Sophie REALLY likes finger food now. I want her to try many different foods, too, so she will like them and not grow into a picky eater. So, I’ve been giving her little bits of various things we’re eating to see how she likes them. She likes shredded cooked chicken. Diced, not so much. It [...]

The “four day rule” went out the window a long time ago… We don’t have a family history of food allergies, though, so I’m not terribly worried about it. Sophie tried a few new things today! Breakfast was simple – peaches mixed with oatmeal. She hasn’t had very much baby cereal but she does like [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, Sophie finally made the hand-to-mouth connection with her food. She’s chewed on anything she can get her little hands on, of course, with teething, but hadn’t yet figured it out when it came to food. Yesterday I gave her a few puffs on her high chair tray as I was making her breakfast (peaches [...]

Today, I picked up a few new things for Sophie to try. The first was a box of Baby Mum-Mums. I had heard of these, but didn’t know anything about them. When I saw them at Target today, I decided to let her try them. She LOVED them! Seriously- she is crazy about these things. [...]

This is a food I was unaware of when Big Sis was a baby- if they were even on the market, then. I have been reading a lot about them in the BabyCenter birth club and thought we’d give them a try. I looked at three different brands at Target:  Happy Baby Organic Puffs, Gerber [...]