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Bo playing in his exersaucer on his 6 month birthday! Our party only consisted of Mom, Mike, me, and Bo -- a typical evening at our house -- but we had a special supper (complete with Warner Bros. party hats supplied by my mom) with steaks on the grill, baked potatoes, steamed veggies, and cupcakes...
Mommy made cupcakes but wouldn't let Bo have one!!
Bo had his first taste of blueberries as a special treat for supper that night. After the first few bites he thought it was okay.
Bo had commercial baby food -- Gerber Organic Pear Blueberry. He wasn't so sure about his first taste of blueberries.*
After dinner we opened presents! Aunt Manny brought by a gift that included a Frog
Daddy put together Bo's new kitchen.
Bo was intrigued by his new toy!
It was a successful 6 month birthday party! I still can't believe he's been here for 6 months! Wow!
* Is it sad that I am considering it a "special treat" for Bo to have commercial baby food? I went grocery shopping on Tuesday morning to pick out Bo's treat and I was absolutely APPALLED by what is in some of the baby food. I wanted to purchase a baby food that sounded dessert like -- the two that caught my eye from the 2nd foods choices were Hawaiian Delight and Blueberry Vanilla Custard. Have you ever actually looked at what is in that stuff? The second ingredient in both of them is SUGAR. What six month old needs to be eating sugar?? They also had whey flour and all kinds of other nasty stuff. And the first ingredient in all of them? WATER!! This makes me feel even more confident that I am making the right decision to make my own baby food. Needless to say, I couldn't justify those options so I picked up an organic pear blueberry - ingredients: water, organic pears, organic wild blueberries. ahh... :)
4 comments:
OMG! He is so cute and the cupcakes... what a good mommy you are.
That is cute throwing a party. I bet he will love his little kitchen.
Those particular foods you mentioned are actually considered desserts. When I worked for the food program, providers were not reimbursed if they fed those because of the sugar, but they always tried. So many times they fed the babies what they thought sounded good instead of what was good for the babies.
Whatever you do don't feed him Hawaiian Delight... it will make him sooo sick! Our pediatrican said it's like feeding a baby pure orange or tomatoe juice. She said she doesn't know why they even make it. YUCK!
Cute party!
You are right about the commercial foods. When we did use it, we chose the pure fruit/veggie/meat items -- not the other "junk" baby food. Earth's best has some decent options -- and it's organic. Of course, we can't get it around here! :) M's first "added" sugar item was her first bday cake (and it was low sugar). We still don't give her "dessert" type items often -- maybe once a week she will get 1 or 2 low sugar or sugar free cookies. She prefers the veggies and fruit. Yeah!
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