Showing posts with label James food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James food. Show all posts

Thursday, April 2, 2009

The Mango Tango

I'm not entirely sure why I entitled this post "The Mango Tango"...yes, James tried Mango today...but Tango? It rhymes. That's all....and it sounded catchy. Today James had his six month appointment. He's gone from being in the 50th percentile in weight to the 30th percentile! But 75th in head circumference and 66th in height--big head, tall and skinny. The doctor wasn't concerned as long as he is growing length-wise. He's just burning more calories now wiggling and rolling around!
James is becoming very observant. When he gets fussy, we just put any object in front of him and he's usually distracted by it! He's totally curious about everything. He's been discovering his voice more, babbling and shouting to see what noises he can make. It's pretty fun to hear!
thinking hard about how to get that watch off...
James has eaten brown rice cereal, peas, and mango in the past week. I might have been a little hasty with the mango I bought today. I think it needed to ripen a day or two more. I think parts of it were a little too tangy and when pureed, it made the whole 'batch' too tart! Oops. Here was his reaction:


Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sweet Potatoes

After a friend mentioned on her blog a new baby food website she'd discovered, I started pouring over the new recipes there. I found a recipe for "Sweet Toes". Here's a link to the site, Nurture Baby.

First I baked the sweet potatoes, with skin on....

The peels came off very easily. I cut them in chunks and pureed them with water and a teensy bit of cinnamon...


Then I plopped it in ice cube trays. I ended up with three trays full from nine medium sweet potatoes. James eats just one cube (watered down) a day. I figured it comes out to be $0.04 or $0.05 a cube!
And the verdict is...he likes it! He was doing a little sweet potato dance in between bites, because he wanted more! I really enjoyed the prep ahead and freeze method!