Thursday, January 16, 2014

Simon’s lunch of BBQ chicken bites, edamame, apples, and a yogurt drink. Simon was really excited about the yogurt drink, see his little hand sneaking in the picture?

Simon’s outfit of the day, a zebra shirt! He received this shirt last year but it was too big. He is definitely growing into his 4T clothes now. This shirt is like having Ziggy with him at school.

I took this morning off work since Annie had to get some dental work done so I took the opportunity to stock up on food by making a trip to Costco and Target with Iris. We got to Costco before it opened but just waited about 10 minutes. We weren’t the only early birds.

We finished our shopping and checking out within 30 minutes. I tried to limit our purchases to what would fit into the stroller cart but still overfilled it. We still managed to exit Costco by stacking two boxes on the glider board that Simon usually stands on. I’m really glad we got the glider board.

Afterwards, we went to Target to buy Simon’s 2% milk with DHA+omega3 (I find it is the best priced at Target and sometimes it is on sale) and since Iris was awake, I decided to let her try sitting in the shopping cart. She was so exited and super happy! Her little feet are all blurry in the picture since she was so excited and swinging her feet back and forth. Loving Target just like Mommy!

Simon’s artwork for the day. He said these are roads of some sort.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

I shopped in Oakland Chinatown yesterday during lunch and bought a whole bunch of fruits for Iris to make more baby food. She is a good eater and has been eating right through our freezer supply. So last night she had fresh mango and I made a whole new batch of apple puree. Then I had a little bit of energy left to put together the ingredients for banana bread in the bread maker. Here is the result.

The house definitely smelled delicious in the morning.

Iris seemed to enjoy it.

Since I was up making Iris’ food, I woke up late so Ron made Simon’s lunch. Chicken quesadilla with red seedless grapes and steamed broccoli.

Apparently Simon really liked the quesadilla since he ate the whole thing but left most of the grapes and did not touch his broccoli. I hope he’s not getting too bored with his lunches. I still have yet to try making musubi… I’ll need to get on that soon.

Anyone under there!?!

Surprise!!

I said that Iris is a good eater, want to see proof? Check out her little belly in this Hello Kitty outfit! Thank you Auntie Tiffany for the cute purple Hello Kitty sweatshirt!

I’m glad our kiddo is no longer afraid of trying to draw. Daddy drew an example of an airplane and Simon is trying to replicate it. He did a pretty good job I think.

Simon was not eager to have me take a photo of him tonight. I asked him nicely if I could take a picture of him today and this was his response. Possibly a prelude to that disgusted look that teenagers are famous for.

Back to Iris’ eating habits… so far Iris has tried the following foods:
FRUITS
apple, pear, banana, strawberries, blueberries, papaya, clementines, mango, avocado, grapes, cantaloupe, watermelon
VEGETABLES
zucchini, spinach, broccoli, corn, carrot, butternut squash, potatoes, sweet potato, leek
PROTEINS
chicken, tilapia, salmon, yogurt, cottage cheese, creamy Havarti (cheese), freeze dried yogurt snacks for babies
STARCHES
rice, different types of noodles, white bread, banana bread, baby puffs and other snacks, mantou (white steamed bun), oatmeal

She is starting to like more textured things but prefers it not to be “sticky”. She gets angry if it sticks to her mouth and cries out. Once she gets some water though then she is usually okay. She will also let you know when she doesn’t like something and shut her mouth and turn her head away from the spoon. She is cautious at times and will only open her mouth a little bit to taste the food first before taking a bigger mouthful. Smart girl.

I think that is everything… any suggestions for other things I can try with her? I feel like she may be getting a bit bored. Her doctor says I should let her try peanuts (with Benadryl nearby) soon to see if she will have a reaction and to help it so she will not have a reaction in the future. I haven’t been brave enough to try it but my “window” for the optimum time to expose her is closing… maybe this weekend…

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Lunch today of red seedless grapes, a clementine, mini chicken tacos, pretzel sticks, dried fish snacks, a mint truffle candy, and the carrot from yesterday that he didn’t eat. A co-worker gave me these See’s mint truffles for Christmas and Simon has been asking me to open them since then. So finally I packed one in his lunch for him to try. He ended up not liking it too much because it wasn’t cocoa chocolate, it was white chocolate. He only ate half.

Another piece of artwork at school: fireworks!

Today I got a pleasant surprise, Iris was so excited to hear Simon and I come home, that she escaped from Annie’s arms and crawled out to greet us. Yesterday she just cried out for us when she heard our voices but today, she decided to make the effort to crawl out to see us. She was so happy and so was I.

Another of Simon’s projects today was a paper lantern. His hands were full so he decided to hang it in his mouth. Silly boy.

Simon is getting good at being a big brother. He likes to play peek-a-boo with Iris. She laughs at his antics.

I love her little outfit today with the stockings that look like they have little shoes. My pajama pants happen to almost match her little dress. We bought this Carter’s outfit at JCPenney when we went shopping with Grandma Tam.

Monday, January 13, 2014

Monday morning, back to school! Mini corn dogs with lettuce, half a banana with clementine, and an uncut long carrot. Simon insisted that I not cut the carrot. He has eaten a whole one before but it usually takes him a while.

Picking up Simon from school today, the teacher gave him this picture to bring home. It is of me and Simon playing ball together. I think the idea was for them to draw their favorite thing about their field trip to Fairyland and he ended up drawing this (even though we did not play ball there). It definitely made me smile though.

Simon very proud of his drawing. Oh, and he loves this shirt! Many thanks to our friends in Finland for sending it during the holidays!

Little busy body Iris playing with her Gymboree cube.

I love this shirt because it has a backside picture of the panda.

Iris is always trying to put everything into her mouth.

“What Mommy? What did I do?”

Simon taking a break on the couch.

I remembered this morning that today is Iris’ 8 month birthday but I totally forgot to take a picture with her little sign… until after she fell asleep. Iris, happy 8 months!