Our Ordinary Miracles

So I was on the phone with my mom today...
Mom: Whatcha doing?
Me: Me and the kids are having graham crackers for snacks.
Mom: Real live graham crackers? Or soy... flax seed... barley graham crackers?

She cracked me up! I like to feed the kids natural, healthy, sometimes organic, and non-processed foods whenever I can, which is 95% of the time. So me feeding them real live Honey Maid Graham Crackers is unusual! The other day we had friends over for dinner and I had a fruit salad for a side. Shane and I thought Cool Whip sounded really good on this but we didn't want to mix it in because the kids just don't need stuff like that. Fruit is sweet enough! So we served it on the side and when my friend asked me why, she was shocked and kind of laughed that we wouldn't give them Cool Whip. I get lots of good natured teasing about how I feed the kids! Cool Whip has got Polysorbate 60, which is a viscous, oily, water-soluble emulsifier enabling water & oil to mix. It's used to stabilize perfumes in water-based preparations and acts as a modifier and stabilizer of shampoos, liquid soaps, and conditioners. Now I don't even want to eat Cool Whip!

I made a lot of their baby food before they ate table foods. I made baby cereal out of barley, millet, oatmeal, etc. Mom says we used to give our parakeet millet. heh heh. It did smell kind of bird-foody. I add ground up flax seeds to almost everything I make them. I think I get the most ribbing about the fact that I give them tofu. They really like it though! Anyway, I just want to give them the best start possible! And they seem to have a very broad taste pallet. I love cooking for them and I find most recipes at wholesomebabyfood or wholesometoddlerfood.com.
They seem happy!!




The kids have all been in the same room for 3 nights now and it's great! The first night they stayed up for over 30 minutes chattering and giggling with each other. We did a baby sneak around 11pm before we went to bed and found that they had all exchanged lovies. Sophie had Julia's bees. Julia had Sophie's bunny and Sam's dog.

It always makes me jump when toys go off all by themselves... the Laugh and Learn Puppy just informed us that it knows where it's hand is and then it requested a hug. Go to sleep Laugh and Learn Puppy!