First signs of Spring

Despite the terrible colds we all have had, this past week was the perfect opportunity to introduce Lincoln to the warm spring air. It was a beautiful start to the week, sunny skies, a light breeze and wonderfully warm. We have taken Lincoln on walks and hikes of course but much to his disliking he must be bundled up and can hardly experience the outdoors but, this week we finally were able to unbundle our little adventurer and take him outside, no shoes, to really get into spring! He loved it! He kicked in the grass, pulled at the weeds and watched the bugs crawling ever so intently. He is so astute! Lincoln is going to LOVE summer time. Hopefully he will be more mobile than he currently is and then we'll really have some fun!

Linc can pretty much sit on his own but he tumbles to the side pretty easily so we still have to sit with him. He is eating a ton! Still the same foods just much larger quantities. I have been making all of his food which has been very easy, a little messy but definitely worth it. I did have one minor mishap however. I was going to try and make him some homemade peas so I went out to get some edamame which I figured would make awesome baby food. I could only find some sweet peas but they would suffice... so I thought. When I got to the cash register I was appalled to find that the bag full of sweet peas was going to cost $8! Quite shocking for the cheap skate that I am. But I continued on thinking "for Lincoln I will splurge". I got home and began to open each pod only to find that sweet peas are so sweet because they are babies! So you can imagine the size of the baby peas encased by each pod, VERY disappointing. As I opened the pods I soon realized that my $8 worth of sweet peas was going to yield very little edible product for the amount of work and money that was put into the process. Three small ice cubes was all that 2 lbs of sweet peas created! That's $2.66 per cube!! Ah! So my lesson learned; Buy a bag of frozen peas when making pea baby food :0)