Till the Wheels Come Off

I will tell you this.  Rocco has THE BEST dad in the whole world. 

It was a Friday night after a long week of work, I had fallen alseep on the couch while Rocco napped.  Tom was sitting on the couch reading this…

I awoke to the garage door slamming.  In walked Tom with our baby and several bags of groceries.  My heart skipped a few beats when I realized all that had happened without me even slipping into conciousness ONCE.  I wasn’t dreaming.  Tom found the baby food recipes in the back of his new Tyler Florence cookbook.  He told me that he had “turned over a new leaf.”

Rocco was going to have a completely new menu: all organic and fresh foods. All the jars I bought said organic, isn’t that the same thing?  Tommy isn’t the kind of guy who will choose one and make a mass quantity, oh no, he bought the ingredients for ALL of the recipes.  I didn’t tell him that he would still be up at 3 in the morning, after the kitchen had exploded and there were little tupperware containers of baby food everywhere.  I wanted him to experience the “joy of discovery.”

So he set Rocco up in his highchair and they began their “project.”

VERY exciting!

The house smelled AMAZING.

He found appliances that I didn’t even know we had!  Long after our little man had retired for the night, we taste tested all of the food:  sweet peas and mint, brown rice with roasted banana and cinnamon, parmesan & cauliflower puree and our favorite, roasted blueberry and applesauce.  We are considering canning and selling the last one, it goes something like this, “One bite for Rocco, two bites for mommy, three bites for daddy, one bite for Rocco…” 

Seriously folks, it’s THAT good.