Weekend Edition

1. Saturday - Trip down to San Diego to see the lovely BLC while she was on vacation. Love this girl - she is one of the most wonderful people I know! I had such a great time catching up with her and wish I got to see her more often! 

2. Saturday evening - Concert in the park. Journey tribute band. J and I had a blast. But I think K had even more fun than us! She was up an hour and a half past her bedtime and she showed no signs of slowing down. She was so excited to see so many people and she was singing to the music. Believe it or not, she is totally a Journey fan, thanks to Glee. 

3. Sunday - Church. After church, ate out (gasp!). Nap time followed. Then playing at the park. Great weather. Great day. This is what Sundays were meant to be.

And of all these fun events, the only pictures I took over the weekend were these three. Guess it shows that after a month of no eating out (yes yes, with the exception of a few CFA visits), the most eventful portion of my weekend that I just couldn't miss and had to capture in a picture....was eating out.

...but really, I had a great weekend. Loved my time with BLC, loved the concert in the park, and loved the relaxing Sunday!

Excused Absence?

I've been seriously slack about updating the blog.

But we've been a little busy.

Flying here...

Riding there...

Grabbing a little to eat...

And then we had a visit from these guys:

Fun summer times!

That's One Small Step

Kaitlyn has never been a bad eater. She has also never been a great eater. She's just in the middle. Early on, we both had some struggles.

Me:
Hum, to start with mushed bananas or mushed peas?
Pureed meat? Are you kidding me?! Go ahead and gag me now.
Can she handle half a cheerio or do I need to cut every cherrio in quarters?
No she can't have strawberries. She is only 11 months and 29 days old. You have to wait until she is a year old for strawberries. Geez, what are you trying to do, give her an allergy attack?!

Kaitlyn:
Like.
Don't like.
Like.
Don't like.
Definitely don't like.
Going to eat lots of this.
But none of that.
What is that smell? Seriously, pureed meat? Gag me now. Mom, really, why are you feeding this to me?!

But really, overall, she eats fairly well. She does eat most things I attempt to feed her and she gets a good variety of food.

However, vegetables are another story. Yes, I know typical toddler scenario: doesn't like veggies. That is why there are a bazillion "How to Puree Vegetables into Spaghetti Sauce" type cook books out there. But here was the thing I didn't understand. Kaitlyn would eat green beans, peas, carrots, you name it, from the Gerber pureed food jars. I tried fresh veggies, but she didn't like them. She would eat fresh smashed fruit, bread, meat, whatever...but not fresh veggies. Only the pureed Gerber jars. No matter how thin I could get the fresh stuff, Kaitlyn turned her nose up at it and would demand Gerber jars.

Well, when we transitioned to all solid food and quit buying the baby food and I almost decided to author the bazillion-and-one book on "How to Puree Vegetables into Spaghetti Sauce" book because this has been the only way to get her to eat veggies for the past couple weeks. Well...that and the dump-half-a-can-of-grated-parmesan-cheese-onto-a-single-stalk-of-broccoli method. That seems to work occasionally too. But, tonight we had a break through.

Not only did Kaitlyn eat a bite of cooked carrot (of all things, bleeekkkkk), she ate THREE cooked carrots. Hallelujah. And she even kept signing "more" after each one. She actually wanted MORE cooked carrots.

Ladies and Gentlemen (well probably just ladies if you are this far into the post), That's One Small Step For Mom, One Giant Leap For Kaitlyn.

I don't even think Neil Armstrong felt this good when he walked on the moon.