I always said "my baby will never just run around in a diaper all day long!" Well between the Texas heat, acid reflux spit ups, and lots of diaper overflow (it's great that she is a consistent pee-er, but dang can we reel it in on the volume!), she stays pretty much onesie less. We were doing 4 to 5 wardrobe changes a day which was getting out of hand laundry wise.

Adventures in Eating: Rotovirus or something like it

Zoe's solid food feeding schedule has been pushed back again.

When I posted last about the rice cereal she had just started showing signs of diarrhea. She would have nasty bouts with it and would cry because it was causing horrible diaper rash. Poor baby! It broke our hearts to see her that way.

But it was odd. Other than the diarrhea and rash and the occasional refusal of food she was totally fine. No fever, very little spit up, happy most of the time, playful and alert. We had heard that teething can cause all her symptoms so we chalked it up to that.

Well yesterday Zoe was a little lethargic. She slept later than us which is extremely rare! In fact that never happens. So I went up to church, checked in to see about Sunday School (I teach the toddlers), saw I didn't have anyone then left and took her to urgent care.

Turns out she had a mild stomach bug (probably rotovirus, but it's hard to say) and she is now on the upswing of getting better. I maybe could have just waited it out as she was never dehydrated or anything, but for peace of mind, going to see a doctor was worth it.

That means no new solids for Zoe for a week. We will FINALLY start sweet potatoes next Monday. I'm so excited! I hate that we got so behind because of busyness. I can go on and on about the dangers of busyness, but that's for my other blog...