This weekend was the weekend to can all the pears we had bought as well as canning some homemade applesauce. My mom came down to help watch Cameron so that Bret and I could whip them out quickly but it turned out that he took an absolutely wonderful nap that afternoon so it turned out that the three of us go to can! It was a lot of fun and I really feel like Im getting the hang of it. We did the pears with my mom on Saturday afternoon and it didnt take us long at all.
Then on Sunday afternoon Bret and I tackled the applesauce and it was even more fun and went even faster than the pears. Brets mom let us borrow this little do-dad that mashes the apples up and spits the sauce out one spout and the skins out of another. Even though Bret wont admit he had fun, I think he really enjoyed that part of it. Making homemade applesauce is really easy and it tastes delicious! We put some cinnamon and sugar in ours, yum!
I think the apples look so pretty in the pot... such pretty and vibrant colors. Also I ordered a box of what I thought would be normal sized plums but they turned out to be prune plums, not that I have anything against prunes but it just wasnt what I was expecting. So I did one can of the prunes because Im not 100% sure how much Im going to love canned prunes, they are good dried, but canned Im not so positive about. The prunes look beautiful in the jar, they turn the syrup this great magenta color. So this is what we ended up with, another addition to our food supply.
Also this week we are going to do some dry pack canning at a members house. I would have never thought it, but she shared with us that we can dry pack things like brownie mix, pasta-roni, rice-a-roni, jiffy mix, etc. So my friend Courtney and I took a trip to the store and stocked up on these types of things to can. We got our cans from the LDS Cannery and I have them all ready to be sealed. I am so glad that our food supply is coming along!
Cameron is learning how to eat rice cereal and how to eat out of a spoon. He is starting to catch on, slowly. He is currently in the habit of grabbing anything near his face and shoving it in his mouth, so thats what he tries to do with the spoon. I would say 75-80% of the time he eats from the spoon just fine but then that remaining percentage of time he either grabs the spoon, tries to talk with the food in his mouth instead of swallow or he shoves his hand in his mouth with the food so then it goes everywhere all down his bib and he rubs it all over his face and legs! He is so funny to watch. He is doing a great job though, when we fed him rice cereal the first time it was a huge mess. He didnt get that he could swallow the cereal off the spoon, he was too used to bottles. But so far so good, its going well. I think these pictures are so funny although they dont do justice to how big of a mess it really was. It was spread on his forhead, nose, knees, both hands, strangly enough it somehow got to his diaper... Needless to say, he got a bath after this feeding. I think it is good to let him play with it to an extent to learn. I hope it starts getting a little less messy though!
