Heart warming foods

This week we tried two new recipes..

Cajun corn soup...with sausage...yummm

and of course we made a large enough batch to eat and freeze

 Southwestern bean soup... 

another yummy colorful soup

Looking forward to growing vegetables

to eat and cook with...

 

 

Seeds are ready to go, now just got to get everything else figured out :)

 

Our lil mover

Baby Z is 6.5mths old already

and this is a favorite toy for the moment

and I mean moment

 She never is where I leave her, as you can see

she has learned to roll off the mat and rotate

 Oh and she loves watching mommy cook :)



Baby food adventures continue...

I bought some larger trays to try and

freeze larger amounts of food for baby Z

I found these trays online...

And we decided to try avocado...

 2 Avocadoes make a large batch...

The trays came with lids which is what makes them really nice

vs. using the regular ice cube trays...

 In the full freeze it went

(Incase you are wondering that's Baby Z's liquid gold

we are at 7 full shoe boxes)

 Here are her little avocado meals

came out just fine so I would give the trays my stamp of approval

 And Baby Z is quite the adventurous happy eater...

4 foods done...on to the next...



Spring is here...okkk was here

We decided to take advantage of the wonderful weather we had last weekend

and drove to the beach

it is pretty awesome that we live 45 minutes from the shore

 

Unfortunately the wind was still too cold to get out of the car

But Baby Z loved it...

 She got to feel the warm rays and the chilly breeze...

 She seen birds for the first time...

 A mommy and baby feeding the gulls... 

And we got to spend some quality time together...

We often think about living by the beach

and what would be the pros and cons...

 

Maybe someday we will :)

Till then we plan to visit often

Yummy holiday weekend...

Our weekend didn't start on a good note

Baby Z wasn't feeling too good, there was a lot of puking, pooping and peeing (the 3Ps)

but she got better in a day and we were even able to enjoy a walk outside

in the wonderful sunny weather.

Here she is in her cute custom outfit.

 

Now that she loves her brown rice gruel

we decided to try some broccoli...

Mommy and baby both had broccoli!

 

Stir fried mushrooms, broccoli, some left over macaroni and some gruyere cheese...Yum!

 

Baby had some broccoli puree with brown rice in milk... 

 

 

  

She loved it!

 

Somehow we missed the warning - Oh my goodness the diapers...lets just say they weren't pleasant...and we hear that's how they will be hence forth...oh the joys of introducing solids!

FYI - We are still doing cloth diapers :)

 

Ok now that I am done reliving the diaper dilemma

back to food...

 

While out and about

we finally stopped at a nearby meat store that we have been meaning to go to since forever

got some yummy brats to grill and ate them with some sides

for a quick easy meal!

 

We decided to give baby Z some pears

thought maybe it would help her feel a little better

 

 She wasn't really interested in it

probably because she was really not feeling up to it or she doesn't like sweet :)

We will try again another day.

 

Sunday Dinner! Pot roast with some berry beer :)

Hope you all had a good weekend!