This story actually happened a couple of months ago. I thought it was comical so here it goes my silly story of how I burned carrots. As I mentioned before I started making homemade baby
food for Owain. It's pretty easy. The first few foods I cooked for him was yams (his favorite), green beans,apple sauce. I have been slowly introducing a new food to him every few weeks. I thought the next vegetable would be carrots. So I went to the farmers market and bought a bundle of carrots. Then I peeled them,sliced them into little pieces and got the pan ready to steam them.
For those of you that don't know me is I am not a huge cook. I am more of a baker. Before ever making Owain's baby food I never really cooked vegetables. When I ate vegetables it was usually because someone (like Owain's daddy) would cook them or I would just eat them raw. My point I am trying to make is that this was my first time using the steamer.
I filled the pan with water just enough that the water was touching the steamer. Then I placed the carrots in the steamer turned the burner on high and walked away.
what was my mistake?While the carrots were burning/cooking I was distracted by Owain. We were playing on that blanket in the living room. I kept checking on the carrots in between our play time and everything seemed to be fine.
So I thought. I did keep smelling a burning smell. I checked the carrots again and they looked fine. I figured something in the burner was making the burning smell. My carrots didn't look burned. They still had a few minutes left in the steamer so played with Owain some more.
After a few minutes I went to get the carrots off the stove.
Uh oh something wasn't right? The carrots looked fine until I tried to get them out of the steamer and they were completely burned on the bottom and so was the pan. All the water that was in the pan evaporated and the pan was completely black!
So what were my two mistakes? I will tell you my first was having the burner on high and my second mistake was I forgot to put a lid on the pan. Whoops. Needless to say Owain didn't get to try carrots on this particular day and It took a couple of days of soaking for the pan and lots of elbow grease to get it clean.
I defiantly learned from this. I learned burnt carrots smell really good! and when steaming vegetables you don't need the burner on high and never forget the lid.
Needless to say the second time I steamed carrots for Owain was a success. Carrots are now one of Owain's favorite foods. It's all about trial and error. I figure by the time Owain is a toddler I will be an expert on cooking vegetable.
Since then Owain has had bananas and avocado. He just had his first food allergy yesterday. For lunch we gave him some avocado with a little bit of rice cereal. This was his second time having avocado. The first time he just had a few bites and shortly after that I noticed he had a few red bumps around his mouth. Owain has really sensitive skin so I just took note of it. I wasn't sure if it was avocado or something else. Now I know it's avocado. Three hours after his lunch he had red bumps all over his little mouth.
I called ask a nurse and she said "since he doesn't have a fever,isn't breathing funny and doesn't' seem to be making him uncomfortable to just keep an eye on it" So I did and I am happy to report this morning when Owain woke up most of the red bumps are gone. Woohooo! No more avocado until Owain turns one then we will try it again.
The other day we were on a mission and that was to buy our little man some socks. He has officially out grown all of his socks. So off to Target we go. Well we ended up buying a lot more than just socks. Easy to do at Target. I love Target! I could spend all day shopping their. Well we didn't spend all day their but we ended up walking out seventy dollars poorer but we got lots of really cool stuff that we absolutely couldn't live without.
Here is Owain and Cian playing together today.
Owain patting Cian. So far he has been pretty gentle.
Can you guess which one is older?
My Sweet little warrior today you are now eight months old! You are getting so big. Above is a picture of you standing holding onto the back of the couch. It's amazing how much you have grown just in the last month. You are now officially mobile. Your not quite crawling yet but you scoot and roll all over the place. I think you are getting close to figure out that you can put your knees to good use. Yesterday you got up on all fours and started rocking back and fourth. Thats the next step to crawling. Your daddy and I are so proud of you! You are sitting up all by yourself. You have really great balance. Just within this past week you are now sleeping twelve hours at night and only waking up once for a late night snack. Going to bed is no problem for you. You are such a big boy now you fall asleep all by yourself! We are still anticipating your first tooth. I am thinking any week now. We will have to celebrate when that first tooth finally comes through. Even though you are teething you are still my little happy guy and you are so much fun to play with. You have two favorite games that you enjoy. You love to play "get the couch". In the above picture that is what you are playing. Mommy and daddy will say "get the couch" and you get real excited and start jumping up and down while you are hitting the couch. You think this is so funny. I had know idea that the couch could be so entertaining. Your other favorite game is "I am going to get you" whenever we say this you start cooing and laughing and then you quickly roll,scoot and try to get away before we get you. It is to cute you bust up laughing as well as mommy and daddy. I love it when we have our laugh attacks where we just laugh and laugh. You brighten up my day and I am looking forward to seeing what the future has in store for you my love.
Today Owain gets to visit with his Grandpa P and his friend Kathy while mommy and daddy try and run some errands and get somethings done around the house. Hopefully today will be a productive day with out our little warrior. It's so easy to skip any house work when his home. I would much rather play than clean.
He didn't have his melt down until daddy put him back in his car seat. It was really close to his bedtime and I don't think he is feeling 100% like himself. He has a little cold. I hope it doesn't turn into anything else. If he ends up getting a fever I plan on taking him to the doctor. Because he no longer as his spleen he his at higher risk to getting an infection so we need to keep a close on him. Hopefully tonight will be a better night of sleep for us all.
August 18,2008-September 16,2008
I love this picture that daddy took of big cousin Isaiah!
Hanging out with grandma M. We miss you!
Here is a close up it says Tugging on Grandma's heart
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
MMmm...Great grandma's oxygen tube.Why didn't
Owain with his Great grandpa and big cuz Isaiah
I love this pic his blue eyes really stand out.
Owain hanging out with is Grandpa(my dad).
Don't worry if your worried that this is all of the pictures from Labor day weekend your in luck because I have plenty more I plan on sharing. I just have to weed through them some more.Your probally wondering how many pictures did they take that it takes three days to post. I will just say "we had two cameras and for the last seven months I have been camera happy"
Trying to crawl...you can do it!
Therapist trying to get Owain to crawl.
Not really digging the swing
Later Owain got to swing with daddy and he decided that wasn't so bad.
