Do I Have Food on My Face

It has been hot and humid all week. So hot we don't really feel like doing anything. And mostly too hot to sleep. So... with Olivia being days away from 4 months old (when we gave Abby her first meal), I thought to myself, if I feed this kid maybe she will sleep all night and I won't have to be awake in the middle of the night in this miserable heat. Wrong. Instead, she fills her little belly in the evening and wakes me up even EARLIER at night. So weird! But, Olivia is a champ at her rice cereal and, as you can see by comparing pictures, she is a much neater eater than Abby.

Other than feeding kids, which is practically a full time job, we've been busy putting our home and lives back together after the scabies invasion. I finally have all the furniture and toys back into their homes. Now I just need to finish the laundry, which was a humongous pile since one person's entire dresser got sent down the chute. But I think I have only 4 or 5 loads left. If it weren't so humid I'd be working on them today. Instead I might just melt. Or maybe make some homemade ice cream. Hmmm.....

Fruit, Fall, and Football

Our fall leaves are starting to appear - I am not sure if I am excited about this or not. I'm sure Abby won't care and Steve is inside all day at work, so it doesn't bother him either. It seems way to early to me for the leaves to be changing - especially since my Asiatic Lilies just started blooming.
Abby tried out bananas for the first time today and decided that she liked them quite a bit. She really gobbled them right down. It is the first fruit we have found that she likes to eat. Hopefully she will learn to like the other fruits too, but for now we are just glad she is a good veggie eater. Abby's been learning a lot about football in the last two days. First she got to watch lots of college football, including Michigan's win. Grandpa Harley even was here to teach her about football, but she mostly spent time warming back up to Grandma Lorraine. Today Abby's dad tried to get her to watch the Detroit Lions, but she decided to take a nap with her mom instead. It was much more exciting.

Tonight this little squirt is going to have her bi-weekly bath. I'm sure that will be a fun treat for her. She was great in church again and has had a fun afternoon, so we should be able to have a nice bath too. Hopefully she won't have a big splash party like last time!

Back to Normal

After a lot of craziness I think we are finally back to normal. Abby slept until 7 am this morning had her bottle and was back to sleep by 7:40 am. And... it is 10 am and she is still asleep. I love normal ~ especially the part of it that allows me to sleep in a little and get a shower before I have a baby to start playing with, feeding, and changing. It's my own little luxury.

After all this terrible hot weather we are finally back into more reasonable temperatures today. I am so glad it is going to be cool ~ Abby behaves much better when it is cool and so does her best friend Maize.

We are going to start a new food this afternoon. I am still debating - it is either going to be banana baby food or white grape juice. Hmm... too bad Abby can't just tell me which she'd rather try. Either way she is going to be getting a new fruit for 3 days then a new veggie for the next three, with her old favorites mixed into the feeding schedule of course. We've given up on peaches - she won't even do two bites. I tried to explain to her that they are practically the favorite fruit of many of her relatives on my side of the family, but she will not eat them. I can already tell she is going to be a very strong willed child... and I probably deserve it.

Let's Eat Squash

Abby loves to eat squash! It was an instant hit. And she made a huge mess eating it - but since bath time was on the agenda for the evening, we figured a little shirtless squash eating would be okay.



We are going to have to go to the beach today if the weather man is right and it is going to be 86 degrees. That is too hot for us Yuppers. And I need the exercise anyway - after a weekend long sugar binge Steve and I are both going back on the eating healthy bandwagon. Maybe I can even get Steve to try some squash - the big people kind, not the Gerber variety.



And so it is before 9 a.m. and I was planning to sleep in while she took her usual nap right after eating, but Abigail decided to wake up and stay up this morning. She is getting sneaky and is now back to sleep, but it is too late for me. Oh well...

Feed Me Daddy

Abby's second meal, delivered by her Daddy.

120 Days is an awfully long wait for a meal

Abby saw her Grandma and Grandpa Osgood off this morning for their next stop on their wild road trip. She had lots and lots of fun with them and they taught her some new things. Grandpa Steve showed Abby how to take steps with her super strong legs, so we may be walking here earlier than expected, but not anytime too soon.
Today Abby had her very first bowl of oatmeal. Her bib had most of it, but she did get quite a bit down into her little belly. She really loves eating off a spoon, mostly because she is always hoping for a little bite of ice cream. Now we are going to rest up and get packed to head back to Hastings after Grandma and Grandpa Obreiter visit this weekend. Wow... what a busy week :)