I am being sucked in...

I placed an order on Amazon and you know how at the bottom of the screen Amazon will post, "Other shoppers who bought this book bought these items too.." (or something like that), well it got me! I now have quite the extensive library on food. Now those of you who know me well are saying, "Allison you are kind of obsessed with cookbooks, so you weren't short on food books before." But now I have a library that is looking at food in a far less romantic way and a much more scientific way.

I think I will give credit to my new found obsession to Sarah Kathryn Sherrill and Anne Brewer. The two of you gave me two different baby food cookbooks, this led to me making my own baby food, which you can read about here. Well that led me to have an interest in when I should by organic food and when I should by local or when it didn't matter. Well for those of you who are curious, organic is not always better, sometimes it is just more expensive. And if it was grown organically in Chile, chances are you better off with something grown locally. And did you know that your blueberries do not need to be organic, but your strawberries should be. Anyway that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to reading up on this stuff, so I went on the hunt for a book that could be my "go to" whenever I had a question. After several different attempts to find a book I finally found this one:

Now, could I stop there...No! Below are the other books that made it into my shopping cart:

This last one is FANTASTIC!! The author is a food critic from Seattle and he is hilarious. I have enjoyed every minute of his book and I think I am going to try one of his stew recipes very soon. His book is based on his own adventures trying to introduce all different types of flavors to his daughter at a young age. He basically makes the point that you do not have to feed your child bland mush, they can eat what you eat. He is very realistic and reading his book along with the others may keep me from getting to extreme with my food safety concerns...as if as a Mom I do not have enough to worry about!

I swear I won't buy any more books, but Holland has told me to rent the documentary, "Food Inc.", and from her review I get the distinct impression that it will only encourage this behavior. I would ask you all if you think I am going overboard, but I already know the answer!

Wrong Link

I just emailed my friend Rachel the link to the blog and I spelled it like this:

www.thegodwinhoot.blogpsot.com

CLick on it and see what you get! Not cute little Riley staring back at you, that is for sure!

Because I am lazy and because he is so darn cute...

I will share this picture. I am trying to work on my post from this past weekend, but it really is alot to cover...we took 278 pictures! So until then, hear is a picture that Etta took last week in Brewton:

Girls Weekend

This weekend I went to Birmingham to see several of my girlfriends from college. Riley was supposed to go, so Becca could meet him, and so Nancy could get a squeeze in (and spoil him rotten)but he got a cold. He instead went with Etta and his Daddy to Brewton. He is still there and having a fantastic time. This weekend he became enthralled with the umbrella stroller they have and enjoyed being pushed around inside the house. Here he and George are going for a ride.



Please get ready for my girls weekend post...lets just say we had a walk down memory lane...or Arkadelphia Road.

Pawty TIme

Sometimes I click on my blog just hoping somone else will have added pictures of my munchkin and updated it. I know it is a ridiculous hope, but I still do. Maybe someday my husband will learn to work the blog. But until then here goes my latest blog post...

Pollard Henig turned 1 on January 3rd and this past weekend we celebrated his big day. You can see here where his Mommy posted about the Pawty. And below are a few of the pictures I took. And as you will all notice the fact that I have the fantastic new camera does not make me a good photographer. I have a lot to learn!!

Is this not the cutest cake? Ligers Bakery did it and I am so jealous, Rileys elephant did not turn out as well. And as you will see, Riley also liked Pollard's cake better than his.

See Mr. P's personal cake...I think he is thinking, "all this...for me?"

We broke Britton out from behind the video camera for a quick family photo.

This is what a 12 month old is suppossed to do with birthday cake...see Riley!

Here you can see that Riley did eat cake. He ate some cake I fed him until he got board, and then he let Lindsey feed him her Mom's slice of cake. We must apologize to Mrs. Wallace for thieving her slice of Pollard's cake. And Lindsey Michael still wants to know if we can talk you into coming over at dinner time. You really have a magical power. Here you can see Pollard getting excited to see Riley. It is the funniest thing! I was unable to catch Riley's excitement too. ( I know you are surprised I had trouble getting two toddlers in the same frame) Lindsey and I do try to get Pollard and Riley together, as you can see here, and here, and here.

Okay I am tired of writing, and you are probably tired of reading, but here are some more pictures.

Where's Riley??

Peek a boo is a milestone and one of the questions they ask at the 9 month appointment to see if your child is progressing normally. And Riley has been playing peek a boo since that appointment, however he was always playing it with a blanket or lovie held up over his face. The day after Christmas he started playing this game in his carseat with Gie Gie and Grandcoy, using only his hands. It is seriously the cutest thing EVER! (how often do I say that about something he is doing?) Anyway, I have been trying to capture it on film, and these pictures aren't very good, but they will do for now. I was rocking Riley and trying to put him down for his afternoon nap on Friday.

WHERE'S RILEY?

WHERE'S RILEY?

THERE HE IS!

WHERE'S RILEY?

He thinks this game is hilarious and he could play it for what seems to me like hours!

Also if you look really carefully at these pictures you will decipher that at 3:00 in the afternoon I was wearing a grey sweatshirt, black yoga pants, and adorable owl slippers. I was a picture if I do say so myself!

Snow Day with flash!!

More pictures of how we spent our snow day...for the record we did not see a lick of snow! These pictures were taken with a flash! Someday I am going to have time to read my camera manual and take pictures that do this camera justice!