Carroats, Sweet Potoats, and Pearoats

We have been introducing Jeremiah to solids recently, and most days it's a lot of fun! We started with oatmeal, and then tries carrots. Well he didn't like the carrots by them selves. And then he didn't like oat meal. But he did like carrots and oatmeal together. Thus the carroats.

Sweet potatoes he loved from the beginning, especially when we mixed them with carrots. And he loves butternut squash and peas, and sometimes bananas.

Yesterday he had is six month check up. Weighing in at 15 pounds even and 26 and half inches long, that puts him the the 9th percentile for weight and the 57th for height. The doctor said he looks healthy, but we need to focus on high calorie foods to help him gain weight. So I headed to the grocery store to look at baby food jars (because our baby food is homemade) and find out which ones have the most calories. Of course sweet potatoes were high, but higher still were bananas and pears.

So I made up a big batch of pears,  only to find out he doesn't like them. I tried them every meal, and he just spit them out. This morning I paired pears (he he!) with oatmeal. He ate every single drop! For lunch he refused sweet potatoes, until I mixed in oatmeal.

Apparently this kid loves oatmeal.  So caroats, sweet potoats and pearoats it is.

Our 2012!

As one year as come to a close, and another just begun, I thought it would be fun to look back at what we accomplished in 2012. So here we go...

January: We kicked of the year in our cozy little duplex in Cedar City, UT with Lawrence, Jen and little Olivia, who was just about to turn 1! They drove out to our place from California, and we had yummy snacks and spent the night playing games and catching up. We also started school at Southern Utah University, and we had most of our classes together. It made it really nice when it was time to buy our books, because we got to share! The world was just finding out that we had a little one on the way as well!

February: We hiked Angel's landing in Zion National Park, at four months pregnant it was a really good work out for me! If I was any bigger there is no way I would have made it!

March: Spring break never comes soon enough! We took a trip to Tehachapi, California to visit Lawrence and Jen at their place. It was so fun having them close enough we could drive one day and see them! And we found out we were having a boy!

April: Is school out yet??? By this time we knew were moving up to Ogden and we couldn't wait for school to be out! I was also very visibly pregnant at this point, and was so excited to start "nesting" but I had to wait until we moved!

May: Moving day arrived, and it was not very much fun. We had too much stuff for the little trailer Daniel rented, but thankfully my mom was driving down to pick up their dog, so I was able to send a few things with her. Daniel drove truck with the trailer and put the chickens in the cab. I drove the car and Congo (our dog) rode up front as my co-pilot. I felt bad for Daniel having to ride with chickens at first, but then Congo had diarrhea in the car, right as I was pulling off the freeway to let him out. Yeah, didn't feel bad for him all after that! Pregnant, alone, with stinky dog diarrhea, 30 minutes from new home, puking on the side of the freeway due to enhanced sense of smell.

June: All settled in the new place and nesting was in full swing getting ready for that baby! Daniel was working at Home Depot to keep us afloat until school started again, and was very pregnant and dying in the heat. Finally we broke down and bought an air conditioner for the window. Best. Purchase. Ever.

July: Surprise! Baby Jeremiah arrived 3 weeks early! Due the 24th and born the 7th, I was in shock, but sooo happy he decided to join our family early! I spent most of this month learning alot about being a mom, and being really really thankful for all the people who brought us dinner.

August: Mom and Dad Matthews came to visit for a whole week! I loved having them here with us! Jeremiah was blessed, and we had lots of family support there! School also started back up. Daniel went full time in nursing pre-requisites, and I started online Microbiology.

September: For  some reason I really don't remember anything big in September... perhaps that's because I was running on very little sleep. I was helping coach the 9th grade girls volleyball team at Mount Ogden Jr High and having a blast with that!

October: I turned 23 on the 23rd! and Daniel spoiled me:-) We were going to go to a corn maize on my birthday, but there was a rain storm and it was closed :-( bummer. My birthday was still awesome.

November: Jeremiah started eating solid foods! In the beginning it was kind of boring, just oatmeal, but now it is really fun! I love watching him chow down on butternut squash and making faces at plain carrots. After I introduced carrots, he didn't like them with out some oatmeal mixed in. And then he didn't like plain oatmeal any more. just carroats.

December: Change of plans! Are you surprised? No more college for right now! Daniel started work as an electrician apprentice for Copper Mountain Electric in Salt Lake. We both finished out the semester strong though! Daniel is now working on a career, and I'm making a career as a stay at home mom, just what I've always wanted! That's not to say I won't be going back to school at all, I still plan on finishing one day, after our kids are in school. Yes, I said kids, plural. We plan on having more soon, just not right this minute, and there are no surprises in that plan yet. Thank goodness!

So that's our year! Maybe next year I will actually blog a little more often and you won't have to sit down and read about an entire year in one sitting. Or not.