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Good afternoon. Summer and I are about to take our first walk together. The sun is out, and it’s relatively warm outside. I’m so excited. I hope she enjoys walking as much as her mama does! Before we go, I wanted to share my yummy lunch with all of you.
Lately I’ve been craving mac n cheese, and so I made a quick and easy HEABified version…
Cooked quinoa mixed with 1 TBSP butter, 2 TBSP nutritional yeast, pepper, and chopped grilled chicken. Warm, buttery, cheesy, and delicious – comfort food at its finest!
Dessert was an oven baked sweet potato…
I started out with half, but then ended up eating the whole thing with lots of cinnamon. Yum
Summer fix of the day…
Summer’s first play date with my best friend’s niece, Hannah. They were born 6 days apart. 
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Hope you enjoyed your walk! And I meant to share this link with you before. It’s for lactation cookies which supposedly help with production. They are good too. My friend always made them with less sugar and some raisins.
http://www.food.com/recipe/oatmeal-chocolate-chip-lactation-cookies-by-noel-trujillo-192346
Tina,
Yes, I made pancakes based on the recipe for lactation cookies yesterday. So yummy.
Woah, are Summer and Hannah both wearing pink AND polka dots? Too freaking cute!
Victoria – I know. We didn’t plan it either. It was really cute.
If it was unplanned, that makes it 1000x cuter. Maybe 10,000x cuter.
I agree!
Only 6 days? Wow, looks like Hannah is going to be a tall young lady.
Love that picture! I always love seeing babies interact, so adorable
Laura
She is so so cute. Enjoy your first walk together.
Love the pics of Summer–I have that same sleeper in NB and 6 mths
Love it!! Esp. the little hat 
She’s SO cute!
Thanks Lissa,
How are you feeling????
Such a sweet picture – she is seriously too cute!
Wish ti was nice here so I could walk outside. Cold and windy isn’t much fun to walk in. And those two girls are just precious–just staring at each other
I’m sure she will love walks just as much as mama!! I *LOVE* quinoa with nut. yeast…. YUM!
and OMG how cute are they?? matching colors and all… checkin’ each other out!
the babies are so cute!
YUMMM. I think I’d like to try out a version of “quinoa & cheese”. Call me crazy, but I think we’d both love something like that! With some sweet peas thrown in and a little bitta chicken sausage!
Sami,
I like the way you think…and eat!
Enjoy your first mother-daughter walk together!! I bet she will just love it, or at least grow to very quickly! I think I may follow that idea and head out for a walk myself….also thinking a sweet ‘tater sounds great for dinner at class tonight
Love the cute picture of the playdate, Summer is an active one!
They are too cute and they’re matching!
So glad you have nice weather to take a walk with Summer! Makes me smile. She’s so precious. Your HEABified quinoa mac & cheese looks great – I’m just starting to use nutritional yeast more so this will go in my stash of recipe ideas.
Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuute matching babies!
I had nutritional yeast and sweet potato together for lunch (with black beans, spinach, and melty goat cheese on top!)
Your cheesy quinoa sounds awesome!
Have a wonderful walk!
Summer looks so tiny compared to Hannah. However, they are both totally adorable.
Kim, she was. Summer doesn’t even weight 6 pounds yet, and Hannah weighs 8 pounds 14 ounces. So funny to see them next to one another.
Oh Heather, enjoy every minute of this! Looks like things are running smoothly now!
Omg her first playdate companion and the two of them…the pic is ADORABLE!!!!
Walking..I have never met a baby who doesn’t like motion and walking. Well, the majority of the time
There are always those stroller meltdown moments but the sling or arms always work wonders and just the fresh air, the movment, it does BOTH mommy and baby tons of good.
Enjoy your first walk together! She’ll probably be out like a light in minutes
Averie,
Can you believe she stayed awake the entire hour?!? I thought for sure she would be out…oh well, at least there was no crying…well, up until the last 5 minutes, and so I consider the walk a success. We went in the stroller, but next I want to try my ring sling. Tried putting her in it, but it felt awkward. Need to practice with my Tummy 2 Tummy DVD.
