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This post is sponsored by Blog Meets Brand and Cedar Fair. All opinions are my own.  New this summer, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is hosting the Summer Culinary Series, all-you-can-eat buffet meals prepared by Chef Malo featuring a variety of specialty menus. This summer, Dorney Park in Allentown, PA (approximately 90 minutes northwest of …

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When I was pregnant with Liam, I joined a website for pregnant women, mostly for the chat forums. They had a separate board for each month of due dates (January 2011, February 2011, etc.). We shared a bit online, then started a private Facebook group, where we felt more comfortable sharing more private information. We …

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Today was supposed to be a Monday Randoms post. It was supposed to be my 20-week update. I was going to post a poll, asking if you thought it was a boy or a girl. But on Sunday, June 2, we had to say goodbye to our baby, 19 weeks and 1 day into the …

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This weeks randoms have been moved to Wednesday. They may or may not move back to Monday (or some other day) next week. Pregnancy I'm 18 weeks along, which according to TheBump.com, puts the baby at the size of a sweet potato! Last Saturday, I felt the baby kick for the first time! I think …

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**Taking a semi-break from food talk today. If you’re here for the recipes only, please stop back on Wednesday!** I am 17 weeks pregnant! According to TheBump.com, Pumpkin is the size of an onion. The nausea is mostly gone, and I've been able to eat 3 meals — and several snacks — a day. I still get …

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**Taking a semi-break from food talk today. If you're here for the recipes only, please stop back on Wednesday!** I'm now 16 weeks along! According to TheBump.com, our little Pumpkin (our nickname for the baby since he/she is due in late October) is the size of an avocado. I've had a much easier time eating …

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Monday again already, huh? Time to give some attention to my poor, neglected blog. I'm currently 15 weeks along in my pregnancy. I'm just starting to get the smallest hint of a bump. Okay, fine. It looks like I indulged in one too many slices of pizza for dinner. Which I may or may not …

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I'm mature enough (some of the time) to admit when I'm wrong. I never imagined myself having children. I was terrified of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the responsibility of raising a happy, healthy, well-adjusted, productive member of society. When asked for the thirty billionth time when I was having a baby, I told everyone I didn't …

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Today's Munchkin Meals is an unofficial one, as the link-up host, A Healthy Slice of Life, is a bit overwhelmed at the moment. It will be back in two weeks with a picnic theme! I can't wait! As if traveling with a 9-month-old (and all of their necessary gear) wasn't stressful enough, adding a long road …

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Today's post will be only semi-cooking related. I just returned from a vacation with my extended family (my mother and father, my mom's younger sister, her husband and their three kids), and wanted to share our experience. On Sunday, August 26th, The Mister, The Baby and I piled into the car for a 350-mile road trip …

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I hope you'll indulge my temporary deviation from my usual food-related topics. My Peanut is now 9 months old and I'm feeling a little sentimental. If a "little" milestone like this gets me teary-eyed, what a mess I'll be as he gets older! Nine months can seem short or long, depending on how you look at it. …

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As I mentioned last week, the host of Munchkin Meals, Brittany over at A Healthy Slice of Life, has decided to move the link-up to an every-other-week format, so the next "Munchkin Meals" will appear on August 23rd. Liam is about 8.5 months old. He sits unassisted, gets into a sitting position from lying down, crawls …

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Thursday means A Healthy Slice of Life's Munchkin Meals link-up! This week, we are focusing on dinner. We've been trying to offer Liam (8 months old) flavor combinations instead of single-ingredient purees, whether it's two veggies, a fruit and a veggie, or a protein and a veggie. I'm turning more often to baby food cookbooks …

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Thursday Munchkin Meals! This week's theme is lunch. Liam will be 8 months on Saturday (!?!). He will now eat just about everything we put in front of him. He's also much more interested in "helping" us spoon-feed him his purees. His idea of "helping" is to grab the spoon right at the tip, where …

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Thursday means Munchkin Meals! This post is all about Liam's breakfasts.  Liam is now 7 months, 3 weeks old. I am happy to report that last week's experiment worked, and Liam will take purées from me! He still prefers purées to finger food, though I'm gradually making the purées more chunky than thin.  Typical breakfast options are:  …

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I know that as a first-time parent, preparing to introduce BabyL to solid foods was stressful, to say the least. What age? Which food? Purée? Finger food? How much? How often?  I'm happy to say that I've calmed down somewhat. After all, as they say, "Food before 1 is just for fun." Meaning, before the …

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It's been a month since I posted about my trepidation of introducing Liam to solid food. We started a bit earlier than I had planned. At about 5.5 months, Liam had reverted to nursing every two hours (he had been eating every three hours), took great interest in watching us eat and had started imitating …

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Sorry for the lack of food this past week or so. I just got over a particularly sneaky stomach bug (I would feel better, eat some food, then get sick again), just in time for The Mister to start feeling sick himself. So, we haven't been doing much cooking.  So for now, let me wonder …

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As Baby L. approaches 6 months of age, I'm starting to research "solid"-food feeding. And I'm totally overwhelmed and intimidated. And probably really over-thinking the whole issue.  I'm a very methodical, step-by-step person. Give me explicitly-spelled-out instructions (which is why I love baking more than cooking). Tell me, at six months, you need to do …

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