Look What I Did to Perfectly Good Food

Molly will be 6 months old soon and ready to eat food, so today I decided to make some for her to eat while I'm at boot camp. See if you can guess what the original ingredients were.

Left: Carrots
Center: Apples. Top two are carrots.
Right: Sweet potatoes.

Left: Some are carrots and some are sweet potatoes.
Center: Chicken with brown rice and chicken with sweet potatoes.
Right: Chicken with brown rice.

Mmmmm. Doesn't it just look delicious?

Baby serving size is about 1 tablespoon, so I used ice cube trays to make individual servings. Once the cubes are frozen, I will stack the trays in labeled freezer bags.

The whole process with cleaning up took approximately 2 hours and yielded 72 servings. I recommend using a food processor rather than a blender because the bigger blades can pulverize meat better. It is also less likely to blow up and explode hot sweet potato all over your kitchen and your shirt. Not that that happened to me.

Molly Versus the Spoon

An epic battle raged today between Molly's mouth, her fingers, and a tiny spoon laden with the tiniest amount of rice cereal. The goal was simple: get the food to Molly's mouth without dumping it down her bib.

This link goes to the first time Molly ever tried rice cereal. Actually, this is the first ever bite of something that is not breast milk in Molly's entire life (well...there was actually breast milk in the rice cereal).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfQLyQFqyA

...and this video shows the next time. The purpose of the spoon is not lost on Molly.

Molly learning to share

A fun little video of me playing with Molly.  Be sure to watch the whole video so that you don't miss the surprise ending :)

Molly in May