Easter

We took Stella to meet some baby chicks at TSC back before Easter. It was our original plan to buy a few for some fun photo props. After reading care instructions and such I was NOT game for those sweet little cheeping, feathered friends. We decided to make a sweet event out of it anyways. Stella really enjoyed looking at the different types of chickens. We got to get one out and let her see one up close and personal! She of course wanted to lick all over it. Clearly we didn't let that happen but we did let her touch her finger to it. It was really fun and a special time with her.

Easter is my favorite holiday.  The time of year, the bright colors, the candy, and the clear reason why we celebrate it all--the death and resurrection of our Rescuer.

Stella's first egg hunt was fun!  When everyone on my mom's side of the family started having babies 5 years ago, we started this fun new tradition of a huge egg hunt.  Stella enjoyed finding the eggs.

The easter bunny came to see Stella!  He ate some of his carrots we left our for him and even mixed up a few for her to enjoy!  How nice!  Stella loved her FurReal bunny too!

Easter morning, we celebrated with our church family.

We enjoyed lunch and another egg hunt with John's side of the family later that day.

It has been so special this year celebrating so much with our baby girl!

Baby Bullet

Possibly the greatest baby shower gift ever.  The baby bullet has been a life saver and a huge money saver in our house recently.  It is important to us that our child has everything as natural as possible so when preparing for her arrival, we knew that we wanted to make her own baby food.  Let's face it, when you have to buy wipes, diapers, and everything else for your precious one, who wants and needs to spend an additional $5.00 for just 6 jars of baby food that will last you less than a week.  Not sold yet?  That's fine.  Here's the kit we had registered for.  It includes 6 storage jars that are freezer, fridge, and dishwasher safe and have a dial for the date, the large bullet, the small bullet that has a lid for additional storage, 6 additional freezer storage container, a cook book with simple instructions on what to do, nutrition guide, and a spatula.  It's $60.00.  That's about 11 weeks worth of store bought jarred baby food. Here's the fun part.

Carrots: 1 carrot makes 4 jars of baby food.

Bananas: 1 banana makes 4 jars of baby food.

Peas: 1 can of peas makes 8 jars of baby food.

Apples: 1 apple makes 4 jars of baby food.

You can do the math on all of those.  It's all simple to make too.  Dice and boil the food, drain, put it in the bullet and add 1/4 cup of water, mix, and you are done.  It takes 5 minutes.  See!  Simple!