My days seem like a crazy running together of never quite getting anything done. Really, Where has all the time gone? As I am sitting here thinking of what has gone on, my mind becomes all blurry. So here is what i do remember
I am down to only babysitting 3 days a week, which is a schedule I am much more fond of. The days I don't babysit, Lars and I go to the park and either walk, run, or play on the swings. As you can tell on the picture below with his cousin, he loves the swings. He is going to love amusements parks when he gets older.......he loves swinging high and you can toss him in the air or swing him around any which way and he just laughs. He seriously has no fear.
He has 4 teeth and only wants to eat what i am eating. In order to get him to eat his food I have to hide in my bowl and feed it to him with an adult spoon, while he is also holding an adult spoon. Such a big boy. And he would much rather have real looking food vs pureed foods. So i make him a lot of curried sweet potatoe fries (baked w/o oil of course) but seasoned with curry and garlic. They are so delicious i usually make a bunch of them so i can eat them too. I have started cooking peas for him with mint.....odd combo?..............just try it. stick a bunch of mint in the water you steam your peas in. Fantastic! or even better make split pea soup with mint in it!! yum yum. It has been fun to make all his baby food.
He is 30 inches long now and his weight gain has started stopped accelerating at such a fast rate. he was 19 lbs 3 months ago and as of last week he is 20.4 lbs. But with how chubby he was before he still looks healthy and chubby still. He is crawling around so fast and is scaling furniture. He will definatly be walking soon. He loves to play and gets so excited when he sees other kids that he says hi to them (literally says hi many times and then squeals in delight)and starts waving both his hands.
My sister in law and i started a garden. It was my idea but she is the one with the backyard. So we plotted it out. and then we decided to start growing them indoors and then we would transplant all the wonderful vegetables into our garden after the first frost. We found a cool class held through the county about gardening and our indoor veggies grew really well. So 2 weekends ago we transplanted all the spring veggies and then planted more seeds straight in the ground. Well she told me last night that all the veggies we grew indoors and then transplanted have not made it but all the seeds planted are blooming and thriving...............So next year.......we are only planting seeds straight in the ground....it was much easier anyway!
I can't wait for it all to grow......strawberries, onions, carrots, radishes, beets, corn, peas, green beans............and more. we still haven't planted the summer veggies and fruit......that will be done in May.
Lars and i went to the zoo on monday, which was fun. he did great and loved the animals. and he and i fed the giraffes.......i'll post the picture when i can find the camera. Giraffes tongues are like 2 feet long and them come out and you put a cracker on it. Suprisingly it wasn't very slobbery.
This week has been a milestone for Lars. All of a sudden he is just hungry and is ready for 3 meals a day. Here is his first experience with noodles and a veggie cheese sauce. He loved it and ate quite a bit, which I thought was great until it made him so constipated today that he hasn't been too happy. He loves to feed himself and is his usual method of eating.
