Bryn "Dietries"

Welcome to solid food! Bryn is on her way to eating solids. By this I don't just mean pureed sweet potatoes. I mean SOLID food.

Her favs:
*salt free saltines
*salt free rice cakes
Now I say those are her favs, but let's be honest she hearts everything. Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree :) Trying to even have coffee without having a babe hoped up on sugar/caffeine is a task nowadays. She drops that wubby to the floor and grabs it with cat like reflex. So of course I am like- well I mean if you must. Haha but at least Momma still drinks decaf with splenda. Nothing she didn't have in the womb ;)
I will admit I was one of those momma's who was going to cook her own baby food. I mean if it's cheaper than hells yeah. Well SOMETIMES it is cheaper. However when I have time for cooking this food she is sleeping. I am not a fool. Do I want to be cooking whilst the babe finally sleeps! NO. Is it smart to run a blender when cray cray cranky babe is sleeping. NO. Soooo this doesn't get done. With coupons and low prices I mean it is too handy to have it just already diced and cooked for me. I am cautious about all the additives. I mean do I eat anything- yes. But I do want to give her the best I can. So far I have done pretty well. 2-3 ingredients is the prime objective.
Just today we bought pre-diced carrots, apples, and green beans. GENIUS. Also frozen diced sweet potatoes. The puffs bananas made me nervous. I could see her inhaling them. I mean they are the size of a pea but they are semi crunchy (hello!? anyone? choking hazard?) but no she chews them up with her titanium gums. Still we monitor her while she's eats them for now.
She has been sicky with a stuffy nose for a week and a few days now. I have been giving her chamomile tea at her 5 o'clock dinner and she really likes it. I suppose mostly because it tastes different than water.

Oh. Diapers. UGH. We do cloth a few days a week during the day. But mostly when we go out and in the evening she wears disposable. Well Pampers Swaddlers were are go to diapers for newbie and size 1. Love the wet line indicator. When the mountains are blue she's wet- easy. But all the sudden (as warned by a mom of my kindergartner student) they leak. Now her's don't leak out the side they actually made her cloths wet. What the crap?! So on to Huggies. Mickey Mouse version because duh- he's cool. Well he also feels like rough tree paper. So trying again with Pooh this time. Much better. Still not in love. No wet indicator and I want them to be soft like cashmere. Hello it's my babes tush we are talking about. So next go round Target brand. LAME. Now we are embarking on Luvs. Cheap as all get out. Have not made any great observations yet though. Too be determined.