Pudding

Warning : The following images are of babies eating excessive amounts of sugar. They are also naked. And even worse, they are watching Elmo. Yes, I'm sure you're a better mother than I am because you'd die before you let your child participate in such barbaric activities, but whatever. :)

I've never been brave enough to let the girls feed themselves with spoons. I've been too afraid of the mess. Consequently, they don't eat from spoons very often. When we first started solids, they didn't like to be spoon fed, which is why we dabbled into baby led weaning. The girls have always liked to feed themselves. Well, imagine my surprise when Josh was eating a snack pack and Sophie grabbed a spoon from off the table and started dipping into the pudding and eating it. I decided then that we should just let them try to feed themselves. I thought of the things we could put in a bowl... apple sauce, cereal, yogurt, etc, but knew that now that she had tasted pudding, that's all she would want. So, like any good mother, I got stripped the girls down, buckled them into their high chairs and handed them each a snack pack and a spoon. Here's what happened. Be prepared for a messy photobomb!  

(Most of them are of Lillian because she was acting a little more hilarious about it. She's got the yellow spoon, Sophie has the green one.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I think I had good reason to be afraid.                 

Wordless-ish Wednesday

I've made mention of this before, but these girls love raspberries. Luckily, we have an amazing neighbor who has amazing raspberry bushes. She let the girls have a little sample yesterday and they loved it.

The blur in the bottom corner is Sophie's head...

 

Yep, they still love them.

Pickle face

Sometimes, I don't know what to feed these babies. One day, they'll eat anything and everything under the sun. The next, they only want milk... for days. Apparently this is normal, but most days I try to make them eat something. Yesterday was one of those days where they didn't want much. They ate a few Cheerios and cheese chunks in the morning, but that was about it. Oh and I guess Lillian and I shared a pear, but they refused toast, hard boiled, cream of wheat, and  green beans. There have been days where the attempted food list has been double that, but after the failed egg I got the idea to pull out the pickles. Dill pickles. I think we've given them a taste or two if we're eating a burger or something, but they've never really chowed down on pickles before. It was pretty hilarious...

 

 

They kept looking at each other and giggling while I'm sure thinking, "What the crap did mom give us?"

 

 

 They must of liked them though because they ate the entire things!
Oh and they have crazy hair because they had just woken up from their nap.
These girls rock the bed head.

And on an unrelated note, I can't find my keys. I think we may have driven off when they were on the roof of our car (obviously that means Josh had his keys...) or maybe a baby swiped them and made them disappear. Either way, I think they're in key heaven. I looked for at least two hours yesterday. I looked in every drawer, pockets, cupboard, toy bin, in the couch cushions, through all the laundry, in the car, under the car, on the street, etc, etc. We're making copies of all the keys today, but it bugs me that they've vanished. So, if anyone makes a trip to key heaven and sees a set with a Boarders rewards card, a USU fresh values card and a blinking 'Brittany' key chain with the Sears Tower on it, send it our way.

Baby led feeding

On Sunday, we went to Josh's parent's house. As we were getting ready to eat lunch, Josh pulled out a banana and handed it to Sophie. This is what happened.

I love this. The girls do too. They've been protesting eating from a spoon, which pushes me even more to feed them this way. Bananas are soft enough where they can eat them on their own, so they're a really easy food for them (and us). We also tried honeydew (that was actually the first food they had) and is was WAY too slippery for them. Plus they had no idea what to do. Give them a banana though, and it goes straight in the mouth and they chomp away. I like having options for feeding them. I make some food, we buy some food, we hand them some food. It's great.

For some reason, I only have pictures of Sophie eating this way (and they're taking on my phone...yuck), but Lillian is just as good. In fact, Lillian's tooth has broke through her gum! I'm thrilled. It's still tiny and you can only see a sliver of white, but it's there. The solid bananas must feel great on her swollen little gum.

Also, check out the post below if you're interested in coming to a photography workshop with Sharon Johnson. When I found out about it, I told Josh that would be my birthday present and I'm SUPER excited about it.

And yes, I haven't been blogging as much as I wanted to, but I'll get there...

eventually.