Our Life

I am not complaining... BUT!

We never sit down. We have two full time in house nannies/cleaners/cooks and a part time guy that walks our beautiful labrador for an hour each day. We still never sit down. Until I wrote it all down... I never realized what made the world go around.

Here was yesterday play by play:

5:00a: Ezra wakes Cedric up to help convince Dadda and Papa it is time to eat
5:15a: Twins toss bottles to the side, roll over, and pass out
5:20a: Douglas rejoins my lazy ass in bed
6:30a: Douglas makes his paleo breakfast
7:00a: I make my paleo-ish breakfast, twins on full court press, Douglas in shower
7:30a: Sheela arrives, I get in the shower
7:45a: Pouring coffee: Douglas black, mine with 1/4 cup creme, 3 heaping spoons of sugar
7:55a: Out the door, umbrella up
8:00a: Work
5:00p: I get home and finish up some work emails, twins sleeping
5:05p: Douglas out the door for disc
5:35p: I grab a snack, grab the remote, plant left ass cheek on the couch
5:36p: Cedric wakes up
5:40p: Ezra wakes up
5:41p: Twins full court press
5:50p: Strap the boys into stroller, bug spray, mosquito nets, dog on leash
6:00p: Pick Douglas up from disc, head off campus for 50 min walk
7:00p: Twins in high-chairs for dinner
7:30p: Twins in bath tub, Douglas making adult dinner
7:50p: Wheels fall off, screaming, wet, tired
8:00p: Twins dry, dressed, tiny bottle, sleep
8:05p: Adult dinner, vodka on the rocks
8:20p: Dishes
8:30p: Make baby food
9:45p: Pushups/Sit-ups for Thailand beach body, Big Bang Theory on in background
10:15p: Wake twins up for another small bottle (this put the stop on the 3a nursery rave)
10:30p: Adult bed time

Chad

Really, Gerber?

So, the boys have been transitioning to solid food. Their first experience with really runny rice cereal happened in Delhi. We started with rice cereal because it's readily available in Delhi, and easy on the digestive system, plus, it allows the kids to practice taking food from a spoon and swallowing, which took some work.

Then, when we went to France, our dear host Françoise had already purchased several "petits pots" (read baby food in a jar, but it sounds so much better and more sophisticated in French), and so we started the boys with artichokes. Cedric loved the artichokes, but Ezra was not impressed. So, we tried him on carrots and sweet potatoes, which he liked, but then the next day his skin broke out in a rash (more about that in a later post), so we got him off of carrots. Then, when we went to the US we tried more sweet potatoes, peas, green beans and squash before trying fruits (bananas, peaches and pears). Both boys are great eaters, with the exception of Ezra's aforementioned dislike of artichokes and Cedric's dislike of peas. Everything has been going well. They are taking bigger spoonfuls, and not pushing the food out of their mouths.

But, here's my problem. I had the best of intentions to use only homemade puree with organic vegetables raised by Norwegian bachelor farmers (so their pure, mostly, right?); but with our busy travel schedule, and being away from my own kitchen, I've resorted to buying the baby food in the jars. We purchased about 10 packs of Gerber organic food. The following is a list of the ingredients in the organic pears:
Ingredients
ORGANIC PEARS, WATER, TUNA OIL (SOURCE OF DHA), ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), GELATIN, CHOLINE BITARTRATE, ALPHA TOCOPHERYL ACETATE (VITAMIN E)
Here is a list of the ingredients in the non-organic pears:
Ingredients
PEARS, PEAR PUREE (WATER, PEAR PUREE CONCENTRATE), ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), CITRIC ACID
You see the problem? Why does the organic type contain more additives than the non-organic type? Anybody have any insight on this one?