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All Things 10 Months

5/15/2021

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How time files! I know I say this every month and I'll probably continue saying it ad nauseum, but it's true! Baby T. is getting bigger and barely fits into her 9 month clothes. She's always been small for her age and wore newborn clothes until she was well into month four and five. 

Baby T. is always watching everyone. If someone gets up to get a drink, you better believe Baby T.'s eyes are following your every move. Here are some other observations for this little sweetie:
  • She drank water from a cup! She also started drinking prune juice. It has really helped with the softening of the you-know-what.
  • New foods she ate include peanut butter, cucumbers, and pears. 
  • Somehow, she started making that creepy ju-on creaking sound for fun. Full disclosure, I make that noise, too but I've ever met anyone else who could do it!
  • Whenever she points her finger, we touch fingers with her and say, "E.T." to her delight.
  • Two of her bottom middle teeth finally emerged! It's too cute.
  • Baby T. has been obsessed with blowing raspberries. She'll make a serious face and blow raspberries for like minutes at a time.
  • She took her first blood test! It was just a routine blood test, so nothing to worry about. We took her to Clinical Labs and the guy was pretty nice. He poked her left-hand ring finger and squeezed drops of blood into a baby-sized vial! She starting crying even before she got poked so hopefully it didn't hurt too much. 

I can't even handle how quickly her first year is going by. Pretty soon we'll be celebrating her first birthday! 

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Make Apple Cider Vinegar Actually Taste Good

5/7/2021

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A few years ago, my coworker and I would take shots in the break room at work. Don't worry, we weren't downing alcohol. We were shooting apple cider vinegar (ACV)! We heard that it was good for weight loss, clear skin, and other too-good-to-be-true benefits.

Of course, taking shots of ACV was terrible on many levels. It tasted bad and we were apparently messing up the enamel on our teeth. So we decided to dilute it with water and honey. This just prolonged the terrible process. Bleh!

Recently, I've been wanting to give ACV a try again. I've searched and searched for ways to "make ACV taste good." I stumbled upon some recipes that called for apple juice and cinnamon to make ACV taste like apple pie. I can assure you that combination does not taste anything like apple pie. In fact, the sweetness of the apple juice clashes with the ACV and the whole thing just tasted rotten to me. Maybe other people are less sensitive than I am, who knows.

Then I came across an article about a gal who started adding ACV to sparkling water because she tried Bragg's apple cider vinegar blended drink, which she said was basically like sparkling water with ACV. She claimed that "The bubbles seem to amplify the vinegar’s fruity notes, the acid adds spunk, and the seltzer’s flavoring adds character." So I had to try it for myself.

I got two options: mango flavored Bubly sparkling water and Walmart's Fuji Apple sparkling water. First I added ACV to a cold glass of the Bubly sparkling water. It was not great. Not as terrible as the apple juice/ACV combo, but the faint flavor and powerful carbonation just wasn't enough flavor for me. Yes, the ACV wasn't as potent but the drink tasted like a long-ago memory of a mango. No thanks.

Then, I filled an 8oz glass of the Fuji Apple sparkling water and added 1/2 teaspoon of ACV. And I'm happy to report it was completely palatable, dare I say delicious. The flavored sparkling water is good on its own and the addition of the ACV adds a pleasant depth of flavor.

Since I stupidly bought a case of the mango Bubly, I decided to add a little bit of it to the Fuji Apple sparkling water/ACV combo. That way, the memory of the mango is overpowered by the deliciousness of apple. I'm just glad the case of Bubly won't go to waste.  

I'm not sure if I'll try other flavors of sparkling water since I feel like I hit the jackpot with the Fuji Apple water, but you never know. Maybe one day I'll feel more adventurous.  
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Nay on the apple juice and Bubly + Apple Cider Vinegar combos. Yay for the Fuji Apple + ACV combo!
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