A Menu

Yesterday............
Breakfast:
2/3 Cup (dry) of mixed Cereal with some prune juice mixed in
Cheerios
Half a Banana
Blueberries
Plain yo-gurt
Water

Lunch:
Cooked Carrot chunks
Peas
White Beans 
Cheerios
Kidney Bean, Wax bean and pea puree
Canned Peaches
Water

Snack:
Rice rusk cracker
Cheerios

Supper:
Cooked carrot chunks
Grated cheese
White Bean and Broccoli Puree
The rest of the banana
Applesauce


Today...........
Breakfast:
2 slices of toast
Cantaloupe
2/3 cup Rice cereal
Yo-gurt

Lunch & Supper: TBD

Babies are Funny

If you have not seen these yet you should. And if you have seen them you should watch again. They will make you smile.

Disposable Liners

 !!!!!!!!!!  Warning: This post deals with poop. Be forewarned. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As you may or may not know poop changes as soon as you start solid food. It is no longer water soluble and cannot just go through the wash, it must somehow make its way into the toilet. One handy device some people have is a diaper sprayer that hooks up to your toilet, we do own one of these but as our home is fairly temporary we have not hooked it up. As such when poop got grosser I began using flushable liners in my cloth diapers. These liners make clean up easy no matter how goopy the mess, so if you have goopy poopers these are for you!

There are three places/types that I know you can get

1. Kushies
Available at Walmart, $10 for a roll of 100

2. AppleCheeks Flushable Liners
Available at Tiny Tree Hugger, $8 + shipping for a roll of 100

3. Bummis
Available at Bobebe, $7 for a roll of 100

Because of shipping I have not tried or seen the Applecheeks. I have seen both the Kushies and the Bummis and the Kushies makes a larger roll so I assume that their liners are thicker than Bummis as they both hold 100 liners however since Bummis are cheaper (Twin Club members also get 10% off at Bobebe) I buy them and have been very happy with them.

Something to consider:
I pay about 6 cents per liner and disposable diapers cost 16 cents, using liners in every diaper makes cloth diapering not as economical however even if you have a diaper sprayer or easy clean up poops (read: a lump of poop that dumps out of the diaper) if you ever need to put cream on your baby's bum you will need to use a liner to keep it off of your diapers as it wrecks them.

I am sure there are other brands and prices out there, have you found any cheaper liners?

DID YOU KNOW? That even if you use disposable diapers you are not supposed to throw your poop in the garbage but dump it in the toilet? Landfills are not designed for human waste.
Now you do.

Baby Food Factory

After buying 24 more jars this weekend that I found for a great deal on kijiji I made a whole bunch of baby food today.

While the peas and green beans were boiling I chopped up broccoli, carrots and potatos. 

After letting the cooked veggies cool I add some of the water that the veggies boiled in to the blender with them and then puree and pour into jars.

Doesn't that look delicious! K woke up in the middle of my production and ate a snack while I finished up.

I mashed the potatos with veggie water instead of blending them. 

Of all the foods that I made today the only new one was potato. On the menu for this evening was mixed cereal with green beans, broccoli and some potato and applesauce and some prunes for dessert. They hated the potato, it made them puke so I don't think they will be eating it again soon.

Food

My girls are up to three meals a day now. For breakfast they eat about a half cup of cereal and a few table spoons of fruit. For lunch they eat about a half cup of cereal, about a half cup of veggies and a couple tablespoons of fruit, I am beginning to add in some meat alternatives and usually reduce the amount of cereal by a little bit when I do. Supper is the same as lunch.

They seem pretty open to new foods. When I offer a new food I give it to them at least two meals in a row and by the second time they are usually eating it really well. Usually I wait at least a few days inbetween introducing new foods. Other than adding new foods I try to switch things up and give them a good variety every day.

I have been making my own food, it is really easy! I boil the veggies and then blend them up to a puree, I have jars and generally make at least two jars full at a time, I put one in the fridge and one in the freezer.

Cereals
-Rice
-Oatmeal
-Barley
-Mixed

Veggies (in order of appearance)
-Carrots
-Peas
-Broccoli
-Green Beans
-Sweet Potato

Fruit
-Banana
-Applesauce
-Avocado (this did not go over well and I did not have a second one to try it again yet)
-Mango

Other
-Chickpeas
-Mum-mum Crackers


They love eating! I have to feed them so fast to keep up with them.

At the Airport

A friendly lady came up to us at the airport and admired our sweet girls in their twin stroller then said to us, "I was going to ask you what you do in your spare time but you would probably say, 'what's that?''

Stink Stank Stunk

Do your diapers stink? Check out this article from Cotton Babies, the makers of Bumgenius and Flip diapers.

Cloth Diapers 201: Help! My Diapers Stink!