Further baby notes

[siercia]

Hannah has broken through her third tooth, quite possibly on her birthday. That's when I noticed the little nub sticking out through her gums, at least. She continues to be wildly shy about the teething process, and refuses to let us in to see.

She had her first go at spaghetti and meatballs (yes, made from scratch) yesterday, and she LOVED it. Ate the whole bowl I'd made up for her, begged for more tastes of sauce of my fingers, the whole works. So today, I made up little Hannah freezer meals with the sauce I didn't put in the freezer for us. This'll make it so that imagine77 or scirocco can just pop one out, nuke it, and have a ready made meal for little miss. She went after the "real" food with such gusto, I'm really wondering if part of her fighting at mealtimes is an expression of not wanting to eat mushy baby food anymore. Which makes life more difficult, since I can't ask Elisa to cook entire meals for her. And the little Stage three meal packs are more expensive, and well, not as good as I'd like Hannah to have... I want her to get used to home cooked meals, not the baby food equivalent of Spaghettios. I see a lot of freezer meal packing in my future. And I think it's time to implement family dinner time on the nights I don't work, so she can start seeing table manners and whatnot. This will be interesting.

She's so funny sometimes, she just makes me laugh. One of her favorite things in the world is to watch me walk up and down the stairs. But only if she's above me, being carried by someone else. To the point of, if Daddy is holding her, and I start walking towards the stairs, she starts shrieking her little baby anticipation yells and bouncing up and down... before I've even gone down a step. It's becoming a ritual. I invent reasons to follow her and Daddy up the stairs when they're going, and I can't take a trip to the upstairs without a baby escort these days. Its worth it for that crazed little giggle, though.

Comments

[bookwitch.livejournal.com]

Jeez....a year already. That's incredible.
She sounds absolutely adorable. And I KNOW she's beautiful.
I'm determined to meet you folks in person one o these days. :)

[siercia]

That would be great! I'd love to meet you in person, too. Maybe someday. =)

Re:

[bookwitch.livejournal.com]

Hopefully.
Although as I'm sure you know, traveling is more difficult with a little one. *heh*

freezer meals

[sarahparah.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you hit on a good system and recipes, let me know. I"d love to do the same. Isabella eats far to many frozen pre-prepared things (those lean cuisine bags of pasta are a big favorite)...

Re: freezer meals

[siercia]

Let's see. I've got some chicken breasts and pork chopts that I cooked, and divided into hannah sized portions, and made up some mashed potatoes and rice (don't know how well the rice will survive the freezer, though). I think I'm going to make some mac and cheese with ham and peas in it, at some point, I'm going to make chicken tetrazini (spaghetti, chicken, mushrooms and parmesan cheese in a white sauce), maybe some ham-broccoli-cheesy rice bake.

I'm not sure what else yet, I'm still in the beginning stages of doing this for her.

hmmm

[imagine77.livejournal.com]

I guess I -could- cook...but in the long run i'm not so sure the baby version of spagettios wont be healthier for her...we DO want her to live to see 2.heh.

Re: hmmm

[siercia]

Now now, I'm sure you're a much better cook than that. But I still won't ask you to cook for her.

Much cuteness

[tarecat.livejournal.com]

Atleast the new tooth exsplanes why she was more interested in Chewing on her new toy hammer than banging stuff with it. ; )

Frozen pre made dinners sound like a great idea though. You're lucky Hannah isn't a picky eater like I was. : )
All I'd eat was mashed potatoes and corn.