So cute!!!
Love that photo of the two!! And I just love how nutritional yeast adds the cheezyness with the good protein and vitamins.
} there is a point called Ren17 in the middle of the chest level with the fourth intercostal space- influential point of qi that helps with insufficient lactation. Pressing is better than nothing!
Also (since I’m not there to needle you
Thanks Felicia,
Pressing away!
They are so cute together! Nice mac n cheese craving fixins.
Ohmygosh! Summer and Hannah’s playdate is too cute! Summer seemed excited.
Summer looks so cute with her playdate!
Also, your nutritional yeast quinoa looks really good. My only problem with nutritional yeast is that when I tried to use it last time, it didn’t taste cheesy at all and actually had a kind of aftertaste… Have you ever experienced this before? I have the Red Star brand which I read online was pretty good, but maybe I just did something wrong (I used it for you spaghetti squash “mac and cheez.” If you don’t have time to answer, though, I totally understand.
Raychel,
Well, nooch doesn’t taste exactly like cheese and maybe takes a bit of getting used to. I don’t think I’ve ever tried the Red Star brand – I always get mine from the bulk bins at Whole Foods. So, if you live near a Whole Foods, maybe you could buy a tiny bag to sample, and hopefully you’ll like it better.
Enjoy your walk with Summer!
Hope you two enjoy your walk! The girls in their matching polka dots…SO CUTE!
OMG!!!! That picture of the two of them!!!!
SQUEEEEE!!!!!!!!
I can’t get over how cute she is… love the photos of both the food and Summer!
Have so much fun on your first walk together! How special! As always, adorable pictures!
Too cute- both the photo of her ladies’ lunch and your first walk!! Love it.
Hope you had a lovely walk! Love the picture (as usual) of the babes. I just got back from seeing my new neice~what a doll
She got the hiccups and was screaming mad when I left! Babies are such a gift 
yummy lunch, yummy walk, yummy babies. : )
Lurve you. XOXO
Guess what we ordered today??
mixy mixy mixy… vvrrrrooooom…. gulp. mmm. SO excited. I ordered it in RED! I told D that CD said it was a purchase… but we see it as an investment.
XOXO
Summer is just scrumptious.
Polly,
Haha – I can’t wait to show CD your comment. You must email me after your Vita arrives and tell me all about it. I know you’ll lurve it!
Wait, does the nutritional yeast taste like cheese? Hmmm…I might have to try that out.
Have a fun walk today with Summer! Stroller walking is amazingly fun and wonderful!
Love the Summer pic!
Monica,
Yes, it has a nutty cheezy kind of taste. I love it, but it might take a little getting used to if you’ve never had it.
Ohh that is an adorable picutre of Summer and her friend Heather!
Hope you two had a nice walk today, I love walking and Matheus as a baby always liked out wlaks in the stroller!
Ana
Oh my gosh that picture is so adorable! I hope Summer enjoyed her walk.
What an adorable pair those two are! And what a blessing it is to have other kids around that are about the same age as each other. I hope I have close friends who have kids around the same time as I do so I can share that season with people who ladies what I’m going through.
I hope your and Summer’s first walk together was lovely.
Always enjoy your blog – Dana
Summer fix of the day-you know your readers too well! I can’t get enough of her! I’ll show anyone who is around me while I’m reading your blog-”LOOK ONE OF MY FAVORITE BLOGGERS HAD A BABY!”
Courtney,
That cracks me up – thanks for spreading the HEAB and Summer love.
My mom went totally gaga over her…for a minute I wondered if there was going to be another sibling in my life haha!
Mmm that “Mac n cheese” looks yummy!
Summer is SO ADORABLE!
Wow that looks good!!!!!! Summer is soooooo adorable!!!!!!!!!
Oh my! First I thought – “Twins?!” Too cute!
I am sure Summer will adore walking. Hope it went well. I love your Mac & Cheese – although mine has the real cheese
(I’ve yet to try this nooch stuff). But I like that you have chicken in there – I throw chicken in with everything.
Seen a Rotisserie chicken today and bought one – thought of you! lol.
