Goldfish!

Here's what's delicious in our world.

I've got some good strengths in the Mom department, but I've got some major weaknesses- and they actually track my overall personality pretty well. But on Sunday, I just couldn't catch a break. Eric had just gotten home, so I was going to take Vake to church with me. Well, of course the printer's not hooked up so I couldn't print the lesson for Sunday School and then I got to the Strawberry Street Market and had already gotten coffee but left my wallet at home so had no way to pay for it (fortunately the crazy lady with the baby and the coffee looked so pitiful the woman behind the counter told me I could pay Monday) and finally I realized that I had forgotten the required snack for Vake.

So we got these. And Vake loves them.

Really loves them. Here he is getting them to his little mouth.

Food

Vake likes peas, carrots, apples, peaches and cereal.

Vake does not like avocado. At all.

Peas Please!

Vake's become quite the eater in the past week. He's figured out how to slurp food from the spoon all the way down his throat.

Eric and I had him try a couple of days of rice cereal and then we set out on our first vegetable adventure: peas. We had some Gerber baby food peas that we started him with and I have to say that neither Eric nor I was all that impressed by how the Gerber peas looked or smelled. Imagine, if you will, the worst cooked cafeteria peas all mashed up. They were dark green in color and they smelled pretty grim.

So we got some regular peas, steamed them and put them through the blender. I cannot believe that I am writing this, but the difference in color and smell was astounding- they are bright green instead of kelly green and they smelled the way you want peas to smell.

Vake loves them!

Here he is at dinner tonight, just chowing down. If you look at the picture, he's wearing the cutest bib in the world. My friend from growing up, Elizabeth Hamilton, made it- too cute!!!