Food Food, and more FOOD!

Well I've been a cooking maniac! I love it though and really enjoy it! I've been steaming and cooking lots of food for the baby! The other night when we made pumkins, I decided to get a pie pumkin and cook it and make some for the baby. We haven't tried it yet ( we're giong to today) but it was fun to make. I just backed the pumkin, and then scooped out the " meat " and then mixed in a little butter, and cinnamon, and pureed it with a little milk. Melissa and I ate what was left over. ( minus the milk of course!)  I love making her food! To know that she's getting the purest freshest food, mixed with the best milk in the world for her is the greatest feeling! And what we don't freeze for her I eat. hehe.

So here we have pumpkin, sweet potatos, pears and squash in the bags. And in the popsicles I just pureed blueberries with milk, and some kiwi's with milk, and just milk by it'self . These will be a yummy treat for her, and are great for teething days ( especially when she won't eat!) 

On most days I just feed her fresh food for breakfast like avacado  and i've started mixing it with some of the other things like, pears as you see here! That way she's getting all of the benefits of the avacado, but the pears just make it taste yummy! Pears will also help keep her regulated :) When starting solids this is always a concern! I will also hard boil her some eggs and scoop the yolk out of them and mix it with her milk and she loves that! It's a little harder on her tummy so I only do this every few days for that much needed iron, and protein.

She absolutely loves eating her new foods!
MMMMMMMMM.....

 Opening wide for another bite!!

 forget waiting I'll go for it myself!

 What's funner than playing with my food?!

 I can even do it myself!!!!!

She is definetely getting the hang of it. She knows when it's time to eat, and gets very excited! She will get frustrated if you don't get her the bite fast enough. And as you can see in the photo above, if you wipe her mouth, she will try and eat it as your trying to wipe her mouth, it's so funny!

So besides baby food, I've been making lots of other things that I don't usually make. I will soon be attempting to make some pumpkin pie cheesecake from a real pumpkin, and I can't wait! I made home made veggie soup ( alot of it ) and it was SOOOO yummy. I didn't even have any to freeze for later!

I bought these cookies from the neighbor girl, they are chunky chocolate brownie fudge cookies. I'm not sure what is in them exactly but I know that we made 2 dozen, and this was all that was left that same day

No really, I think I ate like 10 of them! O M G! Can we say TUB-TUB???

My husband loves pumpkin seeds from the pumpkins that we carve.

so I told him to call his mom ( who always makes them for him) and get her recipe and I will make some. So he gave me the jest of what she does, and I did some research and decided how long to cook and all that. They turned out really yummy BUT for the 1st time since we've been married for 4 years, I got the " They aren't like my mom's" line. Well I was under the impression that they are suppose to be crispy ( like they are when you buy them!) so I cooked them for about an hour on 250. Well the next day he tells me that he ask his mom and it's suppose to be on 325 for 20 minutes. Well YEAH that's gonna make a difference in the texture of them. So. No more pumkin seed cookin for me! LOL.  But we eat them anyways. :-) And it was fun, but too much work!

All in all, I enjoy creating and learning new meals. I'm constantly calling my mama for recipes ( which hubby LOVES) There's nothing like " mama's cooking"

lil punkin' eater!

Oh what a FUN week we had. Jonathan, Melissa and baby Collis' came over to carve pumkins with us this last week. We had a great time. I made some home made veggie soup ( Thanks MOM!) and some cookies

And we dug in and got our hands dirty with some pumpkins! Well, I didn't actually get to do one, but everyone else did, and it was still fun!

Our pumpkins before carving.

 She can already tell this is going to be so much fun and we haven't even opened them yet!!!

 Not yet!

 

We decided that she would really LOVE to play in the pumkin guts! Oh, she loved it!

Guess what all this pumkin gut playing means? Yep you guessed it! A nice long BATH!

She's decided that she isn't going to be conventional and sit in the tub seat like she's suppose to. Why not make it a nice lounge chair??

Finished products. Transformers- Jonathan (surprise??) Baby binky, Ghost- Melissa, and the skull was Scott's.

