Homemade Baby Food

I had my first go at attempting to make homemade baby food yesterday and was quite pleased at how much Addi enjoyed it!!  She strongly dislikes plain meats.  I haven't been brave enough to try these, but going by the smell I can't say I much blame her.  She does love all the mixed dinner meals, so I decided to puree some of her very first deer meat!  Deer roast actually, with a few potatoes and LOTS of carrots which are a favorite of hers.  Daddy was quite pleased as well that his little girl is a fan of deer meat.  The boys go crazy over it.  In fact, we often have to tell them we're eating deer in order to get them to eat.  They don't like plain old cow tacos, but they LOVE deer tacos.  Same goes for all else.

I'll have to start getting more creative with foods since I am close to giving up the battle with the bottle.  It's a struggle to get her to drink the so many "recommended" ounces of formula each day.  She's had her taste of real food and knows we have something better to offer when we try handing her a bottle.  Daniel gave up the bottle on his own at ten months.  I suppose Addi will be the same.  It sure beats Denton who threw a fit at 12 months when he was no longer given one.  But Denton never cared much for a binky, something Daniel not only LOVED but was rarely seen without.  Addi is a mix of both, who only takes one when she sleeps but is rarely seen with one during the day.


Two days before Nathan's sister, Diana, and her family come in for a visit.  We're excited to see them and play tourist as well.  I figure there will be  lot of things we do while they're here that Nathan has yet to see or do; probably myself as well.  I hadn't thought of taking them to the bridge until mom mentioned it today.  In my opinion, it's one of the must sees here!! 


Just learned today that Heidi will be here for Addison's first birthday!!!!  The Howe's will be the only people to have celebrated each of the kids 1st birthdays!  Just another reason to be excited for July!!!

Chicken Headache

For several weeks it seemed that our bad luck with chickens was finally over.  We began taking for granted getting up each morning to find that all our chickens were accounted for.  Last weekend, Nathan had put up a pool for the ducks and had brought down four of the remaining nine baby chickens from the garage.  All the animals seemed to be getting along and the dogs had finally seemed to get that they were unwanted on our property.  Nathan decided the chicks still in the garage were ready to join the others this weekend.  He gets down there to find that the first four chicks had managed to drown in the ducks "pond."  Nathan says it just goes to prove that all animals owned by us (dogs included) are idiots since these chickens were plenty big to stand up in the pool.  Maybe the bigger chickens held their heads under water?  Or the ducks were unwilling to share their pool?  Either way, our number in chickens keeps declining.  I'm not even sure where stand now.

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We haven't had the chance to plant a tree for a fifth wedding anniversary, but Nathan's sweet side did come out long enough to carve our names in a stump. 

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Addi now has two teeth and is crawling all over the place and has even started pulling up on things.  She loves following the boys around, especially to their room.  They quickly get annoyed with this as she's always trying to be right in the middle of things.  If they're playing trains, she wants to be right there playing with them.  The problem comes when she has to have the toy in their hands.  If they're playing with it, it clearly must be more fun than the one laying on the floor.

She also loves the bathroom, especially the bath.  She hears the water and she comes crawling.  Daniel was giving himself a bath the other night when he starts yelling that baby sissy was trying to see him naked, something he wasn't happy about.  She just has to be a part of everything that's going on in the house, preferably the center of what's going on.  She's becoming our little Diva!