Baby K is not quite six months, but she was showing an incredible interest in watching us eat, I mean like staring us down, so I followed my mother's intuition and decided to start slowly introducing solids.
In preparation, I had bough some little bowls, spoons and organic rice cereal from Target during out last big trip. I bought some sippy cups too, but we haven't tried them yet. A couple of days before we decided to give her her first taste of something other than breast milk, we made a trip over to Williams-Sonoma and picked up this:
Oh my gravy, I'm in love with both! Love, love, love! We've been introducing things slowly, but I've made carrots (which I didn't freeze based on some nitrate info I've read), peas (I used organic frozen), pears, peaches, apples, and today I made butternut squash. We've also just mashed up a little banana here and there for her. So far pears, peaches and carrots are the big hits, but hopefully, she'll start liking the others after she's had them a couple more times. I'm thinking of making my own rice cereal next, but we'll see. It's actually been helping the hubs and I increase our veggie and fruit intake!
Go buy a Beaba Babycook TODAY - you'll be glad you did. The freezer trays are awesome, once you've got your little portions all frozen you just label a freezer bag with the date and what it is, pop the portions food out of the trays and into the bag and you're good to go. The purees are good for three months in the freezer.
It's so much fun to watch your little one taste new foods for the first time. It's a whole new world for them and I'm loving the whole experience. I think she is too!
- Lately, I'm feeling like a bit of a mommy failure. Not sure why this job seems so hard at times. Is it because of how much we love our little ones? Either way, I am having a hard time keeping up with all the things I need/want to get done and it makes me feel like I'm failing. Other mommies make it all seem so easy.
- Baby K started eating some solid foods this week and it's so much fun watching her have her first taste of peas, banana, and apple. She seems to really like the rice cereal.
- I bought my Beaba Babycook this past weekend and I've been making all kinds of purees and freezing them in the nifty freeze trays Beaba makes. I also bought this cookbook and I'm so excited to make her some of the fun recipes. Both are an A++++.
- I'm still breastfeeding and fast approaching my 6 month goal. I'm not ready to stop though. Maybe at 9 months I'll start a slow weaning process. I've got a pretty good supply socked away in the freezer, but probably not enough to get through three months. We'll see what happens after she has teeth. I may change my mind.
- I need to get rid of this last 15lbs of baby weight. I miss my favorite jeans.
- I've been working out at 9pm each night, then at 10 I pump my milk for Baby K's 11pm dreamfeed. The dreamfeed is working really well. She's sleeping much better at night and I think using the bottle for the feeding is the key. Then I know that she's gotten a full feeding and I don't have that OMG I'm starving her mommy guilt at 4am when she wakes up and I just give her her nuk back.
- My new goal of showering, and putting on makeup during her first nap of the day is working really well. I feel so much better when I get dressed and put a little makeup on.
- It's a beautiful day in Minneapolis today. I'm waiting for my girl to get up and then we're going to go for a walk around one of the many lakes in our fair city. Speaking of walks, I love my BOB stroller more every day.
