first food

In extremely belated news, Oscar had his first food two weeks ago! I was planning to hold off until he was old enough to just eat things straight from the table in baby-led-weaning fashion, but we were having so much trouble getting him to sleep for longer than four-hour stretches that we thought maybe some food would help get him full.

So . . . hello, sweet potato!

It was a much different and more rewarding experience than feeding Lucy for the first time was. From us, such low expectations. And from Oscar, such enthusiasm! After a few bites he was practically leaping out of our arms, lunging at the spoon. He wanted that food IN HIS MOUTH.

Forget the spoon, he'll take the whole potato, please.

Since then we've had a similar reaction to bananas, and a more muted reaction to rice cereal. Cauliflower was too chunky. Applesauce was a no-go on try number one, but he liked it fresh at the apple orchard last weekend, smothered in cinnamon.

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heard on the street

"I want taco meat and tacos for dinner! And if you don't give it to me, I will take off my socks!"

                    -Lucy, experimenting with ultimatums

bread bracelet (of course)

kisses and beef stew

Yesterday was Shaggy's first full non-training day at his new job, and it was long. I had beef stew waiting when he finally got home almost 12 hours later, and Lucy and I were on our way out the door to the pool.

Lucy ran to him and he picked her up and asked her if she wanted to give him a hug or a kiss. She looked at him, then grabbed his face and gave him a big kiss on the cheek.

Then she looked him in the eyes and said, "You want more?"

Five kisses later we were off to swimming lessons.

When we came back, I asked Shaggy how the beef stew was. He said it was good, but it really couldn't hold a candle to the kisses.

heard on the street

"Do you want honey with your star?"
            

             -Lucy, serving up an imaginary breakfast of shovels, tennis balls, and stars

dance for your dinner

Dinner Dance from Amber Broughton on Vimeo.

heard on the street

"Mama, I've got a secret for you."

"You do? What is it?"

"Applesauce is yummy and sweet."

"It is?"

"And I want some."


           -Lucy, requesting (and actually eating) applesauce after a year-long hiatus

heard on the street

 "Butter, butter, what do you see?
   I see a toast looking at me!"

                               -Lucy, singing over buttered toast at the breakfast table.

she finally tried some watermelon!

moobie

Lucy has been picking up language so fast that the adorable mispronunciations go as quickly as they come, and we have been trying to remember to record them before they are gone. Belbo morphed into the proper elbow despite constant reinforcement of the wrong term from her parents.

So: Moobie. Our fruit and vegetable detractor has come around to her daddy's delicious morning smoothies, she hears the blender and calls out Moobie! Moobie! Watch Moobie! then slurps it up and smacks her lips. I like to drink mine out of a straw, so she experiments with that too, and by golly if she can't down a full shot glass in 20 seconds flat.

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counting crackers

This evening we forgot to give Lucy the antibiotics for her ear infection before bed, so we had to wake her up later to give her the dose. When we went to wake her up, she was wriggling in her bed, muttering "cracker".

She dreams of her next meal. That's my girl.

spoon fed

 

Likes: Feeding herself yogurt with a spoon.

Dislikes: Blueberry skins in her yogurt. Don't try it. If you do, don't say I didn't warn you.

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this week

This week Lucy learned to walk a few steps on her own, climb stairs, and clap. She also cut through her tenth and eleventh teeth (both mind-bogglingly gigantic back molars) and expanded her culinary horizons to include Asian style pork shoulder, cheerios, pizza crust, chana masala, and chicken vindahloo.

Shaggy and I did not master any new physical feats this week (though Shaggy did practice running for hood to coast, twice!), but we did branch out of our neighborhood for date-night and expanded our culinary horizons to include brandy-soaked prunes with foie gras, chicken liver terrine, salt-cod fritters, and salbitxada sauce. Yum.

Not chana masala

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