OUCH!

If teething hurts, then teething times 4 must really hurt!!! That's right. Vince is getting 4 teeth in right now...actually I think that 3 have cut through finally and there's another one that keeps sneaking back up into his gums. There may or may not be one more coming in on the bottom, but it's really hard to see because every time I try to open his mouth he sticks his tongue out!!
The teething has made him a little fussier than usual, but I'll give him a pass. I'll post a photo of his new teeth soon.

Momma's gettin' crafty

Thanks to some very helpful suggestions from other mommas who paved the road, I have figured out how to get Vince to eat the veggies he doesn't like. . . and it's so fun for me because I know I'm tricking him!!! (Pretty soon I'll be busting out my mom's old faithful line: "No, really sweetheart you should try it. You know you're getting older now and that means your tastebuds have probably changed since you're growing up!" That woman tricked me every time with that line~!!~)

Anyway, In the beginning...vince hated the green veggies and loved the orange ones. Most of us know what happens when babies eat only the orange stuff: their skin turns orange. Unfortunately for the Momma, the baby doesn't care what hue his skin becomes because, well...he's got more important fish to fry. So in order to offset the RGB scale in my child's pigment, I started mixing his green veggies with his orange ones. It worked for about one mouthful, but he still pretended to gag on the mixture. So for several days - and with quite a bit of pride, I might add - I put fruit from one dish on the same spoon with mixed veggies from another dish. BINGO! He loved it. Every few bites or so I'd give him a bite of just veggies just to laugh at his gagging reaction (that's probably really unhealthy or he could probably suffer from some sort of emotional trauma because of it, but I assure you, it really was comical and quite worth it). The problem is that this whole two-dishes-and-one-spoonful thing is rather time consuming. Sooo...I came up with an even better solution: I dumped it all together!!! So now he's eating two veggies and a fruit all at once and he gobbled it right up!!! HA!!!



Here's a photo at a recent dinner time. Fatigue was setting in; can ya tell?

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hooray for bows!!!!

A couple cute pics

Somebody's all set to be wrapped up and put under the tree!


Daddy and Vince...so happy!

veggie tales

...no, not that Veggie Tales, just veggie tales: Vince started eating vegetables in the past week. We've had quite a bit of fun with it. First he had his 6 month well-baby checkup, which went well. He is in the 25th percentile for weight and 70th for height. Go figure. Anyway, Dr. M told us to go ahead and start the veggies and a sippy cup! That was really fun. He was so excited when he first tried water! It took a while for him to figure out the cup, and now he spits more water out than he actually takes in, but our boy loves to use the cup.
I decided to make my own baby food to save some cash (I can't believe the price difference!!!) so while I worked on stocking up the homemade food, I used jar food carrots to start. (You're not supposed to make your own carrots because of the nitrate content in them.) He loved them! Gobbled them right up. Then we tried green beans, which I made and Vince did NOT love. I'm hoping that's an acquired taste for him because we have a lot of them! He had a weird rash on the side of his face when we gave him the green beans, so I freaked out and called the Dr., who assured me that he was fine and just to wait and try to introduce the GBs again at a later date. So he got carrots that night again. Since then he has tried and loved both sweet potatoes and squash. Call me silly, but when he likes the food I make for him, I get so happy! Like, "Yeah, he likes my cooking!" I know, it's silly, huh? We have SO MUCH squash. I can't believe how many servings one butternut squash makes! Tomorrow I'm going to give him avacado and make some peas to freeze. I also have a mango for him, but I think it will have gone bad by the time I can introduce fruits to him...I didn't read the recipe for avacado and mango before buying them: it's not recommended to freeze the puree like it is with other veggies. I am also excited to try pears, peaches, mashed bananas, and apples! I'm a baby food nut!
Vince had his 6 month photos this week too. He is such a little champ. We have so much fun playing dress up with him! See photos on left.
We are excited to be able to celebrate Jesus's birthday with Vince this year. Merry Christmas!