January 12, 2012 - Baby Food and the Batallion

Today we gave the Baby rice cereal for the first time.  He was so excited when he saw the food.  It was like he knew what was coming.  This helped me feel better about deciding to introduce cereal today (he is now nearly 3 1/2 months old).

I made the rice cereal myself.  I never made baby food for my other two kids (besides mushing up a banana here and there) and for some reason, I feel that it is the right thing to do now.  I guess I am older and wiser.  Or just older and a glutton for more responsibility. 

The cereal was pretty easy to make, I ground some long grain brown rice in a food grinder (I purchased a new coffee grinder for this purpose because it is probably too early to introduce coffee flavour in the baby cereal).  I ground the rice until it was pretty fine.  Then I boiled some water, added the rice and stirred constantly for 10 minutes.  It ended up being like thick cream of wheat.  We took a couple of teaspoons and added some breast milk until it was pretty liquidy.  Then we fed it to the Baby.  As you can see from the photos, he was pretty excited, and then the excitement turned into disgust.  He probably less than a teaspoon, but it seemed like the taste was alright, he just wasn't sure how to swallow it.

This evening we went to see the Brampton Batallion play the Belleville Blues (OHL).  The Boy won 4 tickets for demonstrating the virtue of hope last month at school.  So he was pretty pumped to go to the game.  Since my husband had a meeting, I went with my parents and bought a single ticket for me and the Baby.  The kids watched a lot of the game, the Boy seemed to enjoy it the most.  He especially liked the fights and he got really excited when two players almost started a fight right in front of us (we had second row seats).

The Girl was excited to open the bag of cotton candy and realize that she had it all to her self!  Then we had to help her work off the sugar rush that she had during the second intermission.  It's great to go to these games and support the home team.  Not everyone can affoard to go to an NHL game (especially a family of 5), so having this team play a few kilometers away, and that the tickets are really afforadable is amazing.  I will always try my best to go to at least one game a year, it's a lot of fun!