Jen,
Ha, I love that you think of me when purchasing a rotisserie chicken. That is great!
Simple food is always the best.
My mom used to have to take me for walks or car rides to get me to sleep. Something about the motion just knocked me out. Still does – I fall asleep within seconds on road trips.
Hope you had a great walk! I love Summer’s dark hair, it’s so pretty!
What a post! First walk! First play date! The girls are so adorable!
Ahhh it’s surreal seeing pictures of Summer! I hope you had a nice walk
So Cute, first walk, first play date, wow all so fast.:) (the comment above thinks so too!)
So happy for you!
awwww, such sweeties!
I hope you love your walk in the sun with your new beauty
big love to you guys!
Summer is so small and adorable! Love the cheesy quinoa idea.
What a precious picture!!They are both adorable.Thank you for brightening up my day:-)cc
I’m so glad that I’m not the only one who considers sweet potatoes “dessert.”
hope you two enjoyed the first walk together. she is STUNNING
I have the worst urge to hold a teeny baby right now! She’s beautiful
Oh play dates are fun!! Lori and I spent all today playing with our niece…we got not work done!!! haha she is hard not to play with : )
Your cheezy quinoa looks heavenly!!!
~Michelle
I hope you had a great time on your first walk! She is adorable!
Cutest. Picture. Ever.
How was the walk? Which pram did you go for? We have a phil and ted VIBE, fab for out walking on all sorts of surfaces. Last week we discovered it is possible to clip the capsule onto it, so no need to transfer Minu from capsule to pram anymore, just clip on and we are away! It is fantastic!
Lorne,
The walk was great – such a pretty day, and Summer stayed awake for the entire hour. She started getting fussy right before we got back home. I can’t believe she didn’t fall asleep. We have this pram: http://www.amazon.com/Chicco-Cortina-Travel-System-Romantic/dp/B001TLBYHC/ref=br_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=IF61WCW65LVPG&colid=N7M0RHWZFK4E. It was great, and like you, I can attach Summer’s capsule right onto the stroller – so convenient!
I had mac and cheese– well, nutritional yeast vegan version, twice this weekend over spaghetti squash. So yummy, buttery and delectable
Hope you enjoyed your walk!
Aww… They look super cute!
Cheezy quinoa sounds great, and I can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve had a plan baked sweet potato; I’ve been chopping and roasting lately. I’ll have to bake a whole sweet potato for dinner tomorrow, I forgot how much I love them!
Oh no, two babies?! One for each ovary that is now throbbing.
Thanks a lot.
So did Summer sleep through her first walk? It took Meghan a looooong time to be able to stay awake for a walk.
I love how Summer and Hannah are looking at each other–so cute.
http://happyhealthymama.com/2010/11/my-breastfeeding-story-part-two.html
Maryea,
I thought she would have, but nope, bright eyed and wide awake the entire hour-long walk! She’s got her daddy’s energy.
That looks like such an easy go-to “mac n cheese!” I’m going to be trying that soon! Wow Summer is sooo beautiful! Please give us our fix every day
Mmm I love me some quinoa! I completely adore Summer’s hair. I think its the cutest when babies have lots of dark hair
Oh my! I almost that Summer had a twin!
Adorable!
Yum! I normally make my mac n “cheese” with couscous but I should try it with quinoa! That looks really good
I love the Summer fixes! She is such a beautiful little baby.
Adorable overload! Awwww!
sweet potatoes make a fantastic dessert i love them sweet or savory! gahhhh…adorable photos—i love the matching outfits!
Summer is really cute. And I’m not just saying that to be cliche.
Thanks Meagan.
LOVE their matching outfits! She looks so wonderful!
And I’ll have to try that reeses filling..sounds weird, but I trust you!
Clare,
Yes! Trust me on that one.
!!! cheezy quinoa with butter sounds soooo goooooooood! I have 2 bottles of nutritional yeast to use up, I must try this! YUM!!! You know what I think would compliment it? Peas!
J3nn,
http://heathereatsalmondbutter.com/recipes/mac-cheese-with-peas-heab-style/.
Yes, peas…or avocado.
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