Maddie is self feeding. This is great! i dont need to sit next to her and put food into her mouth. I can leave her be and she can eat all on her own. Her favorite is pancakes. I guess they are squishy enough for her to pick her and put in her mouth.

Rolling over both ways has already improved so much. she will roll left, right, left, right, so she ends up in the same spot lol.

definitely babbling more and has started making the "m" sounds. so she can say mamama. when she wakes from a nap, she plays by herself and says "mamamma". so i pretend like shes calling me. haha.

has taken to table food really well. her current fave is pastina with homemade tomato sauce and meatballs. tonight we went out to dinner for my aunts birthday and i was able to give maddie some rice, tofu and chicken from my own plate.

can hold onto something and stand on her own for a little bit.

FOOD:

so had a craving for pork eggrolls....so i bought a package of shredded cabbage.

i only needed half the bag for the eggrolls, so i thought about how i could use the other half and i thought about cole slaw, one of jaes favorites. so simple.

add mayo, mustard, apple cider vinegar...basically anything you want. you can add garlic powder, etc. i also added some scallions:


for the eggrolls, take one pound of ground pork and add again, whatever you want. i shredded a small carrot, scallions, mushrooms and shrimp


stir fry together with some soy sauce and oyster sauce




dump 2 spoonfuls of the mix into egg roll wrapper and wrap up


i used my mini deep fryer which cuts down on the mess. you can also bake these.




also made my baby some spaghetti squash...


All easy, quick stuff. I did all this while the baby sat and played by herself in the pack n play.

So I had the coleslaw and was trying to think of what we could eat with it. I decided on some shrimp cakes, since i was just using shrimp for the eggrolls as well.

i chopped up more shrimp, scallion and red pepper. mix with mayo, uustard, breadcrumbs, 2 eggs. Shape into patty and cover with panko breadcrumbs.




Fry on a pan. Serve with the coleslaw. (i have done these cakes with guacamole too)