Showing posts with label baby food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby food. Show all posts

13 September 2013

Friday - Our Week In Fabulous Photos

Full of smiles in the morning. This is what I get to come home to after a night shift!

Mmmm, Mitch made lasagna!

After work snuggles

Sleeping cutie!

Who needs toys when you have a remote?

Helping with laundry

Mitch also made beef barley soup. So yummy!

Hey, Mom! Bust me outta here!!!


The DVD's before Palmer started crawling and the DVD's after Palmer started crawling....

Napping with Daddy

Mmmm, cheese and muffins


Leaf waiting patiently for any falling crumbs from the high chair...

Yogurt chip disaster

At the park with Daddy

getting scanning done for helmet



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10 September 2013

Family Friendly Food

I am again joining up with the Kid Tested, Mom Approved link-up, this week hosted by Meet The Sullivans, with the topic of Family Friendly Foods.


I am trying more and more everyday to introduce Palmer to "real" food instead of having to puree everything. My biggest worry at first was her choking but I have come to realize that she knows how to chew and the only way she will learn to eat is by giving her whole foods. Babies have a stronger gag reflex than adults do so I'm learning to worry less and less.

The first meal we ate as a whole family (eating the same foods) was last weekend when we made pancakes for breakfast. I'm a sucker for delicious pancakes and I think Palmer enjoyed them too!

I have slowly been introducing other whole foods to Palmer. We tried quinoa and rice on Saturday, which she seemed to like. And now that Palmer has teeth, it's getting easier to give her foods that we eat. Hopefully soon, she will be eating no purees at all. 

Yesterday, I made my banana muffins and we gave Palmer a taste. She ate them, so I guess she liked them (but she eats anything you put in front of her, so it's hard to tell!!) We also introduced her to cheese, which also seemed to be a hit!! 

You can't tell here, but in the top left picture, Palmer is looking at Leaf, who is looking at her, waiting patiently for some snacks to fall...

I am loving the fact that we are now able to give Palmer more foods that we eat and less purees. Making life So. Much. Easier!! I'm looking forward to seeing what the other mamas in the link-up have suggested as Family Friendly Foods!


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2 September 2013

Weekend Wrap-Up and Blogging Overload

This weekend we kept pretty close to home - nothing to major happened at all. This being my last weekend of maternity leave, I wanted to enjoy family as much as possible.

Mitchell was playing in a golf tournament over the course of 3 days, but was still home enough to enjoy some family swimming in the backyard, some froster-swirls from Mac's and a walk around the lake.

Other than that, I really have just been trying to get the house in order for my return to work in less than 20 hours!!!  And, trying to get rid of all these pesky fruit flies we have accumulated over the past few days/weeks??  (I created a contraption to capture them - I will spare your the grossness and save myself the embarrassment and not show you a picture. Instead, I will post this one: )

"Mommy, get this thing off my head!!!!" I'm sure is what she is thinking!

We had a delicious supper last night - homemade burgers and homemade fries. So yummy! Getting in another good BBQ before summer turns to fall!

This morning, we all slept in - until 9am!! It was super-fantastic! Despite Palmer being up a couple times in the night, just needing a cuddle (which has never happened before), it was a great sleep! I always love getting to sleep in!

Then we all enjoyed some pancakes for breakfast! Palmer seemed like she enjoyed her first taste of them!!


With all that being said, now that I am going back at work full-time and my time with my family will be decreased, the amount of blogging done will decrease, but I think this will be good. It will get me back to why I started blogging in the first place; to share stories of our little family with our family and friends, near and far. I think for awhile, I got too deep into blogging, finding new things to blog about daily, even several times a day, which watered down my posts. 

While Palmer was napping, I would blog. 

While she was in bed, I would blog. 

While she was spending time with Mitchell, yup, you guessed it, I would blog. 

The more I blogged, the less personal I got. I truly think people enjoy reading about Palmer and our family and the various things that happen in our lives, but I cannot share every life event on this blog. And now, between enjoying my family and working full time, I simply cannot put so much time into my "hobby." My initial intention for this blog was for it to be a casual place to share memories and thoughts, not the two or three times a day posts that it has become!

Of course, I will continue to post, sharing pictures and stories - just getting back to the reasons I started this blog in the first place. 
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19 July 2013

Friday - Our Week In Fabulous Photos

Played outside
Sat in my Grandpas' cars




Played outside some more

ate bananas
Played on the swings at Henderson Park

Mommy went camera happy (as usual)
Played outside with Daddy

and Grandpa
and Grandma





and went swimming in my pool



mmm...pickles!!


slept in my new "supergirl" jammies

tried out my new cloth diapers

at Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary

crazy clouds before yet another storm

after the storm, outside our house

mmm...peaches! Yummy!!

after eating peaches!