Baby Food

I decided that I wanted Evelyn to have homemade baby food. It's closer to what real food tastes like without all the unnecessary additives and preservatives. Every night after dinner starting when she was a little over 5 months old I would steam fresh vegetables, puree them, and freeze them in ice trays. I did this for weeks, and every time I gave Evelyn a bit of the vegetables to try. She showed no interest no matter what I did. We tried oatmeal with milk and she would just spit it out. She took a few bites of oatmeal with water and that just pushed my buttons, Naturally she wanted the thing that took no work and came from the store, but not the one that I either made in the kitchen or spent hours pumping.

After running out of room in my freezer (it's still pretty overtaken by bags and bags of milk) I stopped and occasionally would pull out a vegetable cube for her meal but she still wasn't very interested. I got desperate and moved on to fruits (which I did NOT want to feed her first) but still she didn't want it. During a meal of pears when she refused to even open her mouth I decided to show her the chocolate Milky Way bar I was enjoying. And who would of guessed it, but she opened her mouth to suck the chocolate off the bar. Often. I guess that's what happens when you spend an entire pregnancy eating chocolate.
We tried a bite of pears again and this time she took them, Oh thank goodness!

After that spectacle we started trying foods more often, usually fruit, and got some success. Never lots of success, but some none the less. Since she eats so little of the solids I'm still not making food, it's just not as shelf stable. I've joined the rest of the schmucks and started feeding her organic baby jars.

Since that time I've discovered baby rice crackers that she LOVES to chew on. She likes sweet potato cereal (from the evil Gerber company) too but I don't like to give her very much. We've had a few run-ins with oranges. She loves them, but gets pissed off when you take them away. Also let her try pickles expecting a silly face but it turns out she really likes them. I've learned she wants to eat food like a big person or an experienced baby (which she refused to be even though I tried) and gets pissed off when you don't let her. I'm gonna be battling temper issues with this little bug.

Eight Months

• Finally started showing intrest in food, starting with the chocolate coating on a milkyway bar
• Tried pears, zucchini, bananas, peaches, apples, squash, peas, soy beans, avacado, lemons, and oranges
• Likes to try to chew on bananas
• Doesn't want mashed food. Would rather have solids
• Military crawls everywhere
• Getting stranger anxietys
• Thinks the swings are fun

Seven Months

• Two bottom teeth came in
• Can scoot backwards, but doesn't do it very often
• Claps hands together often
• Can pass items from one hand to the other fairly well
• Mimics people
• Has minor stranger anxieties and sometimes panics when Mom leaves the room
• Giggles and cries at the same time
• Pulls herself forward in attempt to crawl
• Loves to stand up and bounce or jump
• Makes the indian call all by herself now

Six Months

• Holds conversations with her toys and with people. Sometimes very loudly
• Sits up by herself (still falls over sometimes)
• Caught swine flu but stayed in a good mood the whole time

• Still a grouch when woken up, but super plesant the rest of the time
• Can hold toys easily, and starting to pass toys from one hand to another
• Giggles often
• Cries when she hears the lower notes on the harmonica, but is over it now
• Loves to tear wrapping paper
• Loves paper
• Talks, squeals
• Plays Patty Cake
• Tried solids. Oatmeal, Zucchini, Butternut Squash, and Apples. None went over well, but Apples did make it across the kitchen
• Likes it when you help her make the indian call

Five Months

• Rolled over from back to stomach
• Enjoyed first Thanksgiving
• Tried Dill Pickle juice
• Likes to watch the world from upside down
• Teething has disrupted her sleep
• Giggles
• Blows raspberries when upset
• Watches EVERYTHING
• Did her first black Friday Shopping
• Survived a 7 day trip up to Washington
• Scratches anything that looks interesting
• Gets pissed off when she starts to fall asleep
• Easily upset by her toys. Especially the turtles

• Length fits 6-9mo clothing
• Enjoys sucking on her own toes
• Found her shreiky voice
• Starting to suck thumb more
• Sleeps with one eye open