Home Made Fish Extender for Disney Cruise

I'm so excited about our Disney Cruise coming up in February! I've been working on our fish extender and it's almost done. All that's left to do is add my Mickey to the top (we need new color ink for our printer first) and get the dowel and ribbon attached. Instructions will be posted next week.

 

Home Made Baby Food - Round 2

For round 1 of home made baby food click HERE

Madison is doing so great with her solid foods. She absolutely loves them, and she loves to help feed herself too. It's quite a messy experience with her. Way messier than Parker ever was.

We pretty much do all of her meals just in a diaper because of this. She helps the food into her mouth with her hand and then smears it around, or just swipes the spoon from us to help herself if we're not moving fast enough.

As we're adding more and more to her list of foods that she loves, I'm figuring out more recipes to keep the flavors interesting for her. After all, I wouldn't want bland, unseasoned foods. Check out round one of baby food prep here.

Broccoli and apple: Equal parts broccoli and apple. Steam or microwave the broccoli, and then blend with 1 chopped steamed apple (steam by microwaving chopped apple in a microwave safe bowl with 1 inch water for 2 minutes) or you can boil the apple for about 7 minutes. I leave the peels on my apples, but you can peel them before steaming. Puree until smooth.

Baby Oatmeal: This one's so easy, you'll wonder why you ever bought "baby" oatmeal. Take regular oatmeal, and in either a food processor or coffee grinder, pulse to chop the oats. Keep ground oats in a tupperware or mason jar until needed. Prepare for baby with breastmilk, formula, or water.

For extra flavors in your baby's oatmeal, try grinding some dried fruits (like apple or banana) to powder and add to oatmeal when you prepare it along with spices like cinnamon and cloves.

Apple and Carrots: Steam 2 apples and 3 whole carrots. Puree until smooth

Pumpkin, Apple, Banana: 1/2 cup canned (or fresh steamed*) pumpkin, 1 steamed apple, 1 banana. Season with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves to taste. Puree until smooth.

*To make fresh pumpkin puree

Toddler Summer Bucket List

There are all sorts of posts out right now with things to do with your kids over the summer. One thing that seems to be popular this summer is to make a bucket with clothes pins or popsicle sticks that each have an activity on them. We made one of these in MOPS today, and it got me thinking of all the great ideas I've pinned on Pinterest and seem to forget about when I need an activity.

 

We can now pull out a stick each day and have an activity to do.

Home Made Baby Food

Home made baby food is so easy to make, and incredibly cheap compared to the store bought versions. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find good combo recipes. Below, I've compiled a list of some of the ones I've been making for Madison.

15 Minute Twirly Skirt

My big girl loves to wear twirly skirts, especially in the several hours a day that she asks for music so she can dance. When I came upon this post on Pinterest I knew that not only would it look super cute on Turbo, but I could make up several in different patterns very quickly to satisfy all of her twirling needs. 

Car Seat Emergency Info

Just a quick, but extremely important, project for today's nap time. A car seat emergency label.

 

Space Saving Breastmilk Storage

I remember that first day after I had Turbo. The lactation consultant came into my room and said "Well you don't have much to work with, do you?" She went on to tell me that it was OK because the size of your breasts has nothing to do with how much milk you can produce. She also said that when her dad had a dairy farm it was often the cows with the smallest udders that produced the most milk.

Well "Moo moo" I AM that dairy cow.