Ain’t No Party Like a Baby Food Party!

When I found out I was pregnant with Jonah, one of the many things I thought I’d do differently with this baby was make my own baby food. Back in the dark ages when I had the other two, I didn’t even know you could make your own baby food!  I was your classic ignoramus.  (And I should note, I still retain that title on many, many subjects!)

So anyhoo, a couple of months ago I enlisted Cortney to help me with baby food making, since she made food for her little guys, and she had a food processor she was willing to let me borrow.  But then about 3 weeks before Jonah was going to start solid foods, I got an email from Mom Select asking if I wanted to review and throw a party for the Baby Brezza one-step baby food maker.

Heck yes I did!!

As soon as my Baby Brezza baby food  maker arrived I got busy making Jonah food.  And let me tell you, this thing is the SHIZZLE.  It steams hard foods and then blends them ALL IN ONE DEVICE!!  That’s right, one-step baby!  No more steaming foods on the stove and then transferring them to a food processor.  You just dice, add water to the steam tank, throw the fruits or veggies in, press a button, and walk away.  The Baby Brezza steams and blends the food while you get on with your life.  A-MAZING. I love, love, love it.  I have steamed everything possible that we have in the house, and gone to the grocery for more, even foods Jonah isn’t ready for yet, because it’s SO FUN!  Then, I freeze my baby food creations in ice cube trays and store them ’til Jonah’s ready to eat, at which time I heat & serve.  YAY!

So, anyhoo, to celebrate the Baby Brezza’s awesomeness, I had a little party for some friends and their babies!  The Baby Brezza and the cutting boards they sent for my party guests  were my centerpiece!

Here’s Jonah enjoying some carrots I made in the Baby Brezza while his pal Archie looks on jealously.

Gimme some of those carrots!

We had a great time at the party and it was fun for me to demonstrate to my friends how EASY and FAST the Baby Brezza makes cookin’ up your own baby food.  Because, really, people, I am just that lazy.  If I had to steam the food separately, I MIGHT just give up making  my own food. Maybe I’d stick with it regardless, I don’t know. But I do know for SURE there is no way I will buy baby food at the store now that I have my Baby Brezza!  It is saving us SO MUCH MONEY!  It costs around $100 (again, mine was free to me for reviewing and throwing the party) and since I can make 10 servings of bananas out of about 55 cents worth of bananas instead of the 50 cents plus it would cost me for ONE serving of store-bought, I know the Baby Brezza is saving us a ton.  I made 10 servings of sweet potatoes out of a sweet potato that cost me a dollar!  Woo hoo!  It is simply amazingly cheap to make your own baby food vs. buying.

I had a blast at my baby food party and I am loving making food for Jonah.  I even brought the Baby Brezza with us on vacation, and it’s working out great!  I cannot recommend this product any more enthusiastically. GETCHA ONE!!

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I received a Baby Brezza baby food maker for review and cutting boards to give away to my friends from Baby Brezza and Mom Select. All opinions on this (totally AMAZING) product are my own!

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This post is linked up to Things I Love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries!

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My Girl.

Tonight when I finally got home from Kate’s swim meet zomg it was almost 10:00 and picked up my computer, Photo Booth was up on the screen. For those of you who are PCs, Photo Booth is Mac’s software that uses the computer’s camera to take pictures and put crazy effects on them. Kate’s always messing around with Photo Booth, and I’ve never paid a whole lot of attention to the pictures and videos she takes, but tonight I happened to flip through them, and let me tell you – I was cracking up.

The videos are hysterical – they are like iCarly meets the Blair Witch Project.

Because I am not talented enough to figure out how to post the videos, pictures will have to do. Here are a few of Kate’s self-portraits that I found.

The girl’s not short on personality. I loved finding Kate’s photos and videos not only for my own (and your) entertainment, but because they so perfectly capture who she is. They are so very Kate, and I’m glad to have that on record.

I love that girl!

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Sleeplessness

Ever have one of those nights when you are really tired and really need to sleep because you’ve got a really busy week ahead of you… but you just can’t sleep?

Yeah, I am having one of those moments right now.

It’s 4:21 a.m. and I’ve been up for about an hour and a half. My alarm is going to go off an hour and a half from now, and I have an extremely busy day at work tomorrow (today, I suppose) which will be capped off by a swim meet in the evening.

I really need to get some sleep. So why am I up?

I’ve been laying in bed worrying about everything under the sun. Some things are real, relevant concerns, some things are illogical and unlikely and not worth losing sleep over.

Most of all, I’m so worried about not getting any sleep that I can’t sleep.

I think I might finally be cracking up.

So, I guess I’ll head off to bed once again and add “probably cracking up” to my list of things to worry about.

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