Hi guys! I know I haven't updated in a while on life here at the house with Jackson, but things are going wonderfully!
If you would've asked me how things were going a week ago, I would've had a much different answer, but Jack has slept through the night (9+ hours) for the past three nights!!!! I've got an almost ritualistic set of things I do before he goes to bed based on the first night he slept well. lol. I was thinking that I'd try some deviations after he'd slept through three nights, but now that it's here, I think I'll wait a while longer! I just can't risk losing this precious gem of sleep!
Jackson is eating solid foods twice a day, and we'll probably increase to three times here in the next few weeks. I'm also going to be trying my hand at making him some meats like chicken and beef. Speaking of food...this title was talking about apples. I've had a tendency towards healthier foods most of my adult life, and recently watched Food Inc. with Jordan. It really changed both of our perspectives on food. It didn't cause us to say, "Oh, surely we must now eat only organic foods." That's what I liked about the documentary, it didn't try to force you from one brainwashed concept to another, it just said, "hey, maybe you should think about where the things you put in your mouth come from and what happened to them before you bit into it." Good point, I say.
We got Jackson a mesh feeder a month or so ago, which he LOVES. You just put any whole piece of fruit, veggie, food in it, and he's able to suck on it and get tiny particles out that won't choke him. Well, before watching Food Inc. I'd been giving him apples. Starting several years ago I wondered, hmm, what's on the outside of an apple. It's sort of waxy or something. When you're just taking care of yourself, it's a little easier to say, "Ah well. Tastes fine, and I haven't died from eating it yet so I'm sure it is fine." But then something changes when you hand the same apple to you fragile (it seems) little baby. You think, "wait a minute. How sure was I that this was ok?" While I might've been ok with eating something I wasn't quite positive about, it's a little harder to give my goofy, grinning little son a piece of something I'm not quite positive about.
SO I bought a bag of organic apples at the commissary our last trip. It actually only worked out to about 10 cents more an apple! And oh. my. goodness. they tasted really yummy! I bit into it with an open mind, reminding myself not to TRY to taste a difference. But I really could. And Jordan could, too. He's my tester. lol. I know he's not trying to think something "hippy" like an organic apple is actually better than a normal person apple. The apple was also a lot juicier. And it was more of a yellow color on the inside. And it browned faster after I cut it. And it wasn't such a vibrant color. All of those things made me wonder...why do the regular apples I buy (of the same varient: gala) behave so differently than these. Obviously nothing was added to these organic ones to make them be different, because the USDA won't let a grower do that. So, logic tells me that something must've been added to the other apples to make them different from the organic ones. And I'm not sure what that was. So I don't think I want to eat it....and I'm sure I don't want Jack to eat it.
Ok. I'm off my soap box. I'm just saying...for me, maybe an apple's not an apple.
(P.S. I also wanted to say that we tried grass fed ground beef last night. As I was eating it, again with an open mind, I thought, "Hm. This does taste different. What is it? Hmm....I guess it tastes like meat." I realize that is a strange thing to think. I thought it was strange, too. I also found it strange that I would not expect ground beef to taste like meat....)
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