Ice Cream, A Tooth, and Laundry Soap

Tenley has been doing SO much better eating her "real" food. It took a couple of rough days of her screaming and me making her eat anyway, but we made it through. She still doesn't eat full servings of anything, but that's okay with me. Slow and steady does it. I'm just happy she's eating it at all. I give her oatmeal (she likes it runny still) and veggies once a day. It takes her a pretty long time to get used to a different flavor, so we stay on the same veggie for almost a week before starting something new. Oh - there is one food it didn't take her much time at all to get used to though...ice cream! Sunday we were at Easton's 1/2 birthday party and we had homemade strawberry and chocolate ice cream. I wasn't going to give Tenley any, but I wanted to, so I did. :) I gave her a VERY small bite, and she just kept crawling on me for more! She didn't get very much, but the little she got, she loved. This girl has a sweet tooth like her Mama!

Speaking of teeth, Tenley just got her first tooth! This could explain why we had a very rough Sunday night and she didn't nap at all on Monday. When we went swimming Monday afternoon, Aunt Jessica discovered her first tooth - it's a bottom one. I was a little worried it would continue to bother her, but last night she slept 13 hours straight, and she's already down for her first nap, so I think we're good. Yay!

Another fun thing Tenley and I have been able to do this summer is spend a lot of time with my niece, Annie. We get to hang out with her while my sister works a couple of days a week for a few hours at a time. We do crafts, play games, read books, run errands, take walks, go swimming, etc. Yesterday Annie helped me with something new for her, and I think she had some fun with it. We made laundry soap! The last time I made laundry detergent, it was early February. So 1 batch lasts me a little over 4 months. I didn't have to buy any more ingredients either, so that was nice. I spent under $10 the first time, so, so far $10 has bought me 8+ months of cloth diaper safe laundry detergent, which I use on everything. Annie did such a good job helping grate, stir (making some wild whirlpools :) ), and measure. There are some pictures below of our adventure.