Yummy in your babies tummy!

About a month ago I made some homemade baby food for my fatty. With the help of my mom of course..I dont know what I'd do without her. Well, we went to the supermarket and decided to mix a bunch of things together and came up with green beans, carrots, squash, sweet potato and turkey. I also wanted her to try some new things that dont come in store bought baby foods. So I ended up buying some asparagus and spinach (made them by themselves and she LOVED them both).

FIRST HOMEMADE MEAL:

To start we cleaned and peeled the carrots, squash and beans. Me and my mom were actually quite confused about the green beans and what to do with them. Thank goodness for Google! I quickly did a search and found out you just snap off the ends.

So we cut the carrots and squash into chunks and put them in the steamer for 15min with the green beans. While that was steaming, we cleaned and peeled the sweet potato. Then we got a pot with water and added the sweet potato, a piece of green pepper, onion and some garlic and waited for it to boil. After a few minutes I stuck in the turkey breasts cut into chunks.

After everything was done steaming and boiling, it was time to puree. Leaving out the green pepper, onion and garlic..that was just to add some more yummyness. Since it ends up bieng pretty chunky I added some breast milk making it EXTRA healthy! By the way, I bought one of those stick hand mixers and it worked great! I didnt think it was going to be able to blend all of it, but it certainly did, and it was pretty fun using it.

She loved it of course..shes a true fatty! =]

Let me tell you that this baby food actually SMEELED like food! Not like the store bought baby food that smells like nothing. Its fresh and way more healthy. I will say that it does take some effort to make, but its way worth it. Its not just buy, open and feed. It can be though, once you make a batch and store it into tiny jars.

I did some research before making this and found important fruits and vegetables your babies should be eating..from what I found I noticed 5 out of the 19 (thats alot!) vegetables are actually in the store bought foods.

Some of the better foods that are not in store bought foods are: Asparagus, broccoli, beets, cauliflower, cucumber, eggplant, parsnips, spinach, zucchini, avocado, cantaloupe, papaya, cranberries, cherries, grapes.

Once your done making the food, add some of it into jars that will last a couple of days. Add the rest in ice cube trays until frozen then transfer into freezer bags for easy grabbing. Each cube is about 1 oz.

Happy cooking!

Until next time,
your favorite Mommy! =]

Memorial Day Weekend

Of course I'm late on my second blog..

Well, memorial weekend just passed and it was Haydee's first time in the pool! We all went to my aunts house and ate ALOT of food..We might as well be Italians becuase every time we go over there it ends up being a feast!

Its pretty usual for it to rain here on memorial weekend but, the sun was shining and there was no signs of clouds..yet. So off went the clothes and on went the bathing suit, that looked oh' so cute on my fatty! Bathed her in sun block, blew up the floaty and we were ready to go.

how cute does she look here!!?

She was a bit confused at first. But it might have been all the people starring, screaming and clapping their hands at her...we got a little excited. But once she got comfortable with the help of ferny, my little cousin, twirling her around n around. She eventually started splashing and kicking her little feet underwater.

After almost ripping off my bathing suit top like a 'hungry hungry hippo' it was time for a break. We changed and fed her, then it was time for a nap. Trying to take advantage, I decide to get some sun since I'm as white as a piece of paper..

..seriously look how white.

Well, that didnt last to long considering there was a water balloon fight going on and an uncle eager to soak me. Then it started to rain and fatty woke up after her usual short cat nap of less then 30min so I was out of luck.

Until next time,
Your favorite Mommy! =]

A Quick Blast From The Past

This is just some quick info about how it all started.
Not so much in detail because then we’d be here foorrever!

2/9/11 was when I found out I was pregnant. Those two blue lines were there in seconds! Even though I was only 21 and had a bf of only (almost) 2 years, I was still pretty happy. My family..not so much, atleast at first they werent. My pregnancy was awesome! I had no sickness, which was great. Hardly no cravings, no swolleness, no nothing, it was like I wasn’t even pregnant. Sometimes I thought it was kind of well,..booring. I WANTED the symptoms to happen!

On October 3, 2011 labor came around and also went great! Got my epi as SOON as I can and didnt feel not one thing! After 1hr and some minutes pushing Haydee Rose decided to make her grand entrance.

Like any mother would say, "She was the most beautiful thing on this earth!" but, I can honestly say (now) that she did look a little bit like an alien..for atleast the first month. NOW, she is the most GORGEOUS thing on this earth! Dont you agree?!

My fatty (my usual nickname for her), is almost 8 months now and is definitely a handful! She likes to be held (standing of course!) and has MAJOR mommities! But what mom doesnt love that, I surely do. She is still mainly breastfed (with 6 teeth!..OUCH!). She has a little bit of solid foods. She does NOT take a bottle or a paci so its pretty hard soothing her when shes mad. Keeping an eye or two (or three) on her is a must because shes got her "scooting" crawl down pact! And shes fast!

Yes, Im one of those moms that STILL sleeps with her baby. I know how much people say that its horrible / dangerous and what not but, I love it and it works GREAT for me. And honestly, I dont care what people tell me. My method: nod, smile and ignore. Roll your eyes all you want! (no offense mom, love ya!)

Well, thats pretty much it for now. Hope you enjoyed my first blog ever! Ill try writing every now and then..hopefully I dont forget. =]