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Researching homemade baby food again – it’s almost time! To be honest, I’m kind of dreading the whole solid foods thing. I was so excited with Simon, but it was harder than I thought, and this time I’m perfectly content to wait until Ian is fully and officially six months old (but that’s at the end of this month!).
Not believing that my little blue-eyed, smiling squeezer is almost half a year old already.
Being totally inspired by these lunch ideas (HT: Rebecca). I’m thinking since all four of us will be eating solids soon, it’s a good time to regroup and renew my efforts to feed my family, and especially the kids, healthful foods.
Listening to A Thousand Splendid Suns on CD whenever I’m in the car. Excellent.
Drinking Toddys with vanilla soy milk. At least one a day.
Marveling at Rebecca’s photo, and fully expecting the Pioneer Woman to pick it for her bugs assignment. If she doesn’t, I’ll lose all hope of ever knowing what she (Ree) is looking for.
Loving Charity’s and Andy’s posts about their recent travels (More! More!).
Laughing at my kids. Many times every single day. Before I had kids, I really didn’t think a whole lot beyond I hope they love Jesus and I hope they’re funny. I do hope they love Jesus, and, dang, they are funny.
Looking for recommends for a good series to watch (Hulu, DVD, or Netflix Streaming) during naptime—not that the boys ever sleep at the same time, but I can hope.
Stopping here so I can read for the remainder of Simon’s nap (and, actually, Ian is crashed out too).
Breaking my newly implemented “no blog post without a picture” rule—already.









Comments
Bethany
Do you *have* to introduce solids at 6 months? I was under the impression that they don’t really need nutrition beyond breast milk until closer to 1 year. But I could very well be wrong.
Also, have you heard of “baby-led weaning”? It’s a bit deceptively named, b/c in Britain (where the term originates), the term “weaning” means the introduction of solids, not the cessation of breast-feeding. Anyway, I find it super intriguing, but I haven’t come to any conclusions about it yet. http://www.babble.com/best-recipes/kids-cooking/bye-bye-baby-food/
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/babyledweaning.htm
Renae
@Bethany—I had not heard of BLW. Interesting indeed. And, yeah, 6 months is kind of arbitrary, and everything I’ve ever heard/read says solids until 12 months are really just for practice. Let’s talk more about this sometime soon.
RT
Thanks for the shout-out, friend. I love today’s image of you and your boys more than that butterfly shot, though! : )
caron
well, i must recommend a series that’s only available on netflix: a documentary by ric burns, “new york”. it’s on 8 or 9 discs but is so very compelling and interesting, if you like documentaries. you could follow it up with a chaser-trip to NYC.
gotta be thorough in the research process, right?