Yogurt!

It may look like he fed himself, but he didn't.  When you get this messy, why not celebrate with some autonomy at the end?!

videos!

I am a bit behind on putting up some little videos we have been taking with the phone.  Here are three new ones!

He has started to do this caterpillar-like crawling sometimes. It is pretty funny to watch.



Here is another one of him noshing on Sophie. He is pretty talkative with it this time, too. This one is funny because he looks so concerned the whole time.



Finally, we tried butternut squash with him the other night and it went better than the pear did. No gagging at least! Still learning how that tongue works though, ha.

Pears!

Oliver has now had both rice and oatmeal, so we thought we would give him a treat and mash up some pear for him.  Turns out he wasn't much of a fan.  At all.  Like it literally made him gag.  He even has some of those uncontrolled head-shakes some people have with a tequila shot.

26 weeks and camping!

We went camping this past weekend because we thought it may be one of the last time that we can do that for a bit.  Apparently this week (many people's spring break) is a popular weekend and we were slow on the draw, leaving us with a campsite at Cooper's Lake State Park.  Turned out to be an alright little park, although there wasn't a ton to do.

We did, however, get to use the good 'ol dutch oven again, which is always fun.  We made pork chops with onions, mushrooms and cream sauce over egg noodles (think basically beef stroganoff).

We also were able to try out the new fishing pole I got for Christmas.  It is a fun pole because it collapses real nice, making it easier to take places.  The fishing was actually pretty terrible and I lost a lure, too.  

Fun tip: How can you tell which person fishing is from Colorado and which is from Texas?  Who is wearing North Face and who is wearing camo.  I was literally the only one (and Sara) not wearing camo.  

We figured the 26 week picture should be in front of the tent.  Our camping neighbors were impressed with our camping ability (because it stormed pretty good and they were in campers), but they were even more impressed when they saw Sara was pregnant (not making that up either... they told us).  

brandied cherries

ever bought cherries and then not be able to finish them all?  well fret no more... i bring you brandied cherries.  you can do this with either rainier cherries or the normal ones.  equal parts water and sugar to boil (basically just making simple syrup).  add some cinnamon and the cherries.  simmer a few.  add equal parts brandy.  remover from heat, put in jar, cool, then refrigerate.  you are welcome.

Especial dinner

Tonight's crock pot dinner is going to be Especial.

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