raising a vegan child

When I was pregnant I knew Elinor would at the least be vegetarian until she decided otherwise. Now that she is here and I've been reading healthy happy vegan families making it look easy(veggie kids/vegan dad/before I was a mom/oh dear drea) I'm wanting to raise her vegan.

Of course the first thing people always ask are "HOW WILL SHE GET HER PROTEIN???" "HOW WILL SHE GET ANY CALCIUM??" because I guess you can't get either of those from anything except meat and milk. The only thing I'm remotely worried about her getting enough of is B-12 but we do use nutritional yeast a lot and also a lot of soymilks and cereals now have B-12. 

One post I found recently from Veggie Kids, on how to raise a vegan child, gives a break down on where exactly vegans can get there protein, calcium and other vitamins. Explained simple! Go read it non believers! 

I get pretty defensive when people question us for being vegan or now raising a vegan child. I feel like we eat a lot healthier than most of the people that question us. We are very aware of what we eat and need. I don't mind if someone eats meat but don't act like we don't know what we are doing.

 (I didn't mean to turn this into a vent but I've been getting little comments recently when someone finds out.)

Half Birthday Party

We were very excited for Elinor's half birthday. My sister came in town for it. Really she comes once a month and decided to come with gifts. Ellie got 2 new awesome books and teddy ruxpin dvd! Thanks Auntie Courtney!

reading pride & prejudice with Auntie at the library

Even though she had got shots the day before she was in a pretty good mood. Just a couple of meltdowns when she just needed to eat and snuggle up with me then she would be back to normal. 

big 6 month old

After work Dave picked us up and we went to Veggie Galaxy for a birthday dinner. She was so happy looking around at everyone. She always thinks everyone is there to see her wherever we go. When we sat down though she got a little fussy so I fed her. I ordered tofu eggs and bananas for her. She ended up falling asleep after eating. She didn't wake up until we got home.

We had brought her leftovers home so when she woke up we lit a candle and sang happy half birthday to her before dinner. She thought it was hilarious. 

I have to wash her diaper we use to take her monthly picture so I hope we can get those done soon!

girls weekend

Dave was in Texas for the weekend playing a show. It was super rainy and gross out Saturday and then Sunday we were being lazy so we ended up never leaving the house. I finally got a ton of laundry and cleaning done though! We also ate a lot.

 she stole my banana

 nectarines and puffs

 I made a wrap with hummus. peppers and sprouts. She stole a pepper and some hummus. She liked the hummus. 

I gave her a slice of my veggie burger. She liked it but since it's so crumbly too much kept breaking off in her mouth but she worked it out!

At one point she kept looking at the door and looking behind me. I texted Dave to tell him I think she is looking for him. He sent a picture of himself so I could show her. She started smiling as soon as she saw him. I went out of the picture to tell him and she started screaming. She was so mad I took him away. He finally was around some wireless and facetimed us for a couple of minutes. Her face was so cute. She just lit up and smiled and giggled. Elinor loves her Daddy!