Homemade Teething Cookies

Mommy loves to make food for my little Lina<3, as it is the only way, I know what is exactly in the food. Lina<3 likes to eat it as well (when you are not refusing your foods).

Found this teething biscuits recipes that looked interesting for Lina<3 to try. 

Teething Biscuits

Instead of the infant cereal, these can also be made with oats, ground in the food processor to a coarse flour.

1 cup whole wheat, all-purpose, barley or oat flour

1 cup dry infant rice or oat cereal

1 very ripe banana, mashed until smooth

2 Tbsp. canola or olive oil

Preheat oven to 375˚F. 
In a medium bowl, stir together the flour and cereal. In a small bowl, stir together the banana, oil and about 2 Tbsp. water; add to the dry ingredients and stir until you have a soft dough, adding a bit more water or flour as needed until the dough comes together and is not too sticky. (It will depend largely on the size of the banana, and how juicy it is.)

On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out about 1/4-inch thick and cut into smooth shapes (circles or sticks, without pointy edges – squish them a bit with your fingers). Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 10-15 minutes, or until golden. Cool completely and store extras in an airtight container.

Of course, Mommy did not follow the recipe to the tee and doubled the recipe.

Mommy used:

2 cups organic whole wheat, all purpose flour 

2 cups organic whole grain oatmeal cereal

2 ripe bananas

4 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil

then:
Preheat oven to 375˚F. 
In a medium bowl, stir together the flour and cereal. In a small bowl, stir together the banana, oil and about 4 tbsp. water; add to the dry ingredients and stir until you have a soft dough, adding a bit more water or flour as needed until the dough comes together and is not too sticky. (It will depend largely on the size of the banana, and how juicy it is.)

then:
Mommy did not want to do anything fancy with the rolling and cutting out shapes; decided to stick with the simple circle shapes which is also easier and less cleanup. Once the dough comes together by kneading it, I rolled it into a log, (first picture below) and cut (or separated) into 1/4 thick pieces and rolled it into a ball (second picture below) and flatten with my fingers (third picture below), used flour, if the dough sticks to hands (it is like making burgers-once all the meat is mixed well, make a ball, and flatten). Placed onto a baking sheet with parchment paper (if you want to use an ungreased, then that’s fine too)
Put into oven for about 10 minutes, depending on the size of the cookie that is made, or until golden color. I stuck to small sizes, as it will be perfect for Lina’s<3 little hands. I burnt the first dozen because the size of the cookies were too small, and did not need to be in the oven for long (longer than 10minutes). Transfer to cooling rack, like the picture below, and store after cooling.
The verdict from my little Lina<3:

You stared it for a while before knowing what to do with it (first picture below). Mommy broke off small pieces to put into your mouth, then you got the idea. You started to eat it by yourself and stuffed all the small pieces into your mouth lol, greedy little girl (last picture below) You like it. Yay!

Please note to always watch your child when eating this cookie or any other food(s) due to potential choking hazards and consult doctor about theses ingredients before trying it, if you have any questions.  Please comment if there are other homemade teething cookies that you had tried before and might be good for Lina<3 to try. Thank you.

Note to Lina<3: I hope that last picture at the end of the post will not make you upset or embarrass when you are older and looking at this blog. Mommy loves you and hope that you continue to enjoy Mommy’s home cooking.

Feeding Mommy and Daddy

Self feeding, it is such a wonderful thing to watch. Lina<3, you are feeding yourself very well. You have perfected the pincer grasp which is essentially when learning how to feed yourself. The pincer grasp is using your index finger and thumb to pick up food, or other small toys. It took you a while and a lot of practice with the Morning Os (organic Cheerios like). When you first learned how to feed yourself, you would stuff a lot of Morning Os into your mouth haphazardly. Now you have more control over your hands, you can hold more than one Morning Os in your hand, and hold more with your other hand. You are sharing with Mommy  :) You hold out your arm, and hand has Morning Os and Mommy respond right away, and open my mouth for you to put the Morning Os inside. It took so me misses before you actually put the Morning Os into Mommy's mouth. Sometimes you trick Mommy and reach out your hand to feed me but as soon as Mommy opens the mouth, you take your hand back and feed yourself instead. It is so cute and Mommy laughs when you do that. You even feed Daddy at times.