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Ain’t No Party Like a Baby Food Party!

Posted by Jenny on 7:34 am

When I found out I was pregnant with Jonah, one of the many things I thought I’d do differently with this baby was make my own baby food. Back in the dark ages when I had the other two, I didn’t even know you could make your own baby food! I was your classic ignoramus. (And I should note, I still retain that title on many, many subjects!)

So anyhoo, a couple of months ago I enlisted Cortney to help me with baby food making, since she made food for her little guys, and she had a food processor she was willing to let me borrow. But then about 3 weeks before Jonah was going to start solid foods, I got an email from Mom Select asking if I wanted to review and throw a party for the Baby Brezza one-step baby food maker.

Heck yes I did!!

As soon as my Baby Brezza baby food maker arrived I got busy making Jonah food. And let me tell you, this thing is the SHIZZLE. It steams hard foods and then blends them ALL IN ONE DEVICE!! That’s right, one-step baby! No more steaming foods on the stove and then transferring them to a food processor. You just dice, add water to the steam tank, throw the fruits or veggies in, press a button, and walk away. The Baby Brezza steams and blends the food while you get on with your life. A-MAZING. I love, love, love it. I have steamed everything possible that we have in the house, and gone to the grocery for more, even foods Jonah isn’t ready for yet, because it’s SO FUN! Then, I freeze my baby food creations in ice cube trays and store them ’til Jonah’s ready to eat, at which time I heat & serve. YAY!

So, anyhoo, to celebrate the Baby Brezza’s awesomeness, I had a little party for some friends and their babies! The Baby Brezza and the cutting boards they sent for my party guests were my centerpiece!

Here’s Jonah enjoying some carrots I made in the Baby Brezza while his pal Archie looks on jealously.

Gimme some of those carrots!

We had a great time at the party and it was fun for me to demonstrate to my friends how EASY and FAST the Baby Brezza makes cookin’ up your own baby food. Because, really, people, I am just that lazy. If I had to steam the food separately, I MIGHT just give up making my own food. Maybe I’d stick with it regardless, I don’t know. But I do know for SURE there is no way I will buy baby food at the store now that I have my Baby Brezza! It is saving us SO MUCH MONEY! It costs around $100 (again, mine was free to me for reviewing and throwing the party) and since I can make 10 servings of bananas out of about 55 cents worth of bananas instead of the 50 cents plus it would cost me for ONE serving of store-bought, I know the Baby Brezza is saving us a ton. I made 10 servings of sweet potatoes out of a sweet potato that cost me a dollar! Woo hoo! It is simply amazingly cheap to make your own baby food vs. buying.

I had a blast at my baby food party and I am loving making food for Jonah. I even brought the Baby Brezza with us on vacation, and it’s working out great! I cannot recommend this product any more enthusiastically. GETCHA ONE!!

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I received a Baby Brezza baby food maker for review and cutting boards to give away to my friends from Baby Brezza and Mom Select. All opinions on this (totally AMAZING) product are my own!

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This post is linked up to Things I Love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries!

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Pavlov’s Bowels

Posted by Jenny on 6:10 am

I pretty much have the worst potty-training track record ever, unlike some people. The potty training process with Joshua, and then Sophie, were two of my lowest parenting points.

So, with Jonah, I’m getting proactive. I’m gonna have this kid in big-boy pants by the time he’s two!

Ok, not really. But somehow I’ve discovered that I CAN get him to poop on demand! Well, not really demand. But he’s sort of trained to poop when I lay him on his changing table. Like Pavlov’s dog salivated when he heard the bell, Jonah moves his bowels when I lay him down on the changing table. It. is. AWESOME. And rather impressive, I must say!

Gearing up to pop out a poop!

I kid you not, if it’s diaper changing time, and he has not already pooped, I just lay him down there and within about 2 minutes he will produce a very loud, ginormous key-rap. I first realized it after a couple times where I changed him TOO quickly and he immediately (and loudly) soiled the brand-new diaper. And once when he pooped bare-buns on the changing table. EEEWWW.

Since he is SO very consistent with this, I have learned to take off his pants and pull his onesie way up to his shoulders because sometimes he will still shoot ‘em straight up the back even when he’s laying there! I learned this lesson the hard way – several times.

So there ya go. I’ve got my baby poop trained. If being trained to poop in a diaper, on a changing table, is worth anything at all…it’s at least worth a laugh!

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Baby Mama

Posted by Jenny on 7:01 am

During my pregnancy with Jonah, I was very worried about how Sophie was going to react to the new baby. After all, she as already four when he was born and very used to being the baby herself. And she is a TOTAL mama’s girl and I was afraid she would be super-jealous and want to eat him alive for taking up my time and attention.

Whenever I expressed this fear either to friends or here on the blog, everyone said that Sophie would surprise me; you all said that she would looooove the baby and be a “Little Mommy”. Since I can barely get Sophie to glance sideways at her baby dolls, I was not really believing you all. At all.

But YOU were RIGHT.

She adores him. She wants to burp him, snuggle him, pick him up (no), change his diaper (um, NO), and shove his paci in his face all day long, even when he is soundly asleep without it, or happily awake without it. She tells him she loves him constantly and she is SO. Sweet.

But of course, she is a little TOO attentive, and I fear I am going to spend the next six months constantly saving Jonah from his big sister who loves him so much! Earlier this week I changed his diaper and then left him in the pack & play to wash my hands. I came back to find Sophie un-snapping his sleeper (4 snaps down!). ”I’m gonna change him.” She informed me. I then informed her that he had just been changed and that, oh by the way, only grown-ups were allowed to change his diaper! (Although I HAVE let her “assist” with a gentle wipe after I’m already done.) Then, the next day as I was making dinner, Jonah was again in the pack & play when Joshua came running into the kitchen and said, “Mom, this is REALLY bad…” so I pushed him out of my way (he is incapable of saying ANYTHING quickly) and ran to the pack & play. Sophie was standing there with innocent eyes and Jonah was crying. Joshua followed me into the room and said “She kept trying to pick him up but she couldn’t. And she kept telling me it was my turn but I knew I wasn’t supposed to so I ran in to tell you.” (What a saint.) So I had to give her the lecture about how only grown-ups can pick the baby up. She cried and cried. She was really sad about it, because she was afraid she had hurt Jonah.

But despite the near-misses, Jonah seems to love her already, too. I caught one of his early smiles on Friday and he was looking right at Sophie as I took this picture: