It's Official...

It's official...Gideon's ticklish.  Especially when he's really tired, but he giggles and laughs and loves being tickled. He's also getting into Peek-a-boo. He's still only rolling from his back to his tummy for the most part but he's learned how to arch his back and then kick, which effectively rotates him around in a circle.

He's also very interested in solid foods. He ate banana like it was the best thing ever, avocado though he's not so sure about. He would get all excited when he saw the spoon and lunge for it, give a "yech" face then spit it out. I would gather it off his face with the spoon, which when he saw the spoon he'd get all excited and we'd do it all again. Oh, well. Experts say to let him try it 10x before conceding that he doesn't like it, so we'll keep at it. My mother asked recently why we chose banana and avocado to start him on and honestly it's because I wanted to make his food myself and we don't have a blender out here in Seattle. We will once we get back to Utah so its not worth buying another one.  So, until then, I'm just doing foods soft enough to mash up or that I can do in his little food grinder I broke down and bought.

I didn't think I was that into cooking until I got here and am trying to cook without all the tools I'm used to. Like a 9x13 pan. Or a muffin tin. Or a variety of knives (we have two cheap steak knives). Or spices. Ohhhhhhh, spices. We have salt, pepper, and season-all (the apt didn't have any and those are the only ones we've invested in). Ah, my kingdom for some garlic salt, or lemon pepper, or onion powder, or, or, alas. We did cave and buy measuring spoons/cups, a cheese grater, cheese slicer, some vanilla, and a couple other things, but its so hard wanting to buy things and then realizing we'll be back in Utah in a couple months and won't need duplicates of everything.

Luckily, we're on a "health kick" while we're here in Seattle, so I'm trying to keep our meals as unprocessed as possible. So we've had baked potatoes, salads, etc instead of casseroles and other things I can't make anyway. Sadly that also means I haven't bought ice cream since we got here either, which we don't have a scoop for anyway. It's nice that with spring and summer produce comes into season and becomes so cheap and its usually very easy to prepare.