You know what’s great?
Yogurt.
You know what’s better?
Yogurt eaten with not 1, but 2 spoons.
It’s amazing how fast she’s learned to use a spoon.
Granted, she still gets super messy when she uses a spoon. It will take some time to truly master the skills of eating with utensils.
Yeah, I post a lot of pics of my kiddo eating. So sue me.
I hope everyone has a great labor day today! For those of you who have to work, I’m sorry!
We spent this weekend hanging out with friends who are stationed here in Ohio (friends we haven’t seen since Vegas 2009!) and eating some pretty delicious ice cream from the local farm in Yellow Springs, Young’s Jersey Dairy.
Rylie also got her first up close and personal look at some farm animals, including cows, pigs, ducks, geese, and chickens. Unfortunately for us, she was quite the tater when we were at dinner at the farm.
She was having a grand old time playing with the rocks outside while we waited for dinner, and when we picked her up to take her inside once we got a table, all hell broke loose. She screamed and hollered and the ONLY thing that calmed her down was giving her food, fried cheese curds to be exact.
They were so delicious I want to go back and get more!
We don’t have any plans for today. I did my PiYo workout this morning and we’ll be making Nachos for dinner (ooooh yes!) and I’m going to try my hand at making a messenger bag (tutorial here).
Tomorrow we’ll be seeing my mom, which I’m very excited about. Rylie hasn’t seen her since she was 7-8 months old, so it’s going to be great “re-introducing” her to Rylie.
What are your plans for labor day? Leave me a comment and let me know!
Do you find that you have a picky toddler when it comes to food?
I do.
It’s rather infuriating sometimes.
I try to provide a wide variety of foods for her to eat so she gets used to not having the same thing over and over, but sometimes, the old reliable just needs to kick in.
When you find a food they love, you want to keep it on hand, at all times.
We learned a few months ago that Rylie LOVES all forms of sausage. Kielbasa, breakfast sausage, chicken sausage, brats…you get the gist.
So what does she get for dinner most often if we’re having something spicy or that we think she won’t like? Sausage.
Sometimes, you just have to appease your picky toddler.
The same goes for breakfast and lunch.
Hey, if I can get my toddler to eat something other than crunchies and cheerios, I’ll take it.
The one thing I’ve learned to do to introduce new foods to Rylie, is to giver her old reliable and 1 new food. Last night, we introduced her to broccoli. Guess what? She loved it!
It might have had something to do with the fact that I cooked the broccoli in chicken bouillon and garlic.
But hey, she tried it and then ate a good amount of it so that’s all that matters!
As the first post for my new blog, I feel it’s rather appropriate to say “Hello” and give a little blurb as to what all this “new blog” business is about.
I guess I should start from the beginning…or rather the end.
I got pretty tired and felt limited with my old blog, The New Momma.
Sure, most of my posts were about my daughter, her stats every month, and general mommy misc, but I felt the writer’s block really quickly and ended up getting rid of the whole darn thing.
Enter now, 6 months later. I feel like I’ve had time to really think about what I want in a blog, and what I want to come across to my viewers. I am not limiting myself with just mommy posts, kid posts, etc.
This is a lifestyle blog, where I discuss EVERYTHING in my life. From trying to conceive to what we did last weekend, it will be laid out for you to see.
I want a blog that my daughter can look through later on in her life and feel like she has a really good idea of who I am as a person, as well as her mother.
Oh, and I would also like to relate to a wider range of readers. That’s pretty darn important in my book.
I hope you as a reader will smack that subscribe button and follow me along in my journey. You and I will both learn quite a bit, I think.