Baby Food and Sleep

I have really enjoyed making baby food.  The one food meals that they need right now are so easy!  So far, we have tackled squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, peaches and pears.  Peas are really the only thing that the babies didn't like.  As long as they are still eating these simple foods, I'll keep cooking!  Although, I have already been admiring the older baby recipes in our baby cookbook (orzo and cheese, Parmesan risotto, chicken soup!)......

On another note, what happened to our 10-11 hour per night sleepers?  They used to sleep 8 pm-7 am fairly well.  Then wake up time dropped back to 6am.  Then daylight savings time hit, and now it's 5am, if we're lucky!  Shouldn't all of this food be encouraging more sleep?  How do I get them to sleep longer?  Suggestions please! 

We tested out the little chair at Mimi and Papa's house last night......

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Lindsay

Home movies

I made this video right after they started eating cereal, about a month ago I think, but then forgot to post it, so here it is.


Olivia swing from Justin Schmidt on Vimeo.


This is Olivia's first turn in the swing, didn't like it much.

Olivia the Pig

Our Olivia has started to develop some similarities with another Olivia that most of us know....

I think Olivia would give up her bottle if it meant she could replace it with more vegetables.  She loves them.  Well, all of them except peas!  Squash is her favorite, but yesterday she ate an entire tub of sweet potatoes and half of the carrots.  Now, don't get me wrong, chunky monkey Owen likes to eat, but he drinks every drop of every bottle and eats a bit of food when he has to. 

This week, Olivia has been exhausting.  She likes to play in the middle of the night.  She's not usually upset (at least at first), but she just talks and babbles and practices crawling.  Then last night, she wouldn't go to bed at bedtime! What?  I haven't had to fight that hard for bedtime in months!  Two hours later, and moved out of her bedroom and into a pack n play, she was down.  She was up twice overnight, and back up before 6am this morning!  O&O have been napping in separate rooms lately, and I hope it doesn't come to that at bedtime.

At the end of an episode of Olivia the Pig, Olivia's Mom sits on the side of her bed.....
Olivia's Mom: “You know, you really wear me out, but I love you anyway.”
Olivia: “I love you anyway too.”

I feel like this has been the theme of our week.  

We have a weekend full of Schmidt's!  Can't wait to do some shopping for Mini Manners!

Voting and/or survival of the fittest

First off, the babies and I walked down to our polling place on this chilly morning, as you can see, they are very bundled.  They seemed to enjoy the whole process.  There were several older ladies to fawn over them while I voted.  Plus, there was no line at all because our voting station has about 10 machines to vote on, I've never seen more than five of them in use at a time.  

After doing our democratic duty, we headed home for lunch.  Owen was fussy at first so he took a bottle while Olivia chowed down on some squash, which is her favorite.  After Owen finished his bottle, it was Olivia's bottle turn and Owen got some sweet potatoes, which are his favorite.  Owen started the solid food part of his lunch very slowly, mostly by blowing bubbles in his food and splattering it everywhere.  When Olivia was done with her bottle, I offered her some sweet potatoes because Owen was just playing with his.  At this point a funny thing happened.  As soon as Owen saw there was some competition for his food, he sat up and starting eating.  I think these babies are starting to realize that most of their lives will be a fight for our attention.  I've never seen Owen eat as quickly as he did after he saw Olivia getting some of the sweet potatoes.  Olivia was more than happy to take a few bites of his lunch though.