Since we did allergy testing on Carter I have been much more relaxed about what foods to introduce to him. Today he had some fresh baked sprouted quinoa bread and loved it! He also ate about 1/4- 1/3 cup of sweet potatoes at dinner time. He is becoming quite a little foodie. He loves bananas, mango, watermelon, cantelope, korean melons, carrots, sweet potatoes - anything that is kinda mooshy already or that when cooked is easy to gum. I don't have to puree anything for him - he likes chunks that he can grab, squish and force into his mouth.
-I was really dreading solids with him - thinking, planning, preparing, yikes. But now that I know what not to feed him - it seems like anything goes.
Oh, I almost forgot -he had sweet potato cupcakes at Jaadyn's birthday party and couldn't get enough. Funny story = I made these sweet potato cupcakes from scratch - homemade sweet potato butter and all. Well, when I read the ingredients for the sweet potato butter I mistakingly interpreted apple cider (not sweetened) as apple cider vinegar (not sweetened). Goat cheese and honey frosting with apple cider sweet potato cupcakes made for a tart treat. My family loved them - the other kids - not so much! Even Doug liked them! When we discovered my mistake - I laughed harder than I have in a long time - a real cleansing laugh!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
A Summer Kick Off
You know that summer is here when travel begins! Our summer just officially kicked off with some vacation time spent here with Doug's mom from Florida. Okyo came in on Monday afternoon with her friend Mrs. Humphries and spent 2 days with us getting to know our family. It has been 4 years since she was here last; that was when Jaadyn turned 1. Now, she came to see the boys turn 5 and 1.
Jaadyn and Carter were both fantastic with grandma and Mrs. Humphries! It was really quite amazing to see how Carter reacted to he at 1 and how Jaadyn had at that same age - night and day. This time Jaadyn included grandma in everything and showed her all she could handle and of course, she loved every minute of it!
Highlights of her visiting are losts of great Korean food, lots of laughter, amazing boys and rest. Okyo is very passionate and has a wonderful spark about her. Mrs. Humphries is an amazingly generous person with a very big heart.
Jaadyn and Carter were both fantastic with grandma and Mrs. Humphries! It was really quite amazing to see how Carter reacted to he at 1 and how Jaadyn had at that same age - night and day. This time Jaadyn included grandma in everything and showed her all she could handle and of course, she loved every minute of it!
Highlights of her visiting are losts of great Korean food, lots of laughter, amazing boys and rest. Okyo is very passionate and has a wonderful spark about her. Mrs. Humphries is an amazingly generous person with a very big heart.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Boys
FINALLY! I am getting some pictures added of the boys.
The boys are playing together in the living room, while I quickly do this. Well, actually Carter is kind of attacking Jaadyn and Jaadyn watches Bob the Builder. Everything of brothers is so wonderful - including him!
So, here are the boys.
The boys are playing together in the living room, while I quickly do this. Well, actually Carter is kind of attacking Jaadyn and Jaadyn watches Bob the Builder. Everything of brothers is so wonderful - including him!
So, here are the boys.
Jaadyn at Smallwoods
Carter being silly.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Updates
I really want to add some pictures, but they are still on my camera and Doug has to take them off and share them with my computer. So, I will post now and share pics later. So, much has gone on since I started the blog.
Carter had allergy testing done and finally we have some answers to his eczema. He is strongly allergic to peanuts and moderately allergic to 15 other things, including: celery, lettuce, almonds, wheat, spelt, oats... So, I am on a 4 day rotational diet and can only consume his moderate foods 1-2 x a week. It is hard, but so far the results are dramatic. His neck has not looked so good in 9 months. I still don't do dairy or eggs, but have added raw goats milk in 1-2 x a week.
Carter and Jaadyn both got really nice haircuts last weekend. Doug does such an amazing job. Carter is too cute with his bowl and Jaadyn decided to buzz it again to be like dad. It is so hard for me to call him by his name instead of Doug's when he gets it cut like that.
Carter had allergy testing done and finally we have some answers to his eczema. He is strongly allergic to peanuts and moderately allergic to 15 other things, including: celery, lettuce, almonds, wheat, spelt, oats... So, I am on a 4 day rotational diet and can only consume his moderate foods 1-2 x a week. It is hard, but so far the results are dramatic. His neck has not looked so good in 9 months. I still don't do dairy or eggs, but have added raw goats milk in 1-2 x a week.
Carter and Jaadyn both got really nice haircuts last weekend. Doug does such an amazing job. Carter is too cute with his bowl and Jaadyn decided to buzz it again to be like dad. It is so hard for me to call him by his name instead of Doug's when he gets it cut like that.
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