Sunshine and baby cakes

*Edit because I wrote the recipe wrong...oops. So if you did make them with the 3 cups of oatmeal I apologize for your non pancakes pancakes ;)* Yesterday was beautiful! It got up to 70* and melted all the snow finally. Although we are expecting more snow Monday, but I will just enjoy the taste of spring we had. Today and tomorrow are suppose to be in the lower 50*, still nice for February but I can't wait for the sunshine to stay for good. LB had so much fun outside going on walks, playing on the deck, and seeing the sun dance around on the trees and grass. I took a few good pictures of him in the sun and can't wait for summertime to really get shutter happy with him...maybe even by summer W will get me the camera I have been drooling over. 

 LB soaking up the sunshine

See it was so nice I even wore a tshirt and squinted my eyes. Please spring stay with us

Awww...yesterday was so wonderful. I loved getting outside with LB and letting him see the trees and grass and feel the wind blow across his face.

Lately LB has been only wanting to eat finger foods and things he can do himself.  I guess with his 6 teeth now he wants to be mister independent. Anybody have good foods to make for him? He still isn't great at meats but he loves peas, carrots, puffs, and these baby pancakes I have been making up. I figured I would share the recipe with you all and they are so good even W will eat them and not complain that they don't contain sugar. Granted he covers them in maple syrup but they are good even without it. One of my friends gave me her recipe and I tweaked it a bit and removed the egg and sugar. I really am trying to avoid sugar and salt in things for LB and so far he hasn't seemed to miss it, probably because he hasn't ever had it ;) It also has really been helping W and I be more healthy. And I think cutting down on our sugar and salt intake has really helped me lose all my baby weight, I am even down 2 lbs from when I got pregnant with LB. Which is amazing. Probably helps that I am not eating dairy either. We will see if it all stays off once LB stops nursing and I go back to dairy. LB is getting up so I better focus and get this recipe typed for you all :) 

Baby Cakes 

makes about 2 dozen

3  1 and  1/2 cups oatmeal

2 cups rice milk (or skim milk or whatever milk you like)

1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup all purpose flour

2 Tablespoons baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup applesauce

1/4 cup pearsauce (or you can do more applesauce if you don't have pear)

1 mashed ripe banana

1 teaspoon cinnamon (LB loves cinnamon in everything, but if you don't like it don't add it)

Mix together the oatmeal and milk and set aside.

Combine all your dry ingredients in a bowl.

Add vanilla, applesauce, and pearsauce to the oatmeal mixture.

Then mix the dry ingredients into the wet.

Here is the step I can't do but luckily W is a master pancake maker. So he does the griddle work for me. 

If you plan on making up the whole batch I line a baking sheet with parchment paper and after they cool I line the pancakes up and freeze them on the try. Then after they are frozen I take them off the tray and put them in a storage container so that I can just take one out at a time and not have a big frozen clump of pancakes.

Hope you all enjoy and please share any good finger food for baby tips with me :)