5 posts tagged “baby food”

Our forays into solid food with Bubble Toes have been going very well. She seems to have gotten over her initial shock and disappointment with the texture and is now eating like a pro, but not like one of those scary ones, although she does share similar table manners with that type, which is something that I hope she outgrows that some day!

So far she has had, sweet potatoes, winter squash and papaya. We're sticking to orange colored food for now. ;o) I totally love the company that I buy her food from. They are called Baby Cubes, just in case you didn't want to click the link. They use only organic, in-season, fruits and veggies that they steam and puree and then freeze into 1 oz. cubes. They come in little 10 oz bags and I just pop out a couple of cubes at a time and microwave them for exactly 37 seconds. I came up with that number all by myself! See how I can be proud of the most innane things now that I am a mother! I then stir and feed.

The company is located in my general vicinity which means that they will deliver to my house the next day, after I place an on-line order (if you order 9 bags or more the shipping is free). They come packed in a neat little styrofoam cooler with fun to play with dry ice. I just keep the container until my next order and set it outside and they will exchange it for a new batch.

All in all I think it's a great system. I'm feeding my baby as if I weren't a lazy kitchen neophyte, but instead one of those amazing moms who boil and puree their little fingers to the bone making homemade baby food!  I can't wait to try some of the other great fruits and veggies they have available.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a very fun and relaxing holiday. Bubble Toes had her first non-cereal solid food of sweet potatoes. Everyone else (me, hubby and my mom) had lots of mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie, green bean casserole, and a little bit of turkey. Aside from eating we also continued our tradition of watching the Buffy Thanksgiving episode which is chockfull of quotable lines.

Here are some of the best for your reading pleasure (although I really recommend you just buy the complete series on DVD, and give in to the awesomeness that is Buffy).

Willow : Yeah. Thanksgiving isn't about blending of 2 cultures. It's about one culture wiping out another. And then they make animated specials about the part with the maize and the big, big belt buckles. They don't show you the next scene, where all the bison die and Squanto takes a musket ball in the stomach.

Buffy : Ok. Now, for some of that, you were channeling your mother?

Willow : Well, yeah, sort of. That's why she doesn't celebrate thanksgiving or columbus day-- You know, the destruction of the indigenous peoples. I know it sounds a little overwrought, but really, she's...She's right.

Buffy : Yeah. I guess I never really thought about it that way. With mom at aunt darlene's this year, I'm not getting a thanksgiving. Maybe it's just as well.

Anya : Well, I think that's a shame. I love a ritual sacrifice.

Buffy : It's not really a one of those.

Anya : To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.

And some more:

Spike : I just can't take all this mamby-pamby boo-hooing about the bloody indians.

Willow : Uh, the preferred term--

Spike : You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not going around saying, "I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it." The history of the world isn't people making friends. You had better weapons, and you massacred them. End of story.

Buffy : Well, I think the spaniards actually did a lot of-- Not that I don't like spaniards.

Spike : Listen to you. How you gonna fight anyone with that attitude?

Willow: We don't wanna fight anyone.

Buffy : I just wanna have thanksgiving.

And finally:

Buffy : Do I have to gag you? Because I am not gonna listen to you whine all the way through my dinner. It's gonna be a nice, quiet, civilized--

Suddenly an arrow pierces the decrotive scarecrow on the table. We see Hus in the window with a bow and arrow.

Buffy : You. Listen, maybe I wasn't clear before about how terrible we all feel. 'Cause we're trying to help.

Spike : What's going on?!

Giles : It isn't working.

Buffy : Uh, you can have casinos now.

So Bubble Toes is asleep, and has been since 3:20 this afternoon and it is now close to 6. Great, you say, what's the problem? Well, the problem is that she hasn't drank her last bottle of the day yet, nor has she had any cereal or her

bath, and her bed time is quickly approaching! I can't go in and just wake her up, so I am taking the passive aggressive route. I emptied the dishwasher very loudly. I messed around with the light cover in the bathroom trying to change the bulb, loudly. Nothing, I finally opened her door and looked in on her, touched her back, still nothing.

What to do. She is obviously very tired, but she will also likely be hungry at some point. I would prefer it if that hunger didn't wake her in the middle of the night. If she wakes up now she will get grouchy very quickly and will need to be fed, but she generally goes to bed right after her last bottle of the day. Quite a dilemma.

I guess I will just wait until she stirs and get her up to eat, bathe and go right back to bed.

Update: At a little after 6 Bubble Toes started to stir a little bit, so I ran in turned on the light and got her up. She was

a little dazed and confused at first, but then started to smile. I just fed her a bowl of cereal and she loved it, she was giggling when she wasn't leaning forward to get the spoon in her mouth faster. She is getting so much better at eating solids.

On a different note she is also really trying to crawl. Every once in a while she gets up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth for a few seconds. She gets frustrated though and mostly ends up scootching backwards, which is pretty cute.