12 month check up! :)

So our little boy has come a long way from his 7lbs 5oz and 21inches long!
He is now 21lbs and almost 32 inches long! He is a big boy that loveess to eat! We haven't found a food yet that he won't eat.  I get questions a lot about what do I feed this child? I must be feeding him bricks, right?

(Our little man got two shots also yesterday.  Big sister was more emotional then he was!)

Well, no. Not bricks.  I actually make all of his food.  I think baby food is okay but I would rather make his food of my own.  I'm a meal planner anyway.  I take one day a week (normally Sunday or Monday) and make or prep breakfast, lunch and dinner for all of us for the week. It helps my busy week so much! It also helps with keeping my kitchen clean! I only have one big mess to clean up and whatever plates we use during the week. So this is what a days worth of food looks like for Alexander:

Breakfast is normally cheerios with cut up bananas or pancakes with strawberries or blue berries. He loves fruit! He loves feeding himself and the floor even more!  We don't use syrup (anymore). It was more of a hair product then a condiment!

Zanderbutt always gets a snack between breakfast and lunch.  This week it is rice cakes and peanut butter.  We just introduced peanut butter and he is doing very well with it. This also has the potential of becoming a hair product!  Snacks may also include some kind of fruit and crackers or veggies and crackers.

Lunch time is now mini grilled cheeses or what Alli likes to call "cheese tacos". Its just cheese rolled up in a tortilla with veggies.  This weeks veggie on the menu is zucchini.   Other lunches he likes are peanut butter and banana sandwiches,  pasta and veggies, or chicken and rice.  I do not give him store bought meals lunches.

Ahhh the p.m. snack! This time of the day is always hit or miss.  He isn't a huge fan of snacking in the afternoon.  If he does want to snack in the afternoon then I keep it light.  It normally is just cheez its or those little puff things.  Sometimes I can even get him to eat a gogurt, some black beans or green beans.

Dinner time is our favorite meal! We always get to sit down and eat together so we love dinner time!  Last night, the baby devoured ate turkey, string cheese and peaches.  Normally I don't feed him a different meal then we eat but last night was ribs since it was my "cheat day" and I wasn't ready to feed him that. Tonight he will be eating garlic chicken with sweet potatoes, celery, squash and onions.

 I make it a point to have him eat what we eat for dinner.  We did this with Alli and she is not picky. I don't give my children an option. I am not a short order cook and I refuse to make different meals. I also refuse feed my kids fast food, chicken nuggets, hot dogs and french fries every day.  I want the kids to love food in a healthy way!

Over the weekend, we went over to our friends Sean and Allison's house for a bbq to celebrate Seans birthday. Back story: Sean and Kiko have been friends since basically birth and Kiko hops at every chance to spend time bromance Sean! Back to Alexander! So I was getting the kids ready and the baby actually let me put sunglasses on him for long enough to snap a picture! Caution: photo include Alexanders cute little moobs!

He also let me do his hair. Super cute! He sat so patiently while I blow dried it (on the cool setting of course) and even let me put some hair spray in it.  His hair is a lot of fun!  Unfortunately the sunglasses didn't last very long. Alli and I got into a fight about what she was going to wear.  She saw that Selena Gomez was wearing combat boots on a T.V. show so of course she wanted to wear the combat boots that she has. Combat boots would be totally acceptable in Ohio at this time in the summer but we live in Florida....where its 100 degrees.... and humid....and we were going to a pool party!  So in the end she won but look how cute she looked:

I'll leave you all with a little story from Alli and Alexander.

While I was working on my food prepping for the week, Alli thought it would be fun to teach Alexander how things feels when you touch them.  I humored her. So she went to get her "teacher" glasses" and supplies for her class.

She grabbed toilet paper, a spongy candle, and a could of hard toys.  By the time she got back, the baby was in one of those "just please put me to bed" moods. I let her know that her brother was tired but that wasn't stopping her!  She started to put the smushy candle on the tray of the babys high chair and what happens? He puts it right to the mouth and doesn't pay attention to Alli!  So she freaks out and says "Mom, I can't deal with this kid." Then I get this face......

Dramatic much?

Yep! That was my weekend! How was everyone else?!