January 19 2008

Meal Time Faces

I’ve been experimenting with making my own baby food for Brooke. This is so out of my comfort zone; I am not a do-it-yourself kind of person at all. I started with a batch of sweet potatoes. I cooked them up and pureed them and they looked BEAUTIFUL. I amazed myself at my domesticity. I amazed Dallas when I told him how much we saved. I figured that I made the equivalent of 30 store bought containers of baby food, and get this, I made each one for eight cents (as opposed to buying them for 58 cents). That sold me on the idea. I continued by making applesauce, pears, and green beans.

Then I ran into a problem. Whenever I’d feed Brooke my homemade baby food, she would make strange faces and gag and basically act like I was feeding her poison. However, I’d feed her the exact same thing that we got from the store and she’d eat it just fine. I don’t get it! It frustrates me to try to feed her homemade food when she hates it, but I really want to because it saves us money. What a quandary. She’s gotten used to the sweet potatoes and will eat them pretty well, but the only way I can get her to eat anything else is if I mix it in her cereal.

Anyway, the point of this story is I fed her homemade applesauce the other day and videotaped her response. I think you’ll like this video more than she liked the applesauce. Enjoy!

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Brooke, Caroline, Dallas, Holidays, Madison, Rebecca, Spencer

Santa Pics

It was time for the ward Christmas party and Rebecca asked me to take the pictures again this year.

Brooke, Caroline, Family Fun, Madison, Spencer

Golden Art

I’ve been storing up kid artwork for a while, so here’s a post dedicated to our aspiring artists/graphic novelists.

Brooke’s school papers continue to be used (for better or for worse) as her sketch pad:

Holidays bring out her creativity:

She saw our bananas and couldn’t resist giving them a little personality:

And then we have the endless doodles and comics she draws on every scrap of paper she can find:

Caroline isn’t quite as prolific of an artist, but she does do cute drawings as well:

Spencer enjoys drawing also. Here we have a self portrait:

Another child who can’t resist doodling at school:

Spencer went through a phase where he was really into flags. He’d look up pictures of different flags and recreate them in miniature:

Lately Madison has been joining the artistic ranks.

Madison drew this one in church. Her friend Norah is sad, so she’s giving Norah a doll to make her happy:

This princess got caught in a rainstorm and wasn’t happy:

Madison brought this paper home from preschool. I was shocked at the adorableness of that zebra and had to text her preschool teacher to see if Madison actually drew that. Turns out she did draw it all by herself. It’s especially surprising how good her zebra is when you compare it to the other two animal blobs beside it.

One day we played Pictionary as a family. We told Madison she could draw whatever she wanted. The category was “animal.” She drew this:

After guessing every animal we could think of we finally asked Madison what it was. Her response? A giraffe. I continue to chuckle to myself every time I think of her neckless giraffe.

Brooke, Caroline, Dallas, Family Fun, Madison, Rebecca, Spencer

Silly People

One application that doesn’t get enough use in our house is Photo Booth. Whenever it’s used raucous laughter reigns. I’ve included both the original picture and the Photo Boothed one. It’s up to you to figure out which one is real life…