Frozen Peanut Butter & Jelly

If your kids are anything like mine and love peanut butter and jelly but unfortunately end up wearing half the gooeyness on themselves, then do I have a wonderful little tool to share with you. Thanks to the wonderful people at Pampered Chef there is a solution to this problem without having to spend $$$ on Crustables; Cut-N-Seal® will allow you (or you child) to cut perfectly sealed PB&J sandwiches that can be thrown in the freezer. I pick up a cheap loaf of bread at the grocery store and pop out a couple weeks worth of sandwiches with the loaf.

Though I advice you to follow your doctor's advice on introducing peanuts and nuts to your child, these sandwiches make a great frozen teething relief. Hey- when your 2 year old "shoves" a spoonful of peanut butter in his baby brother mouth and there is no allergic reaction, that indicates to me he doesn't have a peanut allergy.

Watermelon Pops

Watermelon Pops
Family Fun

Materials
Watermelon
Popsicle Sticks
Cookie Cutters

Instructions
Use a cookie cutter to cut juicy star shapes from 1-inch-thick slices of seedless watermelon. Insert a Popsicle stick into each star, then set the pops on an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet. Cover the stars with another sheet of foil and freeze for 1 hour or until firm.


We made half the watermelon cut-outs into popsicles and took the remaining along to a family gathering; our relatives were impressed with my son's work for art. While my two year old prefers fresh watermelon, my teething ten month old is digging the frozen fruit on his gums.

Teething Relief

At nine months my baby boy has a whopping ZERO teeth! While I don’t see or feel any bumps in his mouth, he’s been less smiley, slightly fussy, sucks/gums on anything and everything (including our family dog)and my poor little guy has a horrible diaper rash. All these signs lead me to believe that teeth are in his near future. *Sigh* I’m going to miss his adorable toothless smile; I guess its part of accepting the fact my baby is closer to being a toddler then an infant.

Yesterday morning a light bulb came on, Hayden is a thumb sucker and we ended up with a lot of unwrapped but unused pacifiers; I decided to try a little “science experiment”. I filled a bowl with water, took a bunch of Nuks (and Soothies), squeezed the pacifier end under the water to fill and placed them in the freezer. Hayden doesn’t like pacifiers but he’s digging the “frozen” Nuk.