The next food on our "try" list was decided by Mitch. He wanted the Monkey to eat some zucchini. So, zucchini is what the Monkey had. Did she like it? Not in particular. It was tough getting that first meal of only zucchini in her. We learned quick that in order to make zucchini meal time fun, it had to be mixed with some most awesome sweet potatoes. After we started mixing them, those things went down without a problem! I don't know that we'll be doing much zucchini for a while.
That same night, we sauteed up some green beans for ourselves and I thought we would hand one to the Monkey to try, since she's been doing so great at feeding herself the Mum Mums every night after dinner. This did not go so well. She tried to stick the green bean too far back into her mouth and gagged a little, I freaked out and took the green bean and had a mini heart attack. She was fine, of course, and looked at me like I was crazy. Anyway, here is Monkey with her green bean for the short time that she had it:
Our next food up is something that I have been excited about since the day that I made it. Butternut squash. I just knew that the Monkey would love it. And she absolutely did! She was practically jumping over her tray to get to the bowl and another bite. She bangs on her tray and opens her mouth up so wide, that you can see the intensity all over her face. It's beyond cute! In the Sunday paper this week, I saw that Babies R Us has Earth's Best Organic baby food on sale 20 jars for $10. This is a seriously good deal for that food so I decided to go ahead and grab some jars of stuff that I normally would not make or would not think of mixing. One of the jars that I got was apples and butternut squash. I figured that since we have already tried apples, it would be safe. So we tried it, and the Monkey reeeeeaaaally loved it! So that's what we do now. One apple cube and one b.n. squash cube and we have one happy Monkey!
We took the Monkey to the Farmer's Market today. It was her first trip to such a big market! One of the vendors in the front of the market gave me a peach to try. I decided to give the Monkey a taste. She loved it. She loved it so much that I ended up, little by little, removing the skin off of almost the entire peach so that she could eat it. She would just chomp away on the sweet, juicy peach with her little gums and she was in peachy heaven! That baby was such a mess afterward, sticky and covered in fruit but man, was she happy!! We, undoubtedly, bought more peaches to bring home with us. I think I may just peel them and slice them for her to enjoy as finger foods since she did so well today. It was so much fun to watch her discover her first peach!
In other news...
Daddy took the Monkey outside for some air yesterday when she got a little cranky. She really enjoys being outside and I honestly, don't get her out often enough. Anyway, I went out a few minutes later to see what they were up to and here is what I saw:
Yep. Daddy had that Monkey propped up on his bike. At first I was like "omg whatareyoudoinggetheroffofthatthiiiiiiiing!" But then I saw what I good time she was having and quite frankly, how stinking cute she looked and I got over it....and took more pictures. :) Here are a couple of my two favorite people in the world:
Monkey and the bath tub saga
So if you recall, a couple of posts ago I was bragging about how the Monkey has moved over to the big girl tub and is having a blast and all that. Well, that has now changed. After only about a week and a half of being in the big tub, she has decided that she does not like it. In fact, our child who has always loved her bath time so much, started screeching as soon as we put her in the tub and was slamming her hands into the side of the tub until we took her out. Finally after a couple of nights of this behavior, we decided to try her back in her little tub in the sink. That Monkey could not be happier. She is a very strange child. I don't know what it was that made her not want the big tub anymore. Maybe the fact that she couldn't see us at eye level or, for that matter, see anything but the walls of the tub, or if it was something else. Either way, our little Monkey is content in her little tub for now so that is where we will keep her until she is too big for it or she shows signs of wanting to switch back over. Since moving back over to the sink, she has developed an obsession with the knob at the end of the faucet. She tries to eat it the entire time she's getting her bath. It's funny. Here are some pictures:
That's about it for now! Mitch has a 4 day weekend this and we are going to be celebrating the Monkey's first Labor Day with my family on Monday so look forward to more pictures soon of that day!
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