Amazing and Annoying

My son that is. He's becoming such a curious kid these past few weeks and there is no end of distractions and excitement in his world. As you can imagine this interferes with things like sleep, nursing, and general calmness and contentment. But what we gave up in those things we've gained in having a kid who is fascinated by books, by our faces, by our hands, by his toes, but the dog, by clouds, by his toys and by anything else you can think of. Every cast of light and breeze is something new to be explored and understood, even my shirt can provide a lot of contemplation and playing to explore how it folds, bunches, can be chewed on, pulled, etc.

I love to see his world expand by such leaps and bounds, I want him to explore everything and ask questions and make sense of things and experience everything. The problem is that I also want some rest, I want to be able to sit down at my computer for a minute and not have him scream because he just stuck his finger in his eye or gagged himself and threw up or because he pushed the ball in the corner and can't get it or he pushed himself in the corner and can't get out.

It's fun to take him out doing errands during this phase because he's fascinated by everywhere we go - the lights, the sounds, the people.... We went to the vet this past week and wow was that exciting. While being out in public is exciting he also must reach out and try to touch everything. His version of touch also includes putting it in his mouth, so everywhere we go and everything we do has just gotten exponentially more difficult. He's amazing, this time period is a little annoying though.

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Meal Plan... Monday

a day late (obviously) and another crazy week around here.

Monday - holiday
Tuesday - bbq, cornbread, collards
Wednesday - peppers, chicken sausage, caraway rolls
Thursday - dinner with family
Friday - party at Derek and Leslie's

Guess What I Made?

I actually have been sewing, I promise I'll update about that soon. But in the meantime I made a little no-sew fun project.
Can you guess what it is?
Are you getting closer?
wrong!
right! It's a game of memory

I remember playing this with my grandma when I was a little girl and I wanted to make a simple set for the kids in my life.

I just used some fusible web and a combo of regular and stiffened felt found at any craft store. I traced some simple shapes and ironed them on - they seem to be quite sturdy actually. I originally wanted to sew them down to reinforce them but my brilliant husband reminded me that if I did that then you would be able to see what the shapes were from the other side - duh! Mommy brain at it's finest ladies and germs

Go Bananas

In my latest attempts at frugality as a stay-at-home-mom I've been stopping by the grocery store most mornings after taking my husband to work. It's right next to the house and super convenient so we stop most mornings and check out their close-out sections. The produce is what interests me, you see - they put all the stuff that's ripe and needing to be eaten that day on that close-out shelf and mark it 'priced to sell' - and it's a ton of stuff. I usually take it home and cook with it that day, or I just pop it in the freezer. This morning I got pounds upon pounds of bananas. What to do with all these bananas? Well the obvious - baby food. Yes, but I spent some time googling (and ran across an old schoolmates blog) and found some other things I think we'll be trying with the bananas

one ingredient ice cream

chocolate and nut covered frozen bananas

Now what should I do with my 12 cans of tomatoes that cost me a total of $2 and my 10 bell peppers... freeze them? the bell peppers that is.

Join us for dinner won't you?

We're having spinach, pasta, and a chunky veggie red sauce that we like to make
The cool weather makes me want to light a candle on our dinner table.



The littlest one is having avocado for the first time.

edited to add:
I'm not sure how much he actually ate

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