Mom & Baby Yoga

In September Sophia and I started going to Mom and Baby Yoga. My friend Linds had been going and it sounded like a lot of fun. I was looking for ways to get out of the house so I gave it a whirl. I instantly became hooked.

The photo was taken in October. One can only put her toes to her nose and clapping of the hands and feet some many times before zonking out! I have to say it has been a wonderful thing and a super way to bond with my baby. Sophia learned how to roll very early on and owe the pleasure to these Yoga classes. Before Sophia could crawl (oh and YELL) it was a calm and soothing enviroment. Don't get me wrong we still have our moments of Zen but they are becoming few and far between with this whole crawling around bit.. I think we will do one more session of Mom and Baby Yoga and then graduate on to Mom and Tot!
I should also mention I have met and became close friends with others in the class including our awesome teacher. Hey, anytime I can have adult interaction is a good thing for this Momma.

Namaste

Happy Birthday Heather!

Lately Sophia and I have been making the trek to Trenton to enjoy some much needed Mommy socialization. Today was Heathers birthday so three of us sat back and enjoyed a variety of treats including some from the famous Doohers bakery in Campbellford. YUM to homemade donuts AND Chocolate Cream PIE! Nothing like sitting around Heathers kitchen table drinking coffee and gossiping about everything while our babies crawl around and get into things.

I love being a Mom.

Above is a couple photos of the YUMMO cake Heather made me for MY birthday! Yep those are handmade flowers.

BLW - Baby Led Weaning

A couple friends asked me about our attempt to feeding Sophia and what this BLW is all about. Back in December hubby and I joined forces and spent a day mastering the art of making puree's from chicken to green beans we filled the freezer with 10's of 2 oz containers of all our hard work. We quickly discovered she really didn't like the purees and really who would??? The taste is so bland and don't even ask me about the texture UGGG. I had been hearing about BLW and how babies love it and how easy it makes life. So we tried it. It's a method where you don't bother with spoon feeding and purees, baby just feeds themselves from the start. They don't really ingest much at first (just play and explore) but soon they learn how to move the food around in their mouths and figure out how to actually eat it. It's nice because you can just give them a bit of what you're having for dinner. Her first night it was avocado chunks and then we moved everyday it was something new. From chicken, broccoli, banana, cheerios, cantaloupe, pork, to roasted potato. It was so easy and MUCH healthier for us too. For her benefit we didn't use extra sauce or seasoning. (Dr Oz tells me isn't good for your heart anyway) The thought of all our hard work in the freezer was going to go to waste made me ill. I came across a thread in the New Moms section of BB. A whole thread dedicated to the art of BLW. Someone there suggested spreading the purees on toast and cutting into strips. So I tried it and SHE LOVES THIS technique. She actually sucks the sweet potato puree right off the bread which is awesome because it’s so good for her and easy for me. So it’s been almost two months and she is thriving. A couple weeks ago we were at our friends and she tried homemade Lasagna. She loved it so much the next night I made Spaghetti and she devoured it. (by the way devouring to her is like 2-4 tablespoons) I recently made some baby friendly muffins loaded with blueberries, avocado and bananas and she goes right to town on them.

Above are some photos of Sophia eating.

Swimming

Almost forgot I wanted to type something up about Sophia's new sport, swimming. We have such a great time and I really look forward to our Thursday mornings with our instructor Cassandra. I want her job.. I mean who wouldn't want to blow bubbles and splash around with 6-18 month old all day LOL. Sophia loves it and is definitely not shy. She splashes and laughs and LOVES to go down the slide. We starting dunking our heads under the water today and she didn't mind at all. The above picture is with her friend Eve.

She's crawling.

So a couple BIG milestones in the last two days. First off Miss S broke in a bottom tooth. I know you are not supposed to touch it but it gave her relief when I rubbed her red swollen gums and I am pretty sure I pushed that little tooth right through. SECOND and scariest is she is now crawling - forward and backwards. YIKES now I need to BABY PROOF this joint. It is really cute to see how happy she is about her accomplishment. She was sqealing with pure delight when she figured out that now she can get to the remote for the T.V or the remotes for the Wii. :)
Today she was playing on the floor with Daddy and she attempted to pull herself up on ottoman only to crash down and startle herself. I hope walking is not to soon in our future.

Merry Christmas to our friends and family.

As 2009 comes to a close and plans for Christmas and New Years are here I sit back and think of how great 2009 has been. I am so excited to start new traditions with our new family and look forward to a healthy 2010.
Last night Sophia and I went to visit some old friends to catch up and meet Jacob a new addition to the Wagemann family.. *what a cutie* it was so nice to chat and catch up with my old high school friends.


We very recently started to introduce solid foods to Sophia. She still prefers the boob but slowly (with many funny faces) she tastes new things. We are attempting both homeade puree's along with the Baby-Led wean approach.

Sophia likes - bananas on toast , broccoli and sweat potato
Sophia dislikes - chicken puree.

Tomorrow morning is Christmas. YAY!

Solids. A new adventure

A couple nights ago during supper we gave Sophia some chunks of Avacodo. She LOVED it so last night I gave her some Broccoli and Pork. She sucked on the meat for a bit and then decided she would try the broccoli. She has been watching us eat lately so I thought we would start BLW ing and then introduce puree's on her 6 month birthday.. it more for exploration ehhh.