baby buffet

tonight with the young women, we discussed the dress and appearance section of the new for the strength of youth pamphlet and then learned hair tips/tricks/styles and made delicious smelling bath salts.  it was a ton of fun and easy to do.  mostly because i have awesome counselors and advisers that do everything for me.  it's wonderful.

anyways, turns out that the hardest part was getting baby food jars for our bath salts since we didn't want to spend budget money on jars from hobby lobby or something.  i texted every mom in our ward with a baby under 18 months and wasn't having much luck.  turns out though that kirstyn had a bunch of jars leftover from when michaela was in that stage... i just needed to take the baby food out of them.  so initially i'm thinking i'd just put the food down the drain because baby refuses to be spoon fed but then i thought maybe i'd give her the benefit of the doubt.  and actually, she ate a jar and a half of those big stage 3 gerber meal things when she woke up from nap... but i still had several jars left and no where to put the food.  to save myself from dirtying up a million little tupperwares, i put the food in an ice cube tray and covered it with plastic wrap to put it in the fridge.  but baby girl saw it and started saying please so honey took over... and after watching the two of them for a few minutes, i decided i needed to get some of it recorded.

as is always the case with taking video, the best part happened before i started recording, but whatever... it's better than nothing!  too bad that that music is so loud the whole time though... goodness how she loves that thing.  but listen out for my favorite part at the very beginning when she says "this one" so clearly while she points.  that's what she was doing before i got the camera out and she got lazy and would just point and mumble instead.  sooo, enjoy!

i still can't believe she was eating that stuff!  seriously, it's so difficult that she won't let us spoon feed her (unless it's from an array of ice cube molds apparently) because it rules out soups, yogurt, applesauce, and other stuff that she can't manage on her own.  and when i sit back and actually let myself think about it, i can't believe all the stuff she says these days... i don't even notice so much of it because she's talking all. the. time.  seriously amazing.

and ps-  i am sooooo very happy to report that the long missing battery charger to the big camera has been found!  apparently i thought it would be easy for me to find if i left it conveniently plugged in behind the sofa, so it would be ready for me next time i needed to use it.  hmmm, we might have to rethink that one going forward.  but right now....so so glad to have that back.  thank goodness!