The meal so nice, we had it twice

Now that I stay home part-time, I feel obligated to save when I can. One of the best ways that I've found to save is to make Jenna's food. With a little water, peeler and my Magic Bullet, I have succeeded in making all of Jenna's food. Now that she is getting older, we are able to feed her the same thing that we are eating, so I'm trying to make things that are a bit healthier than usual (gasp! Yes AC and I aren't the healthiest eaters!).  This week I'm going to try to cook something from either my babyfood book or from a website that I've consulted (many times) in my endeavours of babyfood making.  Wish me luck!

Now, in reference to the title, this morning I made a yogurt dish for Jenna. I used a bit of plain yogurt (none of that sweetened stuff!), chopped up a pear, poured in a dash of 100% orange juice, then crumbled up a granola bar, then mixed. I tasted it while I was feeding her and it was delish! I craved it all day, so I made my own version for desert. Instead of pears, I used blueberries and I added some chopped walnuts (off limits to Jenna until she's older). YUMMY!

P.S. I am, for the first time, using my phone to blog via email. Hopefully it works because now that I have a phone with the internet I don't use my laptop very often and I should blog more often since it is so easy.

Running Around

Nah, Jenna's not running around yet, at least on two feet. If you can call crawling and cruising all over the place 'running around', I guess she's doing that! But, I was actually talking about me and my aunt Dee. We're doing the Royals 5k tomorrow morning at the K. It will be an early morning and I'm actually sacrificing my day of sleeping in to do it, but I do love to run, not to mention that I get a free ticket to the evening game and a discount for a ticket for Aaron (well no one wants to pay full price to watch a team that would probably get beat by the Little League champions).

So, we're taking Jenna to her first game! It is a 6:10 game and her bedtime is 7:30, so we may be pushing things a bit, but we hope she'll be enough entertained that it won't matter. Go Royals!!!

I don't need a float, let me in the water!

Swimming with my buddy Thomas

Looking out the window - is that a dog I see???

Surprise! Surprise!

Yes, we do still exist! Between a busy little girl and lots of activities, I haven't made to time post. I'm going to post a bunch of pictures seperately, so check out the other posts to see them.

Jenna is crawling, climbing, singing, dancing, and being very cute, among many other things. She still loves her Portia dog and has started petting. It is very cute and she's done a great job of being very nice. Portia had a vet visit this week and weighed 21 lbs. I weighed Jenna last week and she weighed 20.8 lbs! So, they're almost exactly the same weight.

Since I've posted last, Jenna had another playdate with her friend Thomas. This time they went swimming. Jenna got very excited when they got in the pool and started splashing like crazy. Thomas wasn't so thrilled about getting splashed in the face and wanted out. But, he quickly realized that he could splash her back and they had a blast. Thomas' mom and I try to get together every couple weeks. They kids have a good time and it is really nice for us to visit.

Another day Jenna and I visited our new "neighbors" Jason and Melissa (their house is a couple blocks away) and we went swimming in their subdivision's big pool with Melissa. Jenna kept wanting to lay on her belly and would stick her face in the water. We didn't take pictures until it was almost time to go, so she was a bit fussy.

A recent favorite pasttime for Jenna is to look out the window. She loves to stand and watch everything. She often will pull up on the window sill and point and say dog. It is so cute, but usually there isn't a dog out at the time!

Busy Girl

Last weekend we visited Grammie while Aaron watched his cousin racing (he won!). My great-great grandparents gave my mom this dress when she was born. We have pics of Mom, me, and Jenna in it.



Jenna is pulling up a lot. Here she is playing with a toy.