Food for the Little Guy

In my own obsession about food yesterday, I forgot to any update about how our little guy is doing with his own food!

First things first, we are completely allowed and encouraged to bring our own food to daycare.  Yay!  Even though we were first in this daycare, we are not the only ones in North Carolina who want to do so (as many of my friends out there let us know).  It’s a big nothing and they are ready, willing and able to work with us on our hippie home made food! 

So what might we bring with us, if we so desire?  Well, so far, bananas are our biggest hit.  He actually ate what I would consider a lot for Saturday’s breakfast (mixed with breastmilk so it’s a good consistency).  Stewed and strained pears are a hit, too, though I was laughing out loud at his expression when he was first eating them.  Apparently, pears, or the ones I bought, are a bit tart.  He’d take a mouthful, look very surprised, and scrunch his face up, but he still kept eating them.  Sweet potatoes, we’re finding, are not as popular, but are still liked.  I think with the SP’s we just have to wait a little longer as he tastes and swallows them.  He doesn’t make faces but he doesn’t give a baby version of WooHoo with them, either. 

Sweet potatoes do make great face paint, let me tell ya.  We’re letting him put his hand in his food to feel the texture.  Sometimes his hand goes to his mouth, but mostly it just meanders about with little globules of sweet potatoes spreading to his clothes, face and hair.  I tried to get Patches to lick his hand off, but apparently, that’s very weird in the dog world to be asked to lick someone’s hand.  (Why that is weird whereas it’s completely normal to wake up one’s mommy by gently licking her armpit is just beyond me.  However, considering I found the baby there, too, maybe I just have extra nice arm pits!)

Tomorrow, we start on mango and after that we try butternut squash. So far, I’ve only frozen some pears and sweet potatoes.  I think I’ll have enough mangoes, though, to freeze them, too, and we can send something for his first meal at daycare besides cereal. 

Clothes, They are A-Cleaning

The washer and dryer arrived (late) today.  Oh, yeah, baby!  I’m a grown up now when appliances get me excited!  We’re donating the old supposed-to-be connected laundry center (washer and dryer one unit) to Goodwill tomorrow.  They are supposed to be connected, but they weren’t.  I’m not going to comment on that, but I’ll just say it figures.

The new front loading and stackable washer and dryer are now installed and going their things.  They are energy and water efficient (the washer is, at least).  They are also small.  We don’t have a laundry room, though.  We have a laundry closet and this is the best we can do.  Even when we do expand our laundry closet, we decided to keep a stackable option because in this small, old house we are never going to have the luxury of a lot of room that we can waste. 

Onwards and upwards…

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