food, crochet, merriment
So they say that you can tell…
a baby is ready for solid food…
when they show a particular interest…
in what you are eating.
I’m thinking–get this girl some Cheetoes. Ha!
Ok, I mean mashed peaches..
organic ones…
in their own juice.
(See me later about the Cheetoes baby Chomp. Grammy will hook you up.)
So we have this very sweet, very happy, very rubbery baby dolly at our house.
Believe it or not, she smiles allll the time and she’s even starting to laugh–a lot.
The funny thing is–I can’t really prove it, because whenever I point the camera at her…
…she stops whatever she’s doing–laughing, and smiling included—
and stares into the lens.
She’s fascinated by it.
Which makes it hard to show you what an incredible smile she has…unless…
we can point and snap the shot really fast…
before she goes back into the “zone.”
I think I love this baby’s smile so much because it’s one I’m very familiar with.
Pretty sure her mama had it first.
Finally, finally—the pink, fluffy shawl for baby Chomp is finished. Phew!
Since I’ve only been able to work on it on the weekends—it’s taken longer than usual.
I personally think that somehow…it matches her.
Twenty-six years ago when Lyndi, my second daughter was born, Grama brought little April to the hospital to see us and of course her sweet baby sister. Filled with new mama hormones and missing my “original baby” desperately, I was nearly in tears when she burst into the hospital room–just a few hours after the birth.
To my surprise, she ran right past me and my outstretched arms, around the big bed and straight to the isolette that Lyndi lay wrapped in. She climbed right up onto the side–with dad steadying it–and leaned over so close that she could nearly lay her head on the baby’s chest.
Because she was only 21 months old I was nervous that she’d be too rough and pokey–but just as I took her little arm to help her back down, she breathed a huge sigh, and whispered, “Ohhhh—I missed you.”
There were no words at that moment…
…and there are no words for this.
I don’t know about you, but when there’s a new baby in the building–like that pretty thing shown above–we all get a little bit nutty about washing our hands and keeping sick people about 22 miles away and, well– generally doing everything we can to keep ourselves healthy in order to keep her healthy.
My dear friend Lynnette gave us a huge tip a while back that has helped a ton to keep the sniffles away. Believe it or not, it is cranberries! Yeah, I know. Those funny little sour things we string with popcorn and hang on the Christmas tree.
But did you know that they are a very potent antiviral as well? That means they are beneficial to your resistance of viruses. Beat that.
Here’s more info if you don’t believe me.
This time of year, it’s good to know something that really helps but of course, you have to eat them to get the benefits, not just hang them around your neck. Problem is–have you ever chomped good and hard into a cranberry? If so, you know they are almost too sour to eat–certainly too sour to enjoy.
The good news is that if you toss the bag of berries in the freezer overnight, they become the perfect add-in to your favorite fruit smoothie. And believe it or not–whipped up this way, they actually taste fabulous!
If I were you, I’d go grab some cranberries from your produce section before they’re gone for the season. It’s worth it.
To eat more healthily and cut wayyyy back on sugar–so that I can be here to play with my babies for a long, long time.