I am working to feed my daughter Daphne solid foods now. I am basically trying to give her whatever it is that I am eating as long as it doesn’t have any meat, eggs, grains or dairy in it. This is pretty simple because we tend to eat a lot of vegetables in our house these days.

Here are some of the foods I have fed her recently:

Tomato Soup
Potato Soup
French Fry (ok that was only as an emergency)
Sweet Potato
Avocado
Applesauce

Any food my baby eats will be made by hand by me. I take pride in the fact that there is no reason that I need to buy food from a store in a jar. Look at all the crap that gets put in those jars. No sir no way!

I made peanut butter cookies for Jared and I for Halloween. I was going to make oatmeal cookies, but Jared decided that he needed peanut butter cookies. I am all for anything with peanuts in it, so I jumped on the bandwagon. The dough was SO tasty, and I only realized just before cooking that I had left the eggs out of the recipe. I discovered why eggs are needed in baked foods. The dough is still better, and I managed to save some, so I am eating it now, and it if FAR better than the cookies every could have been.

Daphne’s personality is showing more and more each day. Today was a day that was particularly full of her fun personality. She cannot stop crawling under my desk trying to pull the wires.

I know she knows it is off limits, and she does it anyway. I particularly like when she pulls the mouse off the desk. As dumb as it is, the bonk it makes on her head gets me every time.

She really is blossoming, and I am already feeling the empty nest syndrome. Help!

Today is the first day of NaBloPoMo, and I almost missed the first day. I am slipping out quick posts to still stay in the running.

Things to look forward to over the coming month.

At least one blog post per day on each of my three blogs. Read up and have fun!

Yellow Cow Photo
YCP Food

I recently worked with Amalfi’s at a wedding. They are a caterer, and a good one at that. The food at the wedding was amazing, actually some of the best of this entire wedding season. If you are still looking for a wedding caterer, check them out because I am sure that you will not feel sorry.

Amalfi’s Italian Resturant
4703 NE Fremont Street
Portland, Or 97213

503.284.6747

www.amalfisrestaurant.com
info@amalfisrestaurant.com

Tell them I sent you! And Enjoy the feast on your wedding day.

And I asked myself yesterday while toiling away trying to carve one of the three blind mice on my pumpking, for why do we carve pumpkins. And as I too the lid off the pumpkin and saw all the seeds inside, I suddenly understood. We carve pumpkins to roast their seeds with sugar and spice and everything nice!

Happy Halloween! I hope you put your pumpkin seeds to good use!