Cooking for Chloe Round 2

For our second installment of Cooking for Chloe we went with heritage. Being an Eighth Generation Floridian means our little stinker will crave an orange on a hot summer day, enjoy the tropical sweetness of a mango during the "spring" and bananas are an everyday snack.

Our second Daddy-made Chloe food combined these three ingredients in a sunset hued delectable treat I called the Florida Delight. 

With Chloe assisting from her high chair, Billy chopped up half a mango, one small orange, and one banana. Filled the baby bullet and once again pureed until the blender jar was filled with a runny fruit medley that smelled deliciously like an Orange Julius and tasted just as good.

Billy's concoction filled four of the baby bullet jars. For a 6 - 9 month old that is enough for two Florida style breakfasts, complete with the OJ.

Cooking for Chloe

Sometimes Crafting with Chloe means Cooking with Chloe, this is one of those times. We bought a Baby Bullet for the Stinky Girl and our first recipe was as easy as they come.

A bit of history: our teeny angel craved many things whilst I was pregnant with her but the one thing that she craved on a daily basis from week one to week thirty-nine was avocados. We thought it only fitting that she be forced to eat that as our first attempt at homemade Chloe food.

It was easy enough and Billy the master chef had the skills necessary to chop up some avocado, add some water and blend away until we were left with a green puree.









I think Billy was disappointed that it didn't take a lot of cooking but Chloe Anne enjoyed it nonetheless! Our girl eats just about anything but she LOVED Daddy-made avocado goo!

School Valentine Exchange

I love them!

Since most parents and probably the teachers would discourage the giving of chocolate or small candies to children under One we had to come up with something a little unorthodox for Miss Chloe to share with the class. After weeks of Pinterest scanning, Google searching, Peer questioning, and Parent pondering we came up with our Valentines. Miss Chloe's class has twelve children ranging from 6 weeks to 1 year. Here are the few ideas we came up with or found but ultimately voted off the idea island.

• Jars of Baby Food or those terrible pouch things - Voted down because not all of the babies are eating food yet and some have advanced beyond the typical puree.
• Baby bottles - Parents are so damn finicky nowadays I wasn't even going to attempt this
• Pacifiers/Binkies - Some parents don't use them
• Small Toys - Some babies were too young or too old
• Bibs - I was just too lazy with this one and didn't feel like making 12 bibs for non-Chloe children.

Sleeping on the job

Ultimately we came to this conclusion: Bath time is the only thing that babies from Birth to One Year share that parents aren't that persnickety about and has the possibility for adorable Valentines.

Our idea: Give the non-Chloe babies rubber duckies for their bath time pleasure and who do you think came through for me as they always do? Why our glamorous Target, that is who! Right there in the One-Spot (the dollar bins up front) were green, purple, and brown rubber ducks with hearts on them. Also, found in the One-Spot were cellophane Valentine's Day baggies. Triple Score. $13.00 later and we are heading home to create adorable Valentines for her classmates. 

Tags

The cards were just made with PicMonkey (my favorite free editing and creating software) and of course had one of  these very Punny lines, "I'm so Ducky you're in my class"  or "You Quack me up!" on the front. The back says, "From: Chloe p.s. I'm teething and my parents don't get much sleep". 

Cutting out the Tags

We glued the two sides together, punched holes in the tags, used some yarn to tie the tags onto the bags and we once again acknowledged ourselves as the best parents ever (until she says otherwise we are claiming this title). I can't wait to take them to school on Friday! Happy Valentine's Week!

I am so proud!

She awoke in time to finish up.