Mine and Nick's luck has not been very good here lately.  It all started yesterday afternoon. 

1.) Nick said he was going fishing yesterday and on his way to the lake a tire on his boat trailer went out.  He was so mad!!

2.) Mom told me she would help me make some breakfast for Carter yesterday evening after workout and to bring the apples and berries from my house so she can go ahead and have them peeled and streamed for me.  I forgot them and had to drive all the way back to my house to get them. That put us making  his food way longer than what we had planned.

4.)  I sent Nick a text while he was fishing to stop and get him something to eat in town because I would not have time to cook.  He didn't get the text and came home wanting something to eat.  I literally had nothing!!  So I ended up making him ham roll ups.  Two large flour tortillas with melted shredded cheese and ham rolled up.  He was not too impressed.

5.) After I had put the little Honey Bun to bed and did some things around the house, it was 10:00 last night.  I still had to make Carter food for today.  So I put some broccoli in a little water so I could steam them and put the burner on high.  Being the genius that I am forgot that I had turned it on high and left it there for about 15 minutes.  I smelled something weird and I had literally burnt the pot and the broccoli was pitch black.  Broccoli does not smell good cooked right so can you imagine what my house smelled like after I had burned it?  It still reeks this morning.  I won't mention that this is the 3rd pot for me to ruin.  Nick will never let me hear the end of it.  He said last night that he was going to have to get a night job to keep buying new food and pots and pans.  He thinks he is so funny.  I had to stay up even later to make him some other veggie for today.  It ended up being peas and corn.  He has never had corn before so we'll see how that goes. 

4.) This morning I woke up a little late: 5:20.  I am supposed to be at work by 5:45.  I rush getting ready and leave just in time to get to work on time.  I have my Nana's car so I jump in it and fly to work.  I get to work and dig around for my keys to unlock the front door to the hotel and realize that they are still in my car.....at home.  So I had to call and wake up Nick (the one night that Carter slept perfect) and had him meet me at the end of our road with my keys.  I get to work at about 6:15 and luckily no one was waiting on me.  So maybe that's my turn around.

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I am in my Nana's car because she had eye surgery yesterday.  When I drove her home she told me just to go ahead and take her car with me because she would not need it for a couple of days.  It's a brand new car so what would you be driving if you had the choice?!?  Everything went so well with her surgery.  She has not had one ounce of pain or bruising so that's wonderful.  All she needs now, though, is a hook on her arm.  She would KILL me if she knew I put this on here.  This is right after her surgery.

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Food

Carter loves Salmon.  I was not shocked because he loves pretty much everything that I make for him but he chowed down!  I was so happy because it is so good for him.  Until I ask his doctor he will only get it about once a week.  All the talk about mercury levels and stuff kinda scares me.  I put a little bit of Lawry's seasoning on it to give it some flavor and baked it.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

I am trying to stretch Carter's food selection as big as I can so he will have a really big variety.  I have been told many times that the more stuff I make him try early, the more stuff he will like when he gets older.  It has been proven true so far.  I have pretty much done all of the basic stuff so now I am moving on to the stuff that will make him a little more cultured, if that's what you would call it.  So starting next week I am going to start making him stuff like eggplant, cottage cheese, kale, tofu, ect.  Nick LOVES that Carter loves all the healthy stuff so he is all for this.  I am open to any other suggestions!!

For breakfast I made him a combination of apples, bananas, peaches, and blackberries mixed in with oatmeal.  All of that will be mixed in with yogurt every morning.  If that's not a brain and heart healthy meal I don't know what is!!

You have a little one that is constipated?  Give them about 6-8 grapes a day (cut quartered) and that will make them regular!!  Has worked for Carter for a while now.

Today he will have his breakfast (noted above).  For a snack he will have raisins and grapes.  For lunch he will have chicken, sweet potato, green beans, and carrots.  Another snack will be kiwi and strawberries.  And for dinner white beans, ham, peas, corn and asparagus.  With a few rounds of formula and water in between.  The kid eats all day. 

The good think about Carter now is that you can set a bowl of snacks in the floor and he will get a hand full and eat it.  Go play with something for about 5 minutes then come back for more until it's gone.  He has not started dumping it out in the floor yet, so it's nice.

Carter loves sweet pickes just as much as the dill!!