Food Storage

We have so much food storage and it was all just sitting on the floor in our basement. Well you all know that we have been cleaning up and rearranging stuff and fun things like that, that we needed to do something about our food storage to get it off the floor and all in the same place. Mike decided to build food storage shelves and we finally got them put together and got all the stuff put on it. It looks so much better in our basement and we have a place for food storage now!

Garett's Dairy Allergy

I don't even know if I blogged about this yet or not, so here we go.

In March we took Garett to his 2 month well child check and he was super congested around that time, so we discussed it with the Dr. He said that Garett probably had a dairy allergy so I needed to cut out dairy.  I did that and it seemed that things were getting better, he wasn't congested anymore, then all of a sudden in the middle of April, about a month after his 2 month well child check when I cut back on the dairy, Garett got a wicked rash on his forehead and was super congested again.  We took him back to the Dr and found out he has eczema and that I really need to cut out dairy, and if it continued, we needed to look at different things.

I cut it out as much as seriously possibly could and things got better again. Then the middle of May, Garett started waking up in the middle of the night when he hadn't been doing that forever, and waking up every 2 hours to eat. It seemed like I wasn't feeding him enough.  I wasn't getting sleep, I was tired, and couldn't have dairy.  I tried everything to bump back up my milk supply, but it seams that we are now going the way of Formula (which is expensive by the way to this mom that has only breastfeed 2 children for over a year!)

So, he is still half on breast milk and half on Similac Sensitive Formula and is doing great.  He is sleeping through most of the night and no more eczema or rashes and is gaining weight and growing like a weed.  This third boy of mine has been quite the rebel, he sure has stood out from his brothers.

The eczema on his forehead

Formula (Thanks mom and dad!)

Pregnant Girl Problems

Before I even told anyone at work that I was pregnant, I bought all this stuff for lunch one day.  I am surprised they didn't realize.  I have seriously been so hungry all the time this pregnancy!  I had to take a picture of what I was buying...

Pinterest Challenge

So I have been on Pinterest for a while now, and pinning away lots of different desserts, workouts, holiday ideas and Teaching and learning ideas for the boys.  I have also been pinning "Good Eats."  Dinner ideas that looked and sounded good to me.  Well, I wasn't using these ideas and we were still making the same things for dinner week by week.

A couple weeks ago I decided that what is the point of me pinning all these new recipes if I wasn't using them.  So I started making a new, different dinner every night (Sunday-Thursday) to try out some new things and see if we can start adding flavor and new recipes into our weekly menus.

Today will be day 14 of this "Pinterest Challenge" I have issued to myself.  Some of the things we have had haven't been as good, but others have been AMAZING.  If you haven't started using the recipes that you are pinning, I suggest you start.  There are some great things out there.  I am going to keep this up until there isn't anything else we can try.  Hopefully this will help with the age old question "What's for dinner."

One of the amazing recipes we have tried.

Melt a stick of butter in the pan. Slice one lemon and layer it on top of the butter. Put down fresh shrimp, then sprinkle one pack of dried Italian seasoning. Put in the oven and bake at 350 for 15 min. :)

Greyson Starts Solids

For the last couple weeks, (okay, Months) I would give Greyson icecream on a spoon to see how he would do with it. Up until last week he would still "spit" it back out with this tounge. On Wednesday after we went to see the "Cars" cars, we went to Sonic for dinner and I got an icecream. I decided to try again & he did so good with it, I decided it was finally time to start him on solids.

So Yesterday that is what we did. I mixed some Oatmeal with some Milk (don't worry, it was the breast kind, and it's not like he hasn't had enough dairy!) and he ate it right up. I don't think I made enough for him, he wanted more. So tonight when I mix him some, I will double it and see how he does. Then tomorrow, I am planning on starting some veggies to see how he does with that! My little guy is growing up!

Messy Messy Boy

Last week we started him on Prunes. We had got some food from my SIL that Preslie didn't eat, so we decided to try it out. Gavin hasn't made to big of a mess when he eats so far that we have had to clean up...the worst so far was when we started Peaches & they didn't sit well with him & he threw them up. Prunes are messy, because they are dark instead of neutral colored. At least he liked them!