We've decided that we're going to make this a annual tradition! I'm so excited that we'll have another 6 month old next year to join us. ( NO NOT MINE!) We are also going to do gingerbread houses in December. Melissa and I will do this and make the boys watch the baby this time!

MMMMy first food! ( Kinda)

Well we got OK'd by the doctor to start Anisten on solids. I haven't went to the whole foods store yet to pick her anything up yet, but we had some baby cereal here. I don't plan to give her this normally. I'll do avacados, and egg yolk with her mommy milk in it. These are whole fatty (in a good way ) foods. She could use them! We will start with those once a day, and then go on to add a second feeding a day with veggies. I will start with carrots, squash, maybe some sweet taters. And just add these in and mix them up. We aren't going to do fruits too much now. Babies end up liking the fruits too much and wont eat anything else after that. So we'll do veggies and next month I will start doing some chicken puree, and from there add fruits on a regular basis. I will however mix in some apples or bannanas every so often with her avacados, b/c atleast then she is still getting alot of the SOLID part of it.

So here is my disclaimer, which I will be sending out in an email to all my family etc. I don't mind if you feed her fruits and such, b/c I know that you all will be excited to feed her too. I do ask that if you plan to give her something that you puree it ( unless it is something like a bannanna that's soft and can be mixed with her baby milk) and I ask that it's atleast preservative free. The whole reason that I'm not doing jarred baby food is b/c I would like to keep her from having the preservatives that are in them. So it kinda defeats the purpose of that if we just go and grab some fruit from walmart that is loaded with horomones, dyes, and perservatives. Since we're starting her on this new journey, I want to be able to control what goes in to her little body! And to know what she may or may not be allergic to incase she has a reaction. So that being said it should be fun now. I will make some batches of baby food and freeze them and send them with her anyways when she comes to visit!!!

So last night we mixed her up some cereal and milk, and she loved it! We gave her a few bites and then after that, she decided she didn't want any more. So she played in it.

Reaching for more!

 She can hear and kind of see the tv, we were still mixing it up for her. I decided to give her her own spoon so that she wouldn't try to take the one out of my hand!

 oh yeah! That's good stuff!!

Well she got the spoon from Mommy's hand! I put some on her tray so she could try it out herself. 

 mmmmmmm

 This is where she started spitting alot of it out.

 She really likes to do it herself. Miss independant! 

 This is my favorite picture!!!!!!!!- We're nearing the end. It's all coming back out and it's alllllll over her face!

 Bath time!

We captured it on video too. It's so cute. We look forward to doing all these new things with her. We're also teaching her sign language. Now is a great time to begin!

Disney on Ice, and mmmm the fair!

 

We went to the fair last Thursday. We got some tickets to see Disney on Ice. We thought the baby would love it, and we were beyond right. She sat watching sooooo intently!

There was so much for her to look at. All the colors. My pictures for this aren't great, I forgot my camera at home, so they are all taken from my phone. Almost all my pics are taken from my phone, but it doesn't do well with anything moving, so alot of them are blurry.

The CARS on Ice. These were REALLY cool! Of course TOW-mater was super funny!

 Little Mermaid was GORGEOUS. They did such a good job with this. Very cool. There were bubbles falling from the ceilig and everything. The music for this one was my favorite!

 This is Raphiki standing so close to us. Lion King.

There was also Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Minnie, Along with some faries. My phone died just in time for me to miss them! LOL. But I coudn't get great pics anyways.

Of  course we had to hit the food stands! Last year I was pregnant and SIIIIIIICK so I didn't get to enjoy too much food. I got lots, but didn't finish anything. So as soon as we walked in I got a cheese on a stick. MMMMMMMMMM. My favorite! Then I decided I needed real food, so I got a barbeque sandwich. Melissa got one of those barbarric turkey legs. My daugter decided she wantes some of it too!

Of course she didn't get any! But she sure liked it!

During intermission of the show, melissa and I rushed out to the stands and got some more popcorn, candy apple, funnel cake, another cheese on a stick, and refill on the drink. Hmm, Maybe I should be working out like a crazy women now? Bah.

Anyways. We didn't walk around or do much, it was late after the show, but we definetely enjoyed ourselves!