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    Recipe: Roasted Vegetables + Chickpeas

    Photo courtesy Better Homes and Gardens
    Henry has gotten to the point where he knows the difference between his pureed foods and the food we’re eating, and he prefers the latter. So now we try to cook foods that he can eat right alongside us (just in smaller bites).

    This recipe for roasted vegetables and chickpeas is delicious! It was easy, tasty, healthy, and inexpensive, which is exactly my kind of recipe.

    We still feed Henry at his Montessori weaning table for breakfast and lunch, and he still joins us for dinner in his high chair pulled up to the table. The only difference now is that I mainly feed

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    Eight Months: Happy Birthday, Henry!

    Henry! You are growing and changing so much.

    This month as been all about crawling. You army crawled from 5-7 months, and from 7-8 months you figured out it was faster to get up on all fours. You go especially fast when you’re headed toward something you aren’t supposed to reach, like the toilet or Hoss’s bowls. You’ve also figured out how to pull open doors, so you love letting yourself out of your room when you wake up.

    You’re still pulling up on everything. Luckily, you’ve figured out how to get down really easily (although you still bonk your head occasionally). You move from crawling to sitting and back

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    Seven Months: Happy Birthday, Henry!

    My, oh, my, you’re getting so big!

    This month as been more of the same. You move around the house really fast, although now you’ve started getting up on all fours a lot more. You usually take 4-8 steps that way and then lower yourself back into the army crawl position to get where you’re going faster. You also push up into “down dog” a lot.

    You’ve moved from pulling up on low things independently to pulling up on virtually anything, like couches, bookshelves, etc. Currently, you’re favorite thing to pull up on is me (I’m honored!). You still have trouble getting down from a standing position, but you’ve started

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