Food!

1 part milk (2% or greater)
2 parts sliced frozen bananas

Blend until smooth.

Enjoy your banana treat

You're welcome.

(The above is from Luke. Please make banana treat. It will change your life. Andrea is now taking over.)

We celebrated Peter's new teeth by giving him his first taste of food: sweet potatoes! We decided to document the occasion with pictures. Here it is:

Here we have Peter all decked out in the bib I made him at the baby shower Amanda threw for me. Isn't he cute? Thank you, Amanda.


Clearly, he is extremely excited. Here comes the food!


Ugh! What? This is not what I was expecting...


Maybe it's ok?



No...NOPE! Definitely not! (As it all came spewing out with some throw-up.)

Contrary to popular belief, Peter does not want to eat our food. He merely wants to play with it! Ha ha! After trying to feed him with a spoon we decided to just let him play with it. He enjoyed himself immensely and ended up eating some anyway since he was sucking on his fists and such. It was so funny! I have heard that one thing you should do to keep your children from becoming picky eaters is to let them feed themselves, even from a very young age when they're just learning how to get whatever they pick up to their mouth. So it's all part of the plan, you see...




Along with this post's theme of food, we recently made Volkornbrot: whole rye sourdough bread. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have arrived.

Remember that post last fall where I showed the pictures of our sourdough bread and said I just needed to make rye sourdough before I would feel absolutely victorious in the bread-baking scene? Well, the day has come. And it is sweet, er, sour. :)

Here is a picture of the bread:


This is the real stuff. None of that fluffy white business here. Just dense, delectable goodness. Luke and I really like sourdough, and we really, really like this bread!

To finish off the post, here are some pictures of our wee one:



Can you see his curly Mohawk? He's just out of the bath.



Having fallen asleep in Daddy's arms.



Luke likes to capture these moments of me and Peter in the mornings. Peaceful, sleepy, bliss.
Oh! I almost forgot! I also caught some footage of Peter crawling today. Here it is:






And because I'm a proud parent, you get another one:

On the move!

Peter has started crawling! Army crawling, at least. He inches across the floor by pulling himself with his two arms. We've tried to get a video of it, but he wasn't cooperating. We'll try again soon and see if we can get it posted on here. We'll have to do it soon though, because just last night Luke got down on all fours to play doggie with him, and Peter was getting up on his knees too! It was so adorable.

Peter has also cut his first two teeth! The two bottom ones, of course. They're not really up far enough to get a picture with the camera, but that, too, should be coming soon. They decided to come in with a bang, giving Peter his first miserable cold into the bargain. Poor baby! There's nothing worse than hearing your baby cough. We went to see the doctor yesterday, and luckily he seems to be doing much better today, so hopefully he'll be over it by next week.

He managed to pass his sickness on to his mommy, and so my birthday was a quiet, stay-at-home affair. We ordered pizza, made no-bake cookies, and watched a movie. It was so nice! Luke and I need nothing more for a night of perfect bliss. :)

Now you may be wondering what the deal with the pizza was, after my last post saying Peter was sensitive to gluten. It appears I was mistaken! The weekend I took gluten out of my diet I also added several supplements and pills in, so his improvement could have been due to the pills. However, when I added gluten back in his rash flared up, so I assumed the gluten was the cause and took it out again. Over the next few weeks it kept improving, but would flare up once in a while even though I wasn't eating any gluten. So I decided to be extra-rigorous about making sure I took all the pills and gave him his vitamin D and probiotics as prescribed by the doctor. His rash started to look much better. Then I decided to test gluten again and see if it flared up again. I added it into my diet, and his rash didn't respond! I also added wheat, and nothing for that one either! Woo hoo! His rash is all but gone on his legs and it got much better on his cheek, only to flare up again with his sickness. So we're still working on it, but hopefully it will continue to go away as we keep up the pills.

Here are some pictures of our cutie-pie:



Playing with his new Valentine's Day toy from Grandma Ce Ce and Poppy:



Hanging out on the couch: