Product Review- Nuby Feeding Spoons

I like this spoon. I can hold it and get it into my mouth with no problems.  There is a decoration on the handle that makes it easier to hold without slipping.  When mommy was feeding me just the right amount of food went into my mouth, but I couldn't play my favorite game- I like to bite down on the spoon and hold it so mommy can't get it back out, but I have a harder time doing that with this one.

*mommy says*  This is my very first product review, but I must say that  Nuby feeding spoons are great!  I love the long handle and the way the handle is angled so that feeding is much easier.  I've used them for several days now, and I can see how feeding from a taller baby food jar would be much easier with this spoon than with some of the others that we have. The feeding end is shaped well, and is harder plastic, so he doesn't bite down and clamp the end so that I can't remove the spoon. This is not a spoon for self feeding, but is great for mommy feeding times- and he definitely liked trying to feed himself.
 

The spoons are available for purchase online at BuyBabyDirect.com and we love them!

*I did not receive any compensation for this post, although as part of this program I did receive items to sample or review.*

Plum tots - peach mish mash

This is marketed as a snack for toddlers. The ingredients say it has apples, pears, peaches apricots and acerola fruit.   Mommy says when I'm older it will make a yummy snack, but for now, she mixed it with my yogurt and oatmeal for breakfast.  She's really funny about breakfast. She says it is the most important meal of the day, but I only see her drinking something that sissy says tastes like rocks. I don't understand why sissy has eaten rocks, or why there is a drink that tastes like them.  Sometimes these people just confuse me.

Plum Organics- green bean, pear & greek yogurt

I just seem to love all things by Plum Organic.  This one was so yummy- I ate it with my new spoons from Nuby, and I still ate it quick. Normally when there is something new, I go slower and try to play with the new thing.  My bib was even clean when we were done, so mommy gave me the spoon and let me try to feed myself a little.

Pizza Hut adventure!

We are on our way back home today, so Mommy just fed me some of my favorites for breakfast and dinner, but we ate at this place called Pizza Hut. I sat in my high chair like a big boy watching every bite that mommy, daddy and sissy took.I got to eat the middle out of a pizza crust, and the middle out of a bread stick. "mmm...mmmm..." I think I'm going to like this place!

Plum tots- fruit and grain mish mash- blueberry oats and quinoa

Apple, blueberry, banana, tapioca, oats and quinoa are what make up this yummy little mish mash.  Mommy just added more oats for me to make it nice and thick. That's how I like it, and I am most important. It was a pretty color and smelled like bananas. Yummmmmm...  I love banana and blueberry, and I couldn't really taste the apple, even though it was first on the ingredient list.  I have yet a new game I like to play with mommy- it's called make a mess.  I spew some food out and smear it all over the tray of my high chair. Then laugh a lot. I think I'm so clever.

Fishing on the Red River

Daddy and Grandpa took Brennan and Morgan fishing on the river- This is what Sissy caught!!! Yes we will eat these, and I'll get a bite! They rented a boat- daddy took his kayak out later alone.

Daddy's kayak and Peppermint the traveling bear! 

My official testing seat.

Since I am the highchair critic- I thought I'd show you the executive chair.  This is where I test drive the equipment and taste the samplings of the baby food world.  It is the Eddie Bauer Classic Wooden Highchair.  Mommy picked this one because our house is small, and if she was going to have to look at a highchair all the time, she was going to like it.

Exciting News!!! Mommy Blogger!

Keigan and I are now a mommy blogging team! Our blog was one of the ones picked by Nuby to test drive their products and report back our findings! We are so excited! (Well, mommy is- Keigan hasn't a clue what I'm saying yet!)  Of course this happened the week we left for vacation- so we'll have to start a weekly test run on Monday!

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Earths Best- Pear Carrot Apricot

This is the first one from Earths Best that I wasn't crazy about. I didn't finish it- it was sweet, with a sharp after taste so maybe that is why. But it was really a pretty color, so I spit it out with raspberries and made pretty pictures all over my high chair tray.

Vacation!! Lobo Landing, Heber Springs Arkansas.

