Poor Miss Sophie has FIVE teeth cutting through right now, one molar in each section and her last front tooth. She wakes up sometimes just holding her mouth and crying, it’s so heartbreaking! I think it’s time to find the mesh feeders again and pull the chamomile tea ice cubes out of the freezer. Oragel [...]

Now that Sophie is a year old and eating table food, obviously her diet has changed drastically. I still puree fruits because she loves them mixed in her oatmeal and yogurt (and will NOT eat cottage cheese plain) but that is it. I even buy applesauce now, since I was able to find a brand [...]

Something happened this week – several kinds of Sophie’s food ran out! She’s eating more now, so I have a lot of replenishing to do today. Here is what she’s currently eating: Breakfast is fruit and Greek yogurt or oatmeal (depending on whether or not she’s at home or at the babysitter’s house). Usually it’s [...]

Twelve years ago, when Big Sis was a baby, we had a bowl for her with a suction cup base that would stick to her high chair tray. It is long gone, of course, and I’ve been looking for a new one since Sophie started eating solid food. Yesterday I finally found one, at Babies [...]

Sophie was almost out of carrots. Last trip to the grocery store I bought a bag of regular carrots, peeled and sliced some, and put them in a pot to simmer until soft. Unfortunately, the carrots fell victim to multitasking, and got a little overdone (read: burnt). Sophie was still almost out of carrots, though. [...]

Wednesday night Sophie had a finger food dinner. She started with a few puffs on her tray while I was working around the kitchen. (By the way, she has a new flavour of puffs: Happy Baby Greens puffs made with spinach, collards, and kale.) I was cutting some mango for pureeing and gave her several [...]

It’s Daddy’s birthday! We went to a local pizza restaurant to celebrate. Before we left, I warmed some carrots and pumpkin for Sophie and packed the containers in her diaper bag with a bib and a spoon. She ate while we were waiting for our pizza, but she kept eying our breadsticks. I pinched off [...]

It turns out Sophie had more than a bad allergy day. All day Sunday she was sneezing, had a runny nose, and watery eyes. She just felt awful! So, no solids all day. Yesterday I wanted to give her lots of vitamin C-containing foods. For her breakfast, I packed mango & yogurt, and apples and [...]

Happy weekend! Sophie had a yummy breakfast, mango puree mixed with plain Greek yogurt. She LOVES mango and was very happy with her breakfast. She is either having a bad allergy day or coming down with a little cold, so she didn’t eat too much this morning. She was all stuffy and her eyes were [...]

Last night I finally served Sophie some of the pumpkin I made for her a while back. The smell of fresh raw pumpkin makes me sick, so I used the recipe from NurtureBaby that I included on the Recipes page, using canned pumpkin. It smelled so good! She was surprised at the taste at first; [...]