Kat

Val&B0604

I was checking your blog just now and saw that Mar has started meats.  How did you do the chicken?  I'm starting to run out of ideas for Lily as she has taken to feeding herself and I waste most purees.  I'd like to introduce some meats so that, with cook out season upon us, she can start having what we eat!  

kat.in.the.hat

Please don't laugh, or call CPS on me!

We were at Freebirds here (a burrito place) and I ordered chicken tacos like always.  Their meat is totally plain, just grilled, and not even very salty.  Mar looked hungry, so we just shredded a chunk of it with our fingers and fed it to her a string at a time.

A friend of mine here in town found out her son was allergic to chicken, after she had already pureed up some chicken breast, so she gave me what they had left.  I think she just boiled the breasts and put them in the food processor with some of the cooking liquid.  When that thaws out, it's really crumbly and dry.  Marion is not such a fan of it that way.

So next week, Josh is just going to make her her own chicken breast at the beginning of the week, and we'll just fed her off of that.  We have our nine month pedi visit on Friday, so we're going to ask if it's okay for her to have stuff off the grill.

How is Lilly doing with her other foods?  What all is she eating now?

Val&B0604

Ha CPS!  I ordered pintos & cheese for Lily at Taco Bell a few weeks ago.  I totally forgot they are soaked in taco sauce, so she has yet to have true fast food.  Just a fry here and there from Applebee's type places.  

Lily will eat most anything I present to her, so I'm hoping that stays with her. I've been giving whole peas, diced sweet potatoes, blueberry halves, diced banana, peaches and pears.  She's had refried beans & Mexican rice from El Meson, she begrudgingly ate the beans and loved the rice.  I found some Earth's Best, I think, whole wheat blueberry waffles that she totally loves.  I made a cheese quesadilla with pea puree, mozzerella, & whole wheat tortilla she gobbled up a few nights ago.  She's had some string cheese pieces and she loves YoBaby yougurt.  I was trying to be economical and buy a large tub of plain to mix stuff into but she refused most of it.

My mom threw a fit that I had no jarred food so when BRU has Gerber jars 10 for $5 a last month I bought 20 jars.  I've thrown half of them out becase she only took one bite of them.  I did discover that most of the ones she refused have squash in them and I don't think it agrees with her.  

She had horrible constipation a few weeks ago so we're pack to prunes daily again.  She is also drinking water finally!  

 Lily doesn't go for her 9 mo check until mid July.  I am anxious to know  her stats, they didn't take them when I took her for fever/ poss chicken pox exposure last month.  Her 9 mo clothes are getting snug and 12 mo stuff is only a hair too long!

kat.in.the.hat

what a great eater!!

marion seems to have a fairly sensitive gag reflex and i'm terrified of choking so I haven't been so good about giving her real table food.

I did buy some stage 3 earth's best stuff just to see how it compared to what marion was eating, and good lord, her stuff has so much more texture in it!

we'll see what the doctor has to say about starting her on table food on friday.

she's definitely gaining weight - child has some enormous thighs! i hope she's growing taller, but i think she's growing more around than up!

how much freezer space do yall have?

Val&B0604

Our pedi said table foods were ok at 9 mos.  When she went on puree strike I just started giving whole things that she'd had purees of already. I started with peas, smashing them out of the shell.  She has yet to push any teeth out so I've been cautious, but she seems to gum it with the best of them.  The waffles are 4 mini waffles and I use a pizza cutter and and cut them into about 16 pieces for each of the 4 smaller waffles.  

I'll have to pick up some of the EB stage 3, It's by far our fave jarred food. I think the smoothness is part of the issue with purees. Target has a small freezer section of baby/toddler food.  The waffles are the only thing I've bought from there.  

I am confident that she's growing both ways, it's just nice for that little piece of mind here and there.  Plus we've been using the carrier as a back-up carseat and I'm afraid she's pushing the limits.   

We just have a standard side by side fridge/freezer.  FIL has a deep freeze for us but we have to get a shed to make room in our garage to accommodate it, unless we become a one car family in the next couple of months.  It is stuffed full and often time something falls out when the door is opened.  

Can you believe 9 mos already?