Can't get a photo of that tooth yet so these will have to do!

Quiet is the New Loud

I'm giving up music for lent this year. My ears will be getting a rest. My first day convinced me that this was a good choice for the season. In a food fast you have to make the connection from feeling hungry to "oh yeah, I'm supposed to think about God now." But it is much easier to connect silence to God's presence.

"Be still and know that I am God"

Baby Food

Noli has been on baby food for about two months. She loves yoghurt and any kind of fruit and mostly she avoids the veggies unless they are mixed with yoghurt. I taste most of these baby foods just to see what she is getting and I agree with her tastes basically. I have made some of her baby food, but I also buy a lot of it. I was browsing the foods in the baby section to see what was cookin. The most ridiculous was mac and cheese for babies. I know Noli will dig on some bright yellow mac and cheese one day, but it does seem silly to give her pureed, nutritionally devoid food just because she might like it when she is three. We are up to the month when you can start meats so I checked those out too. Brace yourself, they had pureed veal. Ugh. They had all kinds of variety of meats: pork, chicken, turkey and red meat all with "gravy" as their side dish. I went a little gourmet on her and bought 'chicken mango risotto' and 'creamy chicken apple compote.' I figured it I might consider ordering it in a restaurant then I might feed it to my baby. Who is being ridiculous now?

Rough Health Week

We had a rough week of health. Noli had a diaper rash, a cold with her first fever, and was teething all at the same time. But on Thursday she cut her first tooth!--bottom gum in the middle. She's back to her normal self now and we're all happy and healthy.

Aussie Foods

To break up the monotony of baby picture after baby picture, thought I would add another installment to my Australia haikus. This one is about unique Aussie foods. Choc tops are responsible for my snack bar habit at the movies now. Mon also makes a mean pavlova.

Snacking Down Under

Choc tops and popcorn
Sausage sizzle at Bunnyings
Berry pavlova

Finally...

Looks like we found a solution to the environmentally unfriendly diaper problem.