Well today we left for a long drive to Arkansas to meet my great grandparents.  All I know is that it was a LONG ride in the boring car. Mommy and daddy say it is a good thing thing that I am a good traveler and don't fuss much.  Even when the air stopped working in the truck. Daddy rolled all the windows down and I had air blowing in my face.  I know I was super excited to get out of the car when we got there! Grandma got us two cabins close to a river at a resort called Lobo Landing.  It was awesome! Lots of open space for me, and room in mommy and daddy's room so that I could sleep in my playpen in there with them. Uncle Matt was there a couple of days and Grandma, Grandpa and Brennan (He's 4 years old, and is their foster son, so he's my Uncle, but sissy doesn't like calling him that, and he calls Matt "Uncle Matt, so it's a little confusing.) The cabin was really clean and had cool furnishings.  Mommy took lots of pictures. It was really hot there, up to 107 a couple of days, so we stayed inside a lot since I don't tolerate heat very well.  The pool had trees around it though, so it was shaded in the morning and late afternoon- so Mommy took me there a couple of times.  Daddy is a fly fisherman, so he went out fishing a lot.  Grandpa, Sissy and Brennan went out one day too. I"ll get to go soon.

These are pictures of where we stayed.

Peppermint the Traveling Bear-

Mommy is in a Facebook Group with other women who had babies the same age as me.  They decided to get a bear, name him Peppermint and send him to visit all of us babies. He started off with some friends in Australia, then came to me for our trip to Arkansas. Then we sent him off to Maryland for his new adventure!

Plum Organics - peach, apricot and banana

Plum is my favorite brand of baby food.  I don't think we have found one that I don't like.  This one was nice and sweet and for a change of pace mommy put some barley in it instead of the usual oatmeal.  Barley is goooood.   When it was gone, mommy gave me some puffs to eat while she washed dishes. The start to a good day!

Plum Tots- banana mish mash

Mmmmm....mmmm....  I got to eat this right from the pouch!  I've never got to do that before.  It took me a bit to get the hang of it, and mommy had to help me, but I loved it and ate it all gone.  It has apples, bananas, pears and something called acerola fruit in it, but I only know it is gooood.

Buddy Fruits-Apple 7 Strawberry

My grandma found this brand somewhere and knew I'd like to try it, since I always like to try new foods.  The ingredients are apple, strawberry, black currant juice and apple juice and that's it. Mommy thinks it may be marketed more for a snack than for baby food though, because there are no ages etc. on the packet.  She gave it to me anyway with some oatmeal mixed in.  And I really liked it! No surprise there!

Gerber Nature Selects- Banana's, Apples and Pears

Blech. I ate it. I wasn't happy, but I ate it.  Whatever sick is, it just better stop. I want something tastier and mommy won't let me have anything better until I seem to feel better. I guess this one was kind of boring because I just wasn't into it much.

Earths Best- Pumpkin, Cranberry and Apple

Have I mentioned- I love food.  Mommy got me this and even though it is a stage three- she let me eat it with some organic free range chicken she had cooked and pureed just for me. She put in 2 tbsp of chicken with 1 tbsp of brown rice and let me eat this for dinner!! She said it kind of tasted like Thanksgiving.  If this is what Thanksgiving tastes like I cannot wait!!! 

It was sweet with a tad bit of a sharp aftertaste.  I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!  

Gerber Nature Select - Apples and Mangos with rice cereal

I've been feeling a tad under the weather lately, so mommy is making me eat lots of stuff with banana's.  This is ok, but is not too exciting. It smells really good, but I'm not too crazy about it. Mommy says I prefer savory over sweet. But I don't know what that means.

Yo baby- Organic blueberry yogurt

Since I am 6 months old mommy let me have something called yogurt today.  It was COLD.  I wasn't really sure what to do with it at first- so I held it my mouth and started laughing. Then mommy took a couple of bites and I got mad. Hey. That's MY food! So I gobbled it up a fast as she could shovel it in- so she couldn't eat any more. Who does she think she is anyway?

Red Beans and Rice.

Ok- I know this isn't baby food- but I had to sit in my highchair and watch mommy brown some sausage, and make this and it smelled so good. I was getting excited when she was making it!!!   THEN she had the nerve to give me baby food.  So I waited until she and daddy were eating and I yelled at them, and I wouldn't stop. I focus on Mommy because she usually feeds me, and she finally gave me a couple grains of rice- and at first I didn't know what to do. Then I started moving my mouth like they do. Then - just to make a point- I beat both hands on my chest at the same time and yelled- "MMMM". I think they got the point. But they laughed. And I got more. Win for me.

