Saturday, January 14, 2012

Lila's Food

I have been making Lila's baby food since she started solids at about 5 1/2 months. She has had a few jars, when we are traveling, or for the few items that it is more financially reasonable to buy rather than make, but for the most part, Lila has had homemade food. I love making it, it makes financial sense, and it is great knowing exactly what she is eating...organic fresh or frozen fruits and veggies, organic rice cereal and oatmeal, breastmilk and formula. Doesn't get much simpler than that! Lila truly loves the bright colors of her food, and hasn't rejected anything yet. Joe and I have started a tradition of a stay at home "date night" making baby food over a bottle of wine. We tend to make about three weeks worth at a time, since that is how many containers we have. Since there are no preservatives, we have to just thaw out what we need the night before. It has worked for us so far, and hoping to keep it up until Lila is eating food with us!

Happy eating!


Sage gobbled up the frozen cubes of butternut squash, but completely ignored the peas...




Ice cube tray full of delicious snacks...we like to drop one "ice cube" into a bowl of warm oatmeal for breakfast!




Fresh apricots...




Pureed apricots...




Broccoli in the steamer, a new one for Lila this week!




Carrots for Lila, carrot for Mommy!




Scooping the kiwi out of its peel




Jars for Lila, bottle for Mommy and Daddy!




Happy peas!




Three weeks worth of delicious food for Lila!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Seven Months Old!

Lila! When did you get to be 7 months old?? This has been a great month! Since we buckled down on sleeping, life has been great for you and for us. You go to bed between 5:30 and 7pm, depending on your last nap, and you stay in your crib until at least 6am. If you wake up before 6 and don't fall back to sleep on your own after a few minutes, I nurse you and put you back down, and you go back to sleep for a bit. I put you down awake now, and you fall to sleep on your own, which is such a great improvement! I now realized that you were sleep deprived before, and with all this sleep at night, and these great naps (at least on the weekend), you are such a happy, playful baby. You still have bad nap days at daycare, but I have learned to let go of that since I can't control it, and we just have a super early bedtime those nights. You have had a pesky ear infection since Thanksgiving that we can't get rid of, but you don't seem to run very high fevers, and it rarely seems to bother you...we only know it is back when you start playing with your ears. We are on our third antibiotic however. Hopefully, this ends soon. We are also trying to get you to eat as well as possible, since you are now in only the 10th percentile for weight. Unfortunately, these antibiotics seem to affect your appetite, so that is something we continue to work on...you are not always interested in finishing your bottles. You still hate belly time, and still no teeth. But you sit and play like such a big girl, you sometimes play on your knees, pulling up to sit up on your knees, and you LOVE to jump! You love any bouncy jumper, and you just jump and jump and laugh and laugh. Whenever I pick you up from daycare, if you are in one of them, you jump so hard with such a huge smile when you see me. It makes me so happy. You like lots of different foods - peas, green beans, avocados, zucchinis, bananas, apples, sweet potatoes, squash, carrots...you will try and eat anything we give you so far. I hope you continue to eat such variety! We had a great Christmas with our family in Ohio. You slept through the first part of Christmas morning, as it was naptime, but then you loved playing with all the wrapping paper. You and Margaret played together so well since you are now interested in each other and each other's toys. We love watching you two growing up together. This was also a great month because Daddy had Christmas break during much of it, and therefore you got LOTS of Daddy time! You stayed home from daycare several days over his break, and played with Daddy all day. It was a great break for Mommy too, and we are all rested and energized to start the new year. Can't wait for the next month with you, Lila, but let's slow down a little!! Love you!