Wednesday: date night

Today was a bit more relaxed for Isaac and I, but I feel like I got a lot done.  Now, whether I actually did or not is up for debate, but at least a lot of little things got checked of my list.

Ben and I went to see the new Bond movie tonight.  It was fun.  Isaac got to spend some quality time with his grandparents.

Tuesday: keys and IDs

Today ended up being a rather busy day.

I got a key to the small building at the church where I'm helping out periodically.

After interviewing some babysitters at Hope I got a new ID card.

Then we started our gym membership where we got pictures for our ID cards.

This post was cooler in my head.  So here's a picture of Isaac.

Sunday: can you clap?

We have proof that Isaac can understand us!  Today, several times, I said, "Can you clap?" without using any gestures.  And he did!  It's a nice feeling...and clapping is so much fun too.

Now...if he would just decide to understand us in regards to the cat food.

Friday: 11 months

Isaac is 11 months today!  I just realized I didn't get the normal shots on the quilt, so I'll try to get those tomorrow.

Here we have him sitting nicely for some pictures.  Some of them include his current favorite toy, jingle balls. Since it was Christmas I put some lights around him too...they turned out well but not quite like I had envisioned.


Here he is with his monkey.

Playing with the monkey

And with the puzzle.


Isaac has started to get a little fussier with food.  I gave him some carrots and bananas the other day and he wouldn't eat them.  He's started throwing them on the ground, which is rather annoying.  However, we've tried some new foods that he has enjoyed (curry with lots of rice, black bean soup) and he still loves his peas and cottage cheese.

He is easily pulling himself up and cruising around the furniture.  He's going up stairs faster and pointing at everything.  He enjoys taking his socks off.

He is sleeping until about 5-6am, wakes up to eat and then goes back to sleep until 7:30-8.  I sometimes feel like we should get rid of that last feeding, but I'm afraid it would mean getting up earlier again and I really like this sleeping in.  Isaac is down to two naps, and they're usually at least an hour.

Only one more month until he turns one!  The year has flown.

Thursday: baby food

Well, I wanted to document some of my experiences with making baby food.  And I thought maybe someone else would want to see.  A "1" is hard or low while a "5" is easy or good.  edit: cost effectiveness refers to making the food vs. buying a similar, premade baby food.  n/a means that there wasn't anything close enough to compare it to.

mashed food and purees.

	easy of making	cost effectiveness	notes
apples	2	3
asparagus	3	n/a
avacado	5	n/a	freezing seems ok
banana	5	5	only from fresh
carrots	4	3	don't bake
cauliflower	4	n/a
chicken and parsnip	3	n/a
pears	2	3
peas	n/a	n/a
plums	2	4
potatoes, mashed	3	n/a	reheat with water
squash, butternut	4	5
sweet potato	4	5
watermelon	2	n/a	too runny
zuchinni and summer squash	5	n/a

finger food

	easy of making	eating	cost effectiveness	notes
apples	n/a	n/a	n/a	haven't gotten soft enough yet
avacado	5	4	n/a	messy
banana	5	5	4
black beans (from soup)	5	5	n/a
blueberries, fresh	5	5	1
blueberries, frozen	5	1	4	too red… ok with quinoa
carrots	4	5	5
cottage cheese	5	4	n/a	messy
kiwi	5	5	n/a
peaches, fresh	4	5	?	bake to remove peel
peaches, frozen	4	3	?	kind of hard
pears	2	4	2	messy from frozen
peas	5	5	5	canned
plums	2	1	?	too red
raspberries, frozen	5	1	n/a	messy
rice	3	3	n/a	keeps Isaac busy, only half ends up in mouth
shredded cheese	5	3	n/a	keeps Isaac busy, only half ends up in mouth
spagehtti	4	3	n/a	keeps Isaac busy, only half ends up in mouth
squash, butternut	4	5	5
sweet potato	4	5	5
zuchinni and summer squash	5	3	n/a	one batch good, one batch skin too hard

Wednesday: shopping for Isaac

Today Ben went shopping for Isaac.


It looks like he found a good one. :)

Monday: Ben

Tonight we celebrated Ben's birthday.

We went to Wild Chef for dinner.  Isaac seemed concerned about the flames, but didn't have any problems.