My Boys

Each week Tara at Sticky Fingers hosts a theme at The Gallery and this week the theme is Men. I've wanted to join in for a while now and when I saw the theme I knew exactly what to my entry would be. I used to have one boy and now I have two and I love them both more than anything.

Sweet Potato

So we originally planned for Blondie Boy's second taste sensation to be oatmeal, but after visiting two stores and googling that idea was nixed. We couldn't actually find any baby oatmeal for sale and it seems like there is no guarantee that oatmeal is gluten free and we don't want him to have gluten before 6 months.

So since I already had a sweet potato in the house and it is one of the least allergenic first foods, we went for that! We baked the sweet potato in tin foil and then I scooped the flesh out and pushed it through a sieve.

The sieve produced a smooth puree, but was quite time intensive and now my finger is sore, so next time I'm just going to use the food processor. Once it was sieved I portioned it out into some plastic tubs I got on sale at Tesco.

Two pots went in the fridge (it's suggested homemade food can last 48-72 hours in the fridge, we are going for 48) and the rest in the freezer (where they can last 1-3 months, again we'll air on the side of caution and use within a month).

I then added about a 1/4 of a scoop of formula powder and enough cooled, boiled water to make the sweet potato runny, but not liquid.

He seemed to make a "yucky" face a lot more, but ate about 1/2 of what was there. It was definitely a bit thicker than the rice cereal, so that's to be expected. It also seemed a lot messier than rice cereal, but that could just be because it is a lot brighter! We'll see what the next 4 days bring :)

Oh and the whole time I was writing this post, this was in my head, thanks Joel McHale....

Food Glorious Food

There are all sorts of things you can read about when to start your baby on solid foods. Cues to look for, milestones to meet, but I'm not here to tell anyone when to start feeding their baby solids.

After talking to our Health Visitor, we decided to start Blondie Boy on solids. He's up to 8oz a feed and isn't always satisfied, stares at us eating, eats his hands, but most of all I do not believe he will wait until July (6 months) to start solids. I want him to be here in Glasgow when we start in case he has any allergic reactions. He is at a higher risk for food allergies (more on that later) so it is important to me that we try the same food for 5 days and that he can see his own doctor if anything happens.

So today will be Day 5 of Rice Cereal for the boy. I mix up 2 baby spoons of the rice cereal with half a scoop of formula and enough cooled boiled water (a tablespoon+) so it's smooth and almost runny, but not quite.

He seems to like it so far! Any suggestions for what to try next?

Happy Mother's Day!

4 months

Age - four months

Weight - 13lbs 9oz

Height - 25 1/2"

Sleeping habit - He is sleeping in his big boy crib in his own room! He sleeps from 12am-8/9am.

Eating habits - Eating 8oz 4-5 times a day. Just got the okay to try baby cereal!

Favorite activity - Swimming, reading, talking, blowing spit bubbles

Milestones - 4 month vaccines, rolling over & grabbing his feet

Firsts- swimming, Bounce & Rhyme session, sleeping in his own room, time alone overnight with just Mom, bath in the big tub, shower...

(sorry for being one day late, but we were getting him weighed today)

Miércoles Mudo

(Happy Cinco de Mayo! I'll post Blondie Boy's 4 month post tomorrow after we get him weighed/measured)

Remember Fred Durst?

Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' what? That is stuck in my head because I got Blondie Boy rolling over on camera! Not only did he roll over, he rolled over ten+ times in a row-- sometimes he went left, sometimes right, but every time we put him on his belly he rolled over!

Roll on, Roll on from Transatlantic Blonde on Vimeo.

I think he'll be quite happy because now that I got it on camera I won't shove a camera in his face whenever he has some tummy time :)