It's almost hard to believe!

We had an interesting weekend with Jaxson.  He has 2 teeth coming in at once.  This makes for one unhappy baby.  Landon and I went to the movies on Saturday night.  Rare occurrence and definitely spur of the moment so we dropped Jaxson off at Landon's dad's house.  "Pop", as we so kindly refer to Landon's dad, said Jaxson didn't want to crawl around and play and he just wanted to be held.  I brushed it off as it being an unfamiliar place that we were leaving him.  Sunday at church, we peaked our head in to check on Jaxson in the nursery.  I guess playing wasn't in the books for him that day either and he was in the arms of one of the ladies that helps every Sunday.  Last night (Sunday) was a PRODUCTION!!!  Jaxson refused to eat his food unless being held.  Even then, it was tough.  Landon and I were eating fajitas so I chopped up some fajita meat and a tortilla with cheese and let Jaxson have that.  I knew the day would come when we no longer could depend on the convenience of food in a jar for Jaxson and I'm afraid that day is today.  Maybe our food just tastes better...who knows??!?!?  So like any mother would do I went straight to the message boards to ask other working mothers what they pack for their children for lunch when they go to daycare.  One mother was so kind to quickly respond exaclty what she does for her 9 month old...here we go:  

Breakfast:  Cut up fried egg, sauteed spinach, carrots and asparagus tips (sauteed until soft), bananas, and a small amount of cheerios.  Everything was sprinkled with wheat germ.

Lunch:  Baked salmon, butternut squash, cut up cherry tomatoes, mango, a few yogurt melts.  Everything sprinkled with wheat germ.

Snack:  Plain whole milk yogurt mixed with wheat germ and chunks of kiwi, cheerios.

For each meal, try to do a protein, vegetable, fruit, and whole grain.  Try to make everything colorful, which means a variety of vitamins - orange carrots with green spinach, red tomatoes with orange squash, green kiwi, yellow banana, etc. 

I think I need to hire a private chef for Jaxson.  I was just thinking maybe a ham and cheese foldover?!?!?! 

HAPPY MONDAY!!!!!