Baby Food

I have been making Finn all of his baby food so far, and I love it!  I have bought all organic produce and made huge batches of it!  Grammy even brought us more produce from Whole Foods when she last came up.  I roast the vegetables and fruits, then puree them.  They turn out so good!  The roasting really brings out the flavors!  We then freeze the purees in ice cube trays, then pop them out and store them in freezer bags.  They will last up to 3 months in the freezer, but not with the appetite of this child...

Some of the baby food I've made:

• butternut squash 
• acorn squash
• pears
• white peaches
• peaches
• apples
• bananas
• green beans
• peas
• sweet potatoes
• nectarines
• mango
• strawberries
• eggplant
• quinoa
• white beans
• canellini beans

We are able to make some great combination with all of the flavors...he never has just plain sweet potatoes or green beans- always something added!  We use most of the fruit purees to flavor his organic whole milk yogurt for breakfast.

Finn is 7 Months Old!

Finn now weighs 19 lb!!  He is wearing 9 month clothes and size 3 diapers.  He is such a big boy!  He sits up very well on his own now and is beginning to get into the crawl position.  He is always leaning forward when he is sitting with both hands on the ground.  Finn continues to LOVE his food!  The hardest time of the day is around 4:30-5 when I am trying to get dinner going and Finn just wants his own food!  He is eating 4 cubes of baby food for lunch and dinner, and sometimes we even have to add a banana at dinner time!  He is so demanding!  As I am preparing to give him the last few bites of his dinner, I usually have to ask Kenny to get me something else quickly to give him or else he starts his screeching and doesn’t stop until he has food in his mouth! He eats 2 cubes of puree fruit to flavor his plain yogurt for breakfast which he loves.  He is pretty calm during breakfast and lunch, but he is an animal at dinner time!  He has 4 bottles per day, but doesn’t really care for them.  It’s all about the real food! His schedule most days: bottle at 7am, then breakfast, then nap, bottle at 10:30-11am, then lunch at 12, nap at 1:30-2ish, bottle at 3:30-4, dinner, then bottle before bed time at 7:30pm.  He is so good and easy!  He goes to bed awake and falls asleep easily on his own.  He uses a binky to go down with, but doesn't use it throughout the night.  He sleeps with his blue doggy cuddle blanket.  He recently had a diaper rash that was pretty bad, so when his butt got wiped, he'd cry...so now he associates that with the changing table!  He always cries the second you lay him down on it, but then is fine.  He just protests a little!


Finn JUST started waving to us, and he says “haaaaa…” (Hi) or least the hhhhh sound when he waves at us!  He has become such a Mama’s Boy- and I love it!  When I walk in from work and he sees me, he lets out a big screech and then cries until I pick him up- then he is so happy!  I don’t remember the girls being like that!  Alot of times I catch him looking at me, like just to check in to see if things are ok, especially when other people are holding him or if he is playing on the floor.  We have a special connection!  He still loves the water and splashing!  He is happy with just a basin of water in front of him.  He can sit on the top step of the pool or in a little pool on the beach and splash away!  He got his 2nd sunburn this month…yep, we are the parents of the year!  Everyone was up celebrating Kenny’s birthday and Finn fell asleep on the beach under the tent, wearing his long sleeve hooded SPF rash guard and zinc on his face.  UGH!! I feel so bad!