More Fun With FOOOOOD!!!!

I'm continually amazed by how much Landon LOVES trying new foods and how good he is with his little pincer grip and hand eye coordination!

He still loves his string cheese! And new recent favorite is watermelon! Here's little man showing off his skills! :)

Another fun night was when we had spaghetti! He was slurping his noodles and he loved the sauce too... enjoy!

On the crawling front... he's everywhere.  Makes me REALLY wish our floors were finished. Ah, someday?! His favorite thing is to crawl over to the baby gate we have in between our kitchen and dining room, stand up, and play with the puppies on the other side.

My pukey boy... in his favorite spot :)

He'll most definitely be walking soon too because he pulls up on everything, he'd rather be standing than sitting, and he makes his way ALL the way around our coffee table. :)

Till next time! Cheers!

A Day FULL of Milestones!

Wow... today was sure a busy day for mister Landon! 

It all started with a call from the babysitters that he had a little rash on his who ha... hmmm, that's weird?! First diaper rash??? Wasn't there last night when I put him down and Adam didn't mention it this morning but they cleaned him up and put some Desitin on him and all seemed to be well. 

When I got home from work we checked him out, didn't look too bad so we went on our merry way. Shortly after I laid him down for his nap but he knows how to go from laying down to sitting to standing now a days (started that about a week ago... the missing link and all?!) so his actual nap time takes a little longer. Finally he laid down and I went on my way cleaning my house - ah it's so nice to have a clean house! 

After about an hour and a half I go in to check on him and this is what I find... 

Yes, this is how we nap now... how is this even comfortable?!?!

After his nap, the rash seemed a lot worse so more cream and another warm rag and all is well again. Then I remember that my mom told me one time that I always would get a diaper rash when I was trying to pop out a tooth so low and behold... that damn eye-tooth is all swollen again! So maybe it'll actually break through this time?! Time will tell!

Later in the afternoon I was playing with him in the living room and got this video...

So pissed that he can't get anywhere!!!

About 20 minutes later... we've got it!!!

Off we go!!!

After that it was over... he's all over the place now. And if he can get close enough to something to pull up on, which is everything, he's standing in no time. I have a feeling that crawling isn't going to last long. 

On to the next adventure... walking. GAH!

Until next time... cheers!!!

Chicken Broccoli Casserole

Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling you-hoo... Inside the chicken is cooking and Adam is shouting woo-hoo! 

Ok, that was a lame attempt at a joke on the weather right now. It's not the worst that I've seen but it's record breaking snow fall (already a foot in Nov?!) and temperature lows (-10?!) right now so what better than a yummy comfort food casserole to warm up the evening. Landon even got to eat some of the chicken, broccoli and noodles!

Brrrr! Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup cooked chicken (you can boil and shred chicken breasts or buy chunk chicken in a can)
• 1 lb fresh chopped broccoli
• 1 1/2 cups of your favorite pasta (I used smaller shells)
• 1 can Cream of Chicken Soup
• 1/3 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup cheddar cheese 
• 1 package stuffing mix

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. If using chicken breasts, boil chicken until tender and shred or cut into bite size pieces. If using chunk canned chicken, just make sure it's chopped up nicely. 
3. Steam broccoli until crisp but tender. 
4. Boil pasta until firm.
5. In a small bowl mix together the soup and milk. Set aside. 
6. Layer the chicken, broccoli, soup mixture, and cheese in baking dish. 
7. Prepare stuffing mix according to package and sprinkle over the top.
8. Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes or until the topping is browned.

Look you can see the steam!

We only had a Columbia Crest Merlot in the house tonight but that'll warm us up just fine with this dish! I'd probably prefer a Chardonnay but I'm venturing out in this snow. Enjoy!!!

 

The Next Food Network Star

I mean seriously... Landon LOVES food!!!

I don't know that I've wrote about our food journey's yet?!

We started with rice cereal around 3 months and while he didn't hate it - he wasn't loving it. He'd take a bite or two and then he'd be over it.

Landon's 1st bite... YUCK!

So we held off a little and waited until about 4 months, he was a little more interested and at our 4 month check up Dr. C said we could start veggies! Every 3 or 4 days we'd introduce a new veggie to make sure he didn't have an allergy. Dr. C said to go through all the veggies first because she said some babies get the taste of sweet fruit and will never tolerate a veggie. As expected, veggies went just as well as the rice cereal, not great... until... enter, Sweet Potatoes!!! Haha, Landon LOVES Sweet Potatoes.

At that point we started with just one solids meal per day; dinner. We made our way through all the veggies and pretty much anything GREEN was a no go. Peas, Green Beans, Spinach, even mixed veggies and garden veggies he didn't care for. Carrots were ok, Squash was ok but Sweet Potatoes would be GONE... and he'd be banging on his high chair tray for more! :)


Shortly after we started introducing fruits and unexpectedly he wasn't as keen as I'd have thought he would be. Until that is... Banana's. Yup, he's a monkey. Or you'd think. We slowly made our way through fruits with no reactions to anything so we were able to start mixing things up and that's when it was over. Apples & Pears, Strawberry Banana, Sweet Potatoes & Corn.... our babysitters even say he LOVES Green Beans with his Apples?! it's never ending!!! He loved almost everything... although he was still a little hesitant of the greens by themselves.

Around 6 months we started a sort of "solids schedule", which consisted of oatmeal and fruit for breakfast and veggies for dinner, along with all his regular formula bottles. That worked for a while but then he started to realize when we were eating and what was going on and he thinks... um, stuff is going in your mouth, where's mine? :)

So now, he's getting 3 meals per day, along with little snacks as we've discovered our new fav - Baby Mum Mum's!

It's just a Rice Ruck cracker...

The last two weeks or so we've been attempting more and more table foods and so far it's going well. We've been introducing cheeses (string cheese and cheddar), Breads, Whole Bananas ( I WISH I had a picture of this little monkey gnawing a whole banana!) Cheerios, Chicken, and whole steamed veggies. I'm convinced it's the purees because Landon loves himself some steamed broccoli!!!

We had it EVERYWHERE tonight! :)

So our Next Food Network Star seems to be doing well with his solids! If he's doing it himself, Landon doesn't seem to have a sense of "my mouth is full" so obviously I have to be watching him super careful. But If we try to give him anything while he's still chewing (with no teeth still mind you?!) he won't open his mouth! 


Such a big boy - till next time! Cheers!

Comedy Central!!! Bwahaha!

This is totally not Landon or "Us" related but I totally want to see this comedian some day... she's SO freakin funny! Her name is Anjelah Johnson and this is her infamous "Nail Lady" skit, uncut with a little extra on the beginning. So funny... Enjoy!

Babies Don't Keep

I'm in love with this poem...

Babies Don’t Keep
by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo

The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.

The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep. 

And we're good!

That was a quick re-construction!! I thought it would take a lot longer and it'll be a work in progress for probably well... ever. But I just put the finishing touches on the layout (much simpler) and made myself a shiny new banner!  Go me!