This morning I decided it was time for a treat so we made pancakes! I mixed everything together while sitting on the kitchen floor so that Sweet Pea could help me out. We made the pancakes a little later than we would normally have breakfast so Sweet Pea needed something to distract him from his hunger. Helping me out was the perfect solution!

Here Sweet Pea is investigating what is in the bowl:

Here he is excited to show off what we are making:

Here he is helping stir the batter (note how most of it drips onto the floor):

Enjoying the fruits of our labor aka stuffing our face:

The bite from the previous picture is all in his cheeks:

We don’t really do desserts at our house. Not because we don’t like them but because we are really trying to make sure that Sweet Pea grows up as healthy as he can. We are really proud that in his fourteen months of life he has not taken one bite of cake or ice cream. We figure there is plenty of time for all of that when he is older and actually knows what he is eating.

That being said, we have to be a little more creative when coming up with sweet things for dessert. Today Elmo decided that before bed we were going to have smoothies. This is a very sweet treat and is a good way to get fruit in the diet if you are lacking that day.

In today’s smoothie:

• peaches
• bananas
• milk
• ice
• mixed berry yogurt

We just throw all the ingredients into our magic bullet and we get a smoothie! Sweet Pea loves them and giggles whenever we get the magic bullet out to make one!