Prepped baby food jars

These prepped fruit/veggie jars would obviously work for smoothies in addition to baby food or if you're doing a juice cleanse. After we shop things get chopped up and put in jars to throw into the blender to make fresh squeeze pouches for baby Aislynn who is now 15 months old and still loves her squeezy's. Posted in the photo is a strawberry, carrot, mango and parsley jar and a mango, banana, parsley and peas jar. Both batches are topped off with lime juice and refrigerated for 24 hours or frozen until you're ready to blend a yummy nutrient packed puree.

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Best first baby food purée

I can't say enough about making my own baby food for Aislynn. Since the very beginning she has suffered from allergies and food sensitivities of all kinds so early on I learned to make sure I knew exactly what was going into her system. 

Here's the recipe for the first puree we tried with her and to this day she still loved it in a squeeze pouch with her shredded chicken or as a to go snack.

Apple Carrot Puree- Blend 1-2 apples with 3 carrots that have been steamed. For a quick steaming method, you can place the chopped and peeled fruits and veggies in a microwave-safe glass bowl with a little water, or use the steamer basket. We use this electric steamer contraption, which makes everything easy to steam at once in layers. Add enough water to thin it out. Apples and pears can also be boiled for 7-9 minutes until tender. Fill squeeze pouches and freeze or refrigerate.

I love using the infantino squeeze station system the best but there are plenty of pouch options out there. 

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Sensory play:water in a bag

This play activity is so easy and can be put together in minutes and cleaned up in seconds! Just fill a ziplock bag with water 3/4 full and add 2-3 drops of food color. For the color below we added one drop of green and one drop of blue. 

Then we used Aisy's favorite butterfly stickers and put them on the top of the baggie after taping down all the edges so as to prevent bitting the baggie ;).

Fun and squishy learning!

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Rainbow Spaghetti:Sensory fun

This rainbow noodle sensory activity was so much fun for both of us! The color stayed only on the noodles and the olive oil made our skin nice and smooth!

Aislynn had so much fun finding her bath toys!

She ate a few noodles but that was part of the sensory experience.

I liked doing this activity in this plastic bin because it was easier to clean up than in the bath tub. The noodles were easily dumped in the trash and the oily bin cleaned up nicely with dish soap and water.

A few more pics of the cuteness!!

Thanks for the inspiration growingajeweledrose.com we'll be back for more!

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