Making your own baby food...it's easy and yummy

Ok so the title kinda sounds like making baby food for yourself, no, it's for your baby!

So it's super easy. Heres what you'll need: Food Processor, Filtered or bottled water, Ice Cube trays and any veggie you want to feed your child (just consult your pediatrician on which one's are ok)

Peel veggie if needed, cook it (I boil mine), stick it in your food processor with some water and chop it til it's nice and baby foodish looking.

Then poor it into ice cube trays, cover with a ziplock bag, and stick it in the freezer! Pop a cube or two out for each meal as needed and microwave to melt. Now some of my friends don't like microwaving anything so for you guys you'll have to melt it over the stove...

So that's it! I love it because it is really easy, super cheap (1 sweet potatoe fills a whole icecube tray and they are what, like 77 cents/lb) , and really healthy for your baby. They will grow to love veggie's more than you can believe!

For a little time you will be amazed at how much money you will save and how happy your baby will be because the taste is unbeatable!

Tip: purchase ice cube trays that are nice and flexi to pop the food cubes out with ease!

Ribbit...

You know how guy's have that little secret trick they do...when they don't want to do something for you they just do it wrong so you won't ask them to do it again. Like loading the dishwasher and putting the dishes in there sloppy so not many fit and they are all in the wrong place or picking up bread for you at the store and even though you tell them what brand to get they still come home with the wrong one...you know, stuff like that?

Well my husband definately took the cake the other day. I asked if he would like to take Zoe to pick out one toy for her birthday at toys r us cause I thought it would be fun, it was her birthday and all. He gladly said he would. They came home after about an hour...with a TOAD! A live freakin toad with habbitat and all AND you have to feed it CRICKETS, ah! I was already having a horrible day (to chalk up with my horrible week) and I just started crying. I was mortified, and angry, and just frustrated. One more thing that I would have to take care of! And crickets? C'mon!

I said Joe, seriously if you didn't want to do this I would have gladly taken her...he tried to tell me it was all her idea...but I know the truth. He did this so I wouldn't send him again. And it worked.

Zoe's Seizure Update

ok so the homeopathics and supplements are not going well primarily because I can't remember to give her all of the stuff. She's got drops, sprays, vitamins, oils and I am doing a horrible job at this whole thing. It's so frustrating and it's hard too because half the time Zoe doesn't want the metal detox spray because she can't eat for like 45 minutes and she has to take it on an empty stomache. I have tried all different times of day and even in the night. The best time has been as soon as she gets out of bed in the morning but now she knows she has to wait to eat so she fights me on it every time. With 4 kids I don't have much fight left in me. She also has to take fish oil and arctic cod liver oil. It tastes as good as it sounds, so needless to say she hates it. I've been pretty good about the homeopathic drops though I have forgotten the last few days and yesterday she had about a 15 second seizure and she dropped what she was holding and everything. That's the worst one she has had since this all started in Novemeber. I really need to get it together here.
We were reading about the ketogenic diet. Which has a huge success rate (like 100% who stick with it) and may be a viable option. However since I can't even do her supplement regimine how am I going to change her entire diet. Maybe now writing this and realizing what a lousy job I am doing will renew my commitment to doing a good job at this whole thing.

Kinoki Foot Pads: Part 1

Have you ever heard of the cleansing detox footpads from Japan? They are "all the rage in Europe" right now. But I thought they sounded pretty nifty (I've never spelled nifty before is that right?). Anyways so apparently your feet are naturally a good source for the body to release toxins through. So these footpads you stick on the bottom of your feet at night and they help draw out and absorb toxins such as heavy metals, metobolic waste, and impurties from your body. On the commercial it shows when you peel them off in the morning they are all these sick colors like black or green {toxins} that have been pulled from your body.


So I'm at Bed Bath and Beyond replacing my butterdish Christmas gift that Kya broke the day after I got it and I see the footpads there! "Woohoo!" I thought "I am totally getting these." Stoked about my new purchase (as well as my replaced butter dish, it's got the cover and everything) I get home and can't wait to try them out. Of course the girls want to try them too. So I get them all set up with footpads it was halarious and send them off to bed. Soon after I put on my footpads and off to bed I went. It was a rough night. After I finally got used to them being on my feet and fell asleep I had a long series of about 4 different nightmares that lasted all night if felt like.


When I woke up in the morning to Mia calling me from my doorway saying her footopads were falling off I said just take them off and she said "I already did" so I'm like why the crap did you wake me up at 6:45 then? I was however relieved to be out of my horrible nightmare sequence which I was convinced at that point was caused by my footpads. I thought well maybe in the course of detox and all the stuff going through my body it was making my brain do weird things...I dunno. Anyway I was quite anxious to see what color my footpads would be. Joe woke up right then and I told him the footpads were causing me to have nightmares. He asked if I'd taken them off yet and I told him I was going to right now.

Long story short (too late) I think the footpads caused nightmares, Joe thinks they are a crock, teabags with double sided sticky tape. Only time will tell.