Adventures in Baby Food

Grace and I have had the best time with solids lately. She's a big fan and big eater!! Besides her cereal, we've tried bananas and sweet potatoes. She loves them both.



Making baby food has been my favorite pastime lately. Banana baby food was a no brainer - mash up part of a ripe one then I save the remainder for my smoothie later. I've also cooked and pureed sweet potatoes and frozen them in ice cube trays. When it's time for her to eat, I grab one out of the freezer bag. Voila! Perfectly portioned sweet potatoes.



I got a book on solid baby foods to help me figure out which foods are best to introduce at what age. I also read in there that babies will often employ their fingers to help them get the food down their throat. They associate food going down with sucking. I immediately noticed Grace does this. Between bites, her thumb and fingers are at work helping her swallow her food. I showed my mom her doing this and told her why and she started feeling terrible. She would feed us by putting one arm behind her and then holding the other one down. I guess we managed to swallow everything - somehow.



Next on the menu - peaches!! They are in season after all and should be easy to make.

Grace's Baptism

Grace was baptized this past Sunday and had 3 pews full of her family there for her. She did so good and didn't cry at all. I think she probably wondered why she was getting a bath in front of so many people.

Grace is to the stage where she knows her mommy and knows who isn't her mommy, so it was nice to play "hot potato" with her that day. It helps being exposed to many people.


Walking back with her Godmother/Aunt Anne:


Petit fours for the post baptism luncheon:


Baptism Day family portrait:



Great shot that Grace's cousin Jennie took:



Getting love from her new Godmother:



Sign of the future?? Grace loved her Aunt Anne's bracelets:


Getting more love. This time from her Uncle Raul:



Can't get enough of those bracelets!!

Lots of Tummy Time

I've read several articles lately about the importance of tummy time in infants. We don't have a problem at all getting Grace on her tummy. I put her on the floor, in her bed, etc and she immediately rolls onto her tummy. I think she gets a better view of the world from this angle.