What does a Matilda eat?

Matilda is eating baby foods now! She has tried lots of fruits and veggies. She also eats Cheerios. Her favorites are cauliflower (seriously), sweet potato and Cheerios.
So far the only thing she doesn't like is carrots. Although she's not a huge fan of spinach, she will eat it. Carrots are a no-go right now. But we'll try again.
Next up: bananas, butternut squash, and pears!


I make her foods and freeze them in a silicone ice tray--I love the perfect 1 ounce cubes. These are her current foods, from left to right: cauliflower, blueberries, spinach, peas, mango, baked apple, sweet potato, carrots, and plums. She has also tried green beans, avocado, and prunes.



Green beans!

Right now she's eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. For each meal she eats 2 squares of food and as many Cheerios as she can get in on her own. Sometimes she gets a little bit of watered down juice. She's doing great and it gets less messy each week.

Entertain yourself

Matilda can entertain herself for a little while now. That's her playing with her baby, Casper. She likes to drag him around by the feet, claw at his eyes, bite his nose, and bang his head on the baseboards... you know, normal "mommy" stuff.

And here she is trying to figure out a pacifier that she never liked. It will be interesting to see what she chooses to play with once she can crawl and get to whatever toy she wants.

Sunday

We don't take family pictures very often, but we got a nice one on Sunday and I thought I'd share:


We had a busy family Sunday this week. We were the greeters at church--Matilda sure was a hit! And the youth group was holding it's silent auction and chili cook off/chili supper fund raiser afterwards.
Ed competed in the chili cook off with "The Devil's Ice Cream." He won "Most Creative Name" and got a chili book as a prize. We had a nice time mingling at the church supper and put in a few bids at the silent auction.
We won a date night--dinner at a Thai restaurant and tickets to a comedy club!
Hopefully we'll all get over these colds soon (although Ed seems to be feeling mostly better) and then we can go out!

Daddy is great

Well, we made it almost 8 months, but Matilda has her first cold. Luckily, Daddy can still make her giggle, she's recovering quickly and doesn't seem to have it as bad as Ed and I do.
I'm ready to go back to bed!

Flash Dance

I made Matilda some little baby leg warmers to wear around the house. Keeps her warm, gives her more freedom of movement and makes diaper changes so much easier!
She looks a little silly, but I think they're pretty cute for around the house, and using this inspiration to make my own from things I already had around the house (in under 10 minutes for 3 pairs) sure beats paying for these.
I'm really enjoying all my new projects! (yes, she's wearing another hand-made diaper in that picture, and a hand made pacifier clip!)
I recently checked out a book about knitting from the library, so we'll see how that goes... if I figure it out you can look forward to more "look what I made" posts on here.
I know, you can hardly wait, right?

Big Tub

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hard At Work In Grandpa's Office

"Let's look at that TPS report."

"I want THIS much of a raise Grandpa!"

Hard at work already!

Yummy!

As most of you know, we're not planning to start Matilda on baby food until March when she's 8 months old. But last weekend she needed help only prunes could give, so, she got some prunes. The mess was epic, and hilarious. Here's her first time:

Which would you choose?

I know that every parent thinks their baby is beautiful, but I'm pretty sure mine is and I've decided to enter her in a beautiful baby contest. The prize is a $125,000 college scholarship.
So, help me out--look at the pictures on the blog from this month, or look at my favorites in the Kodak Gallery and let me know which picture you would choose to enter in the contest!
(click on the underlined text to follow the links to pictures)

7 Months

Matilda is 7 months old today.

Socks, they're not just for wearing anymore!

No longer content to just wear her socks, Matilda has resorted to playing with them and even trying to eat them.

Friday Funny

Dada

Matilda said her first word this morning--"dada." What a happy surprise!

What?

Just because it's a cute picture.

Rockin'

Matilda is getting old enough to enjoy "adventure" now. She likes to be (gently) tossed in the air, she likes to dance, be held upside down, and now she likes to ride her rocking horse.

Balancing Act

Matilda is able to stand and play with toys now--her balance has improved enough that she'll stay up as long as she is holding on with one hand.

Out to Lunch

We took Matilda out to lunch yesterday and she got to sit in a big-girl high chair at the restaurant for the first time.

This is what she did:








Yes, I cleaned it first.

Cute, soft, and cost-effective!

I know this probably seems crazy to a lot of you, but after doing considerable research, I've decided that cloth diapering is the best thing for our family right now. Matilda's sensitive skin seems to be bothered by all diapers except Pamper's Swaddlers, and they only go up to size 2, which she is already in. Cloth diapers are softer and aren't full of all kinds of chemicals that are in the other diapers that are bothering her skin. Also, turns out they are much more economical! With a coupon it costs about $22 to diaper Matilda in disposables for 7-9 days. So for the cost of less than 3 months of disposable diapering I've purchased all the supplies to make her cloth diaper stash--and even better, they're one size fits all and durable enough to last through 2 children! I'm happy with the savings... and they're SO cute!
Here's the first diaper I made, and Matilda modeling it:

The diaper and matching wipe (this is a fitted pocket diaper I made from a free Rita's Rump Pocket pattern)


Matilda showing off her fluffy butt:




Good to go with her Thirsties cover (a hand-me-down gift from a friend)

About those teeth

So Matilda's first tooth broke through on Christmas Eve. But it's been really difficult to catch a picture of the little thing.
Now she has two teeth, and it's still been hard to capture them because she's usually like this:



Or this:



But, here they are! For the first time appearing on the blog, Matilda's two teeth!