feed me
This little dude is going to eat us out of a house before we even own another one! He's moving right along trying new foods; so far we've tried sweet potatoes, acorn squash, bananas, green beans, apples, pears, and butternut squash. He's also randomly tried white potatoes and bread. He normally eats 3-4 cubes of food in a sitting, sometimes more, sometimes less but rarely. We're at an impass with milk. I think 6 months might be my internal limit or something; I can't be sure but I think he's not getting enough from nursing any more. So today I'm giving him bottles of pumped milk trying to see if he sleeps better at night because currently he's waking up three times to eat. Three. Mama is tired. We'll see!
coming up orange
We can check another one off the list! Dylan was all over the acorn squash today and finished it in about 3 minutes flat. And since I had already put the rest to freeze I had to improv with more sweet potatoes and cereal, but that didn't seem to bug him as long as it was something to eat. And I'm happy he liked it BUT I meant to give him butternut squash. Why you ask? Well I wanted to follow the orange sweet potatoes with what-I-thought-was a yellow veggie. First cut in, surprise mama, it's orange too! Even Adam knew butternut squash was the yellow one. I have nothing to blame this on other than I'm an dope.
Other news...none. The kids are good, Dylan is rolling over but only when he feels like it and Samantha is a little feisty but I think she's cutting another molar. Adam is busy. I'm reading the Twilight Saga, again.
take two
Dylan did amazing with his sweet potatoes tonight! He gobbled them all up in record time. I'm already trying to decide what to make him next, green beans or acorn squash, before moving onto bananas! Yes I know, boring to most but it's so crazy that we're already in the food making portion of Dylan's life. It feels like only yesterday I was whipping up batches of food for Samantha to eat. Speaking of, we found a good way to get some meat into our girl...disguise it! She's normally pretty touch and go with the meat section of dinner, but tonight she had three helpings of the stuffing for stuffed peppers - rice, ground beef, tomatoes.
Things are the usual around here. Play and eat, eat and play.
9 months old
Can you even believe it?!?! Samantha is NINE MONTHS OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's true, time flies when you're having fun. A quick run down of her dos...she's added to her diet acorn squash, oatmeal cereal, peaches, zucchini, avocado, and cheerios. Her stranger danger is much improved thankfully. Now everyone is getting a chance to see the little happy baby we have. She's standing on her own very well for longer and longer amounts of time, she cruises too. She sleeps pretty well; down for the night around 8 pm, up for a feeding between 4:30 and 6, then sleep until somewhere between 7 and 8. Her naps are slowly getting longer but not all the time. She says mama and dada, just not always at us. She'll get it. Overall she's the light of our lives. haha, how corny.
And a little story...she's a little firecracker during diaper changes. Get the diaper off and she's a wild woman, flinging her arms and legs all over the place. Today I was wrapping up her diaper and she knocks my hand. I had a quick save and managed to keep all the contents in the diaper and continued to roll it up. The second time I wasn't so lucky. Flying poo!!!!
Good thing she's cute ; )
miss piggy
I've upped Samantha's solids even more today. She ate a full banana at lunch and for dinner she had acorn squash and zucchini. Lots of it. Between a quarter or double of food she would normally get at a meal. Me, I've only had one cupcake today. Wahoo!!
a bowl of cherries
I wish I could say that a bowl of cherries has been my tasty reward for another day well spent with the little one. However, this bowl of cherries comes after my bowl of ice cream. And after my (2nd) cupcake. I am the bottomless pit.
Which reminds me that this said bowl of cherries is supposed to be for Samantha. But I couldn't resist and many of them looked smushed and or blemished so I figured they weren't good enough for my princess, I'll finish them off and get her some new ones. She has a new batch of plums for tomorrow and another batch of acorn squash too so cherries can wait one more day.
I can't say we did anything extraordinary today. But it was a perfect day (at least as good as it can get without Butch). A lot of laughing. A lot of climbing around. A lot of snuggles. One of those days that won't stick out in my head years from now but one full of the little things that I'll carry around in my heart forever; sweet moments with my baby girl.