Look what I won!!!!!

Look what I won!!!! Mommy entered me in a contest from Plum Organics and I won! Today was my 6 month birthday and the package arrived. Mommy took this picture to post on their FB wall to tell them thank you so much. There were 12 pouches of food, three containers of puffs, and a box of fruit snacks. There was a onesie for me, a cute reusable bag and some spoons that attach to the pouches for on the go feeding! But my favorite part was the box and the shredded purple paper. Mommy said she was really happy about the coupons too.

Plum Organics- Apple and carrot

Well- it was orange! It smelled really good- and mommy had mixed in my favorite, oatmeal.  I ate quick again and mommy could tell I liked it.  BUT I was in a good mood- so I blew a few raspberries for fun. Got mommy in the face too- then I laughed because mommy does NOT like carrots, ok, I may not know that yet but it was hilarious!  Mommy and I have a good time when I'm eating.

Plum Organics- Plum, Berry and Barley

This was all kinds of GOOD!!!  After the first bite my eyes got all big and I started eating really quick. Mommy mixed in some oatmeal too- because  you know by now that I like my food thicker.  I didn't even blow one raspberry!! I ate really quick and neat and forgot to make any noise even.

*It should be noted that mommy said I won't get this often- she told me this the next day when she was changing my diaper, and my clothes, and her clothes, and then she had to change the cover on the changing pad. I don't know what was going on.

Earths Best- Orange Banana

This was the first time I ever had orange, and it smelled so good that I opened my mouth up as soon as I smelled it!!  Mommy mixed in some oatmeal and "mmmmm" It was super duper good. I ate it down, and made mommy scrape the bowl. There was not a drop on my bib even.  My arms went out like I was flying and I yelled at her when it was all gone.  :(  (ssshhh! Don't tell Keigan but I held some out on him to feed the Gecko, he loved it too!.)

Gerber Organic- Mac& Cheese with Vegetables

This was my first experience with what mommy calls Cheese. All I can say is that  I LIKE IT!!!  I ate it all gone - but I did take the time to spew a few raspberries at  mommy just for fun.  I like to keep her on her toes.  Luckily she knows me well enough to know when I like something.

Gerber Nature Select- Macaroni and Cheese with vegetables

I didn't like this one very much, I was more interested in getting it in my mouth and blowing raspberries so that the food made a pretty pattern on the tray. I ate most of it, but definitely not my top 10. I didn't even make any noises other than- "ppppffffttttt"

Gerber Organic (pouch) carrots, apples and Mangos

Honestly- I like the pictures on the pouches more than anything.  Seriously. When Mommy takes me to the store I get to sit up in the top of the cart now like a big boy. I LOVE the baby food aisle. I get so excited and start making my "mmm" sounds, and "ohhh, ohhh, ohh" sounds. Mommy has to hand me a pouch for each hand She holds up two different brands to see what I reach for.  I would reach for Gerber instead of Plum or Ellas. She can't figure out why.  (I ignore the containers completely for some reason- I just like the pouches.)

So anyway she mixed in some mixed grains into this one to get it thick- ehh. I ate it, but not like I do some of the others. But give me the pouch and I get all excited! It smelled good, and had a sweet taste, with a bite at the end.

Ritz Crackers

Well- as long as we are talking about food- I thought I'd share that these are delicious!  Mommy will only give them to me occasionally because she says they are not good for me. Whatever. I just like to lick them right now- and when I bite off pieces, I'm not sure what to do so I spit them out. "mmmm...mmmm!"

Gerber Farmers Market Vegetable blend with mixed grains

Something called tomato is in this- mommy says its a bit like a thick vegetable soup.  All I know is that I have a new dinner time favorite.  I was rolling my eyes while making my sounds-  and it got all over my face.

Plum Organics- Raspberry, Spinach and Greek Yogurt

This has something called yogurt in it.  All I know is that it was smooth and yummy.  Mommy said it looks a bit weird with the flecks of spinach in it- but lucky for her I don't care. I ate it up lickity split.

Gerber Nature Select- Apples & Mangos with Rice Cereal

I know they said there was rice in here, but it was still to thin for me.  Mommy mixed in more rice to thicken it up and  of course she got it perfect.  I gobbled this up as quick as I could- it was so yummy.  It was a pretty color too- and looked great splattered all over my tray.