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Homemade Applesauce Recipe (Toddler Chef-Friendly) 0

You can introduce your baby to apples as early as 4-6 months; and when it comes to baby food, there's no such thing as too much applesauce...ever.  It's great on its own, but it's also super helpful as "mixer" when your baby is not too keen on eating another food on its own. #TGFA (Thank God for Apples!)  During this period ("Stage One"), you're just steaming the apples and pureeing them to a smooth texture (I call this "smoothifying").  Around 9 months or so, you can start to "chunkify" your applesauce and add seasonings (keep it simple...
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Homemade Cheese Pizza Recipe (Toddler Chef-Friendly) 0

This year, we celebrated toddler boss's 2nd birthday with a surprise pizza party at her school.  Pizza is her favorite food and we decided to turn the celebration into cooking class for her and her classmates. It was so much fun watching the tiny chefs assemble their creations and even take a few bites along the way...of course.   Toddler boss assembling her pizza in the custom apron that I designed for her (above).Her finished product (below) I kept the ingredients simple, just whole mini-pita bread rounds, naan, olive oil, bambini sauce and mozzarella.  If you want to get a little fancy,...
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Family Fun: Fall Harvest Festival 0

This fall has been a crazy time for us, between me working on weekends and toddler boss having more than her fair share of sick days since she started school.  Even though I plan our weekend adventures weeks in advance (thanks to Kid Friendly DC, Red Tricycle DC, Washington Family Magazine, Washington Parent Magazine & Cozi.com), we're just now getting around to whittling down our fall bucket list. First up was a trip to Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville, MD for their Fall Festival. We went last year for the first time and decided to make it an annual Grant fam tradition. This was toddler boss's...
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Family Fun: Our Top 12 Adventures of Summer 2014 0

Dear Summer 2014, Today marks the official end of our fabulous time together, so Toddler Boss, The Mr. and I are celebrating with a countdown of our top twelve "Grantastic" adventures with you! Most were in or around the DC area, with the exception of two trips to NYC, when we fell in love with Battery Park City as a great family-friendly hangout. It was so hard to number them in any sort of order that gave them all justice (and that we all agreed on), so we've decided to just list them chronologically and keep everyone happy:-)....
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Smart + Stylish Mom Spotlight: You are Your Child's Best Advocate 0

Today’s smart + stylish mom is Christine Pak, a 33-year old artist, stay-at-home mom and aspiring med school student who lives in the Washington, DC suburbs with her husband and 2-year old daughter, Sophie.  I met Christine and Sophie in a music class that Riley and I attended in the spring of 2014. Sidenote: this was a wonderful experience and I highly recommend Mrs.Sings’s MusicArt in Crofton, MD.   I’ll never forget how nervous I was during the first day of class.  At 16 months, Riley was the youngest student in a class designed for 18-